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Trump Administration is sending its people into hospitals to gather Covid data

Hospital data on coronavirus patients will now be rerouted to the Trump administration instead of first being sent to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to CNN on Tuesday. https://t.co/R2SJStk3Jn

— CNN (@CNN) July 15, 2020

Thinking people value data, as has been available on the Pandemic to help judge what one should do. Placed on a map it is very insightful, appearing in the news every day it is current, and it is the future of intelligent discourse. That is why I find it very alarming that the Trump Administration is sending its people into hospitals to gather Covid data. This is straight out of the Russian Disinformation catalog [for more on that, Google The Fog of Falsehood authored by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs which knows the Way of the Ruskies very frigging well.]

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All models are wrong

Qantitative models https://t.co/fG2NRIfXON via @McKinsey This article explains how models can help us make sense of the world and why they behave the way they do (see sidebar “What is a model?”). We also discuss the most common modeling pitfalls and how to avoid them.

— Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) June 25, 2020

 This for sure is for those sleepless nights - cause it will put you straight to sleep. But it is about statistical models. These are at the heart of today's COVID-19 planning and so forth. It is beginning to dawn to me that we aren't exactly a scientific country these days. Even with a scientific bent its hard to wrap your head around uncertainty, which is part and parcel with the models. Summed up here best: Used properly, models provide information that can present a framework for understanding a situation. But they aren’t crystal balls that state with certainty what will happen, and they don’t in themselves answer the difficult question of what to do. The eminent British statistician George Box summarized the point with his famous aphorism: “All models are wrong, but some are useful.”

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