that forecasted coronavirus deaths hitting zero by May 15. It immediately sparked a massive backlash among economists when the model was posted Tuesday on the Twitter account for the Council of Economic Advisors.Instead, he says, it's supposed to be another method to illustrate a simple math formula used in Excel. He wanted to produce a graph mirroring the forecast of daily virus deaths from the Institute of Health Metrics of Evaluation at the University of Washington.
He described the model as one meant to level the swings of reported cases which vary each day, and he used "just a canned function in Excel, a cubic polynomial," according to the newspaper.The curve in the cubic model reaches its peak in mid-April and swoops back down through the end of May. The death toll from the virus surpassed 70,000 this week, and over a month has passed since there were fewer than 1,000 deaths. On Tuesday alone, over 2,000 Americans died from the virus, and the number of recorded infections is rising.the decision to publish the graph demonstrated the council was "being used as a mouthpiece for the administration and a political tool.
More than 75 thousands deaths today
“Cubic model” more like a gaslighting model.
“Basic” describes everything about the brainpower in our government
Only the best minds?
Story checks out.