Trump economic team's model claims death rate will be near zero soon

[turbinetree]

By Emily Singer -May 5, 2020 1:15 PM

No other models say the number of coronavirus deaths will fall near zero.

A Trump administration economic adviser with no experience in epidemiology created a coronavirus model that predicted deaths from the virus dropping to near zero by May 15, the Washington Post reported on Monday. The model offers an extremely optimistic prediction that no others have shown.

The adviser who created the model, Kevin Hassett, has denied it plays a role in decisions related to the virus. "I have never, ever said that that's my projection of what the death count was going to be, and no administration policy has been influenced by my projections," he told the Post.

However, according to a Post report, Trump and his aides used that model to justify plans to start reopening the economy. White House officials, like Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, were reported to have relied on it because it "affirmed their own skepticism about the severity of the virus and bolstered their case to shift the focus to the economy, which they firmly believed would determine whether Trump wins a second term," according to the Post.

With coronavirus deaths now at a staggering 68,237, and with hundreds more dying from COVID-19 each day, there is no way that deaths will drop to zero in just 10 days.

https://americanindependent.com/kevin-hassett-coronavirus-model-deaths-donald-trump-economic-adviser-covid-19/

This cannot be posted enough...............this asshole is making a model, that has the other asshole running around and demanding that states open up for greed to justify his actions ............and this "model" is going to get a lot of people killed based on them both having no empathy to the country..............based on bias model ......and this one asshole just trying to please the other asshole...........

[Turbineguy]

1. 1000

has three zeroes. So there.

[spanone]

2. Why? Because they are trump's economic team. Best not tell him anything else.

You will be job hunting.

Ten days from now we'll just be seeing the results of 'opening up'

[underpants]

3. It all swirls around Trump. Appeasing him.

One false step and YOU’RE FIRED

[Ms. Toad]

4. Now where have I heard that before . . .

Oh, yeah. I was right before the 15 cases skyrocketed to 1.2 million.

That doesn't bode well for the number of deaths.

[Walleye]

5. It's the sharpie on the hurricane map.

[Iliyah]

6. They keep changing the information . .

They don't know what the eff they are doing and our lives mean nada to them.

[robbob]

7. How long before they just start TELLING us the death rate is at zero?

Despite any evidence to the contrary? Faux news would be willing to play along with it.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Only 10 days away.

[cbdo2007]

9. As a Data Analyst - almost all leadership does this at all companies

They take your model or your graph that means one thing, and then they twist it around to mean something else and start making decisions based on that. I was actually fired from a company for them making decisions based on a report I created that they were completely misinterpreting what it meant and I made that clear to them but they ignored it.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. The Idiot Who Said It, Built The Model

He claims it's a cubic model, but I don't believe he even knows what that means.
No doubt in my mind that he intentionally, & arbitrarily weighted factors to bend the curve to zero.
This isn't a boss twisting the model. This is the boss doing & talking about his preposterous model.

[nykym]

10. Oh and I thought they were refering to the

ECONOMY!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. Maybe so.

On paper.

I never took a "Math for Business Majors" class.

Now I wonder if the coursework had sections like, "How to make numbers look better for investors and others!"