[AZ]State health department tells university COVID-19 modeling team to stop work, limits data access

[SheltieLover]

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/05/05/coronavirus-officials-stop-arizona-state-university-covid-19-modeling-team/5173380002/

The Arizona Department of Health Services told a team of university experts working on COVID-19 modeling to "pause" its work, an email from a department leader shows.

The modeling team of about two dozen professors at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona was compiling the most robust public model in Arizona of COVID-19.

The email, from DHS bureau chief of public health statistics S. Robert Bailey, came on Monday evening, after Gov. Doug Ducey announced plans to begin easing social distancing in the coming days.

ABC15 first reported on the email stopping the modelers' work.

More at link.

[Midnightwalk]

1. Altar of ignorance

Infuriating.

Here’s the part that gets me most.

Christ said it should be "pretty easy to just pick up the phone and ask them to come back and help us out" later in the year if needed.

The purpose of models is to predict. Calling them back in reaction to events is what a better model might have prevented.

[Indykatie]

2. We've Seen Some BatSh*t Crazy Modeling From Trump's Team - They Don't Want Alternative Models

[Laelth]

3. "Out of sight, out of mind."

"Just sweep it under the rug."

"You're making us look bad."

SOP for the sociopathic GOP of 2020.

-Laelth

[yardwork]

4. This is why elections matter. Stop electing Republicans.

[durablend]

5. "If you don't see it, it's not there"