Hoocoodanode that the co-author of "Dow 36,000!" would make a bad spreadsheet.
""So the White House considered its own analysis. A small team led by Kevin Hassett — a former chairman of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers with no background in infectious diseases — quietly built an econometric model to guide response operations.
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By the end of April — with more Americans dying in the month than in all of the Vietnam War — it became clear that the Hassett model was too good to be true. “A catastrophic miss,” as a former senior administration official briefed on the data described it. The president’s course would not be changed, however. Trump and Kushner began to declare a great victory against the virus, while urging America to start reopening businesses and schools."
"34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/34-days-of-pandemic-inside-trumps-desperate-attempts-to-reopen-america/2020/05/02/e99911f4-8b54-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html?fbclid=IwAR1KwWVBnKI0DyB717kZ0Hr86UjtF0qWBIql4sTTkQNvgPro9sqBcfqSt4E