Your Numbers Don't Fit Our Needs

Trump and his minions don't want bad news and dead bodies to get in the way.  They know that without an economic rebound, Trump and the Republican Party are on for a very bad day come November 3, 2020.  So, the minions will do what they can to hide the bad news.  In Arizona, a joint effort of the two major state universities to model the impact of various government responses to easing social distancing restrictions has been shutdown.

On Tuesday, The Arizona Republic reported that officials with the Arizona Department of Health Services ordered a team of researchers from two public state universities to “pause” work on a model of the coronavirus pandemic — and limited their access to data.

This pesky university model was quite negative concerning opening up the state the way Trump wants it done.

“The universities’ model had shown that reopening at the end of May was the only scenario that didn’t dramatically increase cases,” wrote Leingang. “In late April, Tim Lant, a mathematical epidemiologist at ASU, said the model showed five different scenarios for how the disease could progress in Arizona, depending on how social distancing efforts were relaxed. ‘The slowest curve, based on if the state reopens at the end of May, is ‘the only one that doesn’t put me immediately back on an exponential growth curve,’ Lant said in April.”