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In reply to mlyoung57. I can only speak to your first paragraph; I don’t have anything useful to say about the second. My best guess is still that the decision/order was wrong (because the discharge option yields certain exposure for lots of hig…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. My best guess is still that the decision/order was wrong (because the discharge option yields certain exposure for lots of high-risk people, more so than the most likely hospital-overload scenarios, which I assume would invol…

In reply to merjet. Yes, I would admit the patient even if COVID positive. I think you might profit from reading my exchange with Michael Young nearby, because I’ve covered much of the ground that your comment covers with him. But let’s ste…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Thanks for your response. It seems you would admit the new, infected patient. Doing so would increase the risk of infecting your current patients and employees. I suspect Tyler Cowen wouldn’t want to do that if he were the hy…

This is a syndicated post, originally published by Hannah Ritchie at Our World in Data.

A relevant news item from today’s NJ.com: https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/06/scathing-letter-from-health-department-insiders-says-njs-pandemic-failures-led-to-preventable-deaths.html The letter addresses the nursing home issue but adds nothin…

In reply to mlyoung57. Well, let me step back a bit. First, it’s Cowen who’s making the positive claim here: the New York (and by implication New Jersey) decision were, on his view, significant regulatory failures. My claim is that he hasn…

In reply to Loquitur Veritatem. I don’t think those particular conclusions follow. The requirement to have standing to judge is compatible with the existence of a threshold that has to be crossed before you lose that standing. There’s nothi…