Thread by @EricTopol

For April 21/22, you get to pick
Ascending @TheEconomist
Plateau @OurWorldInData
Long plateau @FT
No matter which log, semi-log plot, none look good for US fatality curves

To predict ~60,000 deaths for the US through August, the @WhiteHouse uses the most optimistic, @IHME_UW model.
If you look at the curves above and other models reviwed @UpshotNYT, you get the sense of the different scenarios
nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The @FT April 22 update for the US #dataviz
The long plateau (~2,000 deaths/day) gets longer
That plateau is paralleled in the case curve, w/ little reduction
Soon to exceed 50,000 lost American lives, 1 million confirmed cases