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8 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Tell me you’re a millennial without telling me you’re a millennial… ;)
For those asking: Yes, it’s an old-school landline phone jack: ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Ar…
Another fun fact: When telephone numbers changed from prefixes (“Pennsylvania-6-5000”) to just numbers, many in the public didn’t take it well.
I’m amazed that many of my fellow Gen-Xers didn’t know what it was either. Huh.
Looks like it depends mostly on when your house/apartment was built: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone…

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9 Jan
Some may recall I got into a brief disagreement with @jfeldman_epi a few weeks back about whether or not it's *always* appropriate to adjust for age when running COVID death rate numbers. Having said that, he makes some valid points here:
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8 Jan
This was written by @AnnieLinskey. You may remember her from some of her other greatest hits, like…
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Charles #GetCovered-ba 🩺 Profile picture
8 Jan
This morning I noted that the first week of 2021 (Omicron) looks very different than the last 6 months of 2021 (Delta).

First 2 graphs: Case/Death rates from 7/01/21 - 12/31/21

Second 2 graphs: Case/Death rates for the first 6 days of 2022 (w/projections for the full month): ImageImageImageImage
When looked at by *vaccination rate* it's a similar story, but far less dramatic of a shift (so far): Case rates are actually *higher* in the most-vaxxed counties, but death rates are still much higher in the least-vaxxed counties...just less so than during the Delta wave. ImageImageImageImage
Again, the second set of graph only include the first 6 days of January; each additional day of data can shift these around dramatically. And of course the new wave hit the big, densely-populated cities first (as prior waves have) so it makes sense that they'll get slammed first.
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7 Jan
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7 Jan
Remember when @LeePrevost insisted that I was cherry-picking COVID data & I'd ignore it if the tide turned back to blue/Dem counties being hit harder again (even though I'd already been tracking it since the 1st wave in spring 2020)? Seriously, he spammed Twitter with his claim.
Well, I'm sure he'll be disappointed to see this: While the Delta Wave decimated red counties, for the first 6 days of 2022, at least, the *case* rates are a very different story: January cases so far are running 2.3x higher in the bluest 10th of the U.S. than the reddest 10th. Image
Meanwhile, the *death* rate for the first week of January continues to swing heavily towards heavily red counties...but the gap is far less dramatic so far than it was during the Delta Wave: It's "only" 86% higher in the reddest 10th of the U.S. than the bluest 10th. Image
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6 Jan
.@NateSilver538 just literally compared a year of remote learning to nearly half a million people being killed.

Does he have any children? I do. He hated remote learning but not once did he or I ever think “man, I’d kill 460,000 people just to get back to in-person learning!”
There was a time when, as a data wonk, I considered him to be a role model. Back in 2014 when I got my 15 minutes of fame for my ACA data tracking, a few folks referred to me as "the Nate Silver of Obamacare" and I was embarrassed because I didn't think I was worthy.
This column was particularly awkward for me because at the time I thought of Silver as a personal hero.
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