• CaractacusPotts@lemmy.caOP
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    10 months ago

    “Tran also said in his post that projections show as many as 1 in 3 people in the U.S. could be infected with COVID during the peak months of the current wave and up to 2 million people could be infected in a single day — data he attributed to Michael Hoerger, Ph.D., assistant professor at Tulane University School of Medicine who leads the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative’s data tracker.”

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    10 months ago

    Is what true? The data? The projection? (that’s not true or false, it’s an estimate of what may happen) The post headline is not accurate; if you read the article you’ll see it doesn’t claim 1 in 3 will get COVID, it makes a projection that as many as 1 in 3 may get it. So it sounds like 1 in 3 is the upper end of the range of the projection.