Showing posts with label modelling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modelling. Show all posts

Monday, May 4, 2020

34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump?s desperate attempts to reopen America - The Washington Post

The epidemiological models under review in the White House Situation Room in late March were bracing. In a best-case scenario, they showed the novel coronavirus was likely to kill between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans. President Trump was apprehensive about so much carnage on his watch, yet also impatient to reopen the economy — and he wanted data to justify doing so. So the White House considered its own analysis. A small team led by Kevin Hassett — a former chairman of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers with no background in infectious diseases — quietly built an econometric model to guide response operations. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/34-days-of-pandemic-inside-trumps-desperate-attempts-to-reopen-america/2020/05/02/e99911f4-8b54-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html

Friday, April 3, 2020

EPA loses case seeking modeling behind Obama mileage rollback - The Hill

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was wrong to withhold information about how it devised its new fuel efficiency standards, a panel of judges ruled just a day after the Trump administration rolled back Obama-era mileage standards.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/490675-epa-loses-case-seeking-modeling-behind-obama-mileage-rollback








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