Stephen Macedo
@stephenmacedo.bsky.social
Political Theory, Social Science, and Public Policy, Princeton University.
Trying to seek the truth, wherever it leads.
Trying to seek the truth, wherever it leads.
CDC mortality data presented in our book fails to show that US states with more stringent NPIs had lower Covid mortality. Bollyky, et al, using different data reach same conclusion (“Assessing COVID-19 Pandemic Policies,” Lancet 2023), as do Frances Lee and I, and Pizzato et al. See our Ch. 5
July 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
CDC mortality data presented in our book fails to show that US states with more stringent NPIs had lower Covid mortality. Bollyky, et al, using different data reach same conclusion (“Assessing COVID-19 Pandemic Policies,” Lancet 2023), as do Frances Lee and I, and Pizzato et al. See our Ch. 5
See Figure 2, here,
July 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
See Figure 2, here,
Hello Blueskyers! Glad to see much discussion of our book, In Covid's Wake, but incorrect info abounds, including by Michael Hobbes and Gregg Gonsalves. Sweden had lowest Covid mortality in Europe according to most comprehensive available study. Let's face our mistakes!
June 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Hello Blueskyers! Glad to see much discussion of our book, In Covid's Wake, but incorrect info abounds, including by Michael Hobbes and Gregg Gonsalves. Sweden had lowest Covid mortality in Europe according to most comprehensive available study. Let's face our mistakes!
Michael Hobbes is mistaken. The Kolk article he links to is not our source: we don’t cite it. It covers the wrong time period (2020 only). We do cite Johan Anderberg, The Herd, and he got the data from the UK Office for National Statistics. Why not check our footnotes?
June 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Michael Hobbes is mistaken. The Kolk article he links to is not our source: we don’t cite it. It covers the wrong time period (2020 only). We do cite Johan Anderberg, The Herd, and he got the data from the UK Office for National Statistics. Why not check our footnotes?