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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsArizona health department tells university COVID-19 modeling team to stop work, limits data access
The governor has made up his mind so don't let anyone confuse him with the facts.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/05/05/coronavirus-officials-stop-arizona-state-university-covid-19-modeling-team/5173380002/
The modeling team of about two dozen professors at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona was compiling the most robust public model in Arizona of COVID-19.
The email, from DHS bureau chief of public health statistics S. Robert Bailey, came on Monday evening, after Gov. Doug Ducey announced plans to begin easing social distancing in the coming days.
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Jarqui
(10,131 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)this country will be rolling the dice and hiding the facts.
3K deaths a day and they are going to start covering it up more than ever.
Protect yourselves and yours.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)They should just keep on, and demand the information they need from the state.
This all just makes me sick-- this is all to somehow protect Trump and his incompetent uncaring actions.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,450 posts)remind me again why we are mad at China for a supposed lack of transparency?
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)has the contract to develop a model for the state. Did I mention that Iowa just yesterday experienced its worst day (in terms of deaths) so far?
But she does have time to fly to Washington to meet with Needy Amin today.
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)crickets
(25,988 posts)Lives are in the balance. Their petty politics is getting people killed. There needs to be a reckoning for that.
cayugafalls
(5,646 posts)They are going to rely on FEMA models...oh sure. Like those models will be better than the ones produced by your own experts.
Idiots.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
drmeow
(5,031 posts)But I don't think those scientists will stop working on their model. They'll find some other data to use.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,335 posts)Initech
(100,114 posts)Don't want this to happen in your state? Don't vote conservative!