Nine Days in May — 19K More COVID-19 Deaths?

19,000 More COVID-19 Deaths in U.S. from May 1st to May 9th?

The University of Washington’s Institute of Health Metrics Evaluation (IHME) has been widely criticized for the inability of its model to correctly forecast the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States.

Criticism is cheap and at least the IHME at my Alma mater the University of Washington attempted to build a model. One of the problems with building models is that if the…