Coronavirus modeling has become the latest partisan flash point
“Everybody can benefit by playing the numbers game,” said Sean Walsh, a Republican strategist who worked in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. “And everybodybenefit by playing the numbers game. The president can say, ‘What I did worked and we had far fewer casualties and deaths by doing what I actually did.
In the case of the coronavirus, he said, the reason “we’re not seeing the worst-case projections from these models” is that “we took all these measures to avoid the worst-case outcomes.” Scientists say models have been limited by the scant availability of data with a fast-moving virus, and from weak testing and surveillance in the United States — what Benjamin called the efforts’ “Achilles’ heel.”
And the coronavirus response, despite bipartisan efforts to provide economic relief, has been viewed differently by many Democrats and Republicans. The eight governors who have yet to impose statewide stay-at-home orders are all Republicans, and conservatives have been more impatient to re-open the economy. News of ventilator surpluses and lower-than-expected hospitalization rates in some cities and states have become a rallying cry for the exasperated right.
And after Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA commissioner, laid out a process to gradually re-open the economy after increasing testing capacity, Doug Stafford, an adviser to Sen. Rand Paul , who was the first senator to test positive for coronavirus, said on Twitter, “I can’t even with this technocrat ivory tower bullshit. 16 million unemployed and counting. 6 Trillion in new spending, all out of thing [sic] air.
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