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I wrote a local newspaper reporter covering Covid asking that they report on the improvements in the data that suggest there is an extremely low probability that care will be rationed (recent articles were still suggesting this likelihood). Here's the response:
"Thank you for reaching out. I got your last email as well. I'm very familiar with the IHME and think they do good work. The reason I haven't written about these projections is that they don't square with what I'm hearing from my sources who work in health care (some of whom I asked to look at these projections). I don't take any joy in reporting less optimistic projections, but I can't report information where there are concerns about accuracy. To your larger point, our newsroom is working on a few stories that I hope will find improvements from the steps everyone has taken so far.
Please let me know if you come across anything else that we may be missing!"
Fair enough. But I think they should at least write that the model the federal government is using is far more sanguine than what they are reporting.
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