Based on their models, the researchers concluded that on average, the 18 events produced increases in confirmed cases of more than 250 per 100,000 residents. Keep up with Election 2020The paper, posted on academic websites and on Twitter by its authors days before the presidential election, is likely to be contentious. Judd Deere, a White House spokesman, dismissed the study as “a politically driven model based on flawed assumptions and meant to shame Trump supporters.”“As the president has said, the cure cannot be worse than the disease,” Mr. Deere said in a statement on Saturday. He said it was common practice for economists to post their work online before submitting it to an academic journal so that other experts could comment on it. He said politics was not the motivation for it.

Source: New York Times October 31, 2020 23:48 UTC