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Re:Shutdowns prevented 60M coronavirus infections in the U.S... by cheald on Monday June 08, 2020 @04:27PM (#23460401)
"Received: 22 March 2020" - direct from the study cover page at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2404-8_reference....

States imposed lockdowns between March 21 and early April. Someone want to explain to me how a study submitted before the lockdowns were issued (nevermind had time to actually have an impact) "found" those results?

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Re:Shutdowns prevented 60M coronavirus infections in the U.S... by sauwan on Monday June 08, 2020 @07:47PM (#23462080)
It must be a typo. March 22nd was a Sunday, where May 22nd was a Friday. It seems unlikely that it would take over 2 months to accept it, considering so many other articles are being rushed to publication in fractions of that time.

ETA: also, charts in that publication also show data collected from April, so unlikely they had data from the future.

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