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EP20: Prof Rob Hyndman: Forecasting COVID, time-series, and why causality doesnt matter as much as you think.

The Curious Quant

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The Interactivity of the Role of the Essential Workers in an Economy

Where are you most likely to catch a virus like covid and roots of public transportation or kind of as you say the act active movement let's say. Is it in public spaces leisure or are you supposed to perhaps more likely to catch it at work? I think there's a number of studies around this idea of the different kind of jobs at different level of interactivity especially essential workers have to continue to stack shelves and so on. It feels like it's a lower bar as to how much you can take people out of the workforce by getting into work from home or stay at home, he says.

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