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Scientists Slam the Gates-Funded IHME's Influential but Inaccurate COVID Models
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The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), a University of Washington center launched in 2007 with a roughly $105 million Gates Foundation grant, produced some of the most widely cited — and widely criticized — COVID-19 forecasts of 2020. Public-health experts argued in outlets such as STAT that the IHME's model used flawed statistical methods, swung wildly between projections, and gave a false sense of precision; one assessment found its next-day death predictions fell outside their own stated ranges most of the time. Because policymakers leaned on the forecasts, critics warned the inaccuracies could distort pandemic decisions. The controversy spotlighted the influence of Gates-funded institutions over global-health data and modeling.
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