Since testing for COVID-19 infections is not at all randomized over the general population, most epidemiological model forecasts of deaths are subject to `selection bias.' This paper updates and supplements Vinod and Theiss (2020), where the bias correction using generalized linear models (GLM)...

We offer state-wise forecasts of COVID-19 pandemic deaths for the week ending August 10, 2020 based on a sample selection model to correct for rationed and biased testing for the virus. We refer the reader to our earlier papers including Vinod and Theiss (2020b) and Vinod and Theiss (2020a),...