#Deaths

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

(DEATH TOLL) For those trying to calculate an accurate 9-month US COVID-19 death toll, the NYT reports that as of 11/14, the max undercount was 100K. So on any given

Mark Joseph Stern

mjs_DC

Incarcerated people have a substantially higher chance of surviving COVID-19 if their requests for compassionate release come before judges appointed by Obama or Clinton. Those unfortunately enough to face Trump

Dr Gabriel Scally

GabrielScally

This BBC News piece equates COVID & influenza. It quotes @PHE wrong data. As a result, @nicktriggle is misled into saying, "But it is easy to forget that flu can

Paul Yowell

pwyowell

1/6 Denmark had almost 20x as many Covid-19 deaths as Slovakia and many more than Greece and Croatia. Does that mean Denmark was a disaster at managing the pandemic? Of

Tara Moriarty

MoriartyLab

Nov 18#COVID19 cases, deaths, case fatality rates•#Canada, provinces•Country peers (high income, pop >20M)•Longterm care, retirement homes•Weekly, daily % changes (7-day avg)Data are NOT goodData: @covid_canada @NoLore @RyersonNI

Michael Bronner

michaelbronner

The NYT's frustration that Africans may not be dying from COVID in sufficient numbers continues. On Dec. 26, @sherifink assured readers that "The Worst is Yet to Come" in Africa.

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9131383/amp/Professor-Lockdown-Neil-Ferguson-believes-London-herd-immunity.htmlQuite a surprise. Ferguson isn’t qualified to comment on such things. He lacks understanding of ba

Chris Vanderveen

chrisvanderveen

ELECTION DAY #COVID19Colorado update: Headline: "Colorado's hospitals jump above 800 patients as daily positivity nears 11%." HOSPITALIZATIONS(covid+ ONLY) Today: 814 (up 59 from yesterday) Last week: 538 (at this rate,

Ben W. Ansell

benwansell

I had a statistical conniption about the Aberdeen study published in BMJOpen earlier today. Let's see if I can explain my concerns in a less techie fashion. The gist of

TNK 🙂

TTBikeFit

A new way to look at lockdown severity and its effects. We have all heard of the Oxford lockdown stringency index described here https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/coronavirus-government-response-tracker which uses 17 indic

Aubrey

TheAlbertFlash

Snore.Who is saying that anybody deserves to die of covid, or that its victims form a sub-category of human?The age, or general medical condition, of its victims tells you something

Phil Magness

PhilWMagness

Australia/New Zealand covid strategy:1. Make your island a fortress and lock everything down2. Declare victory over covid3. Covid returns4. Lockdown5. Declare victory over covid6. Covid returns7. Lockdown8. Declare victory over

פרופ' אייל שחר

prof_shahar

1/Sweden mortality in the last two “flu years”:Oct 2018 – Sep 2019 Oct 2019 – Sep 2020Inference from trend over 2 decades. 2/Preliminaries:Annual statistics usually computed by Gregorian calendar.Why? Does

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

A thread of some of the misconceptions that fed the COVID hysteria. 1/ Little reporting of the sense of scale, that flu and seasonal influenza-like infections (i.e., colds) are massive

Irene Tosetti

itosettiMD_MBA

COVID-19 in Africa: A pair of studies lays out sobering COVID-19 data for Africa, and for Zambia in particular. In The BMJ, researchers collected postmortem nasopharyngeal samples from nearly 400

Miles Beckett

mbeckett

The trillion dollar question. Why are COVID cases increasing while deaths are decreasing? The answer is simple. It's called Simpson's paradox and it's the result of incorrectly pooling data and

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