Spot the odd man out.
Posted on 04/23/2021 9:09:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The virus is a dreadful enemy and by all accounts most countries were unprepared to deal with it.
But as we...learn to deal with the virus, curiously several scientists have begun pointing out that estimates of COVID-19 deaths in countries such as the USA and Italy are possible ‘overestimates’.
Nina Schwalbe, Principal Visiting Fellow at the United Nations University’s International Institute for Global Health... argued that while calculating fatality percentage or rate, the denominator in the form of number of infections is underestimated, hence the fatality rate appears to be much higher than what it actually is.
What is more, Schwalbe writes, even when we are testing, depending on the type of test used, we may only be counting people who are actively infected, not those who had it earlier and are currently immune.
“By not counting the people who don’t need hospital care, we are massively over projecting the per cent of infected people who die of COVID-19. It is a dangerous message that is causing fear—all driven by a false denominator.”
Another reason why the fatality rate is getting exaggerated is that the number of deaths related to COVID-19 are being overestimated. While the denominator is underestimated, the numerator is overestimated in several official estimates.
Dr. Jason Oke of Oxford University... and Dr. Carl Heneghan say, “Dying with the disease ( association) is not the same as dying from the disease ( causation).” (CEBM Research Evidence Service).
Failure to make this distinction may be responsible for a lot of confusion and overestimates, as is also evident from the writings and video recordings of scientists like Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi (Head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene) and Dr. John Loannidis (Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University School for Medicine).
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalheraldindia.com ...
Does the pope wear a funny hat?
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Don’t know about that, but we underestimated the promise of the DS to not let any crisis go to waste....
Spot the odd man out.
“One of these things is not like the others...one of these things just doesn’t belong....”
The threat from the virus, or the threat from the government’s management of the virus?
Is that real?
Let’s see what the Indian triple mutant virus does.
Uhm... yep. I think so.
I’ve been sitting here the last few weeks wondering how, after 14+ months with this “highly contagious” China virus running “rampant,” only 7.5% of my state’s population have been afflicted. Granted, the actual case number is likely higher — which makes it even far less lethal if true — but I’m using the state’s tracking numbers.
Well.Yeah.Duhh.
Duh.
Did your state mandate masks and social distancing? Were certain venues, such as restaurants, shut down or restricted as to numbers of occupants?
Those measures to inhibit spread of virus actually work. They are why, even though it is very contagious, the number of affected people has been kept down.
If so, why do states that didn’t lock down or locked down very little have lower infection rates than some that did?
never trust a government that opens its border and distributes thousands of disease carrying invaders across its country during a so called global pandemic...
Explain Florida and Texas.
Check out "Event 201" where they did a run-thru exercise 5 months before the "outbreak." They expected the media to ramp it up into something akin to ebola, which of course the media happily complied.
It is a dang cold virus, that is what a coronavirus is.
We have been given over a year of FEAR PORN, and many people are addicted.
Three letters..C..B..R ! Chemical, biological radialogical (sp)warfare. Deliberate.
I’m presuming that is a rhetorical question.
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