After three and a half years of unbridled and myopic media coverage of a single disease, coupled with unprecedented availability of data on that disease, it is appropriate to ask if any world-wide patterns of interest have surfaced concerning Covid …
Why I became a time lord
In the classic John Huston film Beat the Devil, the diminutive character actor Peter Lorre delivers a concise disquisition on the nature of time: “What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is …
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Manufacturing the Crisis
Table of Contents
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Laying the Foundations
Competing Causes of Death
Evidence for Lockdown Deaths
Recovering the Dead
Overall Mortality in the ‘Epidemic’
What Happened to the Excess Deaths?
Conclusions
It’s official. The UK now has the ‘highest COVID death-rate in the …
Ecosystem, Health, Socio-economic and Mobility Factors for COVID-19 Mortality
Jorge Goncalves
Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Centre for Functional Ecology, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal.
3. FINDINGSWe ran the models for the two samples in panel data, and ran an OLS model to look …
Can vitamin D cure covid-19?
A groundbreaking study has just been published showing that vitamin D may cure covid-19 and prevent progression to severe disease and death.
Source: Can vitamin D cure covid-19?…
How deadly is covid-19? – Sebastian Rushworth M.D.
September 2020 was the least deadly month in Swedish history, in terms of number of deaths per 100,000 population. Ever. And I don’t mean the least deadly September, I mean the least deadly month. Ever. To me, this is pretty …
COVID-19 – research evidence summaries
Here we provide a summary of key current evidence regarding COVID-19 in children and young people.
In children, the evidence is now clear that COVID-19 is associated with a considerably lower burden of morbidity and mortality compared to that seen …
Flu and pneumonia killed five times more than Covid last month
Flu and pneumonia are killing five times as many people as coronavirus at present, with Covid deaths at their lowest since the end of March, figures show.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that overall deaths were below average …
COVID-19: A category 2 pandemic
Pandemic Severity Index’ was released by HHS in coordination with CDC
Source: COVID-19: A category 2 pandemic…
Nearly three times more people dying of flu and pneumonia than coronavirus
New ONS figures show 917 flu and pneumonia deaths were registered for the week ending on July 10, compared to 366 Covid-19 deaths.
Source: Nearly three times more people dying of flu and pneumonia than coronavirus…
Unprecedented? Overall Mortality in Sweden and other European Countries | by Zack F | Jul, 2020 | Medium
Overall mortality is the best number we have to compare COVID19 to prior flu seasons. Overall mortality means counting the number of deaths certificates, regardless of any test result or interpretation by physicians or health authorities.
GermanyLet´s start with …
Deaths caused by everything but Covid-19 drop significantly in UK. Conclusions?
Our questions:
- Are the “Covid-19 deaths” numbers a result of “creative statistics”?Is the “Covid peak” in the excessive deaths caused by lockdown and media fear-mongering rather than by Covid-19?
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Source: Deaths involving COVID-19, England and Wales: deaths occurring in …
Which Pandemic?! Looking at Covid-19 numbers in perspective
“Killervirus” – data from Johns Hopkins Institute
Red = total infected and/or % of infected
Black = total deaths and/or % of fatalities in population
Nowhere was the 1% mark in deaths reached
By Ralph T. Niemeyer
Population from de.statista, …
