#Mortality

Susan Simpson

TheViewFromLL2

Holy hell, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn's grasp of statistics is alarming. A 35% reduction in mortality does NOT mean that if 100 people get covid-19 and are treated with convalescent

Graham Neary

GrahamNeary

I'm still unsatisfied with the Covid-19 narrative, so I've had another look at the data.And I've stumbled across a factor which not enough people are talking about: the winter of

Justin Fox

foxjust

As requested by @ASlavitt, here are more or less comparable pneumonia mortality numbers for Florida, Georgia and Texas (cc @Noahpinion, @JamesSurowiecki) I used weeks 4 through 19 for comparison with

Carole Cadwalladr

carolecadwalla

On March 19, multiple people tweeted this at me. The status of COVID-19 had been downgraded. It was no longer a 'high consequence infectious disease'. I didn't retweet it. There

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

My estimates after reading multiple reports:20% of COVID is symptomatic80% is asymptomatic but infectious Symptomatic COVIDHospitalization rate: 10%ICU rate: 3%Mortality rateSymptomatic COVID ~2%. 7-10% if system overwhelmed. COVID (including asympto

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

NEW with @clivecooksonHospital mortality data suggests the autumn resurgence of Covid-19 is proving less lethal than the spring, but is it that simple?What’s going on beneath the surface, and is

Philippe Duchesne

pduchesne

The @nytimes (among others) recently analyzed excess mortality.As a Belgian I was surprised by the results (we would be over-reporting ?!), and did my own analysis for BE, NL, FR,

Ron Lin

ronlin

California Latino, Black residents hit even harder by coronavirus as white people see less dangerhttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-27/california-latinos-black-people-hit-even-harder-by-coronavirus Racism has a pernicious effe

Andrzej Kozlowski

akoz33

A fascinating blog post by Andrei Illarionov, considers carefully the infection and death rates due to coronavirus in different parts of Italy. He points out the big differences between different

Danny Boy

Care2much18

For a supposed journalist, you're pretty flippant on throwing out serious accusations.I cited him EUROMOMO excess mortality stats, which he ignored and countered they are being fed by FG.EUROMOMO is

MgS🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

MgS_2011

If @jkenney or @shandro wanted to direct research towards something productive, they might want to consider what's alluded to in this case: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/emergency-room-doctor-near-death-with-coronavirus-saved-with-experime

Simon Hix

simonjhix

I’m a huge fan of @jburnmurdoch’s daily graphs, but I increasingly think that the individual country trajectories and not cross-country comparisons are all we can really discuss at this stage.

Renee B

ReneeB_06

How can a virus with 1% mortality shut down the United States? 1/9 There are two problems with this question.1. It neglects the law of large numbers2. It assumes one

Eric Tulsky

NHLEricT

This thread is about the notion that the mortality rates for COVID-19 aren’t really high enough to warrant serious alarm. If you are already struggling with anxiety, you may want

Joris Meys

JorisMeys

1/n Op vraag dan toch een iets uitgebreider draadje over die open brief. Ik laat U zelf oordelen of dit virus al dan niet gevaarlijker lijkt dan een griep. 2/n

Mark Robinson

MarkRobinson_Oz

The poorest Australians are twice as likely to die before age 75 as the richest, and the gap is widening https://theconversation.com/the-poorest-australians-are-twice-as-likely-to-die-before-age-75-as-the-richest-and-the-gap-is-widening-139