Updated September 10, 2020: The Infection Fatality Ratio parameter has been updated to include age-specific estimates The parameter for Number of Days from Symptom Onset to Seeking Outpatient Care—which was based on influenza care seeking data—has been replaced with the Median Number of Days from Symptom Onset to SARS-CoV-2 Test among SARS-CoV-2 Positive Patients A…
Tag: Epidemiology
Medical Xpress reports “Study: 35% of excess deaths in pandemic’s early months tied to causes other than COVID-19”
Since COVID-19’s spread to the United States earlier this year, death rates in the U.S. have risen significantly. But deaths attributed to COVID-19 only account for about two-thirds of the increase in March and April, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Yale…
Investment Watch report “CDC publishes new survival rates for Covid … MSM Goes Silent”
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/cdc-publishes-new-survival-rates-for-covid-msm-goes-silent/
RT reports “The 1% blunder: How a simple but fatal math mistake by US Covid-19 experts caused the world to panic and order lockdowns”
In February, US Covid guru Anthony Fauci predicted the virus was ‘akin to a severe flu’ and would therefore kill around 0.1 percent of people. Then fatality rate predictions were somehow mixed up to make it look ten times WORSE. When you strip everything else out, the reason for lockdown comes from a single figure:…
JB Handley report “Lockdown Lunacy 3.0: It’s over”
If you’re hoping the COVID-19 pandemic will go on forever, this post may disappoint you. And, I get it. We have gone frothing-at-the-mouth nuts over a slightly above-normal virulence virus, with a unique and obvious age-distribution pattern that should have made containment easy and panic completely unnecessary. And, if you’re living in the United States,…
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick reports “COVID – why terminology really, really matters”
When is a case not a case? Since the start of the COVID pandemic I have watched almost everyone get mission critical things wrong. In some ways this is not surprising. Medical terminology is horribly imprecise, and often poorly understood. In calmer times such things are only of interest to research geeks like me. Were…
The Hill reports “Positive COVID-19 tests hit record low in New York City”
The percentage of COVID-19 tests coming back positive has reached a record low in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said Wednesday, a sign that enough people are being tested and that the city has control of the virus. “This is extraordinary,” de Blasio said during a press conference. “Now we all know every day…
CEBM reports “The Declining Case Fatality Ratio in England”
The CFR has fallen substantially from its peak in April. We now present data suggesting that the CFR as of the 4th of August stood at around 1.5%, having fallen from over 6% six weeks earlier. The recent publication of statistics based on deaths following a COVID-19 positive test in the last 28 days allows the calculation…
Birmingham Live reports “Good Hope Hospital’s Dr Ron Daniels says: ‘Don’t fear second wave – coronavirus is getting less angry'”
The intensive care consultant, who works at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust hospitals, says poorly patients are not increasing despite rise in infections Reflecting that range of views, Dr Ron Daniels – an intensive care consultant at Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield, who has also been based at Heartlands, said he believed the virus was “getting…
Everist Health reports “COVIDAge Risk Calculator”
The COVIDAge Risk Calculator™ estimates risk for complications of COVID-19, including risk for hospitalization, ICU admission, and risk of mortality. It is a key tool in providing awareness around COVID-19 and knowledge of an individual’s risk that could lead them to making more informed decisions about their health and lifestyle routines. https://calculator.covid-age.com/