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Italy’s Suspected Covid Death Tally Corrected From 132,161 To 3,783HAFNovember 3, 2021
Why you cannot trust US Covid data
Unlike England, or Scotland, or Israel, or Germany, or many other countries that have semi-functioning governments, the United States has no nationally reliable source of Covid or Covid vaccine data. ...
For example, on Nov. 11, Connecticut reported that “one hundred seventy fifty” vaccinated people had died of Covid since February. Beyond the fact that “one hundred seventy fifty” is not a number, the state had reported a week before that 226 vaccinated people had died since February. Which seems to imply that about 50 Connecticutians (?) were resurrected last week. ...
But stupid public health tricks aside, American data has a much bigger problem - and this one is not an accident.
The amount of information about vaccine “breakthrough” cases states and the CDC have provided has decreased over the last several months.
For example, until about a month ago, Oklahoma reported Covid hospitalizations and deaths among the vaccinated, including by the type of shot they had received. ...
Now, however, after months of being part of the report, that handy-dandy chart has gone bye-bye.
Why? In its Oct. 19 report, Oklahoma offered this explanation:
At this time, we are currently working on refining the process for identifying breakthrough infections and reinfections. Once we have finalized this process, we will resume providing tables.
Oh. That clears everything up. As Dr. Seuss wrote in One Fish, Two Fish: “Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know. Go ask your dad.” Of course, he was writing about cartoon fish. ...
The CDC’s last public weekly update came the week of Monday, Oct. 18, with data from that day. At that point, the page showed almost 11,000 deaths and more than 30,000 hospitalizations in vaccinated Americans. Those numbers hung around until Nov. 1, when the page was suddenly eliminated.
Why? Just spitballing here, but maybe it had something to do with the fact that from Oct. 4 to Oct. 18, deaths of vaccinated people jumped more than 4,000 and hospitalizations almost 14,000.
Again - in mid-October, the CDC reported more than 300 deaths and almost 1,000 new hospitalizations a day among vaccinated Americans.
Pandemic of the unvaccinated, anyone? ...
So the United States - which spends $4 trillion a year on health care, an unthinkable sum, more than $10,000 for each American - is stuck relying on foreign data for the most basic facts about Covid vaccinations.
And I mean the MOST basic. Like the number of vaccinated Americans who have died of Covid.
The CDC DOESN’T THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE THAT NUMBER. At least not anywhere that’s readily accessible.
Not sure I believe this, but if so, it's good news:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10198985/Operation-Rampdown-Codename-revealed-Government-papers-dismantle-key-Covid-measures-year.html
It really makes you wonder doesn’t it?
Our meticulous RG colleague @AWokeZombie brings this gem of a comoarison to start the weekend. The next time someone tells you that behavior or vaccination rates or masks are what’s going to change the outcome of this pandemic just show them this picture.
November 19, 2020 vs November 19, 2021
The number of U.S. deaths from Covid in 2021 just surpassed all of 2020. Here's why that's not that scary. ...
In case you're still tempted to be worried, also remember that JHU itself reported that death numbers remained relatively the same from 2019 to 2020 – it's just that the elderly and the vulnerable died at a much higher rate from Covid than from other various diseases.
Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.
Figure out how you want to interpret "COVID-19 deaths" and keep that in mind when reading or hearing data like this.
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