Coronavirus: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 03:04:01 PST 2021


All sorts of stats are being officially rolled back
worldwide toward levels the "conspiracy theorists"
said were truer, politicians dodging the coming
spring, lol...



UK Expert Warns Against Overinterpreting COVID-19 Data

https://www.theepochtimes.com/uk-expert-warns-against-overinterpreting-covid-19-data_4180821.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/data-on-covid-19-cases-and-deaths-quite-misleading-uk-expert_4069510.html

A British medical expert has said that official data are prone to be
overinterpreted as it does not distinguish between people who are
hospitalised for COVID-19-related illnesses and those who receive
medical care for other reasons but then test positive.

Chris Hopson, CEO at NHS Providers, a membership organisation for NHS
(National Health Service) trusts in England, said there has been an
increase in the number of patients in hospital with COVID-19, but
warned against misinterpreting the data.

He said:

    “In the previous peaks, we’ve had some very seriously ill older
people who’ve got really significant respiratory problems and … they
had to go into critical care.

    “The difference this time is we’ve got quite a few patients who
are coming in—they might have fallen off their bike and knocked their
head or broken their leg—and what’s happening is they’ve got no
symptoms but when they arrive, they’re actually testing positive for
COVID.

    “Interestingly, the statistics that we use don’t actually
distinguish between those two. So we just need to be careful about
overinterpreting the data.”

Despite the rising number of people in hospital who have tested
positive for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, Hopson said that
UK hospitals “are still waiting to see—are we going to see a
significant number of increases in terms of the number of patients
coming into hospital with serious Omicron-related disease.”

He also said that staff absences could pose a bigger challenge to the
health service than patients needing treatment for COVID-19.

Other British experts have also cast doubt on the reliability of
official COVID-19 data.

Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group,
said in October that raw data on COVID-19 cases and deaths are “quite
misleading.”

He told the House of Commons that it is not appropriate to compare
positive case numbers between the UK and other countries because the
country’s high case rate is “partly related to very high testing.”

Compared with case numbers, Pollard said it is more important to look
at hospital admissions and deaths.

Even with deaths, Pollard said the raw data are “quite misleading,”
because it is recorded as being within 28 days of a positive COVID-19
test. When transmission is high, lots of people who test positive for
COVID-19 will have actually died from other causes, he said.

He said hospital admissions now are “quite a different story from last
year,” with the vast majority of people now going in having shorter
hospital stays and much milder disease.


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