If you’re interested in slicing and dicing all kinds of covid related data in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways ‘Our World in Data’ has a handy online application that lets you do just that with some user friendly drop down menus. Have a look.
Not sure how great it works on a phone but its very easy to use on a computer or laptop.
An excellent source.
An interesting exercise is to plot Covid deaths, vaccination rates and cases for U.S., Canada, Israel and Sweden on the same chart.
What stands out is Israel’s inexplicable recent “wave” in spite of high vaccination rates. The media is suppressing this because it brings to question the long-term efficacy of the vaccines.
One of the other nice features is that they’re easily shareable.
Where’s the data on Covid rates among households which use heat pumps as their source of heat versus households which use gas furnaces as their source of heat? We all know that cold and flu rates tend to spike during the winter time as people are spending more time indoors in closed buildings where these viruses can propagate more easily, has anyone ever done a study comparing the relative rates of infestation between heat pumps and gas furnaces? On a cold day, a heat pump may put out “hot” air that is not much warmer than body temperature, the temperature at which these viruses are designed to thrive, whereas gas furnaces put out hot air at much higher temperatures which would tend to sterilize the air. Over the last 20 or 30 years as heat pumps have become much more popular, has anybody considered this issue?
True, a gas furnace heats air to higher temperatures than does a heat pump, but it doesn’t heat that air long enough to achieve sterilization. At the typical temp that it burns (say, 140’F-170’F), any given volume of air would need to remain at that high temp for 30 mins or longer before any viral proteins begin to denature.
Appears that India is doing great (why?) despite being the home of the delta variant. Can’t be the vaccination as the rate is pretty low, and must no be the widespread use of the I medicine that works only for animals (horses), and has either no or a totally adverse effect on humans. That’s also why many countries in the world have included the medicine that is not helpful in their treatment guidelines. Cheers from Latin America.
When looking at the data on that website remember that that you see is only as good as the data, and data from a lot of (most?) third world counties is, at best, unreliable.
Indeed. Absent of wilfull falsification most countries show typical waves “rolling through” – so within this set of bad data a signal canbe identified.
In a much broader sense data quality issues, modified definitions are an issue not only in the third world. If politics has taken a position, same for media, big pharma and health authorities, data quality issues can be a serious threat to identify any signal.
True certainly for the US, Canada and other “first world” countries. This morning in Germany there was a report about a “tiny” adjustment in the way to count fully vaccinated C-deaths with breakthrough infections. The authority just introduced that only those were counted as vaccinated C-deaths who were symptomatic. Its not entirely wrong – imo – the best way to count C-deaths, but leaving the general rule in place … fully vaccinated C-victyims without symptoms will be added to the non-vaccinated column.
Its a detail, but who knows how other countries do count?
Data quality issues are definitively there, you are right – biased authorities are the main danger, apart of, back to the third world, poverty, deficient authorities.
The media assault on Ivermectin as a “horse medicine” is borderline criminal.
“Ivermectin has been used in humans for 35 years and over 4 billion doses have been administered. Merck, the original patent holder, donated 3.7 billion doses to developing countries. 2015 the two individuals who developed Ivermectin were awarded a Nobel Prize for medicine. While known primarily as an anti-parasitic, Ivermectin has powerful anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties. Its safety is documented at doses twenty times the normal. Only 19 deaths are known and side-affects are generally mild and short. As a comparison, approximately 450 US citizens die from paracetamol every year.”
Follow the money and look in to the India experience with Ivermectin. Very interesting.
Stop telling the truth. It bothers the terminally stupid and government.
In Israel, “One of the most vaccinated countries in the world has this week seen its highest number of coronavirus cases ever.” And these cases are not mild. Instead, a majority of hospitalized patients are in serious condition with close to 15 percent on ventilators. In a country with over 80 percent of adults vaccinated, this is clearly not a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” – American Thinker
See the sleight of hand? No? See how he switches context from “cases” to “hospitalized” without the slightest nod and then drew an unsubstantiated conclusion? Missed that? Shocking!
Then he uses the fallacy of drawing conclusions about averages without looking at the weight of each average.
Maybe he’s just stupid, maybe he’s dishonest, or maybe he shouldn’t be writing about stuff involving simple math no matter how much he wants to.
That is why I don’t care much about cases, it’s raw not hard data, hospitalizations and deaths are; and yes weighted to population.
Too much ignorance from all the mediocracy.
Abysmal math and logic skills, wilfully illiterate in science and statistics, oblivious to commerce.
Like politicians they’ve fully disgraced themselves on covid, revealing their malevolent ignorance, refusing accountability, mired in blame games and projecting their own nefarious intent.
They guess. We sit. They win, we lose.
They get more powerful and they and their cronies in coercion and censorship get richer.
I think we’re near the end of their rope.
The one that worries me the most is that those who are hospitalized / die within 2 weeks of a Vax shot are counted as “unvaccinated”. And if the antibodies are present (as a result of the Vax) and clotting is a main cause of death, then the death-jab gets counted as an unvaccinated Covid death. All the better to scare those who aren’t paying attention.
And yet when you look up hospitalizations and ICU numbers in Israel the argument still stands.
Fuck covid, deaths people are not dying by the millions no matter what the liars in government say. Does anybody out there have a brain?
Anyone found data on 2021 deaths (by country) versus 2020 deaths? It seems that would be the absolute criteria on the value, or lack thereof, of the vaccines.