Yeah I addressed this with the thread I linked to. Theres like no evidence people in Japan were taking Ivermectin at any scale, never mind that it helped to calm a COVID wave.
Much too slow - I missed whatever it was.
ETA Just noticed our avs have similar colours - weird!
The idea that we can distinguish between deaths “purely from COVID” and others seems similar to the difficulty distinguishing between “hospitalized for COVID” and “hospitalized with COVID”. It seems like, in at least some cases, it just isn’t always possible to make that distinction.
I thought this part, from a piece in this week’s New Yorker, was illuminating.
Clarifying the distinction between a virus that drives illness and one that’s simply along for the ride is more than an academic exercise. If we tally asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic infections as COVID hospitalizations, we risk exaggerating the toll of the virus, with all the attendant social and economic ramifications. If we overstate the degree of incidental COVID , we risk promoting a misguided sense of security. Currently, the U.S. has no data-collection practices or unified framework for separating one type of hospitalization from another. Complicating all this is the fact that it’s sometimes hard to distinguish a person hospitalized “with COVID ” from one hospitalized “for COVID .” For some patients, a coronavirus infection can aggravate a seemingly unrelated condition—a COVID fever tips an elderly woman with a urinary-tract infection into delirium; a bout of diarrhea dehydrates a man admitted with sickle-cell disease. In such cases, COVID isn’t an innocent bystander, nor does it start the fire—it adds just enough tinder to push a manageable problem into a crisis.
Freddbird, Co-Chairman of Freddbird’s Home Medical Association, thinks your source isn’t that reliable.
Don’t get confused by ‘my source’ and the artciles / studies / ONS / CDC he refers to
I suggest you check the links to his sources I have posted - ONS, CDC - I dunno, man
Must be hard to understand FOI requests
That was it! Thanks.
Jesus Christ, are we really, in 2022, unironically linking to “studies” on unstuck politics about the efficacy of horse dewormer in treating Covid-19? Really?
I’m sure you meant to reply to LetsGambol - I posted nowt about Ivermectin other than his source in reply to Gambols post about Ivermevtin
Keep up with the thread and don’t rewrite ‘history’ - you should stick to posting your unfunny gifs
This is kind of the heart of the matter. This stuff is in the territory of Sagan’s wisdom about extraordinary claims. One off links to preprints and YouTube videos don’t count as extraordinary evidence. Its scientific whataboutism.
No. I replied to you. You were the one who posted it. Enough already.
Ya, what Dr. Ozaki said isn’t being portrayed accurately at all by the good Dr. John.
Me too. I really thought it was sarcasm.
mild? kinda proves my point that daily updates on the SA and other countries not applicable - it’s fruitless comparing
The daily death toll of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States now stands as high as it did during the Delta variant’s peak, a grim figure that experts believe will rise.
Statistics show that an average of over 2,000 people are dying from the virus in the US every day, roughly on par with the deaths seen in late September.
Why the higher death toll?
Dr Abraar Karan, an infectious disease doctor at Stanford University, told the BBC that the high death toll is largely a factor of the high hospitalisation rate, even if the symptoms of the Omicron variant are generally less severe than those of Delta.
"When you have a more transmissible virus, it would exponentialise the number of severe cases and deaths. “Even if you have a low percentage of severe cases, the absolute number can still be quite high. A small percentage of a very large number is still a large number.”
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that a vast majority - as much as 75% - of those dying are older than 65.
We’re fairly screwed too though
The word “we” really doing a lot of work here.
About vaccination mandates.
https://twitter.com/aduno_tal/status/1486029506670387205?t=mY7P5iWIG0l6qIPVLclLzA&s=19
Grunching.
So suspicion about Dad spending two full days in the ER due to Covid patients tying up all the beds confirmed by the physical therapist. He’s in a room now.
I’m going to have trouble controlling myself the next time I see a covidiot.
He has balance issues, coordination issues (think Airplane movie drinking problem), some speech and aphasia (he knows me but but couldn’t say my name, he could describe the TV but not say television until given a prompt, also can’t recognize written words. Any/all of which may or may not resolve with rehab (or could partially resolve and then stall).
He doesn’t fully understand what’s happened. He’s clearly got some frustration
Recommendation will be to move to inpatient stroke rehab and see how he progresses. Goal and hope is to get him back home, but home may mean going back to Michigan where family is available vs the winter Arizona home with just him and hi girlfriend.
Sucks beyond all words to see him look so confused and helpless.