Wednesday, May 06, 2020

A look at those numbers …

… CDC Keeps Nation in Lockdown Using Wrong Numbers - LewRockwell. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)



… the 65,735 COVID-19 deaths listed by the CDC on its DAILY count does not match up with more accurate WEEKLY COVID-19 death estimate of 37,308 as of the week ending April 25 …
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4 comments:

  1. Lee10:45 AM

    https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/cdc-hasnt-reduced-covid-19-death-toll/?platform=hootsuite

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  2. Frank Wilson9:21 AM

    The article linked to actually addresses at the very beginning the problem with the fact-checkers, q.v., "SNOPES misleadingly says: 'This claim is like comparing stock prices from a two-week-old newspaper with those offered today by a cable news station, and then attributing any differences to a conspiracy rather than the mere passage of time as reflected in more current reporting.' No! The two-week data includes more data and agencies have had more time to verify death certificates." SNOPES — which once fact-checked an article in the Babylon Bee, a satire site.

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  3. Lee9:07 AM

    'The first one shows the number of deaths from COVID-19 based on information collected from states and territories reporting both confirmed and probable cases. The second one shows the number of death certificates that list COVID-19 as the cause of death.'

    Are we talking about the same thing?

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  4. Lee9:19 AM

    This may help explain the complexity of the numbers:

    https://ourworldindata.org/covid-sources-comparison

    And I read Johns Hopkins updates regularly, including the numbers:

    https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/COVID-19/

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