CDC director has no idea how many people have died from (as opposed to with) covid.
(twitter.com)
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The world is running at perhaps 18 million more deaths than expected. Covid is thought to be directly responsible for about 5.5 million of them. (https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid#estimated-excess-mortality-from-the-economist).
How important is the difference between dying from covid and dying with covid?
If there is a suggestion that deaths from other conditions are being used to inflate the number of covid deaths, what might those other conditions be?
deflecting from the fact that CDC is misrepresenting covid deaths? And, the Economist is not suggesting 5.5 million covid deaths. That’s the “confirmed” number of deaths, confirmed partly based on the United States’ stats (which the CDC has no idea how many were due to Covid and how many were with covid).
By the way, canada misrepresents the stats too:
https://twitter.com/flying_dutchie/status/1277276545455882247?s=21
An undated jpeg image posted by an anonymous user 19 months ago that might be part of an exchange on Twitter.
Or it might be from https://www.tweetgen.com/create/reply.html
I'll remain skeptical for now. I'll just plunk this here for now so I can copy it when I get in touch with them: "individuals who have died with covid-19 but not as a result of covid-19 are included in case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto."
here you go
Thanks. Your Twitter search skills are superior to mine.
I'm trying to contact TPH to see if they're still doing that 19 months later, but I haven't timed it right yet.
Did you read the following comments? I liked the one where Peter Evans - the person asking "Does this not serve to mislead the public..." - says:
I’ve spoken to enough doctors whom I know well and trust to make the decision to get vaccinated and I’m thankful for it. I believe this disease can be very deadly, I believe in asymptomatic transmission, and I trust in the science. I took AZ, feel great
https://twitter.com/topublichealth/status/1275888390060285967?s=21
Not sure why you keep deflecting, but ok.
Which part is deflecting? The part where I try to find out if that statement from 19 months ago is still valid? Or the part where the guy who asked the question about it turns out to be a vaccination proponent?
If it's about the guy, well, I like to quote people who agree with me. Do you do that?
Yes. Why would i care what some guy on twitter responds to Toronto Public Health’s admission that they misrepresent stats? The issue is that the stats are misrepresented, not whether they are justified in doing so.
And, 19 months later… yrs, they are doing the same thing unless proven otherwise.
But even going back a few comments… you deflect with a straight-out lie and cite a link that you think nobody will follow. The Economist estimates 5.5 million covid deaths? Geez. You lie through your teeth. And, you think you have credibility?
Turns out you're right, I gotta admit. I did not know they were doing that.