This is how much of a dumb fuck tuchodi is. Your corpse doesn’t even have to test positive now
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It is ScoobyDoo's opinion that this 28 day measure was not a valid way of counting, even though it's explained in the UK Health Security Agency blog cited repeatedly earlier in the conversation that this 28 day measure was confirmed to be sufficiently accurate by subsequent clinical testing, which took 8 or 9 days longer to process.
ScoobyDoo does not acknowledge the clinical testing. Perhaps it is her inexpert opinion that it is invalid for some reason. We don't know. She says nothing about it.
At any rate, with the arrival of covid variants the 28 day measure became less accurate and it was eventually dropped.
Two different ways of counting deaths will result in two different totals. Both numbers are accurate in Tuchodi’s fantasy.
Not enough to matter folks.
ScoobyDoo thinks her lack of any relevant training or experience entitles her to dismiss the experts when they say "Two main statistics have been used to count coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in England: death \registrations involving COVID-19 (reported by the ONS) and deaths within 28 days of a positive SARS-COV-2 test (reported by the UKHSA). The 28-day measure is a timely measure of COVID-19 deaths to inform public health response, but less precise than death registrations which consider the cause of death.
When compared, the 2 measures closely tracked one another (85 to 90% correlation) between May 2020 and December 2021. The UKHSA measure under-reported deaths at the very start of the pandemic prior to the scale up of community testing (March to April 2020). From January 2022, a marked uncoupling was observed corresponding with the emergence of the Omicron variant and widespread population immunity__.
While both measures remain useful, they serve different purposes. Death registrations are a reference for overall death toll from COVID-19 (along with excess mortality estimates) and the 28-day death measure is most useful as a rapid indicator of death following COVID-19 infection, with peak utility when a new variant emerges or during a new wave which requires timely monitoring of severity for public health purposes." https://khub.net/documents/135939561/338928724/comparison-of-COVID-19-mortality-measures-in-pandemic-response-England.pdf/1a7b24bd-8dc1-f135-eaf1-93a6bb7edb21
And? The 28-day measure overstates covid deaths, up to 15% more (85% to 90% correlation), just as everyone is telling you, just as it says in what you just quoted. In your fantasy, these two methods of counting are the same thing. In reality, they’re not.
Another unsupported opinion from ScoobyDoo folks.
And incorrect, as it happens.
As soon as she thought she saw something she liked she stopped reading, and missed the fact that initially ["When compared, the 2 measures closely tracked one another (85 to 90% correlation) between May 2020 and December 2021. The UKHSA (28 day) measure under-reported deaths at the very start of the pandemic..."
It doesn't seem to have occurred to her that "85 to 90%" could be interpreted any other way than how she thought it should be.
Not that it matters.
The fact remains that her claims that "They didn’t adjust the stats prior to this" is just more misinformation.