Is it not possible to look at data of people who have died or not died (rather than basing an argument on the abstract world of modelling)? For instance could you not look at vaccinated vs unvaccinated? Have more unvaccinated died?
Hi Kara. One of the issues that makes such analysis difficult to impossible seems to be present in every country's data is what Prof Norman Fenton calls the Miscategorisation Issue - that is - that a person who dies within 14 days of their covid vaccination is categorised as unvaccinated ( https://youtu.be/ahFmHri28rk?t=66 ). In some countries a person who died within 14 days of their SECOND covid jab was also classed as unvaccinated (because they needed two shots to be considered 'vaccinated'). In this way it means that there are a lot of people who died after they recieved a jab but before 14 days who are then represented as unvaccinated and thus bias the data ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WveCXtr3zVM ) - sometimes dramatically ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8It4qI9yhzQ ).
I have embedded helpful video links into my response.
Is it not possible to look at data of people who have died or not died (rather than basing an argument on the abstract world of modelling)? For instance could you not look at vaccinated vs unvaccinated? Have more unvaccinated died?
Hi Kara. One of the issues that makes such analysis difficult to impossible seems to be present in every country's data is what Prof Norman Fenton calls the Miscategorisation Issue - that is - that a person who dies within 14 days of their covid vaccination is categorised as unvaccinated ( https://youtu.be/ahFmHri28rk?t=66 ). In some countries a person who died within 14 days of their SECOND covid jab was also classed as unvaccinated (because they needed two shots to be considered 'vaccinated'). In this way it means that there are a lot of people who died after they recieved a jab but before 14 days who are then represented as unvaccinated and thus bias the data ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WveCXtr3zVM ) - sometimes dramatically ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8It4qI9yhzQ ).
I have embedded helpful video links into my response.
Excellent article—thank you!
Over Here, it occurs to me: Where are the SAGE people? Especially, Ferguson and Michie?
Ferguson constitutes the middle third of my post :-)