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In this thread, I will show that WHO has been promoting sketchy Chinese data without question since the pandemic started while ignoring human rights abuses.
(I'm not picking on China - my own country is hardly a bastion of freedom - but without Chinese data there's not a shred of evidence that the pandemic originated in China)
I will show that the Chinese Pneumonia of Unknown Etiology (PUE) passive surveillance system is unreliable and that WHO failed to show evidence of an unusual rise in influenza-like-illness in adults in Wuhan during the initial outbreak.
I will show that public health authorities implemented the lockdowns and healthcare slowdowns based on case studies, before a measure of association between the virus and disease was produced.
I will show that once the lockdowns and healthcare slowdowns were implemented, the virus became associated with a multitude of confounding variables that would be expected to increase mortality and morbidity even if the virus isn't unusually virulent, making all subsequent research showing an association between the virus and disease impossible to interpret.
These confounding variables include but aren't limited to: healthcare worker absenteeism, canceled and delayed medical appointments, avoidance of in-person health care due to fear of infection, isolation and quarantine, and reductions in in emergency department utilization during the spring 2020 wave.
Wu, F., Zhao, S., Yu, B. et al. A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China. Nature 579, 265–269 (2020). Reporting Summary
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2008-3
WHO-convened Global Study of Origins of SARS-CoV-2:China Part
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-convened-global-study-of-origins-of-sars-cov-2-china-part
Annex E1 - ILI surveillance supplementary data
Bovbjerg ML. Foundations of Epidemiology. Oregon State University; 2020. https://open.oregonstate.education/epidemiology/chapter/causality-and-causal-thinking-in-epidemiology/
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-daily-per-100k-economist
#COVID19 #COVID #epidemiology #bioinformatics #genomics #medicine #healthcareisahumanright #humanrights #healthcare
"The aim of this study is to quantify the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on health services utilization in China using over four years of routine health information system data...
...Tibet and Hubei were excluded from the subnational analysis due to missing data in the pre- and post-outbreak (January and February 2020) period respectively."
Xiao H, Dai X, Wagenaar BH, et al. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health services utilization in China: Time-series analyses for 2016–2020. Lancet Reg Health – West Pac. 2021;9.
