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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
"Another aspect of the Wuhan quarantine has been its hasty nature.
Even now, after several days of quarantine, no specific plan has been issued, suggesting no preparations were made at all before the announcement.
What should be done to settle or assist the estimated one million refugees from Wuhan who made it out before the quarantine was implemented?
During the quarantine period, how would food, water and other basic necessities be provided to residents of the city?
How would medical personnel at hospitals and clinics be provided with the medicines and other essentials?
How would the authorities deal with urgent transportation needs, such as medical staff getting to and from work and patients getting to hospitals for medical treatment?
How would law and order be maintained?
The government has so far offered no explanation for how these and many other urgent questions are being dealt with...
...The results of this are already becoming clear.
First, we are seeing a shortage of supplies of essential household goods in Wuhan, and inflation is out of control.
The city was closed off early in the morning on January 23, and by noon the price of vegetables had already skyrocketed, some vegetables priced up to hundreds of yuan per half-kilo.
By afternoon that same day, many supermarkets in the city had been entirely cleaned out."
Staff CMP. The Truth About “Dramatic Action.” China Media Project. January 27, 2020. https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/27/dramatic-actions/
