🇺🇦🇵🇸
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
"On April 8, 2020, the Chinese government lifted its lockdown of Wuhan.
It had lasted 76 days — two and a half months during which no one was allowed to leave this industrial city of 11 million people, or even leave their homes.
Until the Chinese government deployed this tactic, a strict batten-down-the-hatches approach had never been used before to combat a pandemic.
Yes, for centuries infected people had been quarantined in their homes, where they would either recover or die.
But that was very different from locking down an entire city; the World Health Organization called it “unprecedented in public health history.”...
...For the next two years, harsh lockdowns remained China’s default response whenever there was an outbreak anywhere in the country.
But by March 2022, when the government decided to lock down much of Shanghai after a rise in cases in that city, there was no more talk of patriotism.
People reacted with fury, screaming from their balconies, writing bitter denunciations on social media, and, in some cases, committing suicide.
When a fire broke out in an apartment building, residents died because the police had locked their doors from the outside."
McLean JN Bethany. COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure. Intelligencer. October 30, 2023. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/covid-lockdowns-big-fail-joe-nocera-bethany-mclean-book-excerpt.html
