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Lab leak vs natural spill over is a distraction from the lack of evidence that COVID-19 is a viral pandemic originating in China.
In my previous threads I showed that the lockdown in Wuhan was too late.
I showed that all cause mortality was already well above normal and an estimated 7 million people left the city in the weeks leading up to the lockdown, including 300,000 people on the eve of the lockdown.
I showed that the vast majority of international travelers went to other Asian countries.
I showed that studies, including the Seattle Flu Study, finding a lack of early spread of the virus lack plausibility due to the absence of false positives, and I showed that there is a larger body of contradictory evidence.
In this thread, I will show that the excess mortality during the spring 2020 wave was associated with a decline in emergency department utilization, not just for low acuity visits but for high acuity visits as well.
If this is confusing due to media reporting on overwhelmed hospitals, the confusion is coming from the fact that the emergency department and intensive care unit are separate.
I will present data showing that ED utilization went down while ICU utilization went up, suggesting that patients delayed care until it was too late.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-daily-per-100k-economist
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/22/world/coronavirus-spread.html
#COVID #COVID19 #epidemiology #bioinformatics #healthcareisahumanright
Increased Inpatient Mortality for Cardiovascular Patients During the First Wave of the COVID‐19 Epidemic in New York
"While the number of admissions for COVID‐19 surged upward, the number of admissions for critical cardiovascular illnesses such as ST‐segment–elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and acute strokes plummeted...
The Fire Department of New York reported that 7191 people were pronounced dead on the scene out of a total of 10 975 emergency calls for presumed cardiac arrest between March 11 and May 26 in 2020.
This represents a 2.86‐fold increase in the number of OHSD compared with the reference period the year prior...
...The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised patients to stay home in an effort to avoid exposure to the virus.
Similarly, on March 22, 2020, the State of New York issued a health guidance recommending that the public avoid healthcare facilities, and only seek medical attention for severe symptoms.
This likely resulted in increased anxiety and fear about seeking medical attention, especially in those at highest risk of contracting the virus, including patients with cardiovascular disease."
Mountantonakis SE, Makker P, Saleh M, et al. Increased Inpatient Mortality for Cardiovascular Patients During the First Wave of the COVID‐19 Epidemic in New York. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021;10(16):e020255. doi:10.1161/JAHA.120.020255
