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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
"Amnesty International also received widespread complaints from care home staff and older people’s relatives concerning the serious obstacles or outright refusal to hospitalize care home residents with Covid-19 or with flu-like symptoms.
In particular, in Lombardy, the regional authorities adopted a specific policy advising that older residents aged over 75 with frailty and with COVID-19 symptoms should be cared for within care homes, de facto limiting their access to hospital.
In the absence of individualized clinical assessments aimed at identifying the best individual solution for specific patients, this resulted in a lack of protection of the rights to life, to health and to non-discrimination."
Italy: Violations of the human rights of older residents of care homes during COVID-19 pandemic. Amnesty International. December 18, 2020. Accessed August 07, 2024.
