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Lori's avatar

Please someone explain to me how people that are supposedly educated in statistics, science, epidemiology and public health can't figure out how to give us accurate and true reporting on Covid data? Why are we, the "common" people, figuring this all out and finding their errors? Why are the ones who are supposed to know what they are doing, not doing this correctly? Are "they" that stupid and ignorant or is this purposeful? Egad, this is too much...

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Ted T.'s avatar

Bravissimo, gato, for dynamiting a 'study' badly in need of dynamiting. The trend everywhere seems to be to desperately make a case for vaxing. Goes way beyond 'spin'. Goes to the point of twisting the truth to a degree no one would have thought possible in the fields of science and medicine.

Incidentally, if you haven't been notified yet, Switzerland is now publishing vaxed vs unvaxed data in English:

https://www.covid19.admin.ch/en/vaccination/status

And for the time being they are giving raw numbers for hospitalization and death by age band.

However, the numbers are already pointing toward vaxed and unvaxed elderly dying at similar rates. Coincidentally, the govt is now shifting toward a policy of boosters for everyone starting in December. (Two weeks ago, boosters were only recommended for at-risk groups.)

So this may a temporary window of raw number transparency. May be closed abruptly if the data doesn't please the folks in charge.

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