But even more, I'm fairly certain not every death occurred in a single hospital in each state (I'd have to check). We've only had ~100 deaths altogether, so even if they include every death until now from 5 hospitals it seems weird
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Replying to @GidMK @ADAlthousePhD and
Also, the sort of database that's described above is fiendishly hard to do in Aus. We have very secure data protection laws - if nothing else, the data usually has to be housed here. Moreover, in most cases doing research of this kind without ethics is illegal
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Replying to @reverendofdoubt @ADAlthousePhD and
While that's no doubt true, I've never heard of such a thing in Australia. But if it had happened, they would've had an ethics approval (albeit a broad one) rather than done the research without it
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Replying to @reverendofdoubt @ADAlthousePhD and
Yes. But if that's the case, how do they have every COVID death in the country in a database?
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Replying to @reverendofdoubt @ADAlthousePhD and
I should say - it's *possible* but I'm very skeptical. Public hospitals (where all Aus COVID cases have been treated) aren't governed independently here - they are run by area services governed by the state. 5 hospitals implies at most 2 area services, which means max 2 states
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Replying to @GidMK @reverendofdoubt and
And this sort of project would almost certainly need the state minister's sign-off. So they've got an existing arrangement with 2 state governments that allows them to extract potentially reidentifiable data from Aus hospitals and send it overseas? Hard to see it happen here
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Replying to @reverendofdoubt @GidMK and
Lots of faith in the underlying data without the ability to validate it.
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