This is astonishing silliness. There is ~literally no evidence~ that COVID-19 was spreading in Wuhan in Aug/Sept 2019 This whole thing is a HOT MESS 1/npic.twitter.com/SHQ2dxoGKW
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10/n More broadly, the current best evidence suggests that diarrhea is a RARE symptom of COVID-19, which makes tracking internet search terms for it a bit...problematicpic.twitter.com/sTKwz7jTot
11/n It's also worth noting that these are really just vague correlations - there are SO MANY THINGS that could cause a few more cars in a select group of hospital parking lots and a few dozen extra queries about diarrhea on Baidu
12/n It's hard to know what to make of the paper really, because all the authors are doing is drawing incredibly vague correlations and then suggesting a very unlikely outcome from them Not great, that
13/n Really, what this study shows is that if you have enough time you can correlate basically anything It's definitely not proof of much
14/n I'd say that the correlations found at Tyler Vigen's website are more likely to be accurate reflections of the truth than these very cursory connections https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations …
Why would there be a huge spike in searches for diarrhea if only 17% of cases exhibit it?
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