So, I have had a proper read of this document, and I thought it might be worthwhile to actually go through and carefully analyze the document Let's do some peer-review on twitter 1/nhttps://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/1337379606739841036 …
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2/n The document is a brief essay by the three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which I've screenshotted here for later reference, because it comes up in the essay:pic.twitter.com/7HnkVPdl4i
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3/n The essay discusses what the authors call "focused protection", so I think it's worth noting at the outset that the GBD explicitly argues against closures/restrictions of any kind, so that we can build up herd immunitypic.twitter.com/85pTAb1qmV
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4/n The essay itself is a bit problematic from the start. The authors poison the well with this straw man - it is simply not true that anyone anywhere is advocating for indefinite lockdownspic.twitter.com/AbCwN8Ir9X
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5/n The essay then goes on to argue that focused protection is not a laissez-faire or herd immunity approach Again, let us read their own words from the GBDpic.twitter.com/axt4CHNJmg
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6/n Next, we have some statements that are broadly true, and some very spurious statements mixed in. Age is certainly the biggest defining risk from COVID-19, but the statement about children is not quite true, and the "infection survival rate" statement is misleading at bestpic.twitter.com/pk8Hc0nQKi
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7/n For children, the authors reference the CDC. Here is the table for influenza vs COVID-19 mortality for 2020 from the CDC THAT THEY REFERENCE For infants, COVID-19 is more deadly. For 1-4, less deadly, 5-14 about the same, and 15-24 MUCH worsepic.twitter.com/m7G7Cfa8EW
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Replying to @GidMK
GBD refers to historical influenza data. What they say is accurate, and you know this.
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Lol that actually makes it even worse because then they're comparing full-year inferred influenza deaths (i.e. excess mortality) with preliminary direct COVID-19 counts over 8 months and the COVID-19 numbers for <25 are still higher
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That being said, I think it's quite important to note that the source they cite as evidence directly contradicts the assertion they make using it
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