19/n Fact 20: Lockdowns clearly reduce COVID-19 case numbers in the short term. Other government actions can clearly limit case numbers in the long term. There are now numerous exampleshttps://www.devex.com/news/behind-vietnam-s-covid-19-success-story-98257 …
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20/n (Whether this means that lockdowns "work" depends on your definition of "work" and "lockdowns", but in general it seems fair to say that COVID-19 can clearly be controlled through coordinated government responses)
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21/n Fact 21: COVID-19 is the third leading cause of death for 2020 in the United States In the last few months of the year, it may have overtaken other causes of death to become THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FOR >30 year oldshttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774465 …
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22/n Fact 22: We still do not fully know the long-term chronic impacts of COVID-19, but they are likely to impact a non-trivial portion of the people who get the diseasehttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02598-6 …
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23/n Fact 23: This is something of a repetition of Fact 4, but just to clarify that the evidence is clear that most people who are classified as having died of COVID-19 did indeed die of the diseasehttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1341175635700457472?s=20 …
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Health NerdVerified account @GidMK5/n Fact 4: most deaths that are counted as COVID-19 (at least in the US and other developed nations) have COVID-19 as the "underlying" or main cause https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2771761 … https://gidmk.medium.com/covid-19-deaths-are-mostly-caused-by-coronavirus-2a6d2d43bd09 …Show this thread3 replies 27 retweets 198 likesShow this thread -
24/n Fact 24: Another corollary, this time to Facts 9 and 10 - since many people are asymptomatic when testing positive (even though the majority will go on to develop symptoms) isolating PCR+ cases is simply good public health policy
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25/n Fact 25: opioid-related mortality has been rising in the US for some time, and while it may have been exacerbated due to the pandemic it is inaccurate to ascribe all overdoses to lockdowns/COVID-19https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p1218-overdose-deaths-covid-19.html …
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26/n Fact 26: While COVID-19 deaths only made up 40% of all excess deaths in young people in the U.S., it is likely that this is due to undercapture of the COVID-19 burden in this population (i.e. much of the remaining 60% is COVID-19 related as well) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774445 …pic.twitter.com/2qS98xCpOM
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27/n Fact 27: Much of the economic and social disruption that people have experienced this year is due to THE PANDEMIC ITSELF and not necessarily government action
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You lost all credibility with this tweet. Without government intervention there would have been nearly zero disruption to normal life.
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That is factually inaccurate. See some of the tweets above, and particularly the IMF report linked
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