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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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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28/n Fact 28: During lockdown, New Zealand's death excess deaths DROPPED. The NZ total excess deaths for the year are below usual, in contrast to other countries with large epidemicshttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32647-7/fulltext …
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29n Fact 29: The average life expectancy for an 80-year-old person alive today in the United Kingdom is 9.12 years. The average death rate from COVID-19 for this group is ~8.5% https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/lifeexpectancies/bulletins/nationallifetablesunitedkingdom/2017to2019#national-life-tables-life-expectancy-in-the-uk-data …
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Replying to @GidMK
Can’t find that fact. „In 2017 to 2019, life expectancy at birth in the UK was 79.4 years for males“ and not 89.12 years.
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Replying to @wieschemann
Life expectancy at birth =/= life expectancy at age 80. Common misunderstanding
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Replying to @GidMK
I know. But I don’t find that distinction in the Report. And I don’t believe that today the common average live expectancy is about 90 in UK. Is it?
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It is in the life tables in the linked document. And if we're talking about the life attainment of babies born in 2020 life expectancy at birth might be important, but otherwise it's a complete non-sequitur
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