This is the deception antivaxxers like to use. Just as antivaxxers focus on a high average state & national vaccine uptake rate as evidence that stronger school vaccine mandates aren't needed and ignore pockets of very low uptake driving outbreaks... 1/ https://twitter.com/ScottWAtlas/status/1322949799939919885 …
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Even if people could be distributed to hospitals all over the US, I know I wouldn't want to be hospitalized with covid-19 in many of them. Even within Texas, it's a big deal to get patients from El Paso, where the hospitals are full, to San Antonio.
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It does seem curious that the total occupancy doesn’t seem to increase as the covid numbers increase. I wonder if it’s because fewer non-covids go to the hospital, or if capacity is temporarily increased to accommodate the increase
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Looking at the graph more carefully, I think the problem may be the scale used. They are using a logarithmic scale to exaggerate the fluctuations from Covid and suppress changes in the total hospitalizations. That is pretty misleading from a data visualization sense
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He’s a radiologist. Never deals with actual patients. Has no idea about actual use of a hospital bed.
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He headed Neuroradiology at Stanford through 2012, then moved across campus to Hoover Institution. In any case, try: https://comphealth.ucsf.edu/app/buttelabcovid … Mouse over states at lower right to get stats, click on state to drill down to counties, try Customization options. Compare CA vs SD.
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Thanks for the medical fact check. I wish you could write up an article about vaccine derived polio bc there is so much misinformation about it, especially ever since Alex Jones was on Joe Rogan's podcast.
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This, along with the false equivalence of "look at deaths from all other causes," shows a wilfull misunderstanding of the potential exponential growth of
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