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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@SWAtlasHoover looks at the overall hospital occupancy rate averaged over the US and implies (deceptively) that hospital capacity is plentiful to handle#COVID19 patients, ignoring areas of the country where hospitals are running out of ICU beds due to the latest surge. 2/1 reply 5 retweets 36 likesShow this thread -
The fact is that, as pockets of low vaccine uptake fueled outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, even in the face of high vaccine uptake averaged a states or the whole US, excess NATIONAL hospital capacity says nothing about states and localities where
#COVID19 is surging. 3/1 reply 3 retweets 34 likesShow this thread -
Bottom line,
@SWAtlasHoover is making an argument as dishonest as that of any antivaxxer. National hospital capacity doesn't help much, because it's not as though massive numbers of#COVID19 patients can easily be distributed to hospitals all over the US. 4/45 replies 4 retweets 50 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @gorskon @SWAtlasHoover
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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Nice pickup. I should’ve noticed that as well.
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