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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jan 15

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Stuart Sims

    Another dumb #COVID19 denial trick. Use the largest possible denominator you can find in order to make the death toll appear "insignificant," whether it's the appropriate denominator or not and ignoring that the pandemic is nowhere near over yet and deaths are *undercounted*.🙄https://twitter.com/SimsYStuart/status/1350129498725953537 …

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    Stuart Sims @SimsYStuart
    Replying to @SimsYStuart @1EEX303 and 2 others
    Here, let me help. As of today, about 389,000 deaths from COVID are reported nationally. So let’s do the math. 389,000 / 328 million (US population) = 0.1% mortality rate. And that number is probably really high given flawed data collection on cause of death (comorbidity).
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      2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jan 15

        Shorter Stuart: "Who cares if nearly 400,000 have died of #COVID19 when it's 'only' 0.1% of the population?"

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jan 15

        Using Stuart's "logic," I suppose we should stop requiring seatbelts and airbags and stop trying to improve road and car design. After all, the death toll from automobile crashes is "only" around 38,000, which is "only" 0.012% of the population per year.

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      1. David‏ @Mak0rz Jan 15
        Replying to @gorskon

        Regardless of the data massaging I'm getting really tired of the implication that mortality rate is the only metric that matters.

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      1. Steven Wilson‏ @StevenWilson777 Jan 15
        Replying to @gorskon

        This logic perplexes me - I see it all the time Using the same method, the survival rate of car crashed in the UK is 99.997%. People who haven't been killed in car accidents haven't survived Has everyone who hasn't had malaria also somehow survived it ?

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      1. For there is always light‏ @DrewTatusko Jan 15
        Replying to @gorskon

        Ugh. May as well derive the percentage of driving fatalities from a population of non-drivers.

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      2. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart Jan 15
        Replying to @gorskon

        Ok, what do assess as the mortality rate nationally? Ballpark?

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      3. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart Jan 15
        Replying to @SimsYStuart @gorskon

        Doc? It’s a simple question. The bots are swarming on this, but I’m still curious if anyone has a straight answer on this simple question. I’m eager to learn. 😊

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      2. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart Jan 15
        Replying to @gorskon

        Ok, what do you assess as the mortality rate Doc? Ballpark?

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      1. ClashofScience‏ @hypoautonomic Jan 15
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        When they simply say a metric and stop talking - as if saying a number constituted an argument - you sigh.

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