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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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    1. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart Jan 17
      Replying to @crabb_vicki @gorskon and

      No, what I’m saying is a 40x PCR test can detect such a small viral load that a 78yo patient dying of COPD (for example) can come back positive for COVID even if they are not symptomatic w/COVID and not infectious. Yet they are still counted as a “COVID death”.

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    2. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart Jan 17
      Replying to @SimsYStuart @crabb_vicki and

      https://www.advisory.com/en/daily-briefing/2020/09/01/covid-tests …

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart Jan 17
      Replying to @SimsYStuart @crabb_vicki and

      “In 2016, COPD was the third leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for around 3 million deaths that year.” https://www.statista.com/topics/4339/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-copd-in-the-us/ …

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    4. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart Jan 17
      Replying to @SimsYStuart @crabb_vicki and

      Do you have access to the data on COPD deaths in the United States in 2020? Because I’d be very interested in looking at that data and I can’t find it online. Maybe it’s not available yet. I’m also interested in the data on flu, CHF, and CKD deaths in 2020.

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jan 17
      Replying to @SimsYStuart @crabb_vicki and

      The CDC’s chronic lower respiratory disease category more or less covers that, because COPD includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma (which, yes, is a subset of COPD).

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart Jan 17
      Replying to @gorskon @crabb_vicki and

      Are those numbers available yet? I can’t find them. And if sensitive PCR tests for COVID are capturing a big chunk of COPD deaths, then the data for 2020 could reveal by how much. Right?

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Vicki Allen Crabb‏ @crabb_vicki Jan 17
      Replying to @SimsYStuart @gorskon and

      How would you determine this?

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    8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jan 17
      Replying to @crabb_vicki @SimsYStuart and

      Indeed. What is the hypothesis he is trying to test?

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart Jan 17
      Replying to @gorskon @crabb_vicki and

      A precipitous drop in COPD deaths beginning in early 2020 could indicate if PCR tests for COVID were capturing geriatric COPD deaths . And roughly how big a chunk of “COVID deaths” were actually caused by COPD.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    10. Vicki Allen Crabb‏ @crabb_vicki Jan 17
      Replying to @SimsYStuart @gorskon and

      Are you saying COPD reduces your risk of COVID mortality? That’s a complex analysis. It’s more than calculating a simple mortality rate. You have a competing risk. Where are all those excess deaths coming from? Why all the ARDS cases?

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jan 17
      Replying to @crabb_vicki @SimsYStuart and

      He has no idea what is required to do the sort of analysis that he thinks he's proposing or how complex such an analysis would be. No idea at all.

      9:19 AM - 17 Jan 2021
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        2. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart Jan 17
          Replying to @gorskon @crabb_vicki and

          Doc, what I’m suggesting isn’t that complicated. I’m comfortable with mathematical modeling and statistical analysis (in quantitative psychology), so I can take a data set and identify trends and spot statistical anomalies. So instead of being insulting and derisive, help. 🙄

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        3. Vicki Allen Crabb‏ @crabb_vicki Jan 17
          Replying to @SimsYStuart @gorskon and

          Instead of stating misinformation and implying, think. Quantitative analysis in the absence of an informed approach is biased. It’s like running a correlation between cigarette lighters and lung cancer and then pronouncing lighters cause lung cancer.

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