Anecdotal. No more meaningful than the rate of lung cancer tracking the prevalence of cigarette smoking.
Correlation is not causation!
EVER!!
Bring Out Your Dead
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The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.
Infectious Disease ping - MIT study into Covid vaccines associated with rise in emergency heart problems
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Null and Void:" Anecdotal.
No more meaningful than the rate of lung cancer tracking the prevalence of cigarette smoking.
Correlation is not causation!"
(From the article): "The vaccine rollout period for 16-39 year-olds, January-May 2021, coincided with the third COVID wave in Israel.
It showed a "statistically significant increase of over 25%" for both kinds of calls compared to the same period in 2020."
" For CA specifically, there was "no statistically significant difference in the respective call volume" between full-year 2019 and 2020.
For ACS, the "significant relevant increase" in that full-year period (15.8%) was outpaced by the January-May 2021 increase (26%)."
"The researchers said the January 2021 increase "seems to track closely the administration of 2nd dose vaccines,"
while a second observed increase starting April 18 "seems to track an increase of single-dose vaccination to individuals who recovered from COVID-19 infections."
(The Israel Ministry of Health approved the latter for ages 16 and up in early March 2021.)
"Females unexpectedly had a higher jump in calls: 31% for CA and 41% for ACS, compared to increases for males of 25% CA and 21% ACS.
This may indicate a "potential underdiagnosis or under-self-reporting of myocarditis in females," according to the study,
which was exempt from review by MIT's Institutional Review Board."