Shiva Kaul
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Yet again, the NYT has sown mass confusion with their sloppy reporting. RT-PCR is not validated as a quantitative measure of SARS-CoV-2 viral...

He cites the numbers of someone who misquoted then from someone else, so he’s responsible for propagating the error. He sells a book deploring bad...

Kendrick blames the preposterous death projections on Fauci's March editorial in the NEJM, particularly the claim that the flu has ~0.1% CFR. The...

Again: this article is no good. In fact, Kendrick is the one confusing CFR and IFR, because he didn’t scrutinize his citations. (To be fair, he...

“Causal inference”...by inspecting the magnitude of regression coefficients, of a model which has many more parameters than observations, relative to...

The flu’s IFR is lower than 0.1. No one really knows - flu data is even more embarrasing than COVID data - but this single study estimated 0.0044 IFR...

More blatant corruption in SF.

You are aware of the Very Reliable algorithms predicting future COVID-19 deaths. This guy has been thanklessly evaluating their historical accuracy....

Fear porn from CNN: 5 hours later, retracted (though the CNN article is unperturbed): Of 10-13%. That study is neither published nor posted....

Fulcrum, now that you’ve hypothesized about scenarios that have not happened, scroll the thread and see who was actually correct about IFR, death...

Criteria for ICU admission and clearance are dynamic, so raw occupancy statistics aren't meaningful. However, they are good material for fear porn.

~4000 Mumbai slum-dwellers (out of ~700,000 total) were tested in June/July. Over half were positive, but only 292 died (of all causes?), for an IFR...

The bigger issue is that, despite multiple updates, this page mischaracterizes the official ICD-10-CM rules concerning confirmed cases, which we...

DOJ is considering investigation of Governors Cuomo, Murphy, Wolf, and Whitmer.

There are no corroborating reports of a 30ish NYC CrossFitter who died of a heart attack in March/April. (Back then, I was paying close attention...

In Denver, twice as many heart attacks during lockdown than in the months prior, or in any March/April on record: Ambulance calls dropped...

The FDA fast-tracked blood donor treatment, following the Mayo Clinic’s recent positive finding. Very Rigorous and Definitely Apolitical doctors...

NJ’s governor continues the lockdown because: and his risible slogan is “data determines dates”. Of course, political objectives determine data:...