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2 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
astounding article by excellent @antonioregalado which narrates how (Democrat) scientists delayed COVID vaccine approval in order to deny Trump election victory. They had no regard for how many lives were lost, people hospitalized or businesses ruined. But "follow the science".
2/ here is grab of tweet by Eric Topol celebrating that they had disrupted emergency authorization of vaccine that would have made it available four weeks ago. Dem scientists thus far have succeeded in at least 45 days of delay.
3/ vertical line shows date at which vaccine approval was on target for, delay of which Topol and Dem scientists celebrated. Since then US cases, hospitalizations and deaths have gone up sharply.
4/ longtime readers of Climate Audit will recognize Regalado's name. Fifteen years ago, he more or less introduced me to the world.
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in Ontario, as in most jurisdictions, we were warned in early April of impending disaster in ICUs. In fact, overall ICU was dropping like a stone even as lurid overcrowding narrative was retailed. Media keeps telling scare stories about crowded ICUs. Released data only to Jun 30 ImageImage
2/ this data was very cordially provided by media contact at Canadian Institute for Health Information, which publishes voluminous information about Canadian health system. cihi.ca Given present policy concerns, I'd like it if they improved timeliness of key stats
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Ontario media is fretting over higher COVID stats. COVID hospitalizations now up to 645, well off the spring peak of over 1000, but we had been under 100 in August. But is this the serious strain on system as we're so often told?
2/ cihi.ca says that it has monthly statistics but they don't appear to be published anywhere. The most recent public data appears to be annual data for fiscal 2018-2019 (ending Mar 31, 2019.) Based on 7.6 MM hospital-days, daily occupancy is ~20,980.
3/ this figure is consistent with govt statement in April 2020 news.ontario.ca/en/release/566… which stated that Ontario had 20,354 acute care beds, planning 4,205 more by Apr 30, 2020 for pandemic, of which 2,811 now equipped with ventilators, up from 1,319 when outbreak started.
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we are inundated with statements about COVID deaths, but how often have you seen charts showing COVID deaths in context of all deaths? Not very often, if ever.

I've done one for Ontario (where I live). Population 14.8 MM.
2/ All-causes death rates are ~2100. Total COVID deaths to date ~2500. Here is diagram showing COVID deaths (black) stacked with (estimate of) all other deaths.
3/ in Ontario (as with CDC), all-cause death data is appalling delayed. Thus, reported 2020 all-cause values substantially under-state eventual results. Data is updated monthly (latest Nov 26). Deaths trend up with increasing population; recent "decline" is reporting artifact
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29 Nov
@kylenabecker @Barnes_Law here's one pushback. You say "Yet, Biden leads in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin because of an apparent avalanche of black votes in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee."

Trump won more votes than Clinton in Philadelphia. Avalanche was in (white) suburbs.
@kylenabecker @Barnes_Law 2/ while there was obviously little enthusiasm for Biden - not enough to bother going to physically vote - there may have been enough enthusiasm to fill out a mail-in ballot when Dem collector came to harvest.
@kylenabecker @Barnes_Law 3/ to be precise, there was an avalanche for Biden in Philadelphia, but there was bigger avalanche for Clinton. So nothing anomalous about Philadelphia avalanche. Swing to Biden occurred b/c he did better than Clinton in liberal suburbs.
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many people have observed the disconnect between resurgent and exacerbated COVID cases this fall without commensurate death increases. Here is plot of detailed Toronto information (pop 3 MM) color coded by age subgroup, paneled to Young, Middle and Old.
2/ nearly all of the present surge in cases is among 20-60 year olds, but this component of surge has had negligible impact on hospitalizations and even less on deaths (almost non-existent in this cohort)
3/ main factor in reduced hospitalizations and deaths in present surge appears to be lower COVID case rates among over-80s thus far as compared to spring.
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