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1 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Thanks to an FOIA request from a determined friend here in KC, we now know the number of #COVID19 cases the Kansas City Health Department could trace from restaurants and bars between November 1st and January 31st.

The answer is 11.
2/ In addition to the extraordinarily weak contact tracing data from KCHD, the timeline and mobility data does not align at all with their narrative that these businesses have a meaningful impact on community spread. ericjusteric.medium.com/in-support-of-…
3/ Despite this, they credit "contact tracing 20-29 year olds" as well as 10 PM stoppage of indoor dining/drinking for the decrease in cases in KC, although once again the data does not align with these claims at all.
4/ For the sake of transparency, here is the entire response from KCHD. Note that the hospitalizations and deaths are **not** from KCHD's contact tracing, but rather from the thousands of people surveyed that said they went to a restaurant/bar two weeks prior to positive test.

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17 Feb
Narrative: "COVID cases are going down because more people are staying home!"

Reality: According to the USC Dornsife "Understanding America" study, the percentage of people in the US staying home except for essential activities/exercise has remained around 40-45% since June
Narrative: "COVID cases are going down because less people are gathering at each others' homes!"

Reality: The percentage of people in the US that have had visitors at their residence has remained between roughly 40 and 50% since May
Narrative: "COVID cases are going down because more people are wearing masks!"

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18 Jan
Trisha is really going double down on this? Let’s see the mental gymnastics required to argue joggers and cyclists are a real problem with the spread of COVID
“Risk of transmitting outdoors is an order of magnitude less than indoors”

“When jogging or cycling contacts tend to be rare and fleeting”

“Exercising outdoors is one of the few freedoms people in England still have”

Off to a good start making her case so far Image
“The WHO is adamant that people should NOT wear masks when exercising...but there are strong arguments that challenge the WHO’s advice such as NHS hospitals are overwhelmed.” Huh? Image
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15 Jan
Tired of seeing the same flawed #COVID19 Kansas mask study being shared as proof of "masks working", so I used similar methods + the same dataset and tracked what happened in mandate/non-mandate counties after their study's end date. Pretty different from what the CDC found. Image
The original observation in the study shared widely by the CDC was that daily cases in mask mandated counties fell while non-mask mandated counties rose. Of course, the conclusion falls apart when you re-run their experiment when SARS-CoV-2 was much more prevalent in Kansas. Image
Cases rose, peaked, and fell at the exact same time. Sure, the non-mask mandate counties were higher prior to the peak, but this graph does not account for counties' testing levels, and when case prevalence is so low (basically a baseline) there is a lot of room for noise. Image
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11 Jan
This is a parody account right
The replies to her post, I just, I mean...wow
These would all be hilarious if it weren’t just so sad
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9 Jan
Tom claims COVID spread is entirely because of noncompliance with COVID measures, but he’ll never explain how 9 Midwest states peaked within one week of each other despite having completely different COVID policies, or how South Dakota managed to be the first to peak among them Image
Tom just hand-waves California’s terrible COVID numbers with “places in CA haven’t masked and distanced”. Really? Where? When? How? Do you have studies? Anything? California has some of the highest mask compliance numbers in the country. Can you be more specific, @DrTomFrieden?
If Tom were actually scientifically-minded he’d show a real interest in how California continues to spike despite having very drastic measures, or how all these Midwest states follow the exact same trajectory. That can’t be explained by 40 million people all complying at once. Image
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18 Dec 20
1/ I really want to highlight how this #COVID19 graph from @KCMOHealthDept is a masterclass in either incompetence, narrative-spinning, or both. This is a bit niche with it being KC but I think it applies to health depts across the US. This is lying with graphs at its finest.
2/ First, the graph itself. They have it broken out as cumulative counts per month, as of 12/15. December is half over, so you can't compare it to other months, yet they highlight how far cases have fallen in all groups since November with a tiny blink-and-you-miss-it disclaimer.
3/ They wouldn't be wrong in assuming cases will be down in December though. But their argument falls apart when they credit 10 PM bar closures for the decline. The curfew was announced 11/16. Cases peaked 11/10 - 20 DAYS before we would see any meaningful effect from the curfew.
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