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Jean Fisch Profile picture
Jean Fisch
@Jean__Fisch
Analysis, rationalism & objectivity are my sins
Feb 18 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
Here is the annual overview of weekly ASMR in western Europe

Netherlands is the only country which did not see significantly reduced mortality rates in 2023

and it is due to its 65+ and not its <65 and it should be a HUGE attention point for @rivm and @statisticscbs

THREAD⤵️ Image @rivm @statisticscbs Just to hammer home how much NLD is on another planet: Here is the annual growth rate of ASMR in Western Europe

Only one country goes up in 2023: Yep, NLD...

(I added a high value for the missing 2023w52 data to have full year for SWE and clearly also its ASMR will be down)

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Jan 29 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
NZE is the only country in the world with high vax, good death data and vax happening before and not in parallel with covid

It saw no excess in the<60, which is not attributable to covid

This de facto kills any claim of high vax deaths made elsewhere, let me explain⤵️ Image Just for clarity, I think it's vital to check for signals of covid vaccine induced deaths simply because there is risk eg
- intrinsic risk of novelty (of mRNA vaccines) even if the biology looks safe
- the appalling transparency record of pharma when things go wrong

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Jul 20, 2023 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
I continue to see talks of high unexplained excess deaths in England and Wales in S1 2023

This is NOT confirmed by data by occurrence date and is an artefact resulting from
/ reporting by registration date
/ policy of only registering deaths once cause is assigned

THREAD Image Just to make my point crystal clear

The S1 2023 deaths by registration date excl covid are POSITIVE and high which signals lots of unexplained deaths

Yet, when using deaths by occurrence date (as one should), the same total is NEGATIVE. So in fact no/few unexplained deaths

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Jun 1, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
This paper making the rounds at the moment claims that "excess deaths started in Mar 2021 in GER and is unlikely to come from covid but matches vaccines"

It is rigged with issues which basically invalidate its claim

Let me go through the major ones⤵️

cureus.com/articles/14941… The key issue is that the authors did not take info account that in the absence of flu the winter peak will be displaced

Once you correct for this, excess deaths match covid deaths in 2021

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Jun 1, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Scotland has been reporting continues excess deaths (and this beyond covid) since November, even after corrections for mortality and population trend

However, the data by registration date is a bit misleading and a look at data by occurrence provides better insights ⤵️ Image Scotland provides data by occurrence by age on a monthly basis which allows one to make a proper assessement against expected deaths from population and mortality trends

And what comes through is that there are TWO periods of excess: "Xmas 22" and "Mar-Apr 23"

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May 12, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This is actually quite insightful and shows how prior beliefs blurs and distorts the situation

Natural immunity was absolutely not divisive: It's value was clear but no gov was prepared to accept the costs associated with it until vaccines came

1/5 In particular, the impact of an "R0=2.5 / IFR >>0.5%" virus is such that no shielding mecanisms was deemed sufficiently secure to let circulation run high without taking uncalculated risks on the death toll

(here a little check I did a while back)

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May 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Vaccine harm deserves better than the deplorable show that vaccine sceptics are offering so here an update of fatality from Germany (up to April 2022):

The death rate due to covid vaccination was at roughly 1.8 deaths per million doses administrated in early 2022 Image Quick add ons to forecome obvious questions

/ No need to remind me that, just as with long covid, fatality is not everything (I know): I could not find hospitalizations or sequels data

/ Unfortunately, the German monthly death data by cause is not split by age
Apr 8, 2023 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
While Dr. Gupta's claim that new Danish data vindicated her low estimation of IFR in Mar '20 is incorrect, I still wondered how this estimate came about

This interview provides answers and highlights once more IFR's key role in a pandemic response ⤵️

From the interview, it is clear that Dr. Gupta’s low IFR estimate back in 2020 came from a set of considerations which reinforced each other

1) Covid-19 is a SARS virus and the world had been exposed to SARS before
-> Some immunity was there possible / likely

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Apr 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
In this @unherd column, @SunetraGupta asks the Q: "how wrong was I to suggest that average IFR was 0.05-0.10% back in 2020?"

The answer is
- "By a factor of 5-10 for DNK" (per official data)
- "By a factor 5-25 overall" if UK is anything to go by

It's quite simple really ⤵️ @unherd @SunetraGupta @DSTdk official 2020 death toll "FOR COVID" is 1,078

Source: dst.dk/en/Statistik/e…

@SSI_dk studies put covid prevalenced at 4.1% in Dec 2020

Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34420152/

So the IFR in DNK in 2020 was 1,078/5,8m/0.04% = ~0,45%

ie "5-10x higher than 0.05-0.1%"

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Apr 3, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Interesting data came out today from Denmark, where @SSI_dk released cumulative covid deaths "for covid" (according to death register) by age bracket under a FOIR

How does this compare with Sweden? Well it is 3 times lower ... almost across the age board

A QUICK WALK THROUGH @SSI_dk Sweden provides its deaths "due to covid" on a weekly basis as well as cumulative covid deaths due to covid by age band

Denmark does only provide weekly deaths "with covid" as well as a chart (no data) with death "for covid" but no data by age band for covid

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Apr 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
When I saw this study claiming that LC was no more prevalent in covid positive than negative, my immediate reaction was "isn't its CI too wide for measuring anything relevant given that LC is a 1%-ish factor?"

Turns out the answer is yes, ie the study is useless by design

1/3 Why useless? Imagine if I look at the sky through my beer bottle and I don't see Jupiter. What would you do with my paper "I find no statistical evidence that Jupiter exists"?

This may be layering it a bit thick but, in essence, this is what happened here ...

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Mar 26, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I showed yesterday that the "bottom sealing" of 1.5% positivity is roughly a baseline of reinfections every 2-3 yrs

Of course, the current average time is shorter as average positivity was higher in 2022

In fact, I realized that ONS' data allows to put a lower bound on it

1/5 In its report on characteristics of infections in its survey, it provides weekly reinfection rates among participants and the reinfection rate among 100,000 participants days at risk

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ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Mar 19, 2023 • 34 tweets • 7 min read
I was always intrigued by what led Sweden to follow its path at the beginning of the pandemic and never really came to analyse it

So I shared this and got lots of superb material! It allowed me to develop a clearer picture of what happened back then not only SE but overall⤵️ First a clarification, an apology and a request:

/ I only covered here the initial decision-making in March 2020

/ Despite this focus, this is a long and waffly thread

/ The conclusion may not be what it seems so please read until the end before reacting

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Mar 17, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
The full deaths for all causes data for 2022 is out for Italy (in fact up to end January) and what stands out is the big bulk of covid deaths from Oct 2020 to Apr 2021

The reason for this is that, actually, that Italy was mostly hit in autumn-winter 2020-2021

1/N "Wait Jean", I hear you think behind your screens, "surely you are talking of a different Italy ... remember Lombardia?"

Indeed, Lombardia got hit ultra-hard in spring 2020

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Mar 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I see that the US press is full of the increase of mortality linked to birth and pregnancy

A look at data by region shows that IT CANNOT BE THE VACCINES

If it were, we would not see the peak only in the south and not elsewhere

I am not finished: It is clearly covid

1/2 Image Look at the deaths for females<35:

/ The ONLY region to have a peak during Delta is the south
/ This peak coincides EXACTLY with the peak of deaths linked to pregnancy/birth in the south

So, in fact, the peak of deaths during pregnancy/birth are mislabelled covid deaths

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Mar 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Remember my mystery? What did the East South Central Division in the US seemingly see much lower deaths related to childbirth and pregnancy to its two neighbours despite similar covid exposure?

Well, I think I have the answer ... and even a bit more ⤵️ First the answer: The reason there was a big difference was ... optical. Once you work with rates, it disappears

In fact, all three Divisions in the South region in the US saw a quite similar spike of pregnancy / birth deaths in the summer of 21

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Mar 14, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I remember this interview of Anders Tegnell back in April 2020

To this day, I have not seen the information that he used to make the decision for Sweden to not close like all other countries while knowing that Imperial had put an IFR of 1%

1/6 In effect, the information out there was quite concerning:
- the huge and increasing death toll in Italy, Spain, London, Belgium
- the estimation of Imperial of 1% IFR

Yet Sweden / Tegnell decided to not close down primary schools and to not lockdown

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Mar 9, 2023 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
@ONS communicates mostly on deaths by date of registration but the sudden dips (bank holidays) blur a bit the picture

I realized that its Monthly Mortality Analysis report also includes deaths by occurrence and so I had a look at this metric: some things become much clearer ⤵️ @ONS And so here it is, daily deaths by date of occurrence in England, with deaths for / involving covid highlighted

Let me go through this chart a bit systematically and share my AHA moments

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Mar 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Many use the fantastic resource that is @OurWorldInData

It sourced its cases and deaths so far from John Hopkins but has just replaced it by WHO estimates (JHU stops)

This will lead to hardly any change in western Europe (cf. Italy) here ... except for Germany and the UK

1/4 @OurWorldInData In the UK, deaths where reported as "involving covid" as per ONS in JHU's dataset

With WHO, deaths, I think, will be some form of "deaths with covid" ie any death 30d after + test

So reported deaths will be 20% higher than before and an over-estimation of the actual toll

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Mar 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The udapte of deaths by causes by @destatis included another new information: Deaths due to covid vaccines

When comparing these with the doses administrated, ithe ballpark figure is 1-2 deaths per million doses

1/4 Image @destatis This ratio is in fact higher than that in England: Here, there were 135m doses administrated so far and roughly 50 deaths registered

So the ratio is closer to 0.5 deaths per million there

(extract from the latest Monthly Mortality Analysis by ONS)

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Mar 7, 2023 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Germany update its deaths by cause to March 2022 and a few interesting signals are coming through

/ The importance of counting covid deaths "involving", not only "for"

/ Deaths "involving covid" are probably currently 50% higher than "for" ... and not only in Germany

THREAD The most striking thing coming out of the report is that deaths due to heart disease continue to track covid deaths in March 2022

Could this continue to be purely chance? Well there are more deaths due to heart diseases in winter time ...

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