Suicidologist, emergency psychiatrist and pharmacologist. Data geek, ok, lots of other geek.
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CALM is a memory-trick to remember the key concepts of communicating to a struggling kid but also to remind you to be in control of your own emotions. If you are prepared, you will defeat your initial instinct, which will be to FREAK THE BLEEP OUT!
They used machine learning EMR-coded variables (outpatient visits, medications, previous appointments, age, etc etc) - you can see the entire dictionary used to "predict" here (word doc): 
I certainly believe that if one is an "anti-vaxxer", they are not using science, reason, or reality to understand vaccines.
b) The FIRST VACCINATION SERIES against OG COVID was phenomenally effective at preventing infection, transmission, illness, hospitalization, and death (VE >80-90% in all).
In fact, there was such a DROP in incidence (assumed to be due to lack of access to health care) in 2020, that they had to amputate the model at 1998-2019 so that it wouldn't project a decrease! (a reasonable thing to do!)
It is against his license to publicly suggest to die by suicide.
OK but what about ischemic heart disease (heart attacks).
There are many causes of mental illness that ARE KNOWN that have nothing to do with trauma, and many that ARE NOT KNOWN that have nothing to do with trauma, and it's even possible to have a history of trauma and have it NOT contribute to an illness, or it might be crucial.
In kids 6mo to 5y:
Note! 2023 has seen a return to expected mortality, with there being a *slight* decrease in disease-cause mortality that is probably best seen as 'average pre-pandemic trend disease mortality'.
We now have 4 COMPLETE school years during the pandemic. I have a lot to say about this, but take the time to digest this graph. Overall, there has been no "tsunami of suicide" in schoolkids due to the pandemic, lockdowns, or otherwise.
Just today (Happy New Years), he posts this very lengthy "retort" to @Truth_in_Number's excellent criticisms of his awful use of data. I will now (yay Brandolini's principle) spend a lot of my time to go through & show how much BS he put into 1 slide.
All this account ever does - and I mean ever - is cook models to create narratives that support his crank, consipracist ideas:
In this graph, we have two types of "future modeling" (what we use to calculate excess mortality), ARIMA and Winter's Additive Method. For each, we have 3 sets of data used to feed the model (5, 10, 21 years).
Serious errors in the article undermine its conclusion - the report that constitutes >90% of the meta-analysis was the awful, edited report by anti-vax surgeon general Joseph Ladapo. 
INTRODUCTION:
To quickly orient you, this dynamically generated graph can analyse the overall trend, the most recent 5 year trend, and then use that trend to "predict" expected deaths during 2020-2022.
In the VERY YOUNG age group (0-14), we see a very significant deviation from expectations in Canadian girls (-35.7%, p=0.004), whereas young boys in Canada continued on expected rates.
Point 2: The QT interval is important. A short QT (often genetic causes) and a long QT (often medication caused-over 100 medications are associated with prolonging QT, but it can be due to electrolytes, genetics, & other factors) is linked to cardiac symptoms including death!
Of course, this scenario doesn't happen, and in surgical suites across the world, surgeons regularly cut into patients, inflicting harm.