#Deaths

southpaw

nycsouthpaw

People are dying at home in NYC at something like 8-10x the pre-pandemic rate, per OCME. If they haven’t been tested for Covid-19 before they die, they aren’t being tested,

Jacqueline Murphy

drjawalsh

Patrick Vallance claims reporting hospital deaths is the international standard & says all other countries only report hospital deaths. This isn’t true: France & Germany both report deaths in the

Charlie Robertson

RencapMan

How long will #lockdowns last ? This #thread suggests lockdowns end no earlier than the end of May in Italy and California, followed by most of Europe, but early June

Patrick Chovanec

prchovanec

The US had its highest number of coronavirus deaths so far today: 2,482. New York had 752, New Jersey 351, Connecticut 197, Michigan 153, and Massachusetts 151. Only 6 states

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

Beyond sadness: Today Texas passed 50,000 deaths from COVID-19. 50,000 moms & dads, brothers & sisters, our low-income neighborhoods especially. "Historic decimation" I said in Hispanic communities in South Texas,

Justin Hart

justin_hart

1/ OK. Lots of charts making their way around comparing deaths Year-over-Year. I pulled the data from the CDC for the last 3 years comparing influenza, pneumonia, COVID-19 and ALL

Richard 📊📉

RP131

Dashboard for 10-May to explain the #covid19uk total death increase figure of 4.For England, NHS data is merged by PHE for a net total of 0 (reduction due to PHE

gary

gporter812

“Covid-19 caused death” and “Covid-19 is assumed to have caused or contributed to death” are two very different descriptions; yet, they are apparently included under the same phrase of “Covid-19

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Graphs like the ones below scare me. I can't see how one can spin this as anything other than a disaster in the making. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html People often complain that I'm

Rich

RockboltG

Italy & Spain - their healthcare systems were overwhelmed, they're not reporting deaths in the community and not reporting excess death figures yetFrance - Excess death figures 'extremely preliminary' due

Nappy Blaze⚡

Nappyblaze

Top 10 deadliest animals to human. Top 3 will surprise you.Thread 10. Hippopotamus: Kills about 500 humans per year 9. Tape worm: 1000 deaths per year 8. Crocodile: 4500 deaths

David Grainger

sciencescanner

There seems to be a real battle on Twitter, even among my followers, about this “died of” #COVID19 vs “died with” it.The difference matters enormously. So its worth some time

Sesh Nadathur

SeshNadathur

This is bullshit fakery that is easy to spot as bullshit fakery if you know a little bit about statistics, but many people will not - and that's exactly what

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Daily reports tell us what happened last week, 2 weeks ago, 4 weeks agoThis is why folks are worried about what's nextToday's 7 day moving avgs167K cases, 3600 new hospitalizations,

(((Charles Fishman)))

cfishman

US Coronavirus Update, Thursday, April 9, 2020~ Lethal, even as progress continuesFatalities First• Total US covid-19 deaths as of Thu, April 9: 16,672• Increase in the last 24 hours: 1,904

Edmund Blackadder QC 3.5% Brain Function

WeDoNotLearn73

Media trumpeting “1m deaths worldwide of Covid” (with Covid). Annually there are around:60m total deaths including:17m cardiovascular deaths10m cancer7m respiratory diseases/infections3m dementia1.5m road deaths 1m suicidesMany Covid wo