Minnesota State Senator says Department of Health guidelines instruct doctors to list Covid19 as cause of death, without being tested.
Statistics
Official statistics for COVID-19 are publicly available and anyone can download the data for analysis. All the numbers so far show that the virus is far from being a ‘once in a century’ plague.
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CONCLUSIONS: People <65 years old have very small risks of COVID-19 death even in pandemic epicenters and deaths for people <65 years without underlying predisposing conditions are remarkably uncommon. Strategies focusing specifically on protecting high-risk elderly individuals should be considered in managing the pandemic.
COVID-19 is largely harmless to the general population under 65 with no pre-existing conditions, who are more likely to die in a road accident.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20054361v2
Felix Scholkmann is a biophysicist at University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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The crisis was over before lock-down
Andrew Mather, a mathematician and financier based in the UK, explains how the official data clearly showed that the COVID-19 crisis was over in the UK before the lock-down.
Generally speaking, 40% to 50% of patients with severe respiratory distress die while on ventilators, experts say. But 80% or more of coronavirus patients placed on the machines in New York City have died, state and city officials say.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200409192719/https://time.com/5818547/ventilators-coronavirus/
Andrew Mather, a mathematician and financier based in the UK, offers a series of videos analysing the COVID-19 data released by various governmental and health bodies.
In this video, he presents how the government had access to data that the case-count growth rate was decelerating long before the UK lockdown.
Curve Analysis
His Primer on Curve Analysis may also be useful.
Why the UK lockdown hasn’t worked
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SARS-CoV-2: fear versus data
“The mortality rate for SARS-CoV-2 is not significantly different from that for common coronaviruses identified at the study hospital in France”.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924857920300972
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Nate Silver, an American statistician, tells us why coronavirus case counts are meaningless.
*Unless you know something about testing. And even then, it gets complicated.