A study by Flacco et al looked at potentially vaccine-related serious adverse events (PVR-SAEs) in a single province in Italy. It looks like the authors forgot to include some deaths in their calculations, and I ve also noticed a few issues with timings and cohort sizes. In brief: Comparison times and people in each group An Continue reading "The authors of a Potential Vaccine-Related Serious…
The most recent PHS statistical report graphs daily acute hospital admissions on a log scale. What does the graph look like with a linear scale? Why use a log scale to compare COVID and all cause hospital admissions?
Vaccine passports are being extended in Scotland. The first minister said the vaccine passport scheme was making an important and proportionate contribution to stemming transmission . https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59289707 From the data, the new intervention doesn t seem to have had any effect on transmission at all since their introduction on 1 October. Let s look at the number of…
I've updated my graphing of excess deaths and how they relate to vaccination. How are excess deaths changing now that several age groups are 100% vaccinated?
Following the end of the school holidays, there has been concern about the number of COVID-19 cases in school-age groups. Cases have risen very significantly within Scotland and we are looking closely at why that is the case Undoubtedly the gathering of people together in schools will have fuelled that to some extent, and you can Continue reading "High numbers of COVID cases in children because we…