- only 6 small hospitals were included, and far away from the wet market
- Baidu Search Index doesn't match what they claim https://imgur.com/a/UkcUZou
- No test for statistical significance, really?
COVID-like mysterious pneumonia was not that hard to detect, the hospital would be alerted once doctors and nurses got infected.
It just so happens that this year was a moderately bad year in the US. I don't know about China. But, they'd have to exclude differences from a bad flu season to have any chance of proving their point rigorously.
It's a very cool analysis though.
0. https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/hcp/weekly-sur...
(sorry for the PDF)
The claim "far away from the wet market" still holds, these hospitals are not in the Jiangan District, and 5 of them are on the other side of the Yangtze River.
The virus that causes SARS is called SARS-CoV, and the virus that causes COVID-19 is SARS-CoV-2