‘No evidence’ Omicron less severe than Delta, say UK researchers

ft.com

6 points·bryanrasmussen··10 comments

This is a terrible article, I could not believe it was on front page of FT yesterday. The usual MSM scaremongering and sensationalism based on modelling by professor lockdown Ferguson - Yes the same idiot drama queen that said that 2% of everyone who caught Covid would die 2 years ago.

FWIW, looking at bare official counts, the ratio of covid deaths vs infections is between 1 and 2 percent in most regions.

“The phrase ‘no evidence’ is a red flag for bad science communication.”

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence...

Another report relying on flimsy data, ignore and wait

It’s even worse, a report that they have no data at all. There’s no evidence it worse, there’s no evidence it’s better. Completely worthless non-information.

> However, the data included only 24 hospitalizations of patients suspected of having the omicron variant, with researchers saying “hospitalisation data remains very limited at this time.” The study is yet to be peer-reviewed.

As I read it, what it says is "we have no data, please ignore those people who say it's much milder, because we have no data". That's non-information in a way, but as I see it the fault is not theirs, the fault belongs to those who publish prematurely.

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Thanks... I hate paywalls

its unreachable

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