Welp, the last province has thrown in the towel. British Columbia has stopped tracking outcomes by vaccination status. They point people to a page that claims both that the vaccine provides “good outcomes” against severe COVID-19 and that the booster is even better!
1. Are both UV and V tested when coming into hospital?
2. Are PCR tests spun at the same rate?
3. Where are the "unknown" numbers? In Ontario, the piecharts always looked favourable when compared with the proportion of the population vaccinated or boosted. But when looking at the raw numbers, this was not the case. The unknowns never appeared on the pie charts. When looking at the raw numbers, the unknowns almost always outnumbered the unvaccinated, and by a long-shot. When presuming they were in fact vaccinated (according to the M of H definitions of unknowns), the proportions changed significantly also, showing almost zero effect for the shots. This is similar to what Alex Berenson was shining a light on in Israel and the UK last summer.
So many questions. Such murky data (as said by Astrid Stuckelberger in 2021).
Agreed. All good questions. My gut also tells me testing in hospitals is swayed towards the unvaccinated if only because a lot of HC workers in Canada are starting from the assumption that unvaccinated are a risk. Mid-delta wave, I know that was true in my province. Unvaccinated were tested, vaccinated were not. But not sure if that stuck post-vaccine passports.
I wish I would have been able to take a deeper look at the BC data. Didn't expect them to remove it so fast, and there is no archive, so all I have is a tiny bit of data that I saved in a csv with deaths by population age and some notes I was making on their population denominators. I also have a few screenshots that raise more questions than answers....
Great question. I gut tells me it’s swayed toward testing unvaccinated. Just a gut instinct. Do the hospitals in Canada receive payment from the government as they do in the US? That incentive will drive numbers as well, I think.
Honestly I also wonder if they are using PCR still (useless) do they run higher cycles for those without vaccine to achieve a false positive while lower for vaxxed. If I were out the hurt humanity and or save face That’s what I would do.
The tricky thing is if we lie and say we are vaxxed and do well it bolsters the numbers for the vaxxed. Just thinking
As I remember, they define a death as anyone who died within 30 days of testing positive. They only have to test the unvaccinated more to inflate the number of deaths.
Other questions that pop up in my mind:
1. Are both UV and V tested when coming into hospital?
2. Are PCR tests spun at the same rate?
3. Where are the "unknown" numbers? In Ontario, the piecharts always looked favourable when compared with the proportion of the population vaccinated or boosted. But when looking at the raw numbers, this was not the case. The unknowns never appeared on the pie charts. When looking at the raw numbers, the unknowns almost always outnumbered the unvaccinated, and by a long-shot. When presuming they were in fact vaccinated (according to the M of H definitions of unknowns), the proportions changed significantly also, showing almost zero effect for the shots. This is similar to what Alex Berenson was shining a light on in Israel and the UK last summer.
So many questions. Such murky data (as said by Astrid Stuckelberger in 2021).
Agreed. All good questions. My gut also tells me testing in hospitals is swayed towards the unvaccinated if only because a lot of HC workers in Canada are starting from the assumption that unvaccinated are a risk. Mid-delta wave, I know that was true in my province. Unvaccinated were tested, vaccinated were not. But not sure if that stuck post-vaccine passports.
I wish I would have been able to take a deeper look at the BC data. Didn't expect them to remove it so fast, and there is no archive, so all I have is a tiny bit of data that I saved in a csv with deaths by population age and some notes I was making on their population denominators. I also have a few screenshots that raise more questions than answers....
Great question. I gut tells me it’s swayed toward testing unvaccinated. Just a gut instinct. Do the hospitals in Canada receive payment from the government as they do in the US? That incentive will drive numbers as well, I think.
Honestly I also wonder if they are using PCR still (useless) do they run higher cycles for those without vaccine to achieve a false positive while lower for vaxxed. If I were out the hurt humanity and or save face That’s what I would do.
The tricky thing is if we lie and say we are vaxxed and do well it bolsters the numbers for the vaxxed. Just thinking
As I remember, they define a death as anyone who died within 30 days of testing positive. They only have to test the unvaccinated more to inflate the number of deaths.
Thanks for all these updates and analyses. Very helpful.