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millions of "migrants" to your home, to increase the death rate!

Ben Bradshaw. (2021, November 2). More than 50 #COVID19 cases in Parliament. U.K. still highest infection, hospitalisation & death rates in Western Europe. Still virtually no mask discipline among Tory MPs. Dwindling on public transport too. #Covid19UK [Tweet]. @BenPBradshaw. https://twitter.com/BenPBradshaw/status/1455451405205098498

Leonhardt, D. (2021, July 19). Vaccine Persuasion. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/briefing/vaccine-skepticism-vaccination-drive.html

Bar-On, Y. M., Goldberg, Y., Mandel, M., Bodenheimer, O., Freedman, L., Alroy-Preis, S., Ash, N., Huppert, A., & Milo, R. (2021). Protection Across Age Groups of BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster against Covid-19 (p. 2021.10.07.21264626). https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.07.21264626

Kissane, E. (2021, December 23). We’re About to Lose Track of the Pandemic. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/were-about-to-lose-track-of-the-pandemic/621097/

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: “RT @acweyand: Kids account for <0.2% of cancer deaths in US Kids account for <0.2% of heart disease deaths in US Kids account for <0.3% of…” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1483869918332432388

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 20). RT @thehowie: South Africa Deaths (7 day average) are near double levels of a few weeks ago. They will go up further. They are only 7.5%… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1472991477672419334

ReconfigBehSci [@SciBeh]. (2021, December 25). RT @thehowie: South Africa: Christmas update Hospitalizations⬆️15% week over week, ⬇️0.4% from yesterday. Gauteng Province ⬆️1.8% week ov… [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1474815859235381251

Mahan Ghafari | ماهان غفاری on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved April 29, 2022, from https://twitter.com/Mahan_Ghafari/status/1446196548904366092

Five biggest myths about the COVID-19 vaccines, debunked. (n.d.). Fortune. Retrieved April 29, 2022, from https://fortune.com/2021/10/02/five-biggest-myths-covid-19-vaccines/

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘@STWorg @PhilippMSchmid @CorneliaBetsch and every now and then we have to watch a clip like this to be reminded what all of this is really about. This pain and suffering is happening in one of the richest countries in the world at a time in the pandemic when we know exactly what to do to avoid it’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 22 April 2022, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1464662622440144896

Health Nerd. (2021, March 28). Recently, Professor John Ioannidis, most famous for his meta-science and more recently COVID-19 work, published this article in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation It included, among other things, a lengthy personal attack on me Some thoughts 1/n https://t.co/JGfUrpJXh2 [Tweet]. @GidMK. https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1376304539897237508

Max Roser. (2021, April 4). Confirmed cases in India are rising very rapidly. • It does not appear to be an increase in testing, the positive rate has increased from less than 2% to more than 6%. • Deaths are also rapidly increasing. You find all metrics about all countries here: Https://t.co/YcMAq5ooMb https://t.co/6EQRKhKjYP [Tweet]. @MaxCRoser. https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1378486286047182849

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @MaxCRoser: The latest COVID data from India. Https://t.co/LwjGo0xfMX https://t.co/vdH95hQ2gw https://t.co/moOKa1uKRr’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 23 April 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1380081666962636802

Marino van Zelst🌱. (2021, October 27). #COVID19NL Positief getest: 7.301 Totaal: 2.100.866 (+7.260 ivm -41 corr.) Perc. Positief 19 okt—25 okt: 15,7% Opgenomen: 113 Huidig: 659 (+2) Opgenomen op IC: 21 Huidig: 200 (+8) Overleden: 17 Totaal: 18.357 https://t.co/BOKxqmyHiX [Tweet]. @mzelst. https://twitter.com/mzelst/status/1453349923462725632

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, October 13). RT @StevenTDennis: This is 100X the yearly U.S. death toll from measles before we crushed it with vaccines. [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1448333888992858120

Mulot, M., Segalas, C., Leyrat, C., & Besançon, L. (2021). Re: Subramanian and Kumar. Vaccination rates and COVID-19 cases. European Journal of Epidemiology, 36(12), 1243–1244. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-021-00817-6

ReconfigBehSci. (2022, January 31). RT @AbraarKaran: 2/ @nytimes https://t.co/7ynCtx2Q85 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1488433826628083715

Gaba, C. (2022, March 10). My own crude estimate: Vaccine refusal has likely killed 180K - 235K Americans to date [Text]. ACA Signups. https://acasignups.net/22/03/10/my-own-crude-estimate-vaccine-refusal-has-likely-killed-180k-235k-americans-date

Stegger, M., Edslev, S. M., Sieber, R. N., Ingham, A. C., Ng, K. L., Tang, M.-H. E., Alexandersen, S., Fonager, J., Legarth, R., Utko, M., Wilkowski, B., Gunalan, V., Bennedbæk, M., Byberg-Grauholm, J., Møller, C. H., Christiansen, L. E., Svarrer, C. W., Ellegaard, K., Baig, S., … Rasmussen, M. (2022). Occurrence and significance of Omicron BA.1 infection followed by BA.2 reinfection (p. 2022.02.19.22271112). medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.19.22271112

Marc Veldhoen. (2022, January 18). US data via @OurWorldInData Let not anyone tell you that vaccines do not work https://t.co/N535pp1kGJ [Tweet]. @Marc_Veld. https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/1483433139208962050

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @HelenBranswell: The latest “Nowcast” from @CDCgov suggests Omicron has pretty much swept the table. Https://t.co/BAwPhsyPwW https://t.…’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 13 February 2022, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1483495777376903175

Tyler Black, MD. (2022, January 4). /1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=- Thread: Mortality in 2020 and myths =-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2020, unsurprisingly, came with excess death. There was an 18% increase in overall mortality, year on year. But let’s dive in a little bit deeper. The @CDCgov has updated WONDER, its mortality database. Https://t.co/DbbvvbTAZQ [Tweet]. @tylerblack32. https://twitter.com/tylerblack32/status/1478501508132048901

Adele Groyer. (2022, January 8). Friday report is now out. Https://covidactuaries.org/2022/01/07/the-friday-report-issue-58/ I am struck that perception of a “mild” Covid situation is relative. In SA natural deaths were >30% higher than predicted in Dec. The last time weekly death rates in E&W were more than 30% above 2015-19 levels was in Jan 2021. Https://t.co/S9fkn2WFVk [Tweet]. @AdeleGroyer. https://twitter.com/AdeleGroyer/status/1479760460589191170

Gabriel Hébert-Mild™ ⓥ. (2022, February 1). UK Deaths following a reinfection! Tell me what you see here 👀 https://t.co/TbVAksnvrW [Tweet]. @Gab_H_R. https://twitter.com/Gab_H_R/status/1488623303463952387

Edouard Mathieu. (2022, January 17). Update: Switzerland now reports deaths by booster status. Compared to unvaccinated people, the COVID mortality rate is: • 9x lower after full vaccination • 48x lower after a booster [From our post with @maxcroser on death rates by vaccination status: Http://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination] https://t.co/ozWueyHO2k [Tweet]. @redouad. https://twitter.com/redouad/status/1482991873190936576

Craig, F. (2021, December 9). Covid: 150 deaths a day in UK an ‘unacceptably high number’, says professor. Channel 4 News. https://www.channel4.com/news/covid-150-deaths-a-day-in-uk-an-unacceptably-high-number-says-professor

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @TravellingTabby: Https://t.co/bMZAOzCwhA The 263 new deaths reported today is the most in a day for almost 8 months. From the 208 ne…’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 14 January 2022, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1453081931038568457

How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not? (n.d.). Our World in Data. Retrieved January 8, 2022, from https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination

Sample, I., & Davis, N. (2022, January 6). First Covid wave raised UK adult risk of death by 40%, study finds. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/06/first-covid-wave-raised-uk-adult-risk-of-death-by-40-study-finds

Murray, J. (2021, December 28). Omicron is ‘not the same disease’ as earlier Covid waves, says UK scientist. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/28/omicron-is-not-the-same-disease-as-earlier-covid-waves-says-uk-scientist

Deepti Gurdasani. (2021, December 23). Some brief thoughts on the concerning relativism I’ve seen creeping into media, and scientific rhetoric over the past 20 months or so—The idea that things are ok because they’re better relative to a point where things got really really bad. 🧵 [Tweet]. @dgurdasani1. https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1474042179110772736

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 17). RT @peterdodds: Current excess deaths estimate per @TheEconomist: 18.2 million with 95% range of 11.4 million to 21.2 million. And up it… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1471903926035353610

Savage, M., McKie, R., & Ungoed-Thomas, J. (2021, December 18). UK scientists: Bring in curbs now or face up to 2m daily Covid infections as Omicron spreads. The Observer. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/18/uk-scientists-curbs-covid-infections-omicron-deaths-restrictions-sage

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 13). RT @CaulfieldTim: India, U.S. account for a quarter of #COVID19 #misinformation: @UAlberta study https://ualberta.ca/folio/2021/12/india-us-account-for-a-quarter-of-covid-19-misinformation-study.html “Misinformation s… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1470435900073168907

Gaba, C. (2021, November 17). RED SHIFT: How Trump’s attempt to let COVID-19 destroy Blue America reversed itself, animated [Text]. ACA Signups. https://acasignups.net/21/11/17/red-shift-how-trumps-attempt-let-covid-19-destroy-blue-america-reversed-itself-animated

European Commission 🇪🇺. (2021, November 23). Data shows us that the higher the vaccination rate, the lower the death rate. #COVID19 #VaccinesWork https://t.co/mORrrQOPsj [Tweet]. @EU_Commission. https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1463119478099693571

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Bhattacharya, E. B. and J. (2020, March 24). Opinion | Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say? Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464

Adam W Gaffney. (2021, October 20). Year-to-year change in age-adjusted death rate in the US from 1960-2020: Https://t.co/6FeFYATiCb [Tweet]. @awgaffney. https://twitter.com/awgaffney/status/1450628837021261825

Sawyer, E. (2021, October 14). Convenience, confidence and complacency: Why some formerly hesitant people are now getting vaccinated | CBC News. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/why-hesitant-people-now-getting-vaccinated-1.6210266

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, July 6). RT @mvankerkhove: I’m struggling with how best to stress how fragile the global situation is, so I’ll be blunt: Each week >2.6 million cas… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1412416348676820992

The Death Rate of Covid-19 in Developing Countries | by Gideon M-K; Health Nerd | Oct, 2021 | Elemental. (n.d.). Retrieved October 7, 2021, from https://elemental.medium.com/the-death-rate-of-covid-19-in-developing-countries-cc17a55c73cd

Coronavirus Pandemic Data Explorer. (n.d.). Our World in Data. Retrieved March 3, 2021, from https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer

Mike Baker. (2021, August 28). Today, Mississippi surpassed New York in total coronavirus deaths per capita. For a long time, I didn’t think we’d ever see any state end up worse than New York or New Jersey. One year ago today, Mississippi’s death rate was less than half of New York’s. Https://nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html https://t.co/sEgUDFOMWz [Tweet]. @bymikebaker. https://twitter.com/bymikebaker/status/1431460167237783555

Adam Kucharski. (2021, August 5). Reading with hindsight, some interesting details in this 2018 piece on the places that escaped the 1918 pandemic... 1/ https://t.co/QWobRtmGcU [Tweet]. @AdamJKucharski. https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1423297060380442632

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘I just had cause to revisit the Friston modelling paper from Sept: Https://t.co/QOTC8fXV0n 1/n’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 26 February 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1336277391233208320

Gonnet, G., Stewart, J., Lafleur, J., Keith, S., McLellan, M., Jiang-Gorsline, D., & Snider, T. (2021). Analysis of feature influence on Covid-19 Death Rate Per Country Using a Novel Orthogonalization Technique. MetaArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/4kw2n

Eric Topol. (2021, May 21). We’re now very close to the lowest US death rate since the start of the pandemic https://t.co/8kQVxdwL3t [Tweet]. @EricTopol. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1395767407331876869

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, June 9). RT @EricTopol: How to reduce the case fatality rate in each age group? Give them vaccines By @VictimOfMaths https://t.co/S0d9tpfxao https:… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1402655685217718272

Carl T. Bergstrom. (2021, April 27). 6. In the right column, we are given weighted averages. But these are nonsense as well, because the data are not collected in a way that allow for meaningful comparisons. Most critically, THESE ARE TOTAL DEATHS, NOT VACCINE ASSOCIATED DEATHS. [Tweet]. @CT_Bergstrom. https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1387153003824648196

Covid variants: How much protection do the different vaccines offer? (2021, June 3). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/covid-variants-delta-alpha-how-much-protection-vaccines

Hotez, P. J., & Ko, A. I. (2021, June 4). Opinion | Why Are So Many Children in Brazil Dying From Covid-19? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/Brazil-covid-children.html

Gu, T., Wang, L., Xie, N., Meng, X., Li, Z., Postlethwaite, A. E., Aleya, L., Howard, S., Gu, W., & Wang, Y. (2021). Towards a country-based prediction model of COVID-19 infections and deaths between disease apex and end: -Evidence from countries with contained numbers of COVID-19. Frontiers in Medicine, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.585115

Amitava Banerjee: Covid-19 in India—lockdown and vaccination drive only way forward. (2021, May 6). The BMJ. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/05/06/amitava-banerjee-covid-19-in-india-lockdown-and-vaccination-drive-only-way-forward/

Neil O’Brien MP. (2021, January 14). I may... Convene a public inquiry of my own. The experts I’ll invite to sit on the panel won’t be the usual hacks with an axe to grind... They’ll be [like] Sunetra Gupta, the Oxford epidemiologist who believes we may have achieved herd immunity already" Spectator, 25 July [Tweet]. @NeilDotObrien. https://twitter.com/NeilDotObrien/status/1349701118700507137

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Gayle, C. S. (now); D., Marsh, S., Rawlinson, K., Sullivan, H., Doherty (earlier), B., Boffey, D., & Smith, H. (2020, November 16). Sweden limits public gatherings to eight people – as it happened. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/nov/16/coronavirus-live-news-us-confirms-1m-cases-in-a-week-boris-johnson-selfisolating?page=with%3Ablock-5fb28c538f082807d3a4fcaa

Revill, J. (2020, October 18). Swiss tighten measures to combat COVID-19 second wave. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-swiss-idUKKBN2730G4

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(((Howard Forman))). (2020, November 24). Truly good news out of #Italy. And we can all use it. Cases (23K), positive rate (12.3%), and hospitalizations all DOWN. ICU occupancy with smallest increase in months. Deaths (not surprisingly) the one exception with 3rd highest total. Https://t.co/YFh5nd2AXX [Tweet]. @thehowie. https://twitter.com/thehowie/status/1331311384626388994

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David Spiegelhalter. (2020, December 17). Wow, Our World in Data now showing both Sweden and Germany having a higher daily Covid death rate than the UK https://t.co/EKx7ntil6m https://t.co/YCy4a0DrqP [Tweet]. @d_spiegel. https://twitter.com/d_spiegel/status/1339493869394780160

Pastor-Barriuso, R., Pérez-Gómez, B., Hernán, M. A., Pérez-Olmeda, M., Yotti, R., Oteo-Iglesias, J., Sanmartín, J. L., León-Gómez, I., Fernández-García, A., Fernández-Navarro, P., Cruz, I., Martín, M., Delgado-Sanz, C., Larrea, N. F. de, Paniagua, J. L., Muñoz-Montalvo, J. F., Blanco, F., Larrauri, A., & Pollán, M. (2020). Infection fatality risk for SARS-CoV-2 in community dwelling population of Spain: Nationwide seroepidemiological study. BMJ, 371, m4509. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4509

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