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[Video] The Election and the Missing Error Bars on COVID and Flu Death Numbers

The Election and the Missing Error Bars on COVID and Flu Death Numbers

A video on the grossly contradictory CDC FluView pneumonia and influenza death numbers, implied to be influenza virus death numbers, and the CDC Leading causes of death report pneumonia and influenza death numbers, which differ by over a factor of THREE, the lack of reported error bars on the CDC flu and COVID death number counts, required by standard scientific practice, and the effect of this on the US Presidential election.

The FluView web site claims six to ten percent of all deaths are pneumonia and influenza in a prominently displayed graphic. However, the Leading Causes of Death report claims about two percent of deaths are caused by pneumonia and influenza, less than one third of the percentages reported on the FluView web site. No error bars are reported on these numbers.

Looking at the numbers behind the percentages. The CDC uses two grossly contradictory numbers of annual deaths from pneumonia and influenza: about 55,000 in the annual leading causes of the death report and about 188,000 in National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data used on the FluView web site to report the percentage of deaths each week due to pneumonia and influenza. These differ by a factor of OVER THREE. The larger FluView number is comparable to the current cumulative total COVID-19 deaths in the United States frequently cited by the media and compared to a smaller number of about 40,000 “flu deaths.”

O Use of the flu death numbers in popular reporting on COVID and the election, usually lacking any error bars, is discussed.

o The CDC’s mysterious “flu death” mathematical model — a theory — assigning about 50,000 deaths per year to the influenza virus, mostly pneumonia deaths that lack a laboratory confirmed influenza infection, and the usually unreported errors on the output of this model is discussed.

o Evidence of large uncertainties in the assignment of cause of death by doctors, coroners and others is discussed. The lack of proper error bars due to this on both reported “flu death” numbers and COVID death numbers.

o Specific reasons why the CDC would likely be biased against President Trump due to his criticism of vaccine safety and historical statements on the possible role of childhood vaccines promoted by the CDC in causing autism are discussed.

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References:

US CDC Disease Burden of Influenza (Mathematical Model of “Flu Deaths”)
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

The most recent raw data appears to still be accessible on the FluView Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality web page:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm (see Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Section)

FluView NCHS Raw Data File: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/NCHSData34.csv

Leading Causes of Death Full Report: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_06-508.pdf

See Table C: Deaths and percentage of total deaths for the 10 leading causes of death: United States, 2016 and 2017 (Page 9 of PDF)

Line item 8 “Influenza and pneumonia” lists 55,672 deaths in 2017

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[Video] Why are the CDC’s Grossly Contradictory Death Numbers Important to the US Election?

Why are the CDC’s Grossly Contradictory Death Numbers Important to the US Election?

A short video explaining WHY the contradictory pneumonia and influenza death numbers on the CDC web site and official documents are critically important to the US Presidential Election. The FluView web site claims six to ten percent of all deaths are pneumonia and influenza in a prominently displayed graphic. However, the Leading Causes of Death report claims about two percent of deaths are caused by pneumonia and influenza, less than one third of the percentages reported on the FluView web site.

Looking at the numbers behind the percentages. The CDC uses two grossly contradictory numbers of annual deaths from pneumonia and influenza: about 55,000 in the annual leading causes of the death report and about 188,000 in National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data used on the FluView web site to report the percentage of deaths each week due to pneumonia and influenza. These differ by a factor of OVER THREE. The larger FluView number is comparable to the current cumulative total COVID-19 deaths in the United States frequently cited by the media and compared to a smaller number of about 40,000 “flu deaths” which is similar to the smaller number of “pneumonia and influenza” deaths in the leading causes of death report.

The most recent raw data appears to still be accessible on the FluView Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality web page:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm (see Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Section)

FluView NCHS Raw Data File: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/NCHSData34.csv

Leading Causes of Death Full Report: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_06-508.pdf

See Table C: Deaths and percentage of total deaths for the 10 leading causes of death: United States, 2016 and 2017 (Page 9 of PDF)

Line item 8 “Influenza and pneumonia” lists 55,672 deaths in 2017

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How Reliable are the US Centers for Disease Controls’ Death Numbers?

How Reliable are the US Centers for Disease Control’s Death Numbers

A short video showing the contradictory pneumonia and influenza death numbers on the CDC web site and official documents. The FluView web site claims six to ten percent of all deaths are due to pneumonia and influenza in a prominently displayed graphic. However, the Leading Causes of Death report claims about two percent of deaths are caused by pneumonia and influenza, less than one third of the percentages reported on the FluView web site. Detailed references are provided below.

Looking at the numbers behind the percentages. The CDC uses two grossly contradictory numbers of annual deaths from pneumonia and influenza: about 55,000 in the annual leading causes of the death report and about 188,000 in National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data used on the FluView web site to report the percentage of deaths each week due to pneumonia and influenza. These differ by a factor of OVER THREE. The larger FluView number is comparable to the current cumulative total COVID-19 deaths in the United States.

The most recent raw data appears to still be accessible on the FluView Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality web page:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm (see Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Section)

CDC FluView Pneumonia and Influenza Section on October 14, 2020 (Over Six Percent of Deaths Due to Pneumonia and Influenza)

FluView NCHS Raw Data File: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/NCHSData34.csv

Leading Causes of Death Full Report: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_06-508.pdf

See Table C: Deaths and percentage of total deaths for the 10 leading causes of death: United States, 2016 and 2017 (Page 9 of PDF)

Line item 8 “Influenza and pneumonia” lists 55,672 deaths in 2017

Leading Causes of Death Table C for 2017 (Note the line item “Influenza and pneumonia” with only 2.0 percent of deaths due to pneumonia and influenza)

The most likely reason for the gross discrepancy between the FluView percentages and death numbers and the leading causes of death is that the FluView graphic counts any death certificate with pneumonia or influenza listed as “a cause of death.” Death certificates often list multiple causes of death. The leading causes of death report appears to list only death certificates that list pneumonia or influenza as the “underlying cause of death,” which may be a rather arbitrary assignment of causation to a single cause of death. While the fine print seems to say this, it is ambiguous.

Consequentially, the CDC death numbers can vary enormously depending on the definition of cause of death — or some other reason that is not clearly documented in the CDC documents. This is discussed further in the associated video.

A significant question is what fraction of the numbers, especially on the FluView web site, are due to opportunistic infections where the immune system or general health is so weakened by some other cause such as chemotherapy, AIDS, cancer, the aging process etc. that death is likely or inevitable and multiple infections may be present. The likely purpose of the FluView graphic and numbers is to frighten the public into purchasing the flu vaccine — which is unlikely to work for patients whose immune system weakens or fails.

Peter Doshi’s Critiques of US Flu Death Numbers

Are US flu death figures more PR than science? British Medical Journal (2005)

https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7529/1412

Influenza : a study of contemporary medical politics Ph.D. Dissertation, MIT (2011)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/69811

Influenza: marketing vaccine by marketing disease, British Medical Journal (2013)

https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f3037

References on the Influenza Vaccine

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flu-shots-may-not-protect-the-elderly-or-the-very-young/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/486407

February 14, 2005


Impact of Influenza Vaccination on Seasonal Mortality in the US Elderly Population
Lone Simonsen, PhD; Thomas A. Reichert, MD, PhD; Cecile Viboud, PhD; et al William C. Blackwelder, PhD; Robert J. Taylor, PhD; Mark A. Miller, MD
Arch Intern Med. 2005;165(3):265-272. doi:10.1001/archinte.165.3.265

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(11)70295-X/fulltext

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Articles| Volume 12, ISSUE 1, P36-44, January 01, 2012
Efficacy and effectiveness of influenza vaccines: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Prof Michael T Osterholm, PhD
Nicholas S Kelley, PhD
Prof Alfred Sommer, MD
Edward A Belongia, MD

Published:October 26, 2011DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70295-X

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[Video] This Week in Internet Censorship Episode One

This Week in Internet Censorship Episode One (Oct 7, 2020)

This Week in Internet Censorship Episode 1 (Oct 7, 2020)

A short video report on Internet Censorship. Links to web sites mentioned in the video:

Censored Search (search engine for censored Internet content): https://censored-search.com/

Questioning Authority Banned by YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y8PTRouF5o
Heiko Schoning: https://acu2020.org/english-versions/
Tony Heller NewTube Channel: https://newtube.app/user/TonyHeller
Tony Heller’s Real Climate Science Web Site: https://realclimatescience.com/
Robert F Kennedy Jr and Taylor Winterstein: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/truth-with-robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-health-freedom-advocate-taylor-winterstein-how-is-covid-affecting-vaccine-safety-advocacy/

Freedom House “Democracy under Lockdown:” https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-report/2020/democracy-under-lockdown

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The Great Barrington Declaration

The Great Barrington Declaration: https://gbdeclaration.org/

Scientists, medical doctors, health professionals, and the general public protest the continued lockdowns ostensibly to fight COVID-19.

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Open letter from medical doctors and health professionals to all Belgian authorities and all Belgian media.

http://docs4opendebate.be/en/open-letter/

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[Video] Building a Search Engine for Censored Internet Content

Building a Search Engine for Censored Internet Content (BitChute Video)

A video on the motivations and philosophy of a search engine for censored Internet content (https://censored-search.com/).

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Journalism’s Gates Keepers (Columbia Journalism Review): https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php

A Skeptical Look at STEM Shortage Numbers: https://wordpress.jmcgowan.com/wp/a-skeptical-look-at-stem-shortage-numbers/

Microsoft Layoffs and STEM Shortage Claims (2007-2017): http://wordpress.jmcgowan.com/wp/microsoft-layoffs-and-stem-shortage-claims-2009-2017/

Retraction—Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis (The Lancet) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31324-6/fulltext

Torches of Freedom: https://www.oxfordpresents.com/ms/kelleher/edward-bernayss-torches-of-freedom/

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[Video/Article] How to Search for Censored Internet Content

The Censored Search web site is a search engine for censored, banned, and shadow banned web sites that discloses the algorithms used to find and rank the search results and enables paying customers to configure the algorithms for their needs.

Search engines such as Google and social media services such as Facebook are funded by advertisers such as giant health and pharmaceuticals companies and billionaires who pay them to promote their products and services. Even if those products or services are overpriced, ineffective, or dangerous. Major search engines and social media are NOT funded by end users like you.

Find the answers to your problems censored by advertisers and other powerful interests!
Censored Search: https://censored-search.com/

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If you are a censored web site, you need an alternative to Google and other search engines to continue to reach your current audience and expand your audience in the face of growing censorship. Mailing lists and RSS subscriptions do not give your audience an easy way to quickly find your content that is relevant to their concerns. Please submit your web site to our censored site search engine at https://suggest.censored-search.com and share our site with your audience.

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A short critique of Facebook COVID Memes. Memes oversimplify the issues and usually consist of a straw man argument that almost no one who disagrees with the Meme maker actually makes. Often loaded terms such as “conspiracy theory,” “anti-science,” “Trump,” “Far Right” and so forth are thrown in. The Meme then ridicules the straw man argument.

The CDC’s grossly contradictory pneumonia and influenza death numbers are discussed briefly as one example of substantive issues that should be discussed instead of Memes. For more details and references, see: The CDC’s Contradictory Death Numbers https://tinyurl.com/y4empg8n

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[Video/Article] The CDC’s Grossly Contradictory Death Numbers

The CDC’s Grossly Contradictory Death Numbers (Click on Image to View the Video)

The CDC uses two grossly contradictory numbers of annual deaths from pneumonia and influenza: about 55,000 in the annual leading causes of the death report and about 188,000 in National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data used on the FluView web site to report the percentage of deaths each week due to pneumonia and influenza. These differ by a factor of OVER THREE. The larger FluView number is comparable to the current cumulative total COVID-19 deaths in the United States (Aug 30, 2020).

Since it is generally agreed that lockdowns and quarantines are not justified for a disease similar to typical annual pneumonia and influenza deaths, the reasons for this gross contradiction in the two annual death numbers should be resolved. Is it correct to compare the COVID-19 death numbers to the FluView number, the leading causes of death number, or some other number and, if so, exactly why and how?

Video Transcript: The CDC uses two grossly contradictory numbers of annual deaths from pneumonia and influenza: about 55,000 in the annual leading causes of the death report and about 188,000 in National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data used on the FluView web site to report the percentage of deaths each week due to pneumonia and influenza. These differ by a factor of OVER THREE.

This is the leading causes of death report for 2017 on the CDC web site. Table C: Deaths and percentage of total deaths for the 10 leading causes of death: United States, 2016 and 2017 on Page Nine. Note line item number 8 “pneumonia and influenza” with 55,672 deaths in 2017. Also note 2,813,503 deaths from all causes in 2017.

This is the CDC FluView web site. The red line purports to be the percentage of weekly deaths caused by pneumonia and influenza. It varies seasonally and averages about six percent over a year. Six percent of the 2,813,503 deaths in 2017 is 168,810 deaths, over three times the 55,672 deaths in the leading causes of death report.

The actual numbers are available here in data files from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). These give about 188,000 deaths from pneumonia and influenza in 2017. The death numbers for other years are quite similar.

To be clear, the leading causes of deaths report gives 55,672 deaths from pneumonia and influenza in 2017.

The average six percent of deaths from the FluView Graph means about 170,000 deaths must have been due to pneumonia and influenza — NOT 55,000. In fact, the raw data from the NCHS on the sites gives just about 188,000 deaths due to pneumonia and influenza in 2017, over THREE TIMES the number of deaths in the leading causes of death report and the widely quoted estimated deaths from flu from the CDC.

This means the number of pneumonia and influenza deaths must be highly arbitrary, dependent on unstated definitions, or there are gross counting errors. The larger FluView number of 188,000 is comparable to the current total of COVID-19 deaths in the US which is often compared to a smaller number of flu deaths each year similar to the leading causes of deaths number of 55,000.

Since it is generally agreed that lockdowns and quarantines are not justified for a disease similar to typical annual pneumonia and influenza deaths, the reasons for this gross contradiction in the two annual death numbers should be resolved. Is it correct to compare the COVID-19 death numbers to the FluView number, the leading causes of death number, or some other number and, if so, exactly why and how?

The most recent raw data appears to still be accessible on the FluView Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality web page:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm (see Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Section)

FluView NCHS Raw Data File: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/NCHSData34.csv

Leading Causes of Death Full Report: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_06-508.pdf

See Table C: Deaths and percentage of total deaths for the 10 leading causes of death: United States, 2016 and 2017 (Page 9 of PDF)

Line item 8 “Influenza and pneumonia” lists 55,672 deaths in 2017

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About Me

John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).