COVID case fatality rate (CFR) jumped by 50% after they rolled out the jabs in Santa Clara County in 2021I've asked the Santa Clara County health department to explain why we shouldn't be concerned. I will update this article when I hear back.Executive SummarySanta Clara County has an excellent open data portal with lots of COVID data posted. This morning I decided to take a deep dive and I downloaded the long term care facility (LTCF) cases and deaths. I discovered that after the COVID vaccine rollout began, the COVID case fatality rate increased by 50%. The result was statistically significant. I asked Ben at US Mortality to double check my work. His results are posted below. The shots were supposed to make the elderly less likely to die from COVID, not more likely to die from COVID. Furthermore, the age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) in Santa Clara County didn’t return to normal after the mask mandates, lockdowns, and a stunning 95% vaccination rate in the County. As Ben noted, the ASMR increased in 2021 vs. the 2020 baseline, and 2022 was only slightly lower. I’ve reached out to media relations at the public health department (PHD) for an explanation as to why we shouldn’t be concerned about these numbers. I will update this article with their response when I hear back. The data so you can replicate my workMy work is all posted on my Github in the covid repo. The README explains the details. In calculating the CFR, we shifted the deaths forward by 11 days so we aligned case peaks to death peaks. On a quarterly basis, the CFR averaged 11.7% in Q4 2020, then jumped to 21% in Q1 of 2021 which is a 1.8X increase. On a monthly basis, the CFR averaged 12.8% in December 2020; in January 2021 it was 18.9%, a 48% increase. The month over month increase was highly statistically significant:
Ben at US Mortality posted this analysisYou can see his code and the graphs here. I’ve reproduced the final graph below. See how the CFR (blue line) which was flat before the vaccine rollout starts climbing up after the dashed vertical line (vaccine rollout)? It’s supposed to be going down, not up! Questions sent the public health department
My hypothesis: the COVID vax made the CFR worse.Here’s my reasoning:
What do you think caused the increase in CFR?It wasn’t the COVID variant because the original strain was dominant for most all of the observation period.
SummaryI’ve reached out to the SCC PHD for comment. I look forward to hearing their response and will update this article when I hear back. You're currently a free subscriber to Steve Kirsch's newsletter. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |
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