Definitions and statistics

The relativity of the definitions and the power of statistics. (Photo by Artem Podrez from Pexels)

 Social   November 6, 2021

A change in definition makes a huge impact in numbers, as we can see it in Italy:

The Italian Higher Institute of Health has drastically reduced the country’s official COVID death toll number by over 97 per cent after changing the definition of a fatality to someone who died from COVID rather than with COVID.

“All the other Italians who lost their lives had from between one and five pre-existing diseases. Of those aged over 67 who died, 7% had more than three co-morbidities, and 18% at least two,” writes Young.

“According to the Institute, 65.8% of Italians who died after being infected with Covid were ill with arterial hypertension (high blood pressure), 23.5% had dementia, 29.3% had diabetes, and 24.8% atrial fibrillation. Add to that, 17.4% had lung problems, 16.3% had had cancer in the last five years and 15.7% suffered from previous heart failures.”

This adjusted the numbers of people dying of COVID from 130.000 to under 4.000!

And back in the Netherlands, we find out (officially) that now, almost half of the hospitalized ones are actually vaccinated. What makes a huge difference, seems to be not the vaccine itself but more the age of the infected ones.

The number of vaccinated people being admitted to hospital after catching coronavirus is going up and most of them are over the age of 70, health chiefs have confirmed

In October, 44% of the 2,054 people admitted to hospital with coronavirus were fully vaccinated and 55% had not been jabbed at all, according to new figures from public health institute RIVM.

Of course, RIVM is sugar coating these numbers with "very high effectiveness", "vaccine protects against hospital admission in 94% of cases", etc.

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