Quote (kenw @ Aug 10 2021 05:26pm)

:rofl:


Twitter (TWTR) has suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for one week following another violation of the platform's rules, the company said Tuesday.
Greene tweeted on Monday that the Food and Drug Administration "should not approve the covid vaccines." She also claimed the vaccines were "failing" and that they were ineffective at reducing the virus's spread.

In response, Twitter labeled the tweet as misleading and prevented Greene from tweeting for one week.

The tweet, a company spokesperson said, "was labeled in line with our COVID-19 misleading information policy. The account will be in read-only mode for a week due to repeated violations of the Twitter Rules."
Tuesday's suspension marks at least the third and toughest penalty Twitter has imposed on Greene for sharing misinformation. In January, Greene was suspended for 12 hours from Twitter for sharing conspiracy theories about the Georgia Senate runoff elections, a move that the company said violated its civic integrity policy. In July, Twitter suspended Greene again for 12 hours for sharing misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines. (Greene was also temporarily suspended in March but was soon reinstated after Twitter said its automated systems had acted in error.)

According to Twitter's Covid-19 misinformation policy, users can receive a one-week suspension if they violate that policy four times. Violating the Covid-19 policy five or more times can result in a permanent ban. Twitter declined to say how many times Greene has violated the company's rules.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Aug 10 2021 02:58pm)

I really don't understand why is it so difficult to find relevant data? Maybe it's just me being unwilling to dig for more than a few minutes or sourcing is really this hidden and not published?

What is the current monthly or weekly rolling average for deaths from Covid?
What is the current monthly or weekly rolling average for deaths from Covid under 18?
What is the current monthly or weekly rolling average for deaths from Covid under 12?

Ideally per/100k

Best I found so far is this.



What is the difference between fatality rate vs mortality rate.


https://fullfact.org/health/bbc-children-covid-risk/

Quote (Skinned @ Aug 10 2021 03:02pm)

Twitter banning all the chicken littles aren't they?

Quote (thundercock @ Aug 10 2021 06:08pm)

I googled "covid death rate by age" and this was the 2nd link:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html

This was the first link for "covid deaths by age"
Here you can see the monthly rate: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#SexAndAge
You only get 0-17 though and not 12+ like you wanted.

Quote (ofthevoid @ 10 Aug 2021 23:37)

Considering the death rate amongst kids it actually would be infinitely better for people to get this virus at a very young age rather than getting it later in life. Kind of like chicken pox. If only people can see the bigger picture.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Aug 10 2021 03:18pm)

Did you click and actually tried deciphering what they are saying. For example <1x to the reference group? Wtf is that supposed to mean to me? Like give a numerator and a denominator of deaths/reported infections not anchored to a reference group.

Same with the second link. It says 349 kids died but then doesn't give the total number of kids that were infected. Again the denominator here is pretty crucial to actually seeing how deadly this virus is for that age group.

Neither of those are on a rolling average basis either, which is important from a relevancy perspective. We know for a fact we've gotten a lot better at treating Covid so including 2020 would skew the dangerousness to the upside.

Quote (fender @ Aug 10 2021 06:22pm)

so if you had a kid, you'd deliberately have it get covid?

Quote (ofthevoid @ Aug 10 2021 03:18pm)

Did you click and actually tried deciphering what they are saying. For example <1x to the reference group? Wtf is that supposed to mean to me? Like give a numerator and a denominator of deaths/reported infections not anchored to a reference group.

Same with the second link. It says 349 kids died but then doesn't give the total number of kids that were infected. Again the denominator here is pretty crucial to actually seeing how deadly this virus is for that age group.

Neither of those are on a rolling average basis either, which is important from a relevancy perspective. We know for a fact we've gotten a lot better at treating Covid so including 2020 would skew the dangerousness to the upside.

Quote (thundercock @ Aug 10 2021 06:30pm)

<1x means there's not enough data to give a good ratio most likely. It's simply confirming what we know: children are very unlikely to be hospitalized/die of COVID. That may change based on mutations, but it's highly unlikely that ICUs will be overrun with infected children.

I'm not sure why you need rolling averages given how long this disease has been around. Rolling averages are available for total infections and deaths but I don't know if more granular data is available.