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Where does your CDR come from? ISTR that 2021 was the year of tiers, which varied by region. Presumably you know where the data is from but can’t reveal it?

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CDR is from the UK GOV coronavirus dashboard - its derivation is mentioned in part 3 of this series though it first comes into play in Hunting For Vaccine Benefit (part 2) back in August 2022 and gets an airing in Testing... Testing (part 1), and Vaccines & Death (part3). I have absolutely no idea where the EPR data came from but judging by the numbers it must be from one of our biggest NHS Trusts.

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Is there a way to design a prospective cohort study that would possibly find this same contradiction? I suppose the crux would be getting equal testing between groups?

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Now there's a thought! And right there is the Achilles heel of much analysis (including mine).

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I've now got to wondering if I can conjure a propensity score for inpatient testing using a 'neutral' condition...

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As a casual observer who worked through the madness, I can tell you not one out of nine of us caught covid until the summer of 2021.

When you add in that we were a cash only business for months until my boss gave in mid 2020 and got a card reader. We should by all official accounts have been down with it serving so many customers.

Not a single member of staff caught it until the jabs rollout, I’m the only one unvaxxed there, I was the only one to have a mild case apart from the two teenagers there, everyone else who caught it were really ill with it, so much for the miracle potion they promised.

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Excellent once again.

Can't wait for part 10, I wonder how it will correlate with the deaths by vaccination status reports suggesting a peak in deaths at 3 weeks from vaccination.?

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Just part-baked part 10 ready for a hot and crusty delivery next Monday. I'll be getting into timings when I wheel out survival analysis in a freshly-minted series.

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Hmmmm! Keep going. Fascinating.

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Just part-baked part 10 ready for a hot and crusty delivery next Monday...

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