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JD, despite being a Doctor who always came out in a cold sweat whenever statistics hove into view, under your tutelage I have been making advances! I have also been fascinated by your Climate Corner substack. You kindly allowed me access to that with the one subscription (to the Almanac). I wonder if you would be kind enough to continue this 2 for the price of 1?

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Morning doctor! For cold sweats I recommend two slides daily, with meals. I am very happy to continue with my 2F1 offer - if any reader would like to take advantage just shout!

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Thank you so much JD!

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Jeezo: managing one delirious form of Science Denial at one time is quite enough for me: I was genuinely hoping that the seas would rise by 200 metres in a flash and that we would all be put permanently out of our misery.

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Way over my head but keep on doing it 😊

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Can you submit an FOI to ONS for the number of death certificates that list ONLY COVID-19 and NO other contributing cause?

These are incomplete death certificates and could be a fraud signal.

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Also, FYI, CDC WONDER/the Feds do not use U07.2 at all - at least in their public-facing database. I find that interesting.

Note, too, what U07.1 does and doesn't say: "Virus identified"

Which one?

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The ICD10 wording back in 2020 was 'COVID-19; virus identified' but codes and definitions have evolved such that a historic time series has little meaning.

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Allow me to be clearer: I believe it was intentional that it says "virus identified" and that at least initial 2020 sets of WHO guidelines around the code did not (as far as I know) mention SARS-CoV-2.

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I have a total count of these by age band but not by date of death. I'll pop this task down on my big list of things to do because it might be illuminating.

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