When you see “only 6%” of trends on Twitter, the next apparent one is “only 6% of what?”Only 6% of dogs wear shoes?Is only 6% of what Tinder profiles say true?
Yaya.Several tweets drew the following 6% of the passage in the “Provisional Count of Coronavirus Disease Deaths 2019 (COVID-19) on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website:
Table 3 shows the types of fitness disorders and the reasons that contribute to the discussion alongside coronavirus-related deaths in 2019 (COVID-19). For 6% of deaths, COVID-19 is the only cause discussed.”
For example, a Twitter account called Mel Q (not being with the sixth member of the Spice Girls with Mel B and Mel C) tweeted the following:
yes, the Q doesn’t mean “quahog” or “fast, let’s say Yosemite.” This seems to constitute QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory that states, among other things, that a network of Satan-worshipping pedophiles runs a global child sex trafficking network and seeks to overthrow US President Donald J. Trump.
Speaking of Trump, was it Donald J. Trump who retwed Mel Q’s tweet? This sounds like this, because the account is called @realDonaldTrump instead of @notreallyDonaldTrump. So, if the president retwed Mel Q’s statements, that’s going to have to be credible, right?
However, a small challenge with the Tweet @littellmel: it doesn’t describe what the CDC said should look like on your website.So if you search for the original Tweet now, get a message that says, “This Tweet is no longer stopped because it broke Twitter rules.”Uh, what are you doing, Mr. President?
If you need to know why the original Tweet was erroneous or misleading, just read the rest of what the CDC said after 6%: “For deaths with situations or reasons besides COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 more situations or reasons compatible with the death.” Take a look at those additional situations or reasons. They come with things like adult pneumonia, respiratory misery syndrome, respiratory failure, respiratory arrest, other respiratory diseases and sepsis. Hmmm, this looks a lot like what Covid-19 can drive and what in the end can kill other people with a serious Covid-19.
So, for example, let’s say a user gets a Covid-19 coronavirus infection, which eventually turns into pneumonia, LRA, respiratory distress and death.There is a smart chance that doctors will report more than one of these situations as a cause of death.After all, when you go to the supermarket, you come back with a lot of food and 5,000 rolls of toilet paper, and they ask you, “Where were you and what did you do?” you have no tendency to say, “I got hit in the car.”
It is a reminder that the virus can cause a number of occasions that can ultimately kill a person’s life.In fact, since Covid-19 leads to all kinds of disorders in the body, the probability is maximum (say more than 90%).) that anything else is recorded as a cause of death besides Covid-19.In fact, it would simply put Covid-19 as a cause of death without specifying what led to the patient’s disappearance.
Therefore, 6% does not mean that “only 6%” of the 161,392 deaths (as of August 26) recorded through the CDC came here from Covid-19 as reported through Mel Q.
However, there was a wave of comments on Twitter, as @mollyhc noted:
This activity included Tweets such as the following reporting that only 6% of those who died of Covid-19 had no pre-existing conditions:
As you can see, @drdavidsamadi commented that “many men have been affected by Covid-19,” in case you didn’t know, and that he’s a “male fitness expert.” This is probably bigger than any that says “as a clothing expert, many other people dressed in clothing have been affected by Covid-19,” and then comment on the CDC data. However, what the CDC stated on its online page does not necessarily mean that “94% of deaths occurred in cases with pre-existing conditions.”
Other people (or Twitter accounts if they weren’t other genuine people) warned that other people no longer needed to take public fitness precautions, such as this Tweet:
Now, does @TheDamaniFelder (against @ADaminiFelder) mean that anyone who has worn a mask is a sheep? Wouldn’t he come with Trump, who wore a mask at least once on his scale at Walter Reed? Lone Ranger Sheep does not roll the tongue accurately.
Then there is this Tweet:
No, that’s not what the CDC said. Besides, if you think it means hiding and opening schools, then, in the words of Judas Priest, you have something else to come. Others have tried to take this opportunity to denigrate, marvel, marvel at the media and scientists:
Even the actor who played Hercules in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys jumped to the fore:
It’s not exactly a legend, expect that, dary Tweet.
It’s only a small fraction, say, less than 6% of Sunday’s tweets on the subject.
At the same time, others have tried to explain what the CDC meant, as distorted data can be detrimental to your health:
Fake CDC statements and statistics? Tweets telling you to forget about public fitness recommendations? Does it denigrate the media and scientists? Does the president retwed everything said through a QAnon supporter? Sigh, another day more than 2020 on Twittersphere. And only less than 6%.
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I am a writer, journalist, professor, systems modeler, computational and digital health expert, avocado-eater, and entrepreneur, not always in that order. Currently, I am a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health, Executive Director of PHICOR (@PHICORteam), Professor By Courtesy at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and founder and CEO of Symsilico. My previous positions include serving as Executive Director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) at Johns Hopkins University, Associate Professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, and Senior Manager at Quintiles Transnational, working in biotechnology equity research at Montgomery Securities, and co-founding a biotechnology/bioinformatics company. My work has included developing computational approaches, models, and tools to help health and healthcare decision makers in all continents (except for Antarctica) and has been supported by a wide variety of sponsors such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the NIH, AHRQ, CDC, UNICEF, USAID and the Global Fund. I have authored over 200 scientific publications and three books. Follow me on Twitter (@bruce_y_lee) but don’t ask me if I know martial arts.