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philipat's avatar

The only data that cannot be "massaged" is that for total mortality from all causes, divided into unvaccinated and vaccinated. Even there they are manipulating the data by classifying "vaccinated" as being only from 14 days after the second dose.

The reason being that most deaths occur in the period between the first dose and 14 days after the second dose. So the classification now used will (deliberately) increase the number of "unvaccinated" deaths and decrease the number of "vaccinated" deaths.

Many countries that previously provided raw data to be able to allocated deaths to the latter 3 (not 2) groups now seem to be getting more "economical" with the data updates and others (including the US) (again deliberately) do not produce such data at all. I'm sure they just overlooked it?

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Anne Garber Kompaore's avatar

Mathew, glad you stopped at Oct 20. For some reason that I do not know, Burkina stopped their reporting of cases, deaths, and no. of vaccinations after Oct. 20. I have tried to search elsewhere on line, but it seems all other places give the latest statistics for Oct 20. Burkina has never done this before. I am trying to figure out who to ask here in Burkina, who might know, or who might be able to find out. Is the person in charge sick? Is it an unannounced policy shift? In order to shift our attention to the growing terrorist attacks, or in order for people not to get alarmed by the growing CFR in October? Were they mixing vax deaths with un vax covid deaths? If I get any clues, I will let you know. It's a good place to be if you are unvaxed, though. Only restrictions are international travel to certain countries.

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