| Topic: | Re:From the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford. | |
| Posted by: | Richard Jennings | |
| Date/Time: | 04/08/20 10:53:00 |
| In my view that's a poorly argued document. He starts off by referring to the government's recent action re Greater Manchester etc., but he then draws on all-England statistics to suggest that high incidence of positive tests is a function of increased testing. He ignores the fact that increased testing is a result of applying extra testing resources to an area that has demonstrably suffered a growing incidence of COVID-19. If he had bothered to investigate, say, Greater Manchester data, he might have produced an interesting result. But what he has rushed out is worthless speculation. His links that claim to identify the data he has used do not do so, and in my experience in using NHS and DHSC data, it's crucial to know which dataset to use and what it measures. |