- Genre:science
- Sub-genre:Research & Methodology
- Language:English
- Pages:48
- Paperback ISBN:9781667869834
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Overview
An outbreak of a respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus is currently being experienced worldwide. A growing amount of public data related to the 2019 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Two (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic are being analyzed and more Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests are being filed with many governmental agencies. Analysis of these data show a significant deviation between the number of cases and the number of infections. A causal chain of events appears to exist between the changing of definitions in tandem with specific changes to COVID-19 aggregating, recording and reporting policy and the inflation of case numbers. Due to the changing of definitions and specific COVID-19 policies, and the diversion of funding, sweat equity and publicity away from the pandemic of infection and focusing resources on case number predominately in early 2020; the differentiation between the pandemic of cases and the pandemic of infections is growing. In fact, saying the pandemic of cases has become so divorced from the pandemic of infections that they are two separate statistical entities has become acceptable. The focus of this research paper is to document the apparent omission of due diligence and deviation from the previously established scientific methods when crafting COVID-19 policies and definitions. The data pertaining to cases of COVID-19 no longer correctly represent the number of COVID-19 infected. Since governmental decision making is based on cases for this pandemic, the emergency policies do not address the needs of the populations. These mismatched policies could have catastrophic impacts on other downstream systems.
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The methods used in this article are utilization of publicly accessible data archives, peer reviewed articles and FOIA request from Center of Disease control and prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regarding memos, emails and all pertinent information discussing International Classification of Disease (ICD) code U07.1 changes. In addition, a review of recent definition changes is addressed. Future papers from the author will discuss many more examples of definition changes during the pandemic and their impact. Also, the FOIA requests seek copies (with Personal Health Information (PHI) redacted) of all death certificates that listed U07.1 as a cause of death. Due to increasing demand, complex FOIA are backlogged in processing for over a year. Several field specific experts, researchers and clinical scientists, have been interviewed for perspective. This is a Tycho Brahe approach to Pandemic data gathering, that is, to have all the data gathered and available when the time comes for it to be needed. The data presented have not been altered or changed by the author.
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