009 | PCR, Vaccination, All cause mortality... what do the stats say? | Norman Fenton

Norman Fenton is a professor of risk information management at Queen Mary University London & director of Agena specialising in risk management for critical systems with about half a dozen books & around 400 publications to his name. His expertise has been utilised in multiple different fields from health to security, software to law & forensics and much more. As one of the preeminent mathematicians & statisticians in the UK Norman and his team have recently taken deep dives into the statistics around infection & mortality rates during the pandemic as well as testing reliability and vaccine effectiveness.
In this episode we look at the statistics around the famed PCR test, vaccination, all cause mortality and much, much more, listen in and let us know what you think!

00:45 Intro
01:43 Work just prior to COVID crisis was also in the medical realm
03:25 After ~400 publications, this was the first time there were issues with getting peer reviewed and published?
12:30 PCR test issues
15:10 False positive rates? What is important about those?
21:20 Why was mass testing unnecessary
26:40 Previous years of influenza?
31:55 All cause death rates
40:00 evidence around miscategorization of deaths?
49:30 Surely vaccines did something as we had a decrease in overall mortality
51:50 Sick kids document - Adverse reactions protocol created for children from specialist hospital in Canada (link below)
52:32 Study where 0 healthy children died from COVID
55:15 Pfizer looking for EUA for children 6months+
56:00 child vaccine schedule mitigates risk for childhood vaccinations
57:00 Were lockdowns justified?
1:00:00 Canada/ India lockdowns for climate change, academics too!
1:05:58 Is this the end of it? Is COVID now put to bed?

SickKids hospital post vaccine document
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fjzdPkttwE_XMB1OCrN7bCY6Vnyk7QMU/view?usp=sharing

ONS & PHE (UK Gov stats) stating stating on government dashboard covid deaths are counted as within 28 days of a positive death
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/deathssolelyfromcovid19ratherthandeathswithin28daysofapositivetest

UK Gov Cov dashboard
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

BBC news article 14 Jan reiterating covid deaths counted as less than 28day Cov+ test
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-60000391
Pfize 6 months +
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/01/health/pfizer-covid-vaccine-eua-request-younger-children/index.html

Letter to BMJ about PCR testing utilising 1 gene
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n208/rr-3

Causal explanations, error rates and biases missing in Cov 19 stats
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340548267_Causal_explanations_error_rates_and_human_judgment_biases_missing_from_the_COVID-19_narrative_and_statistics

Miscategorisation & uncertainty of vax effectiveness
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357778435_Official_mortality_data_for_England_suggest_systematic_miscategorisation_of_vaccine_status_and_uncertain_effectiveness_of_Covid-19_vaccination

discrepancies & inconsistencies of UK Gov data sets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355437113_Discrepancies_and_inconsistencies_in_UK_Government_datasets_compromise_accuracy_of_mortality_rate_comparisons_between_vaccinated_and_unvaccinated

Miscategorization of deaths
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357778435_Official_mortality_data_for_England_suggest_systematic_miscategorisation_of_vaccine_status_and_uncertain_effectiveness_of_Covid-19_vaccination

Systematic under counting of deaths in first 2 weeks of cov-19 vax
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358979921_Official_mortality_data_for_England_reveal_systematic_undercounting_of_deaths_occurring_within_first_two_weeks_of_Covid-19_vaccination

UKHSA surv. report
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1065279/vaccine-surveillance-report-week-13.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwib6dL-2Jb3AhUYP-wKHcejDtgQFnoECAQQBg&usg=AOvVaw2UhC9x52F41CZtRwcaQeLc

Brief explanation as to why manufacturers are no longer liable if vaccine is on childhood schedule
http://sonorannews.com/2017/07/03/vaccine-manufacturers-exempt-liability/
The corresponding act (H.R.5446)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/house-bill/5546

Some papers were pulled from Professor Fenton's page on research gate, so with that said I though I'd link to his page on research gate & personal page where you can see other papers he and his team have produced, enjoy!

https://www.normanfenton.com/covid-19

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Norman-Fenton