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Yankee Candle reviews indicate that Covid is about surge again

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Re: Yankee Candle reviews indicate that Covid is about surge again

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody ever claimed that.

Biden did: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-if-vaccinated-wont-g...

Did the CDC or any health organization also make this claim? Genuinely curious

Re: Yankee Candle reviews indicate that Covid is about surge again

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I have no doubt that there is a correlation and I did read the Bayesian Vector Autoregression paper. However, I think it's a bit misleading for a doctor to take to social media with some very casual observations of Amazon reviews and make confident claims that covid is about to "surge" so therefore we should all return to masking. I need a lot more than just his screenshots of the reviews. I need to see the cases actually surging. They aren't in most of the world. One of his "no scent" reviews was actually just a subjective review that the scent isn't strong enough. The others were from a week ago. His linked article claims "COVID-19 cases predicted more “no smell” reviews. For every 100,000 new COVID-19 cases per week, he found, “no smell” reviews increased by a quarter of a percentage point in the next week." So shouldn't we have seen this surge already?

This just feels sloppy to me.

Re: Yankee Candle reviews indicate that Covid is about surge again

#9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Biden did: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-if-vaccinated-wont-g...

Did the CDC or any health organization also make this claim? Genuinely curious

Pfizer themselves: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

> Vaccine was 100% effective in preventing severe disease as defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 95.3% effective in preventing severe disease as defined by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Vaccine was 100% effective in preventing COVID-19 cases in South Africa, where the B.1.351 lineage is prevalent

Re: Yankee Candle reviews indicate that Covid is about surge again

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I have no doubt that there is a correlation and I did read the Bayesian Vector Autoregression paper. However, I think it's a bit misleading for a doctor to take to social media with some very casual observations of Amazon reviews and make confident claims that covid is about to "surge" so therefore we should all return to masking. I need a lot more than just his screenshots of the reviews. I need to see the cases act…

When I saw this earlier, I assumed it was a joke and moved on.
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