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'Missing' swine flu data exposed

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alancleaver

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Croydon MP Andrew Pelling and statistician Sheila Bird (statistician on the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Advisory Committee) have queried 'missing' swine flu data in answers given to the MP by the Health Protection Agency. See Andrew's website and Sheila's article on Straight Statistics. As Sheila puts it "Either the Health Protection Agency doubted that a Member of Parliament was capable of posing an epidemiologically-adept PQ and hence misread it, or HPA chose helpfully to answer a different question which they could answer."

Either way it's an outrage for a public body to treat an MP in this way.
 
Re: 'Missing' swine flu data exposed

Welcome alancleaver!

She did say something nice about them:

"...Meantime, HPA is to be congratulated for now including in its weekly update a monitoring scheme which compares observed versus expected deaths in England and Wales..."

It is hard for us to know all the facts so we generally do not make opinions about the efficiency of public health departments.


:)
 
Re: 'Missing' swine flu data exposed

Welcome alancleaver. Access to data is critical for everyone, be one a scientist, reporter or layperson. Keep on this issue, and I hope more voices join in the quest for governments to release data in a timely fashion.
 
Re: 'Missing' swine flu data exposed

Welcome Alan. :)

Your comparison on death reporting shown below is an excellent illustration of the problem many of us are facing.

death reporting.webp

http://www.whitehaven-news.co.uk/news/swine_flu/swine_flu_blog_1_587149

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