Thanks for your work Pete, I was hoping I'd come across someone looking specifically at Taiwanese Covid/death statistics one day, as mordid as that sounds!
Over the last couple of months (although your data would suggest far longer) I have started to notice that I'm hearing ambulances daily, often multiple times per day, I live in the Taiwanese countryside so would expect I'd be more sensitive than say someone living in downtown to such an increase. I can only imagine the ambulance call out rates must of gone through the roof as of course, plenty of weekly Covid/Non-Covid excess death but surely many more call outs that don't end in the morgue, what with a disproportionate amount of working age people obviously struggling with these mysterious (excess) Non-Covid issues..
Yes, plenty of ambulances. Some if it related to COVID but each wave in concurrent with a booster campaign, so hard to know. For some reason the major social media influencers wont touch the Taiwan data, and I get very little interest on my Taiwan posts. Hopefully things improve. Vax uptake seems to have tapered off, so maybe that helps
Nearly 95% of the population stepped up for the first dose. Do you know if that statistic is total or eligible population? As there are many seriously ill/old that are definitely ineligible, I have at least one friend who mentioned her grandmother was told to refrain from the miracle jabs
Its eligible population. The seriously ill/elderly are still eligible but they make up the bulk of the unvaxxed. As such almost 50% of the COVID deaths are in this 5 % group, or perhaps they are chosen preferentially by the committee that decides which deaths are COVID or non-Covid
Thanks for your work Pete, I was hoping I'd come across someone looking specifically at Taiwanese Covid/death statistics one day, as mordid as that sounds!
Over the last couple of months (although your data would suggest far longer) I have started to notice that I'm hearing ambulances daily, often multiple times per day, I live in the Taiwanese countryside so would expect I'd be more sensitive than say someone living in downtown to such an increase. I can only imagine the ambulance call out rates must of gone through the roof as of course, plenty of weekly Covid/Non-Covid excess death but surely many more call outs that don't end in the morgue, what with a disproportionate amount of working age people obviously struggling with these mysterious (excess) Non-Covid issues..
Yes, plenty of ambulances. Some if it related to COVID but each wave in concurrent with a booster campaign, so hard to know. For some reason the major social media influencers wont touch the Taiwan data, and I get very little interest on my Taiwan posts. Hopefully things improve. Vax uptake seems to have tapered off, so maybe that helps
Nearly 95% of the population stepped up for the first dose. Do you know if that statistic is total or eligible population? As there are many seriously ill/old that are definitely ineligible, I have at least one friend who mentioned her grandmother was told to refrain from the miracle jabs
Its eligible population. The seriously ill/elderly are still eligible but they make up the bulk of the unvaxxed. As such almost 50% of the COVID deaths are in this 5 % group, or perhaps they are chosen preferentially by the committee that decides which deaths are COVID or non-Covid