# TLAV Covid Review

Covid cases continue to climb in LA County - tripledemic!

Denis Rancourt

His point was that whatever your stance is, the data proves that this is an illusion. You don't need any of those things. You could have used, pre-covid era, the false PCR cycle threshold, a flu/pneumonia/coronavirus combined test, and whatever positive result you find can be used to represent any of those 3.

Had you decided to make things up, you could have done it just with data alone (without a change of death rate in the population). Derek had a great article on this showing how you don't actually need a pandemic - just the fear of one. Bacteria/pathogen/etc are never going

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