Why is U.W.'s IHME still a credible source of Covid projections? ANONS DIGG
Despite their history of inflated and WRONG predictions re Covid-19 (see below), MSM continues to cite IHME (the Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation) at the U. of Washington in Seattle WA. Did a brief dig - but there's more to do.
Wrong predictions:
A case study in model failure? COVID-19 daily deaths and ICU bed utilisation predictions in New York state
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-020-00669-6
Other sauce:
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_ab2aaae8-f2f8-11ea-9dce-c71905235ea5.html (Sept 2020)
https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-ihme-fatalities-projections/507-9399ddb7-81c7-4214-981a-5febed74e4ac
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1565
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2016822 (May 15 2020)
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/epidemiologists-question-accuracy-of-ihme-s-covid-19-model.html
https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/17/influential-covid-19-model-uses-flawed-methods-shouldnt-guide-policies-critics-say/
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/5/2/21241261/coronavirus-modeling-us-deaths-ihme-pandemic
MSM still citing IHME:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/experts-warn-us-death-toll-could-hit-410000-by-years-end/2020/09/04/ffc34736-eea7-11ea-99a1-71343d03bc29_story.html
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/515090-key-model-predicts-400000-coronavirus-deaths-in-us-by-january
https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/ihme-lowers-covid-19-projected-death-toll-in-united-states
https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/new-ihme-model-forecasts-over-415000-covid-19-deaths-in-us-by-jan-1
https://www.amny.com/coronavirus/covid-19-deaths-to-cross-317000-in-u-s-by-december-1-ihme/
Findings so far (see sauce below):
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IHME focuses on modeling not data - and their models are always extremely pessimistic
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Past models were way off (too high)
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Birx was initially supporting IHME model (still true?)
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IMHE has received funding from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Website shows obvious focus on GLOBAL health (https://globalhealth.washington.edu/faculty/christopher-murray)
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They have an interest in POPULATION FORECASTING (http://www.healthdata.org/data-visualization/population-forecasting)
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Dir. Chris Murray says importing migrants will help countries avoid pop. decrease (https://youtu.be/3PCLVlGwRkg) and lose of women's "reproductive rights")
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Chris Murray did a study on "FIREARM DEATHS" (http://www.healthdata.org/infographic/firearm-deaths-around-world-1990%E2%80%932016)
Qresearch sauce:
#8744189 in qresear.ch
Who is Chris Murray? see 4-10-2020
http://www.healthdata.org/about/christopher-jl-murrayhttps://www.fic.nih.gov/News/GlobalHealthMatters/january-february-2016/Pages/chris-murray-global-burden-disease-findings.aspx
https://petersonhealthcare.org/conversation-dr-chris-murray
https://globalhealth.washington.edu/news/search?tags%5B0%5D=654
#8721501 at 2020-04-08, #8694948
IHME model (curve) for the China Virus the White House is relying on
07/2007 - Bill and Melinda Gates (Main funders - $ undisclosed)
10/2016 - Bill and Melinda Gates ($210,000,000)
01/2017 - Bill and Melinda Gates ($279,000,000)
http://www.healthdata.org/about/history
#8721501 at 2020-04-08 15:43:11 (UTC+1)
Dr. Birx is pushing IMHE model, Dr. Birx has ties to Bill Gates, Dr. Birx sits on the board of a Gates-funded foundation.
https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/board/members/
#8650768 at 2020-04-01 21:08:42 (UTC+1)
IHME's website: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, http://www.healthdata.org/
Their COVID predictions in the USA peak at 4/16/20: https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
by 4/16/20 in USA: Short 84,671 hospital beds, Short 18,905 ICU beds, 31,082 Invasive ventilators needed = short? [ALL WRONG]
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'''IHME is almost certainly a major purveyor of pseudo-scientific data based on projections distorted to fit the Globalist goals.
Needed: DEEPER DIGGS on Dir. Chris Murray, finances/funders, projects, ties to pop control/mgmt projects & Gates F., other known DS ops'''
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