What is COVID 19?
How does COVID 19 spread?
How far has COVID 19 spread?
How long has COVID 19 been spreading?
How do we know?
Who is responsible for collecting and managing this data?
What is a "positive test result"?
What standards are in place for testing?
Are all tests created equal? Do all tests look for the same thing?
Are all laboratories/tests using the same procedures & using the same inputs?
Do most tests look for active infection or do they look for evidence of a past infection?Who determines the sensitivity of the tests?
What are the false positive and false negative rates? How is this accounted for?
What percentage of people who have received a "positive test result" experience symptoms of COVID 19?
What percentage of people who have symptoms of COVID 19 are hospitalized for those symptoms?
What percentage of people who are hospitalized for COVID 19 are irreversibly injured due to COVID 19?
What percentage of people who are hospitalized for COVID 19 die because of COVID 19?
What are co-morbidities? How are co-morbidities considered when attributing deaths prior to 2020? During 2020?
Could a population reduce overall co-morbidities? Should fat people be forced to exercise to reduce their comorbidity?
Who is responsible for collecting and managing the distribution of this data?
How much federal money does a "positive test result" generate for the healthcare provider through reimbursement?
How much federal money does a COVID 19 death generate for the healthcare provider through reimbursement?
Do healthcare providers have an incentive to produce a "positive test result"?
Do healthcare providers have an incentive to attribute deaths to COVID 19?
Is COVID 19 more or less profitable for large healthcare providers than normal operations?
What happens to regular care when healthcare providers shift operations towards focusing only on COVID?
What happens to elective surgeries?
What happens to people who are forced to postpone their treatments/surgeries?
What happens to healthcare workers that aren't on the COVID 19 frontlines?
How does COVID 19 spread?
Can it spread via aerosolized particles? How small are these particles?
How effective is a mask at preventing you from spreading COVID 19?
How effective is a mask at preventing you from contracting COVID 19?
How effective is a cloth mask? A paper mask? N95? How small of particles do each of these materials catch?
Of people with "positive test results", what percentage wore masks diligently?
How does a person contract COVID 19?
Does the body or immune system have any ability to defend against COVID 19?
How much COVID 19 can the body's immune system fight against?
Is there a specific amount of COVID 19 that your immune system might be able to fight against?
Is there a specific amount of COVID 19 that your immune system likely won't be able to fight against?
Everyone is different, of course.
Are COVID 19 symptoms resultant from your immune system fighting the virus, or are the symptoms resultant from the COVID 19 virus overwhelming your immune system and wreaking havoc on your bodies normal operations? Both?
Are symptoms resultant from the amount in which the virus has overtaken your body's natural defenses?
If the severity of a COVID 19 infection is correlated to the amount of viral particles within a person's body, does a mask help or harm their bodies ability to defend against the virus?