Imperial College London scared the world into locking down with death projections based on fatality estimates that the latest data suggest are up to 20 times higher than the reality.
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The most cited scientist of all time, pretty much. A brilliant mind. MD, and professor of epidemiology, public health and evidence-based medicine. My edited version cut down from his 2 hour lecture. And he lays this one bare – don’t miss it!
Why does Wikipedia's COVID-19 page claim 14% of infections are "severe" and 5% are "critical"? Worse, why does the US CDC say the same? Why aren't they following the up-to-date data, which puts global IFR at 0.15%?
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An impressive new book about the shortcomings of scientific research is inadvertently ironic.
A new study has found that Sars-Cov-2, the virus linked to Covid19, maybe five times more widespread than previously thought, and therefore five times less deadly. This is just the latest study to massively reduce the estimated infection-fatality rate (IFR) of the Sars-Cov-2 virus.
We covered in our third of these brief articles that, actually, the Coronavirus is NOT “20x deadlier” than the flu. That was evident once the early large-scale studies had been done in Germany, Iceland and South Korea. It has only become more so in the weeks since. Far from the 3.4% predicted by the WHO …
In this long-awaited follow-up to his interview in late March, Dr. John Ioannidis discusses the results of three preliminary studies, (including his latest, which shows a drastically reduced infection fatality rate); the worrisome effects of the lockdown; the Swedish approach; the Italian data; the ups and downs of testing; the feasibility of “contact tracing”, and …
The celebrated ability of science to self-correct is accompanied by some major caveats.
Some discoveries are easy to measure and easy to verify. But much of science is about groping in the dark.
