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In this follow-up interview with Stanford University’s Dr John Ioannidis, he explains the findings from three preliminary studies, (including his latest, which shows a drastically reduced infection fatality rate); the negative health and economic effects of draconian ‘lockdown’ policies, as well as Sweden’s non-lockdown approach, Italian data, the pros and cons of testing and finally the feasibility of much touted ‘contact tracing’, and much more.

How prevalent is the coronavirus in California and is the case fatality rate as high as previously thought? As the real data comes in, experts are asking whether California’s ‘Shelter-in Place’ aka lockdown orders, are really justified? According to this latest study, prevalence of the virus is between 50 to 85 times higher than previously thought. “It’s probably as deadly as the flu, or a little bit worse,” says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford University. 

IMAGE: US President Donald Trump together with Silicon Valley scion and top Bilderberg Steering Committee member Peter Thiel.

More often than not, politicians will tell people what they want to hear, rather than what’s really true. Their oracle of choice for such messsaging is the mainstream media, who have been aggressively pushing the claim that a miracle vaccine for the coronavirus will be arriving “in a few months.” Are such claims really true, or are they hype?

As the crisis matures in the West, many people, politicians and media continue to point to China as the gold standard now for ‘managing the pandemic.’ However, few in the West have stopped to consider whether China’s crisis management and authoritarian social control grid is really appropriate for democratic societies around the world.

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Temporary homeless shelter set up in a parking lot amid the coronavirus pandemic in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (Image Credit: David Becker/EPA/EFE)

Already one month into the policy of ‘lockdown’, and one of the popular talking points being pushed by governments and their mainstream media adjuncts is that “the numbers are dropping, the lockdown and social distancing are working!” Thus far, this talking point has gone relatively unchallenged, as people assume that there is some scientific basis to this statement, only there isn’t. Quarantining whole national populations has no historic precedent in the modern world, and thus claims of efficacy of an experimental policy cannot be made.

Scientist and health freedom advocate, Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, MIT PhD and biological systems expert, is now challenging the authority and “medieval medicine” decisions being made by America’s self-appointed technocratic medical elite, namely Dr Anthony Fauci and colleague billionaire oligarch and vaccine developer, Bill Gates. Is the pharmaceutical industrial complex using the fear surrounding the COVID-19 crisis in order to leverage government policy and seize power over decision making? 

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a senior fellow at both the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute.