Berenson mentioned this again on Tucker yesterday:
Tweet: Alex Berenson, former NYT reporter
Umm what? The @who now estimates that 750,000,000 people have gotten the ro? Which, at 1 million death, would put the death rate at 1 in 750 (even with overcounting, etc) - or 0.13%. That’s the lowest estimate I’ve ever seen. Say it with me: IT’S THE FLU.
LINK The Irish Times
3 Oct 2020
https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1312180625412038656
finally, BBC, Forbes, AP an other MSM are carrying the story. however, none are interested in working out what it would mean for the mortality rate!
6 Oct: World Economic Forum: WHO: Just 10% of the world has caught COVID-19 and things are about to get ‘difficult’
This article is published in collaboration with Reuters
Emma Farge, Correspondent, Reuters Geneva and Stephanie Nebehay, Writer, Reuters
Mike Ryan, the WHO’s top emergency expert, was addressing the agency’s Executive Board, where the United States made a thinly veiled swipe at China for what it called a “failure” to provide accurate and timely information on the outbreak.
But Zhang Yang of China’s National Health Commission, said: “China has always been transparent and responsible to fulfil our international obligations.” China maintained close contacts with all levels of the U.N. health agency, she added...
The WHO has submitted a list of experts to take part in an international mission to China to investigate the origin, for consideration by Chinese authorities, Ryan said, without giving details.
U.S. assistant health secretary Brett Giroir said that it was critical that WHO’s 194 member states receive “regular and timely updates, including the terms of reference for this panel or for any field missions, so that we can all engage with the process and be confident in the outcomes”.
Germany, speaking for the EU, said the expert mission should be deployed soon, with Australia also supporting a swift investigation.
Meanwhile, Alexandra Dronova, Russia’s deputy health minister, called for an evaluation of the legal and financial repercussions of the Trump administration announcing the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO next July...
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/one-in-10-may-have-caught-covid-as-world-heads-into-difficult-period-who/
Yes, it's akin to the flu in terms of mortality. But unlike the flu there is a bona-fide safe and effective treatment for it. Many simply refuse to use it. Frustrating.
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