Probably what the Chicoms were telling him to say.
Anyone who was a real scientist would have inserted some caveats, like “it’s very early and likely to spread, so we can’t determine the the true case fatality rate at this point in time.”
March 2 was before most of the state lockdowns.
Yeah in march 2020
He did this then because they needed to make it appear worse than it was, worse than the flu
The flu cases that they would misdiagnose as covid
Note all the flu cases for 2020 just didnt exist
The cases of flu were deliberately misdiagnosed by oversampled pcr tests as covid cases
He needs to be ARRESTED for what he has done!
A mistake or a strategy?
A Bad Influenza year!!!
With everything that is known and has been known to quite a few for the last 1 1/2 years, Should we stock up on Rope? Tar and feathers? Put Public Stocks up again?
FYI
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci
anthony.fauci@nih.gov
BG 31 RM 7A03
31 CENTER DR
BETHESDA MD 20814
Phone: 301-496-2263
Fax: 301-496-4409
It was no mistake.
When is Dr Fauci going to defect to the PRC?
I might be missing something here and I am definitely not a defender of Fauci, but this number was in March of 2020 when we still did not know much about it.
He said 2%
John Hopkins today says the number per 100,000 cases is 1.7% in the US.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
The number that is looming on the horizon that will shock a lot of people is how many deaths could have been prevented by early intervention with therapeutics such as Ivermectin, cortico-steroids, antibiotics, and yes, even the much maligned HCQ.
The data is pretty clear that these regimens can greatly reduce mortality when administered immediately.
This is not what our health care system did...... how many lives could have been saved? The number will be shocking to many. Almost 600k deaths in the US. For the sake of argument if the therapeutics were 50% effective that is 300k lives lost.
We will never know the exact number, but even the steroids if administered early would have greatly reduced death and hospitalization caused by inflammation of the lungs.
The list of sins for Fauci is growing....
Potentially funded the virus for gain of function research behind the back of two administrations
Foolishly accepted the word of his “esteemed Chinese colleagues” at the outset of this mess like they were having tea in a faculty lounge
Prevented and shut down any potential therapeutics despite many health systems around the world using them and showing a benefit
Prescribed lock-downs, masking, and social distancing that have all been shown to be ineffective
Being off by .3 of a percentage point if I am reading this carefully is not a scandal as Alex is defining it here and I am a big fan of Alex’s work throughout this pandemic.
Fauci’s a prime example of why you can never trust the govt. Always listen to what they say, but you’ll find the truth elsewhere.
Maybe he meant 2% of actual illnesses, not reported cases.
The death rate for Spanish flu was about 2.5% worldwide, but we now have much better hygiene and medical treatments. Fauci may have been referencing that flawed study from the UK.
that was about the mortality rate estimate our hospital had for covid positives april before last who ended up in icu.
not even close for the whole population. only 10% of people *testing* for covid ended up having it. only 10% of those were hospitalized and only about 10% of those went into icu. even most of those survived. a small number of those died under treatment. and that’s not saying anything about comorbidities. and that’s not saying anything about those who didn’t bother to get tested.
yes we had an empty hospital for months.
I don’t trust the numbers that have been thrown about, always changing with different interpretations. The old saying “statistics don’t lie, statiticians do” is very true. I’m no expert but I bet with a little bit of effort I could come up with numbers that sound convincing. In fact I have done so before, with 96% accuracy.
The democrats always want to instill fear in the masses in whatever they do and guess why? Because it works.
I get 1.79%.