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Stanford Epidemiology Prof: Coronavirus May Be Less Deadly Than We Think — And Too Mild To Justify These Aggressive Countermeasures
Hotair ^ | 03/18/2020 | AllahPundit

Posted on 03/18/2020 7:35:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 03/18/2020 7:35:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Tell that to the Italians.


2 posted on 03/18/2020 7:38:16 AM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10

What does Michael Savage say about all of this? Isn’t he an epidemiologist?


3 posted on 03/18/2020 7:41:32 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Operation Chaos is in play. Repeat, Operation Chaos is in play)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have been on several Princess Cruises.

In my early seventies but definitely in the younger third of the passengers!


4 posted on 03/18/2020 7:41:45 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: SeekAndFind

bttt


5 posted on 03/18/2020 7:44:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: madison10
"Tell that to the Italians."

a close up of a logo: Italy Coronavirus Deaths

6 posted on 03/18/2020 7:46:15 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: madison10

In the nedws this morning:

Only 12 Italians actually died of wu flu.

Every one of the others already had life threatening medical problems.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/breaking-italian-health-ministry-confirms-only-twelve-coronavirus-fatalities-did-not-have-other-serious-health-complications/


7 posted on 03/18/2020 7:47:47 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: SeekAndFind

Are CNN and MSNBC going to call for the professor to face homicide liability like they called for Pres. Trump?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3825697/posts


8 posted on 03/18/2020 7:48:26 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: madison10

Tell that to the Italians.

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You mean the two who were healthy prior to contracting the virus?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3825709/posts


9 posted on 03/18/2020 7:49:28 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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The only way to have a reliable sense of how infectious and dangerous COVID-19 is, he says, is to test a sample of the population randomly.

YES! This would give them better data AND allow more control over testing, preventing their testing processes from being overwhelmed.

Since we don't have enough tests for every American (just like we can't phone poll every person), we do random sampling by area and demographic, creating a small margin of error, to get a better grasp on the numerator and denominator.

Limit additional testing to those requiring hospitalization with virus symptoms. Shut down drive-through testing for those that are feeling a little sick and simply have a doctor's order. Use THOSE tests to canvas areas and conduct random testing.
10 posted on 03/18/2020 7:52:39 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: TexasGator

Take a look at the article “Corona virus: ISS in Italy, there are only two deaths ascertained so far due only to the virus” It is in Agenda Nove. It was an earlier post here on Free Republic. Very interesting....


11 posted on 03/18/2020 7:52:54 AM PDT by RedMominBlueState
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s pretty clear everyone is operating on a worst-case scenario assumption.

Since the data on this is so effed up they likely see that as the only responsible course.

Worst-case is rarely what happens in reality.


12 posted on 03/18/2020 7:53:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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the people i talk to are starting to believe that coronavirus is most likely another swine flu in terms of infectiousness and kill power (this time it’s the very old rather thanthe very young that it takes out), and that the fake stream enemedia is hell bent on trying to drive our economy into a depression to try to take out President Trump, and that they don’t care if they destroy our country and destroy the economic lives of tens of millions of us in the mean time in order to do that ... it’s really their only hope to get a mentally failing Joe Biden elected ...


13 posted on 03/18/2020 7:56:04 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Since the data on this is so effed up they likely see that as the only responsible course.

I agree. And I don't feel like they're doing anything to get the data "un-effed up". When they go around talking about 19% of test-positive people being hospitalized, the data being cited is really disturbing to me.
14 posted on 03/18/2020 7:57:03 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: SeekAndFind

Decades of learning how to use medical testing just blown to smithereens.


15 posted on 03/18/2020 7:58:25 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: catnipman

the media doubtless want to do exactly that. whoever wins in november has tremendous power to reshape our economy given all this.

but I am faced with the vision of china (a country that values subjects’ lives differently than western countries are supposed to) shooting its own economy over this. then italy (and iran apparently has a real problem given mass graves).

ultimately, it ends up being an occam’s razor test - are these groups of countries, many mutually adversarial with very different cultures and systems of government, all doing this because this virus appears to them to be very bad news, or mainly for ulterior motives?

some people see ‘virus must be very bad’

the rest see the entire world shutting down as something about american politics.


16 posted on 03/18/2020 8:08:47 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: catnipman

100 percent dead on.


17 posted on 03/18/2020 8:10:46 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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preach it brother!

Yell it OUT LOUD!

18 posted on 03/18/2020 8:13:56 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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This doctor dude ought to get in touch with that Dr Lawler dude from Nebraska predicting 500,000 deaths.


19 posted on 03/18/2020 8:15:05 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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Yes, in the face of screwed up data the only thing to do is worst case IF you want to be safe as you can.

The problem is finding someone competent enough to un-eff the data while the data is still moving and coming in in inconsistent ways from inconsistent tests and sources. CDC is just one of the outfits that screwed up our response but they are ours and were supposed to be prepared and on top of this.

CDC needs to be radically cleaned out. They aren’t doing a heck of a lot of disease prevention anyway.


20 posted on 03/18/2020 8:18:04 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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