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Why The Biophysicist Who Correctly Predicted China’s Virus Spread Says “We’ll Be Fine”
Hotair ^ | 03/23/2020 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 03/23/2020 6:49:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 03/23/2020 6:49:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I sure as heck hope he’s right.


2 posted on 03/23/2020 6:55:34 AM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: SeekAndFind

When did the human race become such a pack of cowards? Hide the old and sick if you must but go out and live your lives.


3 posted on 03/23/2020 6:57:26 AM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: SeekAndFind

Here’s hoping we can even remotely trust China’s reporting numbers.


4 posted on 03/23/2020 6:57:27 AM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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To: chris37

Chicoms have been lying. No way they have less deaths than Italy. Anybody basing their data on them is suspect.


5 posted on 03/23/2020 6:58:02 AM PDT by lodi90 (Flubro)
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To: SeekAndFind

Prediction: The infirmaries set up in the Yale University gym and theJavitt’s Center in NYC will never be used.


6 posted on 03/23/2020 6:58:13 AM PDT by txrefugee
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I think Levitt's right because the short-term pain of all the social distancing and the fact we stopped people coming in from China in late January 2020 resulted in a lot less steep curve in the rise of serious cases and deaths. New York City is still an issue due to the dense living conditions in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens boroughs.
7 posted on 03/23/2020 6:58:34 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: lodi90

My guess is they are swimming in death. They definitely got hit with their own weapon.


8 posted on 03/23/2020 7:00:21 AM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: lodi90

> Chicoms have been lying. <

Right. One of the things they’re doing is classifying Wuhan virus deaths as deaths by something else.


9 posted on 03/23/2020 7:00:48 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Captain Compassion

Thank you. It needs to be said more.


10 posted on 03/23/2020 7:00:52 AM PDT by SanchoP (Living your life in fear is merely existing. You might as well be dead already.)
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RE: Here’s hoping we can even remotely trust China’s reporting numbers.

I’m sure the cases and deaths in China and even heir propaganda that they have zero new cases now is false.

But I still believe that the worst is over for China and the Bell Curve there is on its downward trend.

You can only fool the WHO so much, their team is closely monitoring the situation there. Also, the makeshift hospitals that they built in Wuhan is practically unused.

These things cannot be faked.


11 posted on 03/23/2020 7:02:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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I’m definitely hoping that Dr. Levitt is as smart as we all hope he is.

Smart has nothing to do with it. There are plenty of very smart people in the world who are regularly wrong in very important ways.

What the author and we are hoping is that Dr. Levitt's methodology is correct/effective and his analysis of this problem produces accurate results that predict a early decline of the virus.

12 posted on 03/23/2020 7:03:10 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s what I am praying for (among other things...like our country in general)


13 posted on 03/23/2020 7:04:10 AM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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“At that time, he published his prediction that China would end up with around 80,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with about 3,250 deaths. By March 19, China recorded a total of 80,298 cases and 3,245 deaths.”

But did we know ahead of time that his prediction would be the one that was accurate. There were, I assume, many predictions with a wide range of results, many of which were very wrong. I hope he is correct, my only worry would be that his estimate was “lucky” and the number could still end up higher.


14 posted on 03/23/2020 7:04:24 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: SeekAndFind

Bring this guy onto the Task Force to temper Faucci’s hysteria.


15 posted on 03/23/2020 7:07:39 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Captain Compassion

It’s not that I’m a coward, I just don’t want to add to the problem of an overloaded medical system. If they need the time to manage the outbreak, staying secluded is a part I can play. I’m a Trump supporter and he’s asking me to do this, so I will.


16 posted on 03/23/2020 7:15:29 AM PDT by BelleAl (Proud to be a member of the party of NO! NO more deficit spending and government control!)
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To: txrefugee

Bump to check back in a few weeks


17 posted on 03/23/2020 7:15:34 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: SeekAndFind
“What we need is to control the panic,”
. . . but since journalism is the “scare the public with bad news” industry . . .

18 posted on 03/23/2020 7:21:27 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ((Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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“When did the human race become such a pack of cowards? Hide the old and sick if you must but go out and live your lives.”

It’s been progressing, but next year we’ll have a “voluntold” national shutdown starting January through April as a “precaution”. Watch. The people LOVE being told not to work. They’re going to hate the consequences, but they’ll do it all again next year.


19 posted on 03/23/2020 7:21:54 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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In news reporting, the mantra for years has been “if it bleeds, it leads”. The MSM are having a ball with the CCP bio-weapon.


20 posted on 03/23/2020 7:28:12 AM PDT by jimbug
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