Facts about Covid-19: Fully referenced facts about Covid-19, provided by experts in the field, to help readers make a realistic risk assessment (April 16, 2020 Edition)

Swiss Propaganda Research ^ | 04/16/2020

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Below you will find regular, but not daily, updates on medical and political developments. For those interested, please read previous dated editions with the same title

April 16, 2020

• The London Times reports that 50% of current British excess mortality might not be caused by the coronavirus, but by the effects of the lockdown, general panic and partial social breakdown. This amounts to 3000 deaths per week. In fact, this figure could be even higher, as the British corona definition also includes deaths with (rather than from) coronaviruses as well as „suspected cases“. In addition, around 50% of „corona deaths“ involve nursing homes, who are not protected any better by a general lockdown.
• In Denmark, the lockdown is now regretted: „We should never have pressed the stop button. The Danish health care system had the situation under control. The total lockdown was a step too far,“ argues Professor Jens Otto Lunde Jørgensen of Aarhus University Hospital. Denmark is currently ramping up school operations again.
• Yale professor David Katz, who warned early on of the negative consequences of a lockdown, gave a detailed one-hour interview on the current situation.
• German virologist Hendrik Streeck explains that no „smear infections“ in supermarkets, restaurants or hairdressing salons have been detected so far.
• New antibody data from the Italian community of Robbia in Lombardy shows that about ten times more people had the corona virus than originally thought, as they developed no or only mild symptoms. The actual immunization rate is 22%.
• New data from the Swiss Canton of Zurich shows that about 50% of all Covid19-related deaths occurred in retirement or nursing homes. Nevertheless, even there about 40% of all test-positive people showed no symptoms. The median age of test-positive deaths in Switzerland is currently about 84 years.
• Pietro Vernazza, the Swiss chief physician for infectiology, comments on the „live with the virus“ strategy and recommends, among other things, individually optimised protection of persons at risk. The immunity of the general population is also a protection for people at risk, he says.
• The new British website Lockdown Skeptics reports critically on Covid19, the measures taken and the general media coverage.
• The Austrian civil society „Initiative for evidence-based corona information“ provides an overview of studies and analyses on the new corona virus
• Documentary: „The WHO – In the grip of the lobbyists“ (ARTE, 2017, German)

[maddog55]

Yet here we are..

[Sergio]

Excellent web site with an amazing amount of relevant information. Thanks for sharing.

[lysie]

4 later

[NetAddicted]

Read later.

[daniel1212]

The London Times reports that 50% of current British excess mortality might not be caused by the coronavirus, but by the effects of the lockdown, general panic and partial social breakdown. This amounts to 3000 deaths per week. In fact, this figure could be even higher, as the British corona definition also includes deaths with (rather than from) coronaviruses as well as „suspected cases“. In addition, around 50% of „corona deaths“ involve nursing homes, who are not protected any better by a general lockdown.

• In Denmark, the lockdown is now regretted: „We should never have pressed the stop button. The Danish health care system had the situation under control. The total lockdown was a step too far,“ argues Professor Jens Otto Lunde Jørgensen of Aarhus University Hospital. Denmark is currently ramping up school operations again.
• Yale professor David Katz, who warned early on of the negative consequences of a lockdown, gave a detailed one-hour interview on the current situation.
• German virologist Hendrik Streeck explains that no „smear infections“ in supermarkets, restaurants or hairdressing salons have been detected so far.
• New antibody data from the Italian community of Robbia in Lombardy shows that about ten times more people had the corona virus than originally thought, as they developed no or only mild symptoms. The actual immunization rate is 22%.
• New data from the Swiss Canton of Zurich shows that about 50% of all Covid19-related deaths occurred in retirement or nursing homes. Nevertheless, even there about 40% of all test-positive people showed no symptoms. The median age of test-positive deaths in Switzerland is currently about 84 years.
• Pietro Vernazza, the Swiss chief physician for infectiology, comments on the „live with the virus“ strategy and recommends, among other things, individually optimised protection of persons at risk. The immunity of the general population is also a protection for people at risk, he says.
• The new British website Lockdown Skeptics reports critically on Covid19, the measures taken and the general media coverage.
• The Austrian civil society „Initiative for evidence-based corona information“ provides an overview of studies and analyses on the new corona virus
• Documentary: „The WHO – In the grip of the lobbyists“ (ARTE, 2017, German)

Excellent web site with an amazing amount of relevant information. Thanks for sharing.

Indeed. Fighting Covidphobia?

[Sergio]

Something like that. Sorry for the late reply, I was taking a social media/internet sanity break.

[daniel1212]

Something like that. Sorry for the late reply, I was taking a social media/internet sanity break.

Screen distancing? Often a good idea.

[daniel1212]

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page

NYC Covid-19 death Rates by Age

0-17 years 156.75

18-44 years 1,480.46

45-64 years 2,401.84

65-74 years 2,441.93

75 and older years 2,842.36

Citywide total 1,605.88