Epidemiologist: Coronavirus could be 'exterminated' if lockdowns lifted

World Net Daily ^ | April 7, 2020 at 7:06pm | Kurt Wittowski

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The unprecedented policy of mass quarantine to "flatten the curve" is only prolonging the coronavirus pandemic, contends a veteran scholar of epidemiology.

The virus could be "exterminated" within weeks if people were allowed to lead normal lives and the vulnerable were sheltered until the virus passes, said Knut Wittkowski, Ph.D., the former head of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design at the Rockefeller University in New York City.

[Paul R.]

I would ask the author to define “vulnerable”.

All these likely apply:

Obese
Diabetes or pre-diabetes
Over 60
Smoker / ex-smoker
Other lung problems (prior severe flu episode, for example)
Compromised immune system
Heart disease
and so on...

Obesity alone is 30% of our population.

[nonsporting]

Actually the article is from the: American Institute for Economic Research https://www.aier.org/article/stand-up-for-your-rights-says-professor-knut-m-wittkowski/

I examined the two articles. They are not the same. The WND article is a unique reporting by a WND Staff writer.

Each article links the same YouTube interview.