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Meet the former NYT reporter who is challenging the coronavirus narrative
Fox News ^ | 4/9/0 | Adam Shaw

Posted on 04/09/2020 11:37:33 AM PDT by NoLibZone

As daily life across America is upended by the coronavirus crisis -- with mass business closures plunging the economy into freefall -- one former New York Times reporter is sounding the alarm about what he believes are flawed models dictating the aggressive strategy.

Alex Berenson has been analyzing the data on the crisis on a daily basis for weeks and has come to the conclusion that the strategy of shutting down entire sectors of the economy is based on modeling that doesn’t line up with the realities of the virus.

THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK STATE BY STATE

"The response we have taken has caused enormous societal devastation, I don't think that's too strong a word," he told Fox News in an interview Thursday.

Berenson is a former reporter who worked for the Times from 1999 to 2010 primarily covering the pharmaceutical industry. He recently came to prominence again with a book, “Tell Your Children The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence,” which challenged prevailing narratives on marijuana.

Recently he’s been focusing on discrepancies within the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) model. That model has come under renewed scrutiny as it has revised its metrics multiple times. It once predicted more than 90,000 deaths by August but recently issued a new estimate that has the figure closer to 60,000. Government officials say it's a model that's moving with what the country is doing.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: alexberenson; inchingthetowelback; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nlz; theturn; virusreversal; wuhantrun
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To: ryderann
(snip) -- "Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the indicators are that social distancing efforts are working: "Because remember, what you do with data will always outstrip a model. You redo your models, depending upon your data, and our data is telling us that mitigation is working."

But Berenson argues that those models have social distancing and other measures baked into them. As for further proof, he says that outside of places like New York there has not been a national health crisis that was predicted -- nor are there signs that the level of lockdown in various states has made a difference.

“Aside from New York, nationally there’s been no health system crisis. In fact, to be truly correct there has been a health system crisis, but the crisis is that the hospitals are empty,” he said. “This is true in Florida where the lockdown was late, this is true in southern California where the lockdown was early, it's true in Oklahoma where there is no statewide lockdown. There doesn't seem to be any correlation between the lockdown and whether or not the epidemic has spread wide and fast.”

He has also argued, in lengthy Twitter threads, that the drop in cases seen in various states has come before lockdowns would have had an impact -- since it takes a few weeks for social distancing measures to take effect due to the window between infection and symptoms.

Berenson blames the models for a response that has effectively shut down large sectors of the economy and is causing significant financial harm to Americans. On Thursday it was announced that the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits swelled to 6.6 million last week, surging for the third consecutive week. Congress has sought to alleviate the pain by boosting those jobless benefits."

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.... yes

41 posted on 04/10/2020 8:16:27 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: cuban leaf
What on earth does “inching the towel back” mean?

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42 posted on 04/10/2020 8:19:19 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: a little elbow grease

Gotcha. Weird that google gave me no hits.


43 posted on 04/10/2020 8:26:32 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: absalom01
If we wait for the politicians to tell us it’s safe to peek out of our front doors, we’ll be in a depression that will make the last one look like a walk in the park.

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If Fauci sticks his bulging head out of his front door I would hope he is struck by lightening!

44 posted on 04/10/2020 8:27:54 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)
How’s 2.2 million to 90K for modeling, then?

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The model went on a diet.

45 posted on 04/10/2020 8:29:28 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: skinndogNN
These models are supposed to be scientific. So why have they been so wrong?

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Because it is not science. The whole pile of BS is generally based on assumptions. Not science. Fauci and his merry band of charlatans, in a different day, would be hung in the town square.

46 posted on 04/10/2020 8:32:46 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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