Posted on 09/25/2020 10:52:48 PM PDT by rintintin
A White House adviser refuted CDC director Robert Redfield's estimate that 90% of Americans remain vulnerable to coronavirus infection, going so far as to suggest it was a misstatement. Redfield's comments came during a Senate committee hearing when he said preliminary data from the CDC's large-scale serology testing "show that most Americans have not been infected with the virus and are still vulnerable to the infection, serious illness and death," later adding "more than 90% of the population remains susceptible."
But an exchange at a White House press briefing that same day pointed in the opposite direction.
“The immunity to the infection is not solely determined by the percent of people who have antibodies,” Dr. Scott Atlas told reporters, discussing research on different types of immunity, including T-cells.
“... According to the papers from Sweden, Singapore and elsewhere, there is cross-immunity highly likely from other infections and there is also T-cell immunity, and the combination of those makes the antibodies a small fraction of the people that have immunity," Atlas said. "So the answer is no, it is not 90% of people that are susceptible to the infection.
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Dr Atlas is 10 times more I telligent than Dr Red...
Dr. Atlas is a critical thinker.
Fauci is a conformist.
Who hasn’t seen both types of doctors.
It’s so refreshing to deal with the former type.
Nice to finally see some sanity. The new statistics are positive. Some one tell the rat state governors and mayors who are holding on to thier dream of dictator for life and destroying the middleclass in thier states
“Some one tell the rat state governors and mayors who are holding on to thier dream of dictator for life and destroying the middleclass in thier states”
The only thing that will get these wanna-be Dicktators attention is a massive uprising of citizens in front of their homes for days on end and/or a recall. I prefer the former.
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