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Mark Rippetoe
This is why I love Sharyl Attkisson. If only there were candidates for president that would advocate even GREATER governmental power over the rest of us...
Anthony Fauci has changed his tune regarding estimates of the risk of CV that he gave to Congress from what he co-authored in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. Here's
reporting on his testimony:
"Fauci said COVID-19 is at least 10 times “more lethal” than the seasonal flu, even if the mortality rate drops far below the World Health Organization’s current estimate of 3.4%."
Compare that with his article. There, he qualified the above estimate with this:
"If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively."
A case fatality rate jumping from 0.1% to 3.4%! When a guy with his street cred flip-flops on his message only days apart, we're screwed.