Reiterates that Covid-19 for healthy people under 70 is as dangerous as a seasonal, moderate influenza virus
I posted upthread a long time ago a detailed comparison of mortality rates by age for seasonal flu and C19, which shows that at every age C19 has a higher mortality rate.
Prof Bhakdi very angry with children & old people wearing face masks from a health & psychological perspective
There is very little evidence that face masks result in health problems, vs. an enormous amount of evidence that they block viral particles.
I would agree with them that there many scientists and professors are afraid to say against Covid for fear of losing their jobs and grants... However, more from European nations seemed to be coming out - people need to hear opposing views from qualified experts.
As Baltimore notes, Peter Duesberg is Exhibit A that you can propose the most outlandish, unsupported ideas, and not have to worry about losing your job. Michael Levitt and Luc Montagnier are two Novel Prize winners who have proposed theories far out of the mainstream, and haven't had any problems. Montagnier has claimed the virus was created in a lab, while Levitt believes the virus stops transmitting more or less spontaneously over time. Stanford's John Ioannidis has argued that the mortality rate is much lower than what the mainstream believes, and he has no problem keeping his job and publishing his work.
By the way, Peru--which may be undercounting its deaths--now has an official overall mortality rate of about 1 in a thousand. IOW, even if everyone in the entire country were infected, the mortality rate would be higher than what some researchers have proposed. There are seven states in. the U.S. that have a higher overall mortality rate than that, and NYC has an overall mortality rate of about 0.23%. That is about as high as the CDC estimate of the infectious mortality rate, which means nearly everyone in the city would have to be infected for the CDC rate to be correct. One "benefit" of watching the virus continue to spread is we are going to see a lot of claims that the virus is not that deadly fall by the wayside.
this author has looked for the mortality rate of the coronavirus in America by age and it is very difficult to find. “You won’t be able to find the answer, because you’ll only get an answer if you search the reports from the RKI [Robert Koch Institute] and calculate the number yourself.”
??? This information is readily available at the CDC website, e.g.,
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/201...s-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html
There are also tons of data from state, county and city governments, e.g., the NY City website:
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page#download
Doctor Sucharit Bhakdi makes an incredibly powerful statement while explaining that the vaccine being developed “isn’t a normal conventional vaccine, and it’s not like the flu vaccine.” He says that the vaccine is “gene-based,” and the way it works is “still unknown scientifically and medically.” While many people have fought against genetically modified food, the Virologist explains, “we’re [now] talking about a vaccination that genetically manipulates the human body, and apparently these same people have no concerns about it.”
In the first place, a wide variety of approaches are being used to develop vaccines, and not all of them are gene based. Moderna and Imperial are developing mRNA vaccines, also CureVac in Germany, which he may be referring to, but Oxford/AstraZeneca, e.g., is not, unless you count using a viral vector, which is used for many flu vaccines.
In the second place, saying that we don’t know how gene-based vaccines work is ridiculous. We don’t know all the possible side effects, but that’s true of any vaccine. We do know that to the extent vaccines like this work, they do so by producing viral proteins that can stimulate an immune response. Could they have other, unintended effects that could cause problems? Of course, which is why there are Phase 3 trials.
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