The below interview of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University, by Peter Robinson is awesome.
They begin by discussing the problems with current testing that I have been highlighting here and the fact that Trump's adviser Tony Fauci couldn't possibly have made his claim, that COVID-19 is 10 times more deadly than the flu, with any scientific basis.
Be sure to watch at least the first 9 minutes.
It is also good to know that Bhattacharya is about to start properly designed general population serological tests, which he discusses later in the clip.
Robinson has always been a favorite interviewer of mine but this interview puts him in a league all by himself. He questions Fauci's conclusions, he questions the shutdown of the economy and he probes for answers--and seemingly not fearful of the powers that be.
-RW
This guy makes too much sense.....he will be ignored
ReplyDeleteWhy let a good crisis go to waste?
Not only is the denominator too low, but also the numerator is too high by dint of including fatalities in that number that involved comorbidities in the cause of death. I.e., other health issues, like diabetes, heart disease, old age and respiratory disease.
ReplyDeleteAgree, great interviewer. Had to laugh, right at the start, however, at 14 seconds, he wipes his nose with his hand. I am now trained to notice these things.
ReplyDeleteThere must be a hotline number you can call to report such counter-revolutionary behavior. LOL.
DeleteHopefully the antibody testing and randomized testing can begin shortly and we can get a better idea of infection rate and mortality rate. I do think when all is said and done that we are looking at something around to 0.1% mortality. Probably in a few months the media will be criticizing that we took too much action.
ReplyDeleteI suspect the media will be running with an entirely new headline (ignoring coronavirus) or going with how much worse it would have been if such draconian actions hadn't been taken.
DeleteTrump should replace Fauci with this guy immediately.
ReplyDeletehttps://newsthud.com/ny-doctor-successfully-treats-patients-with-drug-cocktail-zero-deaths-zero-hospitalizations-zero-intubations/
ReplyDelete350 patients, 100% cure rate
Get serious. I think all you Know-Nothings should get together for a big Spring Break party, hugging and kissing, but not until after you have given your Clorox and wet-wipes to some sissified lefties. We'll take you census data a month later...and you will be written up posthumously in the Darwin Awards.
ReplyDeleteBhattacharya and Fauci are two sides to the same coin. They both cling to the statistical ratio of death rates. Bhattacharya’s assumptions suggest a less lethal coronavirus and Fauci’s suggests a more lethal coronavirus. Bhattacharya is more honest in stating that neither really knows but both believe the ratio is important in informing public policy. And both believe that protecting people from this virus is a legitimate government function. Its not.
ReplyDeleteTragically, Bhattacharya believes he can calculate a more accurate and useful ratio by testing sample populations. If he understood economics and statistics he would know this is a fool’s errand. There are too many variables in both numerator and denominator to ever calculate a useful ratio. Worse, he believes this useless and intrusive endeavor should be an ongoing surveillance of people in the future.
The plans and proposals of bureaucrats like Bhattacharya and Fauci and Robinson are not disciplined by the free market. As a result if their plans are put into action they will tend to hurt more people than they help. Very dangerous.
Here is Fauci in a rare moment of honesty:
Delete"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 196Cool rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.2"
Source, New England Journal of Medicine:
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387
And here is how the death rate can't really be trusted anyways, since they are drumming up the numbers with fraudulent reporting:
"It is important to emphasize that Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death."
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-1-Guidance-for-Certifying-COVID-19-Deaths.pdf