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Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by themark on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @06:12PM (#27978326)
The video they are referring to has a very specific part about pcr testing (relevant to the discussion here). I think it is reasonable to trust his opinion on the matter regardless of what he thinks about AIDS.
Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by javagram on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:00AM (#27980405)
The video pretty clearly shows that his view is that testing for HIV is a conspiracy by the CDC to get funding to fight AIDS.[1] Unless you agree with him that AIDS isn’t caused by HIV, it doesn’t make much sense to trust him rather than all the scientific experts who have worked on PCR testing and virus detection in the last few decades. ( edit: Moreover, suppressing HIV using drugs has been successfully treating AIDS, which wouldn’t make sense if the disease wasn’t actually caused by the virus. )

Moreover, PCR testing during the covid epidemic, which he was not alive for, has clearly been working well. High cases later correspond to high hospitalizations and high covid-19 deaths and high excess deaths across many different countries.

Frankly I don’t put much trust in his Nobel, any more than Michael Levitt who is also a Nobel laureate and has repeatedly made falsified predictions about the Covid-19 pandemic.[2] It seems pretty clear that Nobel prize winners can later lose touch with reality.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkqQIY7J0fQ

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Levitt#Covid-19

Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by timr on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:03PM (#27986110)
> Moreover, PCR testing during the covid epidemic, which he was not alive for, has clearly been working well. High cases later correspond to high hospitalizations and high covid-19 deaths and high excess deaths across many different countries.

In the case of Covid, "hospitalizations" are largely defined as "in the hospital with a positive PCR test", so this is a truism. Deaths are predominantly downstream of "hospitalizations", so again, this is a truism.

Any pathology in PCR testing would equally affect "hospitalizations" and "confirmed deaths".

Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by native_samples on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @12:07PM (#27985457)
PCR testing during the covid epidemic, which he was not alive for, has clearly been working well

There is no correlation between COVID health outcomes and levels of testing.

Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by briefcomment on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @06:30PM (#27978451)
He is also a Nobel laureate.