Re:Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but fear...
by synquid on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @03:50AM
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Zeynep has been wrong so many times during the pandemic that it hurts. She will not admit to it, though. She claimed that the Delta variant would end the pandemic, in the same way it is claimed for Omicron now. She's very naive about how the immune system works.
Her writing is generally more propaganda than science.
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Re:Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but fear...
by p49k on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:03AM
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> She claimed that the Delta variant would end the pandemic
No she didn't - the article you're referring to is below, and what she said was more nuanced. It's also a reasonable analysis from the perspective of the time it was written (May 2021):
https://www.theinsight.org/p/we-need-to-get-real-about-how-t...
Re:Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but fear...
by kelnage on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:09AM
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Citation? The best I could find with a quick Google was her NYT opinion piece [1], which pretty clearly couched her statements about Delta possibly being the last surge in hospitalisations and deaths in the US as a potential scenario and not a certainty.
Whilst I agree that she (and most other science reporters!) use simplistic models for immune system responses (possibly more for her readers), I’m yet to come across anything she’s written that has been very clearly wrong or she hasn’t later corrected/clarified.
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/covid-winter-risk...