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Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.
Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.
Bro, it’s ridiculous to try to downplay his analysis without even trying to understand it. XD
Additionally, the relatively high false-positive rate leads to an even higher overestimate.
Also aren’t there massive financial incentives for clinics to label someone as a c19 death? IIRC an ICU bed for a c19 patient costs 5-10x more per day than for other patients.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v...
Stanford professor John Ioannidis called the pandemic a “once in a century evidence fiasco” because there are multiple strange problems with the data presented to the general public:- The total number of positive test results induces fear but is pointless.- Number of positive tests without a relation to the testing volume is pointless.- More testing, more false positives. There are few true...