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Iranian Doctors Urge Neighbours to Liquidate Any US Biological Labs Amid Coronavirus Fears – Sputnik News

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 23 April 2020

A group of 101 Iranian doctors has penned a letter addressed to the leaders of Afghanistan, Georgia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Pakistan to take ‘immediate action’ to destroy “all of the US biological laboratories” in their countries amid fears that the coronavirus pandemic may have been spread deliberately as a form of biological warfare, Press TV has reported, citing the letter.

http://archive.today /2021.10.23-110640/https://sputniknews.com/20200319/iranian-doctors-urge-neighbours-to-liquidate-any-us-biological-labs-amid-coronavirus-fears-1078623300.html

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Has COVID-19 Testing Made the Problem Worse? – Off-Guardian

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 15 April 2020

Has COVID-19 Testing Made the Problem Worse?

Tags China, Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Response, Testing, USA, WHO

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British epidemiologist: why are we locking down if China results are representative?

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 15 April 2020

Covid-19: four fifths of cases are asymptomatic, China figures indicate:

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1375

British epidemiologist Tom Jefferson tells the BMJ, “The sample [evidence from China] is small, and more data will become available. Also, it’s not clear exactly how these cases were identified. But let’s just say they are generalisable. And even if they are 10% out, then this suggests the virus is everywhere. If—and I stress, if—the results are representative, then we have to ask, ‘What the hell are we locking down for?”

Tom Jefferson, is an epidemiologist at the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) Group and writes for thebmjopinion.

Tags Asymptomatic, China, Lockdown, Professor Tom Jefferson, Statistics

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UCL: closing schools does not help control COVID-19 epidemic

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 15 April 2020

School closure and management practices during coronavirus outbreaks including COVID-19: a rapid systematic review:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30095-X/fulltext

Summary from BBC News:

While school closures help during influenza outbreaks, the same may not apply to coronavirus
Data from the Sars outbreak (in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Singapore) suggest that school closures did not contribute to the control of the epidemic
Recent modelling studies of Covid-19 predict that school closures alone would prevent only 2%-4% of deaths, many fewer than other social distancing interventions