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Professor who predicted 500,000 Britons could die from coronavirus and prompted Boris Johnson to order lockdown accused of having ‘patchy record of modelling pandemics’ – Mail Online

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8164121/Professor-predicted-500-000-Britons-die-coronavirus-accused-having-patchy-record.html

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Oxford University: COVID-19 may have been circulating in the UK since Jan 2020 and much of the population may already be immune – Yahoo News

https://news.yahoo.com/oxford-study-suggests-millions-people-221100162.html

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Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Is an ‘Almost Meaningless’ Metric – Bloomberg / Yahoo Finance

“The numbers are almost meaningless,” says Steve Goodman, a professor of epidemiology at Stanford University. There’s a huge reservoir of people who have mild cases, and would not likely seek testing, he says. The rate of increase in positive results reflect a mixed-up combination of increased testing rates and spread of the virus.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/confirmed-coronavirus-cases-almost-meaningless-123550415.html

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Coronavirus disease 2019: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐evidence‐based measures

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eci.13222

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All-cause mortality levels in European countries

EuroMOMO is an agency that monitors deaths across Europe. The chart below compares death levels in week 2 of 2017 with week 14 of 2020. The darker blue means more deaths.

EuroMOMO European mortality bulletin week 14, 2020

https://www.euromomo.eu/index.html

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Diamond Princess 48% test-positive cases remained completely symptom-free – National Institute of Infectious Diseases Japan

https://www.niid.go.jp/niid/en/2019-ncov-e/9407-covid-dp-fe-01.html

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Other illness may have killed 99% of fatalities in Italy – Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says

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Investigating influenza mortality in Italy (2013/14–2016/17 seasons)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219303285

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All-cause mortality report for England and Wales – Public Health England

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-all-cause-mortality-surveillance-2019-to-2020

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Is the coronavirus pandemic a fiasco in the making?

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9 out of 10 deaths in Lombardy were not hospitalized for COVID-19

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Studies show 6% death rates from common cold in risk groups – NIH

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095096/

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How Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg sees the current Corona pandemic

Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, an epidemiologist and lung disease specialist, explains coronavirus testing.

Update 16 December 2020: This video has been censored from YouTube. An archived mirror is available below.

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Ministers are accused of treating Doomsday scientist like demigod: Number 10 has failed to properly challenge the word of coronavirus professor Neil Ferguson whose study sent Britain into lockdown, critics say

  • Professor John Ashton accuses No 10 of relying on a ‘little clique’ of researchers
  • He also accused Downing Street of failing to consult a wider pool of academics
  • Professor Neil Ferguson and team forecast 250,000 UK deaths with no lockdown

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8188041/Ministers-accused-treating-Doomsday-scientist-like-demigod.html

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Perspectives on the Pandemic | Professor Knut Wittkowski | Episode 2

Note: The original video has been censored from YouTube. You may find an archive on Bitchute:

  • 00:36-Professor Wittkowski explains his recommendations for how to best deal with COVID-19
  • 01:36-Is self-isolation prolonging the duration of COVID-19?
  • 02:33-Are policies of self-isolation or shelter-in-place a good idea?
  • 03:46-The pandemic is over
  • 04:27-Did China lie about its COVID-19 statistics?
  • 05:03-The truth behind the statistics given by the government of the United States
  • 07:52-Are we even reporting flu deaths anymore?
  • 08:16-Why are hospitals being overwhelmed?
  • 09:16-Shortage of medial supplies
  • 10:19-Has social distancing prevented deaths from COVID-19?
  • 11:55-Staying indoors can make the virus worse
  • 16:02-Why social distancing won’t work for an airborne contagion
  • 17:41-Do we need a vaccine for COVID-19?
  • 18:31-Humans can grow immune to this virus
  • 18:55-The data doesn’t say that COVID-19 is more contagious than the flu
  • 22:43-Changes in reporting COVID-19 cases
  • 25:33-What makes COVID-19 different than the Swine Flu
  • 27:05-What are the possible health risks of sheltering in place?
  • 27:43-The “Second Wave” of COVID-19
  • 30:10-The truth about FlattentheCurve hashtag 31:10-What should we do about sheltering in place?
  • 32:24-Why we need to achieve natural herd immunity
  • 34:17-Should we be testing everyone for COVID-19?
  • 35:35-The real effects of COVID-19
  • 38:53-The percentage of people who won’t have any symptoms
  • 39:34-What should we do about COVID-19 at this point?
  • 40:40-Is this really a pandemic?
  • 40:50-What you should know