10 MORE Experts Criticising the
Coronavirus Panic
By Off Guardian
Following on from our
previous list, here are ten more
expert voices, drowned out or disregarded by
the mainstream narrative, offering their
take on the coronavirus outbreak.
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April 01,
2020 "Information
Clearing House"
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Dr. Sunetra Gupta
et al.
are an Oxford-based research team constructing an
epidemiological model for the coronavirus outbreak,
their paper has yet to be peer-reviewed, but the
abstract is available online.
Dr Gupta is
a Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the
University of Oxford with an interest in infectious
disease agents that are responsible for malaria,
HIV, influenza and bacterial meningitis. She is a
recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, the
Scientific Medal by the Zoological Society of London
and the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for
her scientific research.
What
they
say:
Importantly, the results we present here suggest
the ongoing epidemics in the UK and Italy
started at least a month before the first
reported death and have already led to the
accumulation of significant levels of herd
immunity in both countries. There is an inverse
relationship between the proportion currently
immune and the fraction of the population
vulnerable to severe disease.
–
Fundamental principles of epidemic spread
highlight the immediate need for large-scale
serological surveys to assess the stage of the
SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, 24th March 2020
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The
research presents a very different view of the
epidemic to the modelling at Imperial College
London […] “I’m surprised that there has been
such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial
model”, Dr Gupta said.
[…]
The
Oxford results would mean the country had
already acquired substantial her immunity
through the unrecognised spread of covid19 over
more than two months.
Although some experts have shed doubt on the
strength and length of the human immune response
to the virus, Prof Gupta said the emerging
evidence made her confident that humanity would
build up herd immunity against Covid19
–
“Coronavirus may have infected halt the
population”, Financial Times, 24th
March 2020
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Dr Karin Mölling
is a German virologist whose research focused on
retroviruses, particularly human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV). She was a full professor and director
of the Institute of Medical Virology at the
University of Zurich from 1993 until her retirement
in 2008 and received multiple honours and awards for
her work.
What
she
says:
You are
now told every morning how many SARS-Corona 2
deaths there are. But they don’t tell you how
many people already are infected with influenza
this winter and how many deaths it has caused.
This
winter, the flu is not severe, but around 80,000
are infected. You don’t get these numbers at
all. Something similar occurred two years ago.
This is not put into the right context.
[…]
Every
week a person dies in Berlin from
multi-resistant germs. That adds up to 35,000 a
year in Germany. This is not mentioned at all. I
believe that we have had situations like this
several times and that the measures are now
being taken too far.
I am of
the opinion that maybe one should not do so much
against young people having parties together and
infecting each other. We have to build immunity
somehow. How can that be possible without
contacts? The younger ones handle the infection
much better. But we have to protect the elderly,
and protect them in a way that can be
scrutinized; is it reasonable what we are doing
now, to stretch out the epidemic in a way that
almost paralyzes the entire world economy?
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