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Since at least March 2020, Ioannidis downplayed the pandemic's severity by, for example, falsely claiming SARS-CoV-2 has a fatality rate comparable to seasonal influenza.
That justifiably annoyed folks.
https://twitter.com/AtomsksSanakan/status/1378481264034988038 …
from @hildabast:
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2021/05/31/peering-through-the-smoke-at-a-duel-over-covids-infection-fatality-rate/ …pic.twitter.com/rlDaEtaYvG
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