24/n There are, sadly, further errors in the paper. The author repeats a common myth, that t-cells mean that the threshold for herd immunity is much lower than usually estimatedpic.twitter.com/q1sPO5voVd
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35/n Oh also, on another note, given the relatively few meta-studies on COVID-19 IFR, it appears that the authors that Ioannidis here describes as "inexperienced" and "overtly wrong" are me and @LeaMerone
Academic civility!pic.twitter.com/CRV0VElQfh
36/n I should also note - some people have pointed out that the actual numbers in this review are almost certainly inaccurate (e.g. 1.5 mil COVID-19 deaths over 5 years is probably impossible) but I have not focused on the numbers themselves...
37/n ...thing is, the numbers are largely a result of the assumptions. If you extrapolate out an assumed incorrectly low death rate then you'll find the numbers are low Therefore, I focused on the assumptions, because the numbers themselves are just a consequence of these
38/n That being said, it is absolutely worth pointing out that some of these figures that the paper has postulated as reasonable are extraordinarily unlikely and show how the errors have caused a misleading result (remember, this is globally over 5 years!)pic.twitter.com/GoFDd6x2Rn
39/n Also, because a lot of people seem confused about this point - here is why it is nonsense to suggest that because people may have had a comorbidity that COVID-19 didn't kill themhttps://medium.com/@gidmk/covid-19-deaths-are-mostly-caused-by-coronavirus-2a6d2d43bd09 …
Hmm. Seems like a non-arms length issue going on here.
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