My 2 cs: Arguing about whether IFR was .15 vs.75 vs .55 allowed many to escape the harder discussion of whether John, despite errors, may have a point about the severe & unseen harms of lockdown. It was easier to make him a villain than talk to him. Popular tactic these dayshttps://twitter.com/TheSGEM/status/1333455309013196803 …
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Replying to @VPrasadMDMPH
As someone who said at the start of the pandemic that government action could potentially cause more damage than the disease, and that we have to take enormous care with interventions, I think his papers would've been great if not filled with errors
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Replying to @GidMK @VPrasadMDMPH
I even said as much many times - the points would've been incredibly important if they weren't preceded with, for example, the myth that existing T cell immunity meant that most people were already immune
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Replying to @GidMK @VPrasadMDMPH
If half of the population was immune through another mechanism, then the R_0 would be twice as high as we had thought
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Indeed. It was never even a remotely plausible thing to say, and yet appeared in a paper published in a journal that Prof Ioannidis was, until this year, an editor ofhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1315447825723916288?s=20 …
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