I think that this article by @PeteJamison looks at professor John Ioannidis and his statements during the pandemic, but leaves a few of them out
So I thought I'd just tweet out some things said in papers that prof Ioannidis has written this year 1/nhttps://twitter.com/hswapnil/status/1339308701048594434 …
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5/n Also from the same paper, the idea that the herd immunity threshold is probably far lower than traditional models, a conjecture that has since been proven falsepic.twitter.com/k3t9pciJyR
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6/n From this published paper https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13423 … The myth that t-cell cross-reactivity meant that herd immunity could be much lower than estimations (this was always wrong)pic.twitter.com/Kgdbx7L36B
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7/n This delightful insult of me and my co-author in the same published paperpic.twitter.com/B44nm4XSeA
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8/n From the 7th of October "about 10% of the global population is probably already infected", so ~750 millionpic.twitter.com/yXggm0TPFI
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9/n Still from the same paper, the idea that the pandemic is largely over in some places in the world (although these are not identified)pic.twitter.com/BtW5Iiuaxq
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10/n Some amazing statements in this preprint: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20054361v2.full.pdf … Firstly, in these locations (Europe/US), that "it is likely...that the peak daily deaths have already been reached"pic.twitter.com/LLbuNw5G3h
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11/n From the same paper "the risk of death [from COVID-19] is in the same level roughly as dying from a car accident during daily commute"pic.twitter.com/X3A9AHWmC7
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12/n From this paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169207020301199 … Something of a prescient statementpic.twitter.com/Ot1j8qq4E8
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13/n From this paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2764369 … The idea that the high death rate in Italy earlier this year was because of a low death rate in 2019pic.twitter.com/K667aLl6pm
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14/n Back to the IFR preprint for this great statement about COVID-19 vs seasonal influenza that was removed from the published version:pic.twitter.com/8gZWCz63PY
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15/n This is hardly an exhaustive list, but I do think it's noteworthy that various myths that have plagued public communication during COVID-19 - that it's just a flu, that we're all already immune etc - appear in published work by prof Ioannidis
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16/n this impressively tone-deaf nonpology for the thoroughly wrong 40,000 death estimate that he gave https://twitter.com/AVG_Joseph96/status/1339594635509788674?s=19 …
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