4/n Fact 3: RT-PCR testing for COVID-19 has a very low rate of false positives. This is both conceptually demonstrable https://virologydownunder.com/the-false-positive-pcr-problem-is-not-a-problem/ … And mathematical facthttps://gidmk.medium.com/most-positive-coronavirus-tests-are-true-positives-60c95fe54fec …
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5/n Fact 4: most deaths that are counted as COVID-19 (at least in the US and other developed nations) have COVID-19 as the "underlying" or main cause https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2771761 …https://gidmk.medium.com/covid-19-deaths-are-mostly-caused-by-coronavirus-2a6d2d43bd09 …
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6/n Fact 5: herd immunity through natural infection is not a way out of the pandemic. It will not bring us "back to normal", and certainly not within the timeframes proposedhttps://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-25862/v1 …
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7/n Fact 6: COVID-19 is a real disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Somehow people are still questioning this (yes, really)
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8/n Fact 7: In the published data thus far, there is no large increase in suicide rates associated with lockdowns, although there are increases related to the pandemic itselfhttps://gidmk.medium.com/have-lockdowns-caused-suicides-during-covid-19-dd6b7a741f39 …
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9/n Fact 8: The cost-benefit of government action against COVID-19 is COMPLEX In some situations, it may be harmful. In others, beneficialhttps://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2020/09/30/world-economic-outlook-october-2020 …
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10/n Fact 9: about 20% of people who catch COVID-19 are fully asymptomatic (i.e. they never experience symptoms at all) https://jammi.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jammi-2020-0030 …
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11/n Fact 10: there is quite a lot of evidence demonstrating that people can spread COVID-19 before becoming symptomatic, with some indication that the most infectious period is right around the onset of symptomshttps://theconversation.com/covid-19-when-are-you-most-infectious-150760 …
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Health Nerd Retweeted Prof. Shane Crotty
12/n Fact 11: there is some t-cell cross reactivity for SARS-CoV-2 Fact 12: this DOES NOT MEAN that we have "pre-existing immunity". From the expert:https://twitter.com/profshanecrotty/status/1293344524731691008?s=20 …
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Prof. Shane Crotty @profshanecrotty1/ There are various tweets misinterpreting COVID-19 “pre-existing immunity” and making dangerous claims about herd immunity. Since many of those claims refer to our scientific papers, we will reiterate the facts.@SetteLab@ljiresearch@ScienceMagazine@CellCellPress pic.twitter.com/gCZwFMW1iUShow this thread1 reply 34 retweets 239 likesShow this thread -
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Feel free to read the thread (and others) by @profshanecrotty who was the senior author of the paper that Todaro cited in his nonsense thread 
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