It's coming towards the end of the year, and there are still countless people minimizing the pandemic and spreading untruths So I thought I'd do a bit of a thread of FACTS about COVID-19 1/n
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2/n Fact 1: the death rate of COVID-19 varies substantially by age, but is high even for relatively young people For example, a 1 in 2,700 risk of death from COVID-19 for a 35 year old, based on our comprehensive paper on the topic https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10654-020-00698-1 …pic.twitter.com/lpN4W6CyKJ
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3/n Fact 2: COVID-19 is MUCH more dangerous than influenza For younger age groups, COVID-19 may be similarly lethal. For anyone over 30, it is much worse.
@zorinaq has a nice graphic on thispic.twitter.com/e1DUdK1zcd
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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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This is called “dangerous misinformation” by truth czars like yourself. Is your definition of a positive the presence of RNA or the identification of infectious people? Medical cases require infectious These papers “mathematicaly” disagree with you. https://twitter.com/kevin_mckernan/status/1335687498303934467?s=21 …https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1335687498303934467 …
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Health Nerd Retweeted ɪᴀɴ ᴍ. ᴍᴀᴄᴋᴀʏ, ᴘʜᴅ 🦠 🤧 🧬 🥼 🦟 🧻 🧙♂️
Yes, that is indeed nonsense as you sayhttps://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1341682072780328961?s=19 …
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