COVID-19: “For People Younger Than 45, The Infection Fatality Rate is Almost 0%” – Stanford Professor
By
Arjun Walia
Arjun Walia
In Brief
- The Facts:John P. A. Ioannidis, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Stanford University has said that the infection fatality rate is close to 0 percent for people under the age of 45 years old.
- Reflect On:Are all of the measures we are being forced to take actually about the virus, or about something else? Why have we never done this for more dangerous respiratory viruses that circle the globe? What's going on here?
What Happened: John
P. A. Ioannidis, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Stanford
University is one of many scientists around the world, and one of
several from Stanford University, who has been telling the world that
the new coronavirus, so far according to the data, is not as dangerous
as it’s being made out to be by mainstream media. For example, earlier
on in the pandemic he published an article titled “A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data.“ In
the article, he argues that there is simply not enough data to make
claims about reported case fatality rate. He stated that rates, “like
the official 3.4% rate from the World Health Organization, cause horror —
and are meaningless.”This is exactly what these numbers did. In fact, they were the basis and justification for the lockdown.
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It turns out he was right. The idea that
the infection rate is much larger than previously thought seems to be
well accepted and clear in the scientific community, and multiple
studies have come out emphasizing the same over the past few months.
Not long ago, several academics from the Stanford School of Medicine,
including Ioannidis, suggested that COVID-19 has a similar infection
fatality rate as seasonal influenza based on the data they found in
their study.
In a recent interview with Greek Reporter, Ioannidis
estimated that about 150-300 million or more people have already been
infected by COVID-19 around the world, far more than the 10 million
documented cases. He warned that “the draconian lockdowns imposed in
many countries may have the opposite effect of what was intended. He
told the Greek Reporter that “the lockdown measures have
increased the number of people at risk of starvation to 1.1 billion, and
they are putting at risk millions of lives.
He isn’t the only world renowned scientist to call these measures “draconian.” You can see another example here.
In fact there are many of them, a large majority of whom have been
censored by platforms like YouTube and Facebook. Since when are the
expert opinions and research of scientists in this field constantly
censored simply because they oppose the views of our federal health
regulatory agencies and World Health Organization? Why is there a
digital authoritarian “fact-checker” patrolling the internet telling
people what is and what isn’t?
Not only are people experiencing huge
economic impacts, but it’s also having a health impact. A new article
published in the British Medical Journal has suggested that quarantine
measures in the United Kingdom as a result of the new coronavirus may
have already killed more UK seniors than the coronavirus has during the
peak of the virus. You can read more about that here.
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Here’s what Ioannidis, had to say about the infection fatality rate now that things have progressed further:
0.05% to 1% is a reasonable range for what the data tell us now for the infection fatality rate, with a median of about 0.25%. The death rate in a given country depends a lot on the age-structure, who are the people infected, and how they are managed. For people younger than 45, the infection fatality rate is almost 0%. For 45 to 70, it is probably about 0.05-0.3%. For those above 70, it escalates substantially, to 1% or higher for those over 85. For frail, debilitated elderly people with multiple health problems who are infected in nursing homes, it can go up to 25% during major outbreaks in these facilities. (source)
The idea that the death rate is far
lower than original estimates, and even far lower than what the numbers
show now seems to be quite obvious. Even CNN recently acknowledged this,
only to state that just because it has a low infection fatality rate
doesn’t mean that we should get too comfortable. In other words, keep
wearing your mask.
Even the CDC recently announced that
they may stop calling COVID-19 an “epidemic” due to the remarkably low
death rate. You can read more about that here.
Why This Is Important
This all begs the question, are all of
the measures that our federal health regulatory agencies forcing us to
adopt actually necessary? Are they even good for us? Is this really
about the virus, or are we simply having our perception manipulated by
big media and powerful people, just as we have with regards to a number
of other topics, like ‘the war on terror,’ for example. Why is there so
much information showing that masks, for example, should not really be
mandatory?
Why have we taken the measures that
we’ve taken for this virus, but don’t do it for all of the other severe
respiratory viruses that infect and kill millions of people around the
world every single year?
For example, did you know that
metapneumovirus has been shown to have worldwide circulation with nearly
universal infection by age 5? Did you know that outbreaks of
metapneumovirus have been well documented every single year, especially
in long term care facilities with mortality rates of up to 50%? (pubmed
18820584) Did you know that human metapneumovirus infection results in a
large number of hospitalizations of children every single year? Did you
know it has a substantial morbidity rate, again in the elderly, but
also among children as well? Did you know nearly 1-2 million children
every single year die of these types of respiratory illnesses because
they lead to acute respiratory illness? Imagine if the infection rates
and death numbers were constantly tracked, and put on an easy to access
website, mainstream media, radio etc. Imagine if the other coronaviruses
and respiratory illnesses that are more severe in some cases, and
arguably more infectious in some cases, were subjected to constant
monitoring and beamed out to the population every single minute, could
you imagine the hysteria that would be created?
At the end of the day, it seems quite
clear that this virus is not as dangerous as it’s being made out to be,
and again, based on the data, it doesn’t seem to be any more dangerous
than what we’ve already been experiencing for years. So again, it begs
the question, what’s really going on here, and why have governments used
the coronavirus, as Edward Snowden said, the same way they used 9/11?
To push more authoritarian measures on the population without their
consent?
The number of controversies surrounding
the coronavirus is quite revealing. Even people whose deaths are marked
as COVID deaths may not have died as a result of the coronavirus. You
can read more about that here. This, along with the high infection rate even drives the infection mortality rate lower.
The Takeaway
Never in history have we experienced
such a collective distrust for health authorities that we rely on to
provide us with truthful information. As a result, more people are
starting to think for themselves instead of believing what they are
told. The coronavirus, just like 9/11, is really contributing to another
massive shift in consciousness, where even more people become aware of
the deceit corruption, as well as the politicization of science that
seems to plague our world and waking up to the realization that our
world is not how it’s been presented to us, and that our perception of
major events always seems to be subjected to high levels of
manipulation.
We are the ones that choose the system
we live in. We are the ones that continue to play the game every four
years and elect a ‘leader.’ All this does is reinforce as a system we no
longer want to play with. Is it time to stop giving our power away to
others, and begin organizing in another fashion? Is our current
political model truly serving us to thrive? If billions of us can
together and follow instructions for a global lockdown, imagine what
else we could do on a collective level for other important issues…
Looking Deeper
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