Recent reports have shown COVID-19 transmission prior to disease onset, raising concerns that people who appear healthy maybe major contributors to the COVID-19 pandemic. Few studieshave directly determined the proportion of transmission eventsthat occur before symptom onset, but a recent modeling studyby He et al. inferred that 44% of secondary cases were infectedduring presymptomatic stages…
Tag: Models
Newsweek reports “Sweden COVID-19 Death Rate Lower Than Spain, Italy and U.K., Despite Never Having Lockdown”
While novel coronavirus cases have spiked across several parts of Europe, including Spain, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, Sweden—where a countrywide lockdown was never issued—continues to report a downward trend in new cases and new deaths. As of Sunday, the latest death rate in Sweden (deaths per 100,000 people) was reported to be 56.40….
Fee reports “Modelers Were ‘Astronomically Wrong’ in COVID-19 Predictions, Says Leading Epidemiologist—and the World Is Paying the Price”
There’s little question that the lockdowns have caused widespread economic, social, and emotional carnage. Evidence that US states that locked down fared better than states that did not is hard to find. Though not yet certain, the COVID-19 pandemic may well turn out to be another example of central planning gone wrong. As I previously noted,…
Gates Foundation Funded BOTH Imperial College and IHME, Failed Model-Makers
Debunked Models Shut Down The Economy The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently provided massive amounts of funding to both the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Imperial College in London, which both produced wildly incorrect models for the Coronavirus outbreak that sparked worldwide panic and provided false justification for government leaders to…