Professor Michael Levitt, Nobel laureate in chemistry and Stanford biophysicist, says in this interview that there is no clear evidence that Covid-19 is causing mass loss of life. And that the people who die of this disease are those who were in danger of death anyway even without the virus. According to him, we would be victims of a “Covid-19 panic”. Extracts.
“…The flu was almost completely absent last winter, and in a way the covid-19 deaths make up for that absence…As there has been no serious flu season this year, many people fragile are still alive and they are obviously the first target of the coronavirus. »
« Looking back on those six months a year from now is going to be very interesting and we’ll probably wonder how we might have been so duped. Because there has been a lot of very, very irresponsible reporting, even in so-called high-quality newspapers like the New York Times.[…] The key question will be […] what is the total number of deaths worldwide during this period? Is it significantly higher than that of previous years? I don’t know, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the excess was very very small. »
“It is not obvious to me that total containment is necessary or even desirable. We cause … enormous psychological damage to children … panic attacks are now very common, … then of course there is the economic cost. »
“The estimates of [premières] models were incredibly wrong. Look at what happened in England and the United States. The modeling group of Imperial College has stated very clearly that it expects 2 million deaths in the US and 500,000 in the UK. A few weeks later, they came back to those numbers: Oh no no no, we meant 20,000. [Donc] every year, during the flu season, we will have to put society in confinement. … Do you think this is a good idea? »
Listen to the interview (English):
– ‘No evidence that Covid-19 is causing huge loss of life’
Sources:
covidinfos.net
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