Corona Fiasco 2020

  Dr. Simone Gold, the doctor censored by big tech over hydroxychloroquine viral video, has been fired and now lost her job Nickie Louise POSTED ON JULY 30, 2020 Share On Facebook   Tweet It       Dr. Simone Gold, a board certified emergency physician who appeared in the hydroxychloroquine viral video, has now lost her job. She said she was fired from her job because of the media slander. Dr. Simone Gold, the founder of  the newly created group called America’s Frontline Doctors, lost her job after her employer found out about the viral video where she promoted hydroxychloroquine. The hydroxychloroquine viral  video , which features members of America’s Frontline Doctors at a press conference outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., was taken down on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. The video got more than 14 million views on Facebook alone, according to CNN, which cited CrowdTangle data, has since been taken down fro...

Study confirms massive age differences in COVID-19 death rates, middle-aged hit harder than thought For perspective, the researchers write that a healthy 55-year-old person is 50 times more likely to die from a COVID-19 infection than a car accident Author of the article: Stuart Thomson Publishing date: Jul 30, 2020  •  Last Updated 2 months ago  •  3 minute read The researchers write that the new findings stress the need for public health measures to mitigate the risk to middle-aged and older adults. PHOTO BY PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES A new global study of COVID-19 death rates confirms that people older than 80 years old are massively more likely to die from the disease and finds that policy responses to protect seniors could save thousands of lives. The researchers found that people older than 80 years old have a 24 per cent fatality rate and people aged 70 to 79 years old have a four per cent fatality rate.   The study also found that death ...

No country for face masks: Nordics brush off mouth covers   Marc PRÉEL, with Nioucha ZAKAVATI , AFP•July 30, 2020 Nordic countries reject virus face masks as others require them Stockholm (AFP) - As most of the world either orders or recommends the use of face masks, with even US president Donald Trump seen wearing one, Nordic nations are the remaining holdouts. In supermarkets, on buses, and along the streets of capitals -- such as Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki and Reykjavik -- face masks are a rare sight, worn only by a small minority, many of who are tourists. According to a recent survey by YouGov, only five to 10 percent of respondents in the Nordic countries said they used a mask in public settings, a figure that has remained stable since the start of the crisis in March. At the same time, the corresponding figures have risen to between 70 and 80 percent for most of the other 20 countries polled, including India and the United States. "I have the impression that if t...

  How Did Sweden Flatten Its Curve Without a Lockdown? — One expert credits a "good-enough strategy"; others worry that it won't last by  Kristina Fiore , Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage Today  July 29, 2020 share to facebook share to twitter share to linkedin email article Despite never implementing a full-scale lockdown, Sweden has managed to flatten its curve, prompting its health leadership to claim victory -- but others question the cost of the strategy, as the country has a far higher death toll than its Scandinavian neighbors. In late July, Sweden's  7-day moving average of new cases  was about 200, down from a peak of around 1,140 in mid-June. Its  daily death totals  have been in the single digits for two weeks, well below its mid-April peak of 115 deaths in a single day. However, on a per-capita basis, Sweden far outpaces its Scandinavian neighbors in COVID deaths, with 567 deaths per million people compared with...

  Computer Models Can’t Substitute for Real Life Peter C. Earle   – July 29, 2020 AIER  >>  Daily Economy   >>  Regulation   >>  Economic Education   >>  Crisis Print On the 31st of July — just a few short days away — the six month anniversary of the WHO Declaration of a Global Health Emergency will arrive. And while there are many dates which could serve as the starting point for the start of the crisis, this one seems particularly appropriate: it is shortly thereafter that epidemiologists began plying the quantitative tools of their trade in force, and just after which the conversion from model outputs to policy schemes started to transpire.  We know now how dreadfully awry much of that planning went, not only in terms of harmless (if shockingingly wrong) predictions, but in real terms: lost lives, wealth, and opportunities. To the extent that epidemiological models attempt to predict or ascertain the infec...

  The Economic Performance of Coronavirus Sweden Joakim Book   – July 29, 2020 AIER  >>  Daily Economy   >>  Free Enterprise   >>  Economic Trends   >>  Crisis Print Four months ago, I first wrote about the  pandemic and Sweden . Lots have happened since – and at the same time, almost nothing has changed. Back then, the mayhem was all financial:  stock markets  crashing,  oil   prices  going nuts,  central banks  adding zeros faster than anyone even thought possible.  Slowly, a new normal set in, where the disease was spreading to more countries and the closures of travel – to work and abroad – all but ended. We argued over the causes, the  spoils , how best to maintain incomes for people innocently sacked and ensure that business could taper themselves over this temporary setback. And naturally, about how to protect health care workers and save those infected from...