Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[numberwang]

Mnementh said:

numberwang said:

If you prefer to hear the same in a different voice: Beda M Stadler is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern.

https://medium.com/@vernunftundrichtigkeit/coronavirus-why-everyone-was-wrong-fce6db5ba809

The virus is gone for now. It will probably come back in winter, but it won’t be a second wave, but just a cold. Those young and healthy people who currently walk around with a mask on their faces would be better off wearing a helmet instead, because the risk of something falling on their head is greater than that of getting a serious case of Covid-19.

From the link: "So: Sars-Cov-2 isn’t all that new, but merely a seasonal cold virus that mutated and disappears in summer, as all cold viruses do — which is what we’re observing globally right now."

OK, that is plain wrong. Take a look at the data:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

As you can see, summer made no difference at all. That statement is already in the beginning of the text. If the author cannot fact-check such a simple and clear statement before writing it down, he already loses a lot of trust from my side. Does he state more things as fact, which are just untrue?

We can see an uptick in "positive cases" (not even people with visible symptoms) because of increased testing in high population countries.

Covid-19 as a lethal disease has disappeared in the EU (the US is maybe one or two months behind with many states like NY already at herd immunity)

No excess deaths in the western EU in the last 3 months. More cases with fewer deaths means increased herd immunity. 

https://www.euromomo.eu/