Bill Maher's interview with Yale MD with similair view point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lze-rMYLf2E
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Bill Maher's interview with Yale MD with similair view point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lze-rMYLf2E
You know, I was impressed with the Yale Md talking with Bill Maher. But I've also noticed that in dense populations such as inner cities, nursing homes, and meat packing plants, where people are unable to social distance and take precautions, the number of infected and dead are soaring--immunity isn't happening or, perhaps, not enough.. How do we strike a balance? In my opinion, we know very little about this new virus (sorry, Bakersfield owner/MD) and how to build immunity, SAFELY. until we know more I am going to be cautious. But thanks, this was good info.
BTW, how did Doctor Dan Erickson get his hands on "thousands" of COVID 19 tests? I thought there was a shortage.
thank YOU - YES I agree. Nothing is simple.
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The Bakersfield doctors are the worst kind of opportunists, spreading dangerous information. It is despicable. They are firm supporters of a leader who has advocated for lethal "treatments" of this disease including injecting disinfectant into the human body. Any medical professional aligning themselves with our executive in this crisis demonstrates the degree of their allegiance to science and evidence: none.
Here's a good article from KQED providing contextualization.
Though Widely Discredited, Bakersfield Doctors' COVID-19 Test Conclusions Spread Like Wildfire
Some salient points:
"In a rare statement late Monday, the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine declared they “emphatically condemn the recent opinions released by Dr. Daniel Erickson and Dr. Artin Messihi. These reckless and untested musings do not speak for medical societies and are inconsistent with current science and epidemiology regarding COVID-19. As owners of local urgent care clinics, it appears these two individuals are releasing biased, non-peer reviewed data to advance their personal financial interests without regard for the public’s health.”"
Also:
"The doctors should never have assumed that the patients they tested — who came for walk-in COVID-19 tests or who sought urgent care for symptoms they experienced in the middle of a pandemic — are representative of the general population, said Dr. Carl Bergstrom, a University of Washington biologist who specializes in infectious disease modeling. He likened their extrapolations to “estimating the average height of Americans from the players on an NBA court.” And most credible studies of COVID-19 death rates are far higher than the ones the doctors presented.
“They’ve used methods that are ludicrous to get results that are completely implausible,” Bergstrom said."
Thank YOU so much for sharing this critical information. I deleted the post of the Bakerfield doctors and apologize for not doing more research before posting it.
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Hey, you're very welcome. It's a time with SO much information circulating that it can be hard to sift through what is actually valid. One of the worst things is seeing both our key leaders and many well educated persons spreading garbage parading as information. As a PhD in social sciences, I have my areas of expertise and those areas where I have absolutely no specialized knowledge or expertise. One thing that is crucially important for experts to do is to STAY IN OUR LANES. I can speak very well to inequalities and social factors as they relate to this disease. I have absolutely no business trying my hand at epidemiology. And neither do these dudes running an urgent care out of Bakersfield.
We have capitalists running hospitals, medical doctors playing epidemiologists, and 45 parading as an expert in ... everything. Everything about this situation is ludicrous. And tragic.
Anyway, thanks for revising the post. I haven't watched the other video yet.
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