2024-11-25 05:45:52
Bhattacharya never claimed only 20-40K would die from Covid. He wrote: "The degree of bias is uncertain because available data are limited. But it could make the difference between an epidemic that kills 20,000 and one that kills two million." WSJ OpEd from Bhattacharya [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(61-0-5) Author
2024-11-25 07:15:37
NNN, Battacharya clearly favors the low-death estimates. From his own op-ed: "[Others say 2-4] million could die. We believe that estimate is deeply flawed." "[That] the true fatality rate is much lower as well [is] not only plausible but likely based on what we know so far." archive.is/XIgLM NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(6-0-12) Author
2024-11-25 12:12:06
The WSJ article argued for exceedingly low estimates of the COVID-19 infection fatality rate. Co-author Ben-David admitted the article in question contained wrong estimates of how many people would die. See video of MIT meeting available here, with relevant slides at 10:28 [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(2-0-4) Author