How timely (because they are discussing bad information from official medical sources). I just listened to a podcast on NPR's 'The Daily' which is from the NYT.
NYT Podcast, 07/09/20: A Missed Warning about Silent Corona Virus Infections. (Sorry, no transcript yet but this is so worth everyone's 32 minutes.)
How different are we from that? We don't arrest people but that doesn't mean we don't shut them up. This is a story about a German man who had a visitor from Wuhan at the end of Jan. That visitor did not feel ill until he was on the way home. When the man in Germany felt ill a few days later and went to the doctor, he was diagnosed as the first case of COVID 19 in Germany.
The doctor wrote a professional letter about the asymptomatic spread. Instead, theBMJ NEJM editors (corrected) argued against the asymptomatic spread and instead claimed the man from Wuhan actually did have symptoms. Thus they quashed the medical opinion of the doctor who made the diagnosis and replaced it with their own that the visitor had symptoms.
They discuss the political reasons asymptomatic spread was denied at first. And that denial came from officials like the CDC in the US and the WHO. This has been a real eye-opener for me just how much political influence is playing on the public information these organizations are putting out. I rationalized that made sense when the WHO refused to upgrade the threat to an official pandemic. Now I see there was more to it than a simple formula for upgrading the threat.
Now these officials don't want to publicly admit there is some airborne spread. If they did that they would have to admit health care workers were not adequately protected even when they do have PPE. They would have to provide at least N95s for health care workers even though an N95 doesn't provide perfect protection either. But it is better than a surgical mask.
Guardian; Back in mid-April: Coronavirus is killing far more US health workers than official data suggests
Next the not airborne lie. And are we sure about this "kids aren't spreading it, open the schools" assertion?
NYT Podcast, 07/09/20: A Missed Warning about Silent Corona Virus Infections. (Sorry, no transcript yet but this is so worth everyone's 32 minutes.)
Remember that ophthalmologist who tried to sound the warning in China but he was arrested?At the end of January, long before the world understood that seemingly healthy people could spread the coronavirus, a doctor in Germany tried to sound the alarm. Today, we look at why that warning was unwelcome.
How different are we from that? We don't arrest people but that doesn't mean we don't shut them up. This is a story about a German man who had a visitor from Wuhan at the end of Jan. That visitor did not feel ill until he was on the way home. When the man in Germany felt ill a few days later and went to the doctor, he was diagnosed as the first case of COVID 19 in Germany.
The doctor wrote a professional letter about the asymptomatic spread. Instead, the
On today’s episode:
Matt Apuzzo, an investigative reporter for The New York Times based in Brussels.
Dr. Camilla Rothe, an infectious disease specialist at Munich University Hospital.
They discuss the political reasons asymptomatic spread was denied at first. And that denial came from officials like the CDC in the US and the WHO. This has been a real eye-opener for me just how much political influence is playing on the public information these organizations are putting out. I rationalized that made sense when the WHO refused to upgrade the threat to an official pandemic. Now I see there was more to it than a simple formula for upgrading the threat.
Now these officials don't want to publicly admit there is some airborne spread. If they did that they would have to admit health care workers were not adequately protected even when they do have PPE. They would have to provide at least N95s for health care workers even though an N95 doesn't provide perfect protection either. But it is better than a surgical mask.
Guardian; Back in mid-April: Coronavirus is killing far more US health workers than official data suggests
27 is bull ****. There are hundreds of health care worker deaths in the US alone. You can bet that 27 is the result of the CDC tamping down on the criteria needed to say a health care worker died of COVID 19 they got on the job.The number of healthcare workers who have tested positive for the coronavirus is probably far higher than the reported tally of 9,200, and US officials say they have no comprehensive way to count those who lose their lives trying to save others.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the infection tally on Tuesday and said 27 health worker deaths have been recorded, based on a small number of test-result reports.
Officials stressed that the count was drawn from just 16% of the nation’s Covid-19 cases, so the true numbers of healthcare infections and deaths are certainly far higher.
Next the not airborne lie. And are we sure about this "kids aren't spreading it, open the schools" assertion?
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