I will point out, regarding the video take-downs: These videos were taken down because of “spreading misinformation”. ie- they go against what public health experts have been stating. Stifling and sequesting frontline physicians is EXACTLY how this disease became a pandemic in the first place.

I literally just provided a non-conspiracy theory reason why the deaths may be over-inflated.

Oh drop the nonsensical hysteria about encouraging revolt. These are practicing physicians, for one. Your numbers were drastically off about Norway vs Sweden. Yes- the main point of the lockdown is to flatten the curve and prevent the healthcare system from collapsing while allowing testing and vaccination programs to get into gear. That time has MOSTLY come so why are we still in lockdown? Are we locking down UNTIL we get a vaccine? Why the low fatality rates? We didn’t do this with previous outbreaks like Swine Flu. “We don’t even know if a patient can get sick again. ” Uh, yes we do. We have seen it. Which makes this extended lockdown even more pointless as it’s just spinning a wheel, indefinitely.

That can’t be true. We have tested 6 million people in the US and 1 million are positive. That is 17% of the population that are testing positive. If you extrapolated that by 50x [as we have only tested 2% of the WHOLE population], then that indicates that 50 million people have had coronavirus. Out of 50 thousand deaths. 0.1% of those infected have died [50k/50m]

I doubt it is something like a genetic switch. Maybe an epitope cross-reactivity that is triggering it. You see immunomodulation like that all the time in the body [celiac disease/herpes dermatiformis, for example].

Uh, excuse me. Fellow physician here. Little confused about something here: “So Sweden has only twice the population of Norway and 5 times the deaths per population unit! ” Yes. Because as he stated, they locked the place down. Less cases. Less deaths. As soon as Norway opens shop and people start congregating and spreading this remarkably infectious disease, what do you think is going to happen to that mortality rate? The same thing can be said with California, which locked down. If you want numbers, then look at the nation level. We have 6 million tested, with 1 million being positive. That is 17%. That is really, really hard to argue sampling bias with a disease with non-specific symptoms.

And I would beg to differ with your assessment. Being an epidemiologist doesn’t qualify you to make the sorts of statements the author is making. Otherwise he wouldn’t make stupid statements like trying to talk about sampling bias in a disease that has entirely nonspecific symptoms. Dr.Erickson [you know, the practicing physician (DO, not MD, so it is irrelevant)] actually does, he has seen the cases. And so have we. We have tested 6 million people in the US and 1 million are positive. 17% positivity rates. So far. You aren’t going to chalk that up to sampling bias.

He is a DO. Not an MD. Which is irrelevant because they are both physicians. It is a dumb point the author made to try and debunk Erickson.

Unless those deaths were falsely attributed to being from covid, as Dr.Erickson stated docs were being pressured into doing. CMMS is openly reimbursing hospitals 20% more for covid deaths. The problem is what you call a covid death and AMA put out a 7 page release, itself, encouraging doctors to put that on the death certificate, even though they haven’t been confirmed with coronavirus. So don’t say it is mathematically impossible when human stupidity can more than make up for it.

The author absolutely has an axe to grind. Erickson is a DO, not an MD. I am an MD and I will tell you that they are exactly equivalent. If he is trying to state otherwise, he needs to come out and say it. Erickson is in fact in practice. Not that this matters when attempting to put basic biostats together, because they teach you that in medical school. Erickson was very much correct and the current positivity of 17% in the US out of 6 million tested can’t be waved away with a disease that has nonspecific symptoms. Afterall, the author isn’t a physician, now is he? How would he know who gets tested and who doesn’?

6 million tests in the US. 1 million positive. About 17% positive. So far. And this guy is trying to wave the “Sampling bias” nonsense wand at us for a disease that has entirely nonspecific symptoms.

Oh, we haven’t tested everyone and never will. But have so far done pretty well. 6 million tested. 1 million positive. That is about 15-16% positive so far. *So far*. This guy is literally trying to say that those numbers are wrong, the docs are wrong because of sampling bias for a disease with nonspecific symptoms.  It is stupifying ridiculous.

For all this guy’s claim to being an epidemiologist, he doesn’t seem to know what he is talking about.   We have tested 6 million in the US and 1 million have been tested positive. You can’t chalk a 1/6th prevalence of a sample size THAT large with being sampling bias for a disease with entirely non specific symptoms.

What is your point? Two organizations made a statement of opinion. We have another, the AMA, that made a release encouraging doctors to put covid down as the cause of death without any positive test to confirm that. Either Erickson’s numbers are good or they’re not. You can’t use an appeal to authority fallacy to prove/disprove a point, so stop it already.

THIS. Him bringing up community attack rate is as relevant as stating that Dr.Erickson isn’t an MD; he is a DO, which is literally equivalent to an MD. We have tested 6 million people in the US and 1 million have tested positive. That is about 15-20% of the population for a disease with non-specific symptoms.

Absolutely. This guy is bringing up irrelevant information [like Erickson not being an MD(he is a DO, which is equivalent)]. Or the fact that we have effectively tested about 2% of the US population [6 million] and 1/6th have been positive so far. Very hard to chalk that up to just being sampling bias for a disease that presents with entirely non-specific symptoms.