“Although some experts have shed doubt on the strength and length of the human immune response to the virus, the emerging evidence made her confident that humanity would build up herd immunity against Covid19.”
Dr. Sunetra Gupta et al. (a Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, the Scientific Medal by the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award)
“The disease per se is like the flu in a normal winter.”
Dr Karin Mölling (a full professor and director of the Institute of Medical Virology at the University of Zurich from 1993 until her retirement in 2008 and received multiple honours and awards for her work)
“All measures that we take must be feasible over a longer period of time.” Otherwise, the population will lose acceptance of the entire corona strategy.”
Dr Anders Tegnell (a physician and civil servant who has been State Epidemiologist of the Public Health Agency of Sweden since 2013)
“There is no evidence to show that the 2019 coronavirus is more lethal than respiratory adenoviruses, influenza viruses, coronaviruses from previous years, or rhinoviruses responsible for the common cold.”
Dr Pablo Goldschmidt (an Argentine-French virologist specializing in tropical diseases)
“Projections of the death toll could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high. The true fatality rate is the portion of those infected who die, not the deaths from identified positive cases.”
Dr Eran Bendavid and Dr Jay Bhattacharya (professors of medicine and public health at Stanford University)
“I cannot answer my nagging doubts, there does not seem to be anything special about this particular epidemic of influenza-like illness.”
Dr Tom Jefferson (an advisor to the Italian National Agency for Regional Health Services)
“To put things in proportion, the number of deaths of coronavirus in Italy is 10% of the number of deaths of influenza in the country between 2016-2017.”
Dr Michael Levitt (a Professor of biochemistry at Stanford University and received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.)
“An overestimation of the CFR also occurs when a deceased person is found to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, but this was not the cause of death.”
German Network for Evidence-Based Medicine (an association of German scientists, researchers and medical professionals)
“Likewise, the actual rate of new cases is probably at least 10,000 a day. If these numbers sound large, though, remember that the world is a very big place. From a global perspective, these numbers are very small.”
Dr Richard Schabas (the former Chief Medical Officer of Ontario, Medical Officer of Hastings and Prince Edward Public Health and Chief of Staff at York Central Hospital)
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