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by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky and Ana Laura Palomino García
July 13,
2022
First
published on May 1, 2020
from
GlobalResearch Website
Anthony Fauci
and his Peer
Reviewed Article
versus his
Public Statements...
Dr.
Anthony Fauci and two
co-authors published an article on March 26, 2020 in the New
England Journal of Medicine.
Anthony Fauci is head of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases.
In the article, linked
below, he states that
COVID-19 may turn out to be
comparable to a seasonal flu or similar to two relatively minor flu
pandemics in 1957 and 1968.
It is estimated that
seasonal flu kills about 500,000 people globally every year and the
two flu pandemics he cited each are thought to have killed about a
million people globally.
Below is an excerpt of
the article:
Covid-19 - Navigating the Uncharted
"On the basis of
a case definition requiring a diagnosis of pneumonia, the
currently reported case fatality rate is approximately 2%.
In another
article in the Journal, Guan et al. report mortality of 1.4%
among 1099 patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19;
these patients had a wide spectrum of disease severity.
If one assumes
that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic
cases is several times as high as the number of reported
cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than
1%.
This suggests
that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may
ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal
influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately
0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and
1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which
have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%,
respectively."
It is not over yet,
but this is much less than what our hysterical media and
politicians have led us to believe.
In the beginning of
this historic, media-fueled panic, it sounded like millions
would die in the US alone and tens of millions, if not hundreds
of millions, globally.
Ana Laura Palomino García
on
Patriot Fire Net
Global
Research Editor's note
Ironically, the media panic referred to by Ana Laura Palomino
García is being fuelled by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is
playing a central role as a spokesperson in mainstream media
reports.
His analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine is in
sharp contrast with some of his frenzied statements on network TV,
often taken out of context and/or misquoted by the media including
press reports and headlines.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is described as America's 'trustworthy voice' on
coronavirus,
"often correcting
President Donald Trump" who compares the COVID-19 to the
Seasonal Flu.
But isn't that what Fauci
is doing in his NEJM article (in that regard Trump's comparison is
correct).
"Over the weekend,
Fauci told CNN that the pandemic could ultimately kill between
100,000 and 200,000 people in the US should mitigation be
unsuccessful."
"Serving a president who initially dismissed coronavirus by
comparing it to seasonal flu, Fauci has been even-handed in
public."
Fauci is by far a
CNBC favorite, providing "authoritative" statements
on the virus:
Fauci tends to contradict
himself.
He certainly does not
inform Americans in a cautious way.
He does not reassure
Americans.
His authoritative statements often have no factual backing...
The Guardian screenshot
March
29
He not only misleads Americans, he fails to acknowledge the
statements of the WHO which confirm unequivocally that:
The most commonly
reported symptoms [of COVID-19] included fever, dry cough, and
shortness of breath, and most patients (80%) experienced mild
illness.
Approximately 14%
experienced severe disease and 5% were critically ill.
Early reports suggest
that illness severity is associated with age (>60 years old) and
co-morbid disease (largely basing on WHO's assessment of
COVID-19 in China).
The Hill
March 19, 2020
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