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2020: Covid ‘Not Deadly Enough' to Justify Risk of Fast-Track Vaccines, Chris Whitty Told Government
2023-03-09
[Daily Skeptic] COVID-19 was not dangerous enough to justify cutting short vaccine trials as the vaccine had to be "very safe", Chris Whitty advised the Government in the early weeks of the outbreak, it has emerged.

Writing on WhatsApp on February 29th 2020, the Chief Medical Officer told Government figures: "For a disease with a low (for the sake of argument 1%) mortality a vaccine has to be very safe so the safety studies can’t be shortcut. So important for the long run."

The estimate of 1% turned out to be an overestimate, as the infection fatality rate in Europe and the Americas was found to be 0.3-0.4%.

Chief Scientist Patrick Vallance agreed with this advice and wrote that existing drugs should be relied on instead: "Agree, existing drugs best things to try for this outbreak. Accelerate vaccine testing where we have good candidates for future, and prepare for manufacturing capacity for longer term."
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  Statistically, Covid initially appeared more deadly than it actually was because they refused to conduct scientific studies. In order to figure out how deadly it was the need was to complete a 1000 or 10,000 random or location sample of all people not just the sick ones to see what the real percentage of infection was. The random sampling was never done. Instead we used hospitalizations over reported cases. The numerator was correct but the denominator did not include asymptomatic and annoyance level cases. The low denominator made Covid appear to be highly virulent but the number was not accurate.
The poor sampling could have been incompetence, but it looked like a strategy to create fear to me.
On an individual basis, Covid was very serious. I had Omicron and was absolutely miserable for two weeks. I would not have gone to the hospital unless I was truly on deaths door as I mistrusted many of the treatments. Several of them seemed to approximate the palliative care that my wife received when she was in hospice level treatment.
It seemed like all the therapeutics were forbidden by the medical community in favor of the vaccines and other expensive treatments like Remdesmovir and Paxlovid.
I am interested in seeing the final results of this so that I can gage what I did right and wrong. My initial impression was that the virus was man made and from either an intentional or inadvertent lab leak. I did not expect to see real info on any of this for several decades.
With respect to deadliness - it was to some people. Statistically, the flu is also deadly. It is certainly more serious than the flu.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-03-09 16:01  

#2  I thought it was pretty deadly myself. There were old folks dropping like flies. I was almost one of them.
Posted by: Fred   2023-03-09 12:52  

#1  Oops.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-03-09 11:58  

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