Wed Oct 26, 2022 – 12:34 pm EDT
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(WND News Center) – Stanford University medical scientist Professor John Ioannidis has contended for more than two years that data indicate the risk of death from COVID-19 for the vast majority of people is nearly zero, making comprehensive lockdowns, school closures, and vaccine mandates unnecessary.
He has argued, along with the creators of the Great Barrington Declaration, that the risk factor for most people is exponentially smaller than for the vulnerable, typically the elderly who already are afflicted with multiple serious illnesses, such as diabetes and heart disease. These people, he has insisted, could be cared for in nursing, assisted living, and private homes with early treatments while the healthy are allowed to go about their business.
Now, Ioannidis has published a pre-print study concluding that among people under 70 years old around the world, the infection fatality rates for COVID-19 ranges from 0 percent to 0.57 percent, or a little more than one-half of 1 percent.
Significantly, he found, the median percentage was 0.05 percent, or one-twentieth of 1 percent.
Ioannidis examined 36 studies along with an additional seven preliminary
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