Ep96 Viral Hysteria Wreaking Havoc - versus Real Fixes? WHY?
Short podcast with Ally Houston from Paleo Canteen. We discuss the impending annihilation of the hospitality sector, totally unjustified and wrong. Then we talk about what would actually HELP with this viral issue.
We Must Question The COVID-19 Status Quo (w/Dr. Jay Bhattacharya)
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a Stanford physician and economist and co-author of several seroprevalence studies on COVID-19. In this must-watch interview we talk about EVERYTHING. Including the true infection fatality rate, comparisons to influenza, drama around his Santa Clara antibody trial, reinfections, vaccine development, economic and social impacts, why we MUST reopen schools NOW, the horrors of censorship of scientists and opposing dialog, how Stanford is contributing to the problem of stifling dissenting opinions, Dr. Scott Atlas and his advisory role to the president, empathy vs. compassion with regards to COVID, and MUCH MORE.
Jay Bhattacharya - The scientific community overreacted to the threat of COVID-19
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, is a professor of medicine at Stanford University’s Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, director of Stanford’s Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging, and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He also serves as a research associate at Acumen LLC and the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on the constraints that vulnerable populations face in making decisions that affect their health status, as well as the effects of government policies and programs designed to benefit vulnerable populations. He has published empirical economics and health services research on the elderly, adolescents, HIV/AIDS and managed care. Most recently, he researched the regulation of the viatical-settlements market (a secondary life-insurance market that often targets HIV patients) and summer/winter differences in nutritional outcomes for low-income American families. He is also working on a project examining labor-market conditions that determine why some U.S. employers do not provide health insurance. Bhattacharya was previously an economist at the RAND Corporation, and taught health economics as a visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned a bachelor’s degree, MD and PhD from Stanford University.
Viral Issue Crucial Update Sept 8th: the Science, Logic and Data Explained!
The ultimate update on our viral issue, bar none - Sept 8th 2020 . Get educated guys and gals - or keep your head in the sand while your errant leaders destroy society around you... ;-)
Prof Michael Levitt: Covid panic will shorten lives
Professor Michael Levitt, Nobel Prize winner and Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford, was one of our early interviews during the lockdown era. Partly due to that interview, which has been watched over 750,000 times on YouTube, he became a leading dissenting scientist, arguing that the trends of Covid-19 were revealed in the numbers, and that they were much less scary than most people thought. At the end of July, he made a prediction that Covid-19 would be “done” by August 25th. It and was shared across Twitter. He agreed, back then, to come in to our new studio once the date had elapsed, to see how his prediction fared.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya | Lockdowns, Vaccines and Debt
In this special Direct interview, John is joined by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Professor of Medicine and Professor (by Courtesy) of Economics at Stanford University. They discuss the international response to the COVID crisis, delving into the efficacy and mental health impacts of widespread, long-term lockdowns (as seen in Victoria), the likelihood of a vaccine development and the extraordinary levels of government debt that has fuelled the COVID recovery.
Crucial Viewing - to truly understand our current Viral Issue #Casedemic
The title says it all - absolutely crucial that you see this, realize the reality - and share widely. You must understand that our epidemic has waned - and has been replaced with an irrational, unscientific Casedemic.
We may already have herd immunity – an interview with Professor Sunetra Gupta
A Conversation with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya from Standford University and the Hoover Institue.
Dr. Bhattacharya has been at the forefront of studying COVID-19, running
numerous studies on antibodies, and recovering from the virus.
Swedish Doctor: T-cell immunity and the truth about Covid-19 in Sweden
Dr Soo Aleman has been both on the front lines of the Covid-19 epidemic as a senior physician at Stockholm’s leading Karolinska hospital, and on the research side, as Assistant Professor at the Karolinska Institute and one of a group that last week published new data around T-cell immunity.
Measuring the risk of coronavirus | Michael Levitt, Anne Johnson, David Alexander and Toby Young
Michael Levitt, Anne Johnson, David Alexander and Toby Young debate how to measure the risks of coronavirus.
Michael Levitt: Does the data support the lockdown policy?
Professor Michael Levitt FRS is a globally renowned biophysicist and chemist. He received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His long record of distinguished research and innate understanding of computer modelling make his insights into the COVID-19 pandemic indispensable. He unpacks some of the key data as we question whether the lockdown policy is correct.
Prof. Michael Levitt | Direct | COVID-19: Choices and Consequences
Professor Michael Levitt FRS is a globally renowned biophysicist and chemist. He received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel, "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems." His long record of distinguished research and innate understanding of computer modelling make his insights into the COVID-19 pandemic indispensable. Professor Levitt is Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor in Cancer Research in the Stanford University School of Medicine and Professor of Structural Biology and (by courtesy) of Computer Science.
Ep80 The Latest DATA and EVIDENCE - Have our Lock-downs been Effective?
The latest data around mortality risk realities, and the evidence For/Against Lock-downs.
In both cases we review the official published data and studies from the past weeks.
Although no fringe material here - quite the opposite - you may still get a big surprise when you understand the actual numbers and science.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: His new MLB COVID-19 Study and the Dilemma of the Lockdown
Dr. Jay Bhattacharaya from Stanford Medicine makes his third appearance on Uncommon Knowledge in eight weeks, this time to discuss a new COVID-19 survey of Major League Baseball employees he co-authored. The survey tested more than 5,600 employees across all 26 Major League Baseball clubs across the country. The results are yet another data set showing how COVID-19 spreads across geographical and economic lines. Dr. Bhattacharya also discusses the very real health risks associated with a prolonged lockdown and answers some of the questions raised by his last survey of Santa Clara County.
NOT What You May Think! Viral Mortality Comparison 2018 vs 2020
Do you think you have the slightest grasp of current Coronavirus impacts across Europe? You may not, in spite of all the media you have consumed in past weeks. Here I lay out the numbers with brutal clarity and simplicity.
Nobel prize winning scientist Prof Michael Levitt: lockdown is a “huge mistake”
As he is careful to point out, Professor Michael Levitt is not an epidemiologist. He’s Professor of Structural Biology at the Stanford School of Medicine, and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for “the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.” With a purely statistical perspective, he has been playing close attention to the Covid-19 pandemic since January, when most of us were not even aware of it. He first spoke out in early February, when through analysing the numbers of cases and deaths in Hubei province he predicted with remarkable accuracy that the epidemic in that province would top out at around 3,250 deaths. In this interview with Freddie Sayers, Executive Editor of UnHerd, Professor Levitt explains why he thinks indiscriminate lockdown measures as “a huge mistake,” and advocates a “smart lockdown” policy, focused on more effective measures, focused on protecting elderly people.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: "It's Lives v/s Lives, Not Lives V/s Livelihoods"
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University interviewed by Givindraj Ethiraj: Coronavirus infections could vastly exceed official counts and be less deadly suggests a new study from StanfordUniversity . The co-author of the study and Professor of Medicine Dr Jay Bhattacharya, speaks to Govindraj Ethiraj
Why lockdowns are the wrong policy - Swedish expert Prof. Johan Giesecke
That was one of the more extraordinary interviews we have done here at UnHerd. Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government (he hired Anders Tegnell who is currently directing Swedish strategy), the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and an advisor to the director general of the WHO, lays out with typically Swedish bluntness why he thinks: - UK policy on lockdown and other European countries are not evidence-based - The correct policy is to protect the old and the frail only - This will eventually lead to herd immunity as a “by-product” - The initial UK response, before the “180 degree U-turn”, was better - The Imperial College paper was “not very good” and he has never seen an unpublished paper have so much policy impact - The paper was very much too pessimistic - Any such models are a dubious basis for public policy anyway - The flattening of the curve is due to the most vulnerable dying first as much as the lockdown - The results will eventually be similar for all countries - Covid-19 is a “mild disease” and similar to the flu, and it was the novelty of the disease that scared people. - The actual fatality rate of Covid-19 is the region of 0.1% - At least 50% of the population of both the UK and Sweden will be shown to have already had the disease when mass antibody testing becomes available
Sweden Thinks Herd Immunity Is the Answer to Coronavirus
As countries around the world order lockdowns to stop the spread of COVID-19, Sweden is charting a different course: it has purposefully avoided the drastic curbs on public life that have become the norm during this pandemic.
Corona Virus and The Elephant in the Room Sky News
Dr. Aseem Malhotra on Sky News this morning, with a timely and hard-hitting piece on what is not getting enough focus. The epidemic of modern chronic disease which hugely exacerbates the impact of this issue.
