Fauci offers more conservative death rate in academic article than in public virus briefings – IOTW Report

Fauci offers more conservative death rate in academic article than in public virus briefings

Just The News: In New England Journal of Medicine, nation’s infectious disease chief suggests COVID-19 may end like bad seasonal flu.

You’ve probably heard that COVID-19 is far deadlier than the flu. But it could turn out to be more akin to a severe flu season. Surprisingly, both of those assessments come from the same authority at the same time: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s chief infectious disease specialist.

Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has repeatedly cited more jarring figures in public. For instance, Fauci declared in March 11 congressional testimony that the current coronavirus “is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu,” which would be about 1 percent. His testimony generated news headlines that blared across the internet and television news, and it remains frequently cited today.

But among his learned colleagues in academia, he has provided the more conservative analysis. more


13 Comments on Fauci offers more conservative death rate in academic article than in public virus briefings

  1. He is covering his ass.
    All he wants to do is keep feeding at the trough,like he has been since P. Regan was in office.
    He is a loud mouth,and part of the problem in the CDC and the NIH.
    When this is over fire him, he was in charge of the first go around of the new test kits that failed.

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  2. Fauci is political (totalitarian left) and deeply gynocratic. He cannot help this due to his position of many years and his natural affinity to government versus individual freedom and responsibility. A gynocrat will always say ‘stop’. Every time, they will say ‘no, you must not’. A man will go ahead, a woman will stop. We need both men and women. We are overbalanced with female responses in our nation, our lives.

    A gynocrat is a female personality never productive of children, thus males can be gynocrats as females can. A female productive of children will seldom be a gynocrat, one non productive will easily become such. Likewise a non child productive male can easily become a gynocrat. Stop, stop, stop, don’t, don’t, don’t is the hallmark of the gynocrat. Females productive of children can become gynocrats, often during and after menopause.

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  3. It’s like the pollsters getting more accurate close to the election. Fauci knows how ginned up this crap is. He can’t lie with a straight face to his colleagues. The shit people have to do to service politicians, I swear…

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  4. he likes to cover all the squares on the board that way he cannot be wrong

    life long dc bureaucrat

    this is why the federal government needs to be decentralized and citizens, not politicians or other bureaucrats, need to review bureaucrats yearly for hiring and retention

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  5. Fauci is a bureaucrat and cannot explain in plain English things like uncertainties, costs and benefits, trade offs, or options. Its 100% gloom and doom what does he care he loses nothing. Trump should fire him

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  6. This is a political issue far more than a medical one.

    You can expect to have different numbers being used according to which side is being addressed at the time.

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  7. global govt causes a crisis then asserts global govt to impose a global solution – all in the name of safety – while screwing the (sonewhat) soverign citizens completely out of their once-held representative republic.

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