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Joel Smalley's avatar

Does someone want to tell Dr Funk?

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Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

Joel,

Funnily enough, I was up til 3am yesterday, reading that manuscript.

Importantly, the authors find no evidence of what was considered the characteristic fingerprint of respiratory viral deaths, which are always exponentially related to age.

That’s missing from the 100 week all causes mortality analysis. It’s really stark. It doesn’t fit the narrative of a respiratory virus as cause of massed illness & death.

They do present an alternative explanation (disruption, stress, immune suppression, susceptibility to bacterial pneumonias, under-prescribing antibiotics).

Bluntly, the data do not beg the presence of a respiratory virus.

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