Unreported Truths about Covid-19 and Lockdowns - Alex Berenson

Unreported Truths about Covid-19 and Lockdowns

By Alex Berenson

  • Release Date: 2020-08-03
  • Genre: Life Sciences
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 119 Ratings

Description

The second installment of the best-selling "Unreported Truths" series about the coronavirus from former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson; Part 2 examines the evidence that lockdowns work -or don't.

Reviews

  • Exposed Failed Models

    5
    By Etherspeed
    Really well put together. Easy to digest with links back to source info. What really stood out to me was how much we’re basing our decisions and policies on completely failed models.
  • Very interesting!

    5
    By LynnPG123
    Very interesting and well documented. I look forward to his next one.
  • Well done!

    2
    By Ranger473
    Easy to digest with supporting documentation. These two booklets bring a perspective that that is difficult to find anywhere else.
  • Unreported truths about COVID-19 and lockdowns. Part 2

    5
    By DBIssaq
    Excellent and sensible
  • Excellent Info

    5
    By Tmchug
    As I try to navigate this unique and difficult time, what I want more than anything, is to know the truth (as much as that is possible) I appreciate Alexis’s voice and commitment to uncovering the truth and reporting the data so I can have a better understand on what actions I should take and how much concern I should have. Very helpful and useful information.
  • Great read

    5
    By megamimigirl
    Thank you for this! Looking at the data paints a very different picture than reading the news stories. Everyone should read this.
  • He’s telling an unpopular truth

    5
    By KallTX
    Objective journalism does still exist and facts matter!
  • Superb!

    5
    By HydrogenOxygen&Glitter
    Berenson’s fact-based reporting offers a smart and reasonable look at the efficacy of broad, wide-sweeping lockdowns in response to respiratory epidemics caused by illnesses like SARS-COV-2. This is must-read information for anyone who wants to discover the truth about today’s most pressing societal problem.
  • Alex Berenson is pushing disinformation about COVID-19 and endangering public health

    1
    By Nurit Baytch
    I read the free excerpt posted on Alex Berenson's website. The booklet is based on a false premise; it claims: "Based on the CDC’s scale, Sars-Cov-2 almost certainly should be classified as Category 2 epidemic." This is false. If you click on the link in the booklet, the CDC document says, "This guidance introduces, for the first time, a Pandemic Severity Index in which the case fatality ratio (the proportion of deaths among clinically ill persons) serves as the critical driver for categorizing the severity of a pandemic." (p. 7) Now if you go back to Berenson's first booklet, it includes a link (I believe that I can't include links in my review) to the CDC's best estimate of the infection fatality ratio. Berenson knew at the time that the CDC's estimate of the IFR was widely criticized by public health experts for underestimating the mortality, though he cited it as authoritative, despite the outcry (which he didn’t mention). In July, the CDC updated its estimate so that it represents the current consensus among epidemiologists. The CDC's Current Best Estimate of the infection fatality ratio for COVID-19 is 0.0065, which is 0.65%. Below that, the CDC estimates that 40% of COVID-19 infections are asymptomatic. That means that the case fatality ratio is 1.08%. (IFR = CFR * proportion of symptomatic, i.e. clinically ill, people). Hence, the COVID-19 pandemic is a Category 4 pandemic, as the case fatality ratio for a Category 4 pandemic is 1.0-<2.0. The CDC recommends widespread use of non-pharmaceutical interventions for a Category 4 pandemic. for example: "prolonged (up to 12 weeks) dismissal of students and closure of childcare facilities during a severe influenza pandemic (Category 4 or Category 5)." (p. 37) Hence, Berenson's entire booklet is based on the false premise that the COVID-19 pandemic is a Category 2 pandemic, when in fact, it is a Category 4 pandemic.