Model Misspecification and Grossly Inflated Estimates of Lives Saved

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Spiro Pantazatos In a recent study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Watson et al. apply mathematical modeling to estimate that mass COVID-19 vaccinations saved between 14-20 million lives worldwide during the first year of the COVID-19 vaccination program. Previous Brownstone articles by Horst and Raman have already pointed out several erroneous assumptions in the […]

The Biggest Public Health Threat Is Not a Virus but a Weakened Immune System

Carla Peeters A growing list of scientific studies have now shown that immunity following natural infection provides durable protection often far better than immunity following Covid-19 vaccination. Several governments focus on mandated vaccination. However natural immunity and a strong immune system are what are really needed to build full protection and a healthier population. … […]

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health

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Bilal Laved, Abdullah Sarwer, Erik B. Soto, Zia-ur-Rehman Mashwani The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health A pandemic is not just a medical phenomenon; it affects individuals and society and causes disruption, anxiety, stress, stigma, and xenophobia. … Throughout the world, the public is being informed about the physical effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection and […]

There Is No Pandemic

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Iain DavisResearch by an independent statistician, who goes by the pseudonym of John Dee, appears to confirm what many have suspected since the beginning of the Covid-19 pseudopandemic; that the government narrative about the disease is a confidence trick. John Dee looked at more than 160,000 admissions via the Emergency Department of a busy hospital. His analysis […]

COVID-19 and the Unraveling of Experimental Medicine – Part III

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K. E. Thorp, James A. Thorp, Elise M. Thorp In this third part we examine the path not taken: a handful of cheap, widely available, home-based therapies—ozone preconditioning, hydroxychloroquine, and light/vitamin treatment—which, had they been implemented early in the pandemic could have reduced morbidity and mortality by 80% or more. We estimate these interventions could […]

COVID-19 and the Unraveling of Experimental Medicine – Part II

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K. E. Thorp, James A. Thorp, Elise M. Thorp In the second part of our trilogy, we begin by examining social policies sponsored by the science community and enacted by policy-makers to curtail the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic. Containment /mitigation strategies such as lockdowns came at great social and economic costs and yet failed […]