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Public is Being “Led to Their Downfall” With False Coronavirus Narrative — Sucharit Bhakdi MD
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FEB 12, 2021
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Sucharit Bhakdi MD
Sucharit Bhakdi was born in Washington, DC, and educated at schools in Switzerland, Egypt, and Thailand.
He studied medicine at the University of Bonn in Germany, where he received his MD in 1970. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg from 1972 to 1976, and at The Protein Laboratory in Copenhagen from 1976 to 1977.
He joined the Institute of Medical Microbiology at Giessen University in 1977 and was appointed associate professor in 1982. He was named chair of Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz in 1990, where he remained until his retirement in 2012.
He is the most cited microbiologist in German academic history.
Dr. Bhakdi has published over three hundred articles in the fields of immunology, bacteriology, virology, and parasitology, for which he has received numerous awards and the Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Sucharit Bhakdi and his wife, Karina Reiss, live with their three-year-old son, Jonathan Atsadjan, in a small village near the city of Kiel.
Corona, False Alarm? Facts and Figures by Sucharit Bhakdi MD and Karina Reiss
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‘In 2020 Corona, False Alarm? exploded into the German market, selling 200,000 copies and 75,000 e-books in the first six weeks.
No other topic dominates our attention as much as coronavirus and COVID-19, the infectious disease it triggers. There’s been a global deluge of contradictory opinions, fake news, and politically controlled information. Differing views on the dangers posed by the pandemic have led to deep division and confusion, within governments, society, and even among friends and family.
In Corona, False Alarm?, award-winning researchers Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Karina Reiss give clarity to these confusing and stressful times. They offer analysis of whether radical protective measures―including lockdown, social distancing, and mandatory masking―have been justified, and what the ramifications have been for society, the economy, and public health. Dr. Bhakdi and Dr. Reiss provide dates, facts, and background information, including:
How Covid-19 compares with previous coronaviruses and the flu virus
What infection numbers and the death rate really tell us
The challenges around lockdown: Were the protective measures justified?
Mandatory mask-wearing: Does the science support it?
Does the race for vaccine development make sense? What are the chances of success? Will the vaccine be safe? Will people accept it?’
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The interview video was created by
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SUCHARIT BHAKDI ➝ 00:19
I studied medicine in Germany. I graduated in Germany and then I went into science and also infectious diseases. And well, I was appointed chair of the department of medical microbiology and hygiene at the University of Mainz. That was a long time, 30 years ago. And I held the chair for 22 years until my retirement in 2012.
That was a long time ago. So that’s how it is. And I’ve taught all of medical microbiology. I’ve taught virology, parasitology for what, 30 years. Yes. And immunology. And published in all these disciplines. So that’s that, there’s no more for me to say.
The general consensus is now reached that COVID-19 is approximately equivalent in lethality to seasonal flu for people under 70, in fact it’s less lethal. This is the consensus that has been reached and that WHO has put on its bulletin of October, 2020.
INTERVIEWER ➝ 01:44
Okay. So understanding that the lethality is the same as seasonal flu, do any of the restrictions of public life make any sense?
SUCHARIT BHAKDI ➝ 01:53
No. None at all. In fact, that’s why they should be lifted immediately. All of them.
INTERVIEWER ➝ 02:00
So what did you think when you first heard about a lockdown happening?
SUCHARIT BHAKDI ➝ 02:07
The first lockdown or the second lockdown?
INTERVIEWER ➝ 02:10
The first lockdown. What was your first emotional feeling when you saw they were going to lock down society?
SUCHARIT BHAKDI ➝ 02:17
Well, the first emotional feeling was that this was not appropriate and that’s the reason why we stood up and made these videos and asked the chancellor [Angela Merkel], whether she really had thought through the matter. Really whether she was sure this was reasonable, but she went on to do it. So let’s forget that first time.
Now the second time has come and we are absolutely horrified that no one is doing anything about it. Why doesn’t the public stand up and say, no. How come we’re letting the politicians do the same mistake again, without any reason.
SUCHARIT BHAKDI ➝ 03:10
The fact is that during the last wave of this epidemic in Europe and also in America and Canada, if you looked at the number of people who died, people under 70, what was the lethality rate for people under 70 who had been infected by the virus? The simple answer is it was less than 0.1%. Meaning that 99.9, probably 99.95% of the infected individuals did not die.
Even the ones who had, these include those with pre-existing illnesses. Now in any flu season, the number of people who will die because of the flu is above 0.05%. So for people under 70, this is definitely not even as dangerous as the seasonal flu.
INTERVIEWER ➝ 04:17
And does the development of a vaccine for COVID-19 makes sense?
SUCHARIT BHAKDI ➝ 04:21
Of course not. I mean, if your chances of dying is about 0.05 [< 70 years old], this is a very small number, you know, 0.05. This means that if you want to develop a vaccine and it’s going to be proven efficacious, you have to show that the lethality rate goes down further than 0.05, to 0.03 or 0.02, but that will never be possible. No clinical trial in the world will be able to show that difference. Because that difference is so minuscule.
You know, it’s not like tetanus. If you get tetanus today, a hundred people get tetanus, 90 are going to die. All right, in Thailand, a hundred are going to die. If you have vaccinated against tetanus, no one’s going to die.
So that is really efficaciousness and that’s what you have to go for when you develop a vaccine.
SUCHARIT BHAKDI ➝ 05:21
So in fact, this vaccine development for people under seventies, absolutely nonsensical. The only sense a vaccine might have, would be for people over 70, over 75, who are really endangered. And of these, only those with pre-existing illnesses are really endangered.
If you’re 80 or 90 today, and you are healthy, the chances of your dying because of COVID-19 are virtually as small as if you were 70. I can tell you that I am way over 70. And I know that this virus is not going kill me.
It can’t in fact, so there you are. If you want to develop a vaccine, it is only for those over 70 with pre-existing illnesses. Now, if you’re going to, if you have a vaccine that works for these, fine, get vaccinated, but I tell you to develop a vaccine for this population. It’s so God damn difficult. You have to be very, very careful that that vaccine is not killing the elderly with pre-existing disease instead of protecting them.
SUCHARIT BHAKDI ➝ 06:35
And the thing is that what holds for COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2, holds for virtually all other respiratory pathogens.
So many viruses, the flu virus, the RSV virus and bacteria like pneumococcal that are so much more, you get a hundred times more pneumococcal infections than SARS-CoV-2. And they are all deadly to people with pre-existing disease.
JANUARY 20, 2021
“Now in any flu season, the number of people who will die because of the flu is above 0.05%. So for people under 70, this is definitely not even as dangerous as the seasonal flu.”
SUCHARIT BHAKDI MD
(Most cited microbiologist in German academic history)
https://dryburgh.com/sucharit-bhakdi-led-to-their-downfall-with-false-coronavirus-narrative/