Is the R0 greater than 1? Also, cases don't matter much anymore with all the vulnerable being vaccinated. Hospitalizations are still going down in the UK. In the US, there's about 10% as many covid transmissions as there are flu transmissions during flu season and the case fatality rate is now basically what the flu is. Thus, there's really no reason to treat covid like covid anymore as far as public health policies are concerned. The US also had a slight uptick in April when people started doing more things as the weather got nicer.And I say again: cases in the UK are rising. It is a reasonable assumption that the UK and USA have had roughly the same number of infected (similar number of deaths), and they have about the same number vaccinated. So how it this possible if herd immunity has been achieved?
Yes, you did guess. Because you didn't read all the science and there was no consensus amongst the experts. You read some stuff and believed it because you wanted to.
You're boasting about your predictions, here. You can't claim that what you didn't know at the time informed your prediction.
Ah yes: "I said these drugs worked, and the persistent failure to show they do means I'm not wrong".
There is literally NOTHING SCIENCE-BASED (during the entire length of the pandemic) that would even hint or allude to covid immunity being short-lived unless you consider bullshit anti-body studies that are rather meaningless as far as immunity goes. The consensus is that immunity it's long-lived.
They weren't my predictions, they were what experts said. I don't know how many times I have to reiterate that.
The persistent failure of the studies to show the treatments don't work. Pretty much all early treatment studies of HCQ shows that it helps.
So because someone does something for politics, it's bad even though it's something that should be done? Giving money to China is just not a good idea to begin with.Paul got the answers he was asking for. He had an agenda, wanted to attack and grandstand for image, so he got pushback. That's the way it works, the way it always works. If he wanted nice, reasonable answers out of Fauci, he could have asked them nicely. But he's aiming to imply the US government funded China making a bioweapon for politics. He can fuck right off.
I don't really care who did better or not, but deaths per capita is obviously the most important thing to look at. If the US did so very very very badly and completely incompetent, then how could none of these countries (with better social programs and healthcare) not even do twice as better as the US? The answer is most likely that, again, there wasn't much we really could do as there's plenty of comparisons of places that had heavy restrictions and places that had light restrictions with barely much of a difference between the two (except economically of course).Really? Then how did you make any claim about who was better or worse in the first place?
The USA did do badly. Really badly.
Excluding Belgium (for reasons discussed above), the only worse developed countries by official figures are the UK (marginally), Italy and San Marino - the latter of course being a few acres in the middle of Italy, and Italy was first in the firing line, before the rest of Europe or the USA. We then get Spain, Portgual and France (~10% lower), and then it's over 20% lower to the likes of Sweden.