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1/YThread on a fallacy I've seen a lot since the pandemic's beginning. Someone may have named it before, but if so, I can't find it.So I'm calling it:the ebola fallacy,

1/YMany criticized the article below co-authored by Jay Bhattacharya, who also co-wrote the Great Barrington Declaration.But I haven't seen a detailed explanation of why the article was wrong + dangerous.

1/HThere was a recent effort to champion Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) as a non-expert who speaks uncomfortable truths experts don't want to hear.That's misguided, as we can see by examining how

1/EVarious southeast Asian nations suffered relatively few COVID-19 deaths per capita, especially in comparison to many "western" nations.There's been a lot of speculation on why this is. So this thread

1/GThe paper below from @GidMK and @BillHanage looks at the infection fatality rate (IFR). IFR is the proportion of SARS-CoV-2-infected people who die of the disease COVID-19.This IFR is >10X

1/CA lot of COVID-19 contrarians abuse the idea of "cross-reactivity" to make SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) look less dangerous than it really is. Many of them do this

1/There's been a resurgence in the myth that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, kills ~0.26% of the people it infects in the US.In other words: The infection fatality rate

1/W@BretWeinstein continues to peddle a conspiracy theory about the origins SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19. This thread will address his conspiracy theory.Thanks to @PeterDaszak, @FriendlyBoat, and @Potholer54T.https