To @realDonaldTrump @vp This is a weekly reminder it's been:

117 DAYS since Dr. Ioannidis @METRICStanford
conducted a study proving that people <65 are at an extremely low risk of COVID-19 death even in hotbeds & we should focus solely on high-risk elderly individuals

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We didn't listen to Dr. Ioannidis. We ignored him. We've lost over 60,000 lives just in nursing homes alone. These people were our parents & grandparents. They didn't deserve to die alone as we scrambled to figure out something we were already told here:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20054361v1.full.pdf
108 DAYS since Drs. Ioannidis, Bhattacharya, @ebdStanford conducted a seroprevalence study that concluded the virus is *much* more widespread than believed. These studies have been done in CA, FL, NY, MA, & around the world. 30-50 million Americans have had this virus & recovered
Yesterday, Dr. Birx announced virus is widespread. Really? She was told that months ago: widespread & therefore not nearly as deadly. It also means herd immunity is likely. Why aren't more of these studies being done? Because they destroy the narrative:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1.full.pdf
76 DAYS since Dr. Ioannidis conducted a study that concluded Infection Fatality Rate (IFR), the probability of dying for a person who's infected, is around .2%, the equivalent of a bad seasonal flu. Again, for the vast majority of Americans it means this virus is not deadly.
Is that not what we're seeing right now? Many, many cases. Every time we test, we have more & more cases. But if Facui/Birx were right about IFR, people would've been dying in mass. Not happening. Not with low IFR & 99.8% survival rate when infected:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v1.full.pdf
Mr. President, for each of the 3 studies, Ioannidis & his team wrote a revised version based on feedback from colleagues. Because that's what humble scientists do. They conduct study, fine-tune study, publish findings & repeat study. These are real scientists. No fatal conceit.
Respectfully sir, this means many people around you claimed to follow science but in reality they did not. It means we should follow the actual scientists who got it right, not the ones who consistently got it wrong. It means it's still not too late to go with Ioannidis & team.
Please help me RT this thread. I don't care about increasing followers. All I care about is the truth. This thread is the truth & includes 3 actual scientific studies conducted by the best scientists we have.
RT & perchance @realDonaldTrump or someone close to him will see it.
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