Author of the article must be thinking differently now after the Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths have been surging in most countries considering his article was written...
Several months ago prior to being publish in October.
Also, a few inaccurate statements about the facts in his article. Most likely by now...Stanford's Infection Disease department has contacted him and educated him a little.
The re-opening process was very problematic and many knew such before applying it because many did
not want to follow the guidelines. They either created their own guidelines
or used none at all after a lockdown that successfully flatten the curve in infections, hospitalizations and deaths.
Strangely, some countries began protesting during the re-opening but not during the lockdowns and more protesting when restrictions / measures were being target at specific problematic areas to avoid another lockdown.
For example, I saw a bar in my area being shut down along with other bars in nearby cities after these bars had consistently violated the health guidelines...maskless customers, over capacity...
Protesting now and they're angry because they feel targeted while the grocery stores, pharmacy, hardware store, thrift shops, schools are
not shut down.
You just need a few idiots to make whatever Covid-19 statistics seem wrong.
By the way, back in March...I did see the WHO use the 0.2 - 0.3 statistics...never did I see any 3% statistics. Also, they consistently stated each week that whatever the numbers are today...the prediction models will change next week because Covid-19 was new and they were still learning about it...
All of this was stated back in March and continue throughout the summer as such.
At that time, there was a list of 21 universities and government health organizations publishing their Covid-19 prediction models include Stanford University.
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