Medical Treatment
As the focus of this website is on the harms of ‘public health’ restrictions, I don’t have the time to stay up-to-date on COVID treatment and prevention. I have therefore decided that it’s best to stay out of this area. However, I would like to endorse Covid-19 Early Treatment, Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, Mark Trozzi, Harvey Risch, and Peter McCullough as excellent sources. All are universally respected in the freedom movement. Risch and McCullough don’t have their own websites but you can look them up on non-censored search engines like Dogpile and non-censored video platforms like BitChute or Rumble. They have many eye-opening interviews online.
Information on, and the use of, early COVID treatments has been deeply suppressed. Our rulers are doing all they can to keep COVID deaths numbers as high as possible. There is ample evidence that cheap, repurposed drugs such as ivermectin, and simple supplements like zinc and vitamin D, reduce deaths and hospitalizations from SARS-CoV-2 in the range of 75-99%. Be aware that there is a fierce misinformation campaign against COVID medications, including the publication of fraudulent studies to discredit them.
Like nothing else, the efforts of the government and media to prevent people from receiving these life-saving COVID medications proves that the pandemic is a contrived conspiracy. If people took these supplements and meds, prophylactically or early in the course of COVID, there would be basically no more deaths or hospitalizations from COVID. That would make it difficult for the conspirators to continue attacking their own people with lockdowns and poisonous pseudo-vaccines. One criterium for emergency use authorization of the pseudo-vaccines is that there cannot be effective alternatives available. If the CDC admitted that other treatments radically lowered COVID deaths, for instance, it would be violating their own EUA policy unless it withdrew the vaccines from the market.
The government’s denial of effective COVID medications is a campaign of passive mass murder. It is no less evil than direct mass murder. If you thought the totalitarian society in which we now live was created for our health, the denial of COVID medications definitively disproves that theory.
Global Infection Fatality Rate (IFR)
Revised 2022 IFR for UK: 0.03%
Source: DailyMail, COVID now less dangerous than the flu, March 10, 2022.
Percentage of SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals who die of any cause within a month after a positive COVID test:
All ages 0.15% (1 in 666)
In the study, Ioaniddis notes that those dying with COVID may have otherwise died relatively soon and the deaths may not be accurately counted:
“Crude estimates of infection fatality rate may be over‐emphasizing burden of disease, if COVID‐19 deaths occur in people with minimal life expectancy.”
“This corresponds to global IFR ~0.15%—a figure open to adjustment for any over‐ and under‐counting of COVID‐19 deaths”
Source: John P.A. Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Stanford University. “Reconciling estimates of global spread and infection fatality rates of COVID‐19: An overview of systematic evaluations.” March 26, 2021.
For information on the over-counting of COVID-19 deaths, see “Lying About People Having COVID-19” in Tactics of the Propagandists: Part 3.
Under 70-years-age 0.04% (1 in 2,500)
In February 2021, Stanford University’s Nobel Laureate Professor Michael Levitt calculated that Sweden has a SARS-CoV-2 infection mortality rate of 0.06%, putting it lower than the flu. The government of Norway has officially stated that SARS-CoV-2 is no more dangerous than the common flu.
The “case fatality rate” is the figure most commonly referenced by the media. It is calculated by dividing confirmed coronavirus cases (those who have tested positive for coronavirus) by confirmed deaths from coronavirus (deaths that occurred while someone was believed to have coronavirus). The case fatality rate for coronavirus is irrelevant because tests are often only performed on people who are extremely ill.
Criteria for “recovered cases” varies widely by location. It may refer to people who have tested negative for coronavirus after an earlier positive test result. It may refer to people who have had two consecutive negative results, after an earlier positive result. It may refer to people who have been discharged from hospital after a stay for COVID-19. Another criteria is someone who has passed 14 days after a positive result without being admitted to hospital. There are numerous other definitions, as well.
Proportion of coronavirus infections that have no symptoms
40%
Source: CDC
Studies of the coronavirus asymptomatic rate vary dramatically. Some studies put the number at over 90% but CDC figure seems to be a reasonable conservative estimate.
Asymptomatic Transmission
Spreading the illness of COVID-19 whilst no symptoms are present (ie. in the pre-symptomatic phase or in the case of an asymptomatic infection) is quite uncommon. When it occurs, the illness is mild because there are not many viruses present. The evidence for asymptomatic spread even existing is tenuous. See Lockdowns Do Not Reduce Contagion for a detailed discussion. As Fauci explains below, the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 of someone without symptoms is too rare of an event to have an effect on the course of a pandemic.
Fauci: Only people with symptoms drive pandemics
WHO: Asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 “very rare”
Common COVID-19 symptoms
- Fever
- Cough
- Chills
- Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
- Fatigue
- Loss of smell or taste
- Headache
- Body or muscle aches
- Gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea or abdominal pain
Source: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Symptoms and treatment, Government of Canada
Duration of Illness
Symptoms last one to two weeks in mild cases.
Source: Coronavirus Diagnosis: What should I expect? John Hopkins University
Proportion of Symptomatic COVID-19 cases that are mild: 80%
Source: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report – 46, WHO
Median age of death from COVID-19 in the United States: 78 years
Source: Characteristics of Persons Who Died with COVID-19 — United States, February 12–May 18, 2020
Median age of death from COVID-19 in Canada: 84 years
Source: How focusing on the age of pandemic victims could blind us to the bigger picture, CBC
Median age of death from COVID-19 in Italy: 80 years
Source: Comparing SARS-CoV-2 with SARS-CoV and influenza pandemics, The Lancet
Median age of death from COVID-19 in Scotland: 83 years
Source: Daily Mail UK
Proportion of fatal COVID-19 cases involving a pre-existing medical condition:
United States: 94%
Source: Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics, CDC
Italy: 99%
Source: Government of Italy national health authority
Are you immune from coronavirus after recovering from COVID-19?
Yes. As of May 2021, only 17 cases of a second episode of illness from SARS-CoV-2 has been documented. Studies have shown that people infected from 2003 SARS are still immune today, inferring that it’s cousin, SARS-CoV-2, also provides long-term immunity. Second episodes of illness are expected to be mild if they occur at all. Read more in Natural vs. Vaccination Immunity.
Reliability of Testing
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are the most common test for COVID-19. They used to be touted as having 99% reliability, but after many experts have spoken out, government bodies are now admitting that they have a high rate of false positives. Portugal’s highest court ruled that a single PCR test cannot be used to diagnose COVID-19, stating that false positives could be as high as 97%.
Many experts have stated that they believe that about 90% of PCR positive results are false, including renowned pharma scientist Michael Yeadon. The Australian government stated that they are unreliable. The FDA admits that these tests have many false positives. From a November 2020 release: “At 0.1% prevalence, the PPV would only be 4%, meaning that 96 out of 100 positive results would be false positives.” The WHO has issued a similar release mid-December 2020, to warn clinicians of their false positives, and another one a month later.
A July 2021 ‘lab alert‘ from the CDC implied that PCR tests cannot distinguish between SARS-CoV-2 and flu viruses and gave notice that the CDC would no longer use PCR tests to detect SARS-CoV-2 after 2021. That PCR tests apparently recognize the flu as a positive result for COVID-19 is very significant. According to the WHO, there are one billion cases of the flu per year, 3 -5 million of which are relatively severe. Now we know why the fatality rates and symptoms for COVID and the flu are so similar!
Boris Johnson admitting PCR tests have 93% false positive results.
It is very easy for the government to manipulate “COVID cases.” If it wants the cases to be higher, such as to justify violations of rights, it can test more people, and raise the number of cycles per test. PCR tests are never reliable, but to maximize their accuracy to test for a virus, they should not be cycled more than 30 times. At 35 cycles, the accuracy of the test is 3% (ie. 97% of positive results are false). Above 35, accuracy quickly drops to zero. Yet 35 is the low end of the number of PCR cycles for a SARS-CoV-2 test mandated by governments. There is no standard number of cycles used around the world. Quebec actually uses 45 cycles! At this number of cycles, there is literally no reason to even do the test due to the high false positives — a fact well-established in the literature.
The ease with which government can affect the number of “COVID cases” is startling. If they want to imprison people at home, they can test more people and raise the PCR cycles to justify the ‘public health order’. If the government wants cases to be lower so that it appears that their restrictions are working — just test fewer people or lower the number of PCR cycles!
In October 2020, a study published in the the journal Science, Public Health Policy and the Law, found that the CDC had behaved unlawfully with the result being that the official American death toll for COVID-19 was up to 16 times higher that it is in reality.