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I don’t think so. Italy is counting ALL deaths as Covid deaths. Their Covid numbers are simply incorrect.

Apples to oranges. Can not compare Italy with Germany. Germans are willingly being tested, there process, order, proactive testing. In Italy everyone is 1) quarantined for the past…

Roche’s Cobas 8800 can do roughly ~4100 tests per day and this is a massive full-room setup. Many other RT-PCR capable machines exist out there (800 is the total number in Europe c…

I see the data. There is a surge, obviously. However, this assumes the current surge deaths are 100% SARS-Cov2 confirmed infections. They aren’t. At least not 100% Assumption can b…

This is another valid point and disturbing point. Italians are most likely counting most if not all deaths as SARS-Cov2 deaths. 1) A large amount of the elderly are going to hospit…

So 200,000+ people under mandatory lockdown went to a clinic (not a drive through test, a physical clinic), lined up and waited to get tested for Influenza which was assumed to be …

Ok sure. Still inaccurate to assume it’s SARS-Cov2. This is not a game of assumptions. Furthermore, Italy tested over 200,000 samples in a little less than 14 days? Don’t think so.…

> One or two tests can confirm cases for a whole town. What? >They simply (and safely) assume that all flu-like illnesses coming from a certain area are covid. So Influenza A, B ar…

Italy is at 53,000+ confirmed cases of SARS-Cov2. This would assume they have tested upwards of 200,000+ patients in order to get a 25% infection rate. I'm using 25% as a conservat…

Right. One issue we’re having globally is that we simply cannot get an accurate fatality rate. We’re only seeing the sickest, most critical patients and the most overwhelmed hospit…

Yeah, I remember reading this as well. MedCram did a good video showing how Zinc, for example, actually impairs viral replication but Zinc cannot enter the cell... without chloroqu…

Source for this comment? All pneumonia’s have decreased lung function post-infection and require therapy to retain full or close to full lung function. Curious where you’re getting…

I wonder if intubating these patients is actually killing them. I have ZERO evidence but is there an off chance they’re actually treating them incorrectly? There’s the cytokine sto…

Good point and totally unnoticed. The young who live with extended families are the perfect carriers as they’re asymptomatic and elderly are close by, infected surfaces, etc.

There’s truth to this and perhaps I jumped to an invalid American based assumption, stupid given that I’m European. In Europe, the elderly are out and about, walking, sitting at pa…

Probably tens of thousands of undiagnosed, asymptomatic. Aka super carriers. The virus is smart and has evolved from an evolutionary standpoint. Infect younger and asymptomatic pat…

Right. 75% suffer from 2 or more. And 99% suffer from 1. Not good for the US given the high obesity / diabetes rates here.

Some interesting data here. - Mean age of 79.5 sheds light on Italy’s extremely high fatality rates; in essence, it’s the (very) elderly that are dying due to complications from vi…

This. Sure. But pure speculation. The forward momentum of that airplane could have clipped a tail and taken it off while pulling up and max thrust. He was wayyyy below minimum deci…

Max changed the way money is sent for better or for worse. He changed the landscape along with Thiel and Musk. PayPal ended up breeding a dozen or so entrepreneurs who have similar…

Startups have always glorified stress it is simply part of the modus operandi. Stress is part of life in general and a high-paced, uncertain and extremely competitive work environm…

Max and Peter are two of the smartest guys in the game. Period. And their successes prove it to the naysayers. There's nothing sleazy about what either have done. What have you don…

That's because SV is so knee-deep in their own world / bubble, clarity and perspective is something many simply do not posses. It's a shame really.

Not sure if indirect Freudian slip or typo. Corrected. In any case, Peter is a brilliant guy. No doubt about that.