‘The Data Is In — Stop The Panic And End The Total Isolation’: Fmr. Stanford Chief Of Neuroradiology

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‘The Data Is In — Stop The Panic And End The Total Isolation’: Fmr. Stanford Chief Of Neuroradiology Discusses Viral Column

cott Morefield
Reporter
April 24, 2020 8:28 PM ET


Dr. Scott Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, made a Friday night Fox News appearance to defend his viral column about why the ongoing coronavirus panic, and the ensuing government-enforced shutdowns, should end.

Atlas’ column, titled “The Data Is In — Stop The Panic And End The Total Isolation” and published Wednesday at The Hill, lists “five key facts” that are “being ignored by those calling for continuing the near-total lockdown,” along with evidence to bolster each one.

Those “facts” include:

    Fact 1: The overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from COVID-19.

    Fact 2: Protecting older, at-risk people eliminates hospital overcrowding.

    Fact 3: Vital population immunity is prevented by total isolation policies, prolonging the problem.

    Fact 4: People are dying because other medical care is not getting done due to hypothetical projections.

    Fact 5: We have a clearly defined population at risk who can be protected with targeted measures.

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https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/24/stanford-scott-atlas-end-isolation/

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‘The Data Is In — Stop The Panic And End The Total Isolation’: Fmr. Stanford Chief Of Neuroradiology Discusses Viral Column

cott Morefield
Reporter
April 24, 2020 8:28 PM ET
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Dr. Scott Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, made a Friday night Fox News appearance to defend his viral column about why the ongoing coronavirus panic, and the ensuing government-enforced shutdowns, should end.

Atlas’ column, titled “The Data Is In — Stop The Panic And End The Total Isolation” and published Wednesday at The Hill, lists “five key facts” that are “being ignored by those calling for continuing the near-total lockdown,” along with evidence to bolster each one.

Those “facts” include:

    Fact 1: The overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from COVID-19.

    Fact 2: Protecting older, at-risk people eliminates hospital overcrowding.

    Fact 3: Vital population immunity is prevented by total isolation policies, prolonging the problem.

    Fact 4: People are dying because other medical care is not getting done due to hypothetical projections.

    Fact 5: We have a clearly defined population at risk who can be protected with targeted measures.

more
https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/24/stanford-scott-atlas-end-isolation/

Good post ... unfortunately, there are so many that are terrified -- I was one -- now I'm more convinced of the panic instilled in the public vs. informing the public and cautioning them about the virus.  The other day I went for a walk and one of my neighbors was outside in his yard working on his sprinkler system, wearing a mask!  No one was around. He obviously is that panicked.

Also data is coming in and we are starting to learn more about this virus.  What I am noticing though is more and more conflicting information.  We are going to die from the second wave which will be more deadly .... sunlight doesn't kill this virus ... no one builds up long term immunity -- yet there are articles and research to dispute everyone of these ideas.

I am in a high risk group.  IMHO it is up to me to take precautions necessary -- but let me be able to go to the darn doctor when needed instead of delaying my appointments by months.  Going to my cardio and him blowing me off for a couple of months, is NOT acceptable. 

Let me see my family --- no different than flu season -- I'm extra careful to not be around them if I know that they're sick -- let me make the choice instead of Big Brother hovering over me and mandating that I stay at home!

[Smokin Joe]

The one I have noted is that there are many articles flying around about how hydroxychloroquine (or chloroquine) doesn't stop the virus or gives poor results. Then they go on to shill for a  nonexistent vaccine.
If that was all that was used, they are probably right.

It is the combination of Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, and Zinc Sulfate which had the good results. Leave one of those out (especially the Zinc Sulfate) and the results won't be as good.

There are other antivirals being tested as well. Treatments can get some through the disease, others will not even need them.

Enough get through and recover, and a vaccine is moot.

The UV-C treatment seemed to have merit, killing some of the virus in the patient's bloodstream, and letting the body make antibodies to deal with the rest. (Similar to what vaccines do, only with out potentially harmful squalene or preservatives). That should get further study, if for no other reason than such treatment, if effective and without serious side effects, would be beneficial in future novel disease outbreaks, no matter the source of the pathogen.