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Dr. David Katz: Coronavirus vaccine or herd immunity are only ways life can fully return to normal
By Charles Creitz | Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com/media/david-katz-coronavirus-vaccine-herd-immunity

Dr. David Katz, the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center in Connecticut, has warned that while social distancing is helping to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, it is also preventing the development of the "herd immunity" needed by the public to resume their normal lives before a vaccine is developed.

Katz cited the case of some Asian nations who appeared to stop the spread with lockdown-style mitigation strategies, only to see an increase in cases once restrictions were relaxed.

"That's what will happen if you lock everybody away from everybody else and kind of wait until things get better and then let everybody out into the world," Katz told "Life, Liberty & Levin" in an interview airing Sunday.

"The virus is still out there," Katz added. "We don't have antibodies. We'll just get it later."

Katz and host Mark Levin discussed the concept of "herd immunity," essentially collective resistance to a virus built up by people moving about, becoming infected, and recovering -- thereby naturally developing antibodies to inhibit further spreading the virus among the population.

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Stanford University epidemiologist John Ioannidis calls out media for panicking the public over COVID-19
by Charlie Smith on April 10th, 2020 at 12:39 PM

https://www.straight.com/covid-19-pandemic/stanford-university-researcher-john-ioannidis-relies-on-data-to-puncture-some-of-myths-about

John Ioannidis, a professor of medicine, epidemiology, and population health at Stanford University, says he's "perfectly happy" to be under virtual lockdown in California due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

And he readily acknowledges the importance of sensitizing the public to following instructions to shelter in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.

In addition, Ioannidis recognizes that a large number of people may die from COVID-19.

But in a video posted on YouTube, the codirector of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford said he worries that media outlets are "falling into a trap of sensationalism".

And he suggested that this is making the situation worse for people.

"We don't want to get them into panic," Ioannidis said. "This doesn't really help."


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Quote: austingirl wrote in post #3

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John Ioannidis, a professor of medicine, epidemiology, and population health at Stanford University, says he's "perfectly happy" to be under virtual lockdown in California due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

And he readily acknowledges the importance of sensitizing the public to following instructions to shelter in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.


Not someone I care to listen to.

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dang, I didn't even notice that.... I am wondering what he has to say tonight.....

I'll be Fast Forwarding if he is still spouting that BS....

(And yes, I was rushing and just copy-pasted the first few sentences without reading them..... I can be a dunce..... )

Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #8

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OK, Ioannidis pretty much on the same page. Very concerned about poor people and illegals, but agreed with Katz on the basic facts.

What I kept hearing, though neither one said it, was: "We've been had. Big time."

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Ioannidis was fine too.... both would have fit in here with our discussions..... Katz was more thoughtful and articulate.... I think that Ionnidis had those disclaimers at the start of the article above just to cover his ass a bit...