RYM - Gene Epstein

Thank you to Gene Epstein for Joining us on RYM. Check out Gene’s debate series here: https://www.thesohoforum.org/ Topics in order: (Please put in the rough Time stamps) 1 - The Utility of Government imposed lockdowns 2 - Herd Immunity 3 - Covid Vaccine 4 - Wall street bailout talk 5 - Voter Fraud 6 - Reading Human Action ---------------- Further reading on Vaccines from Gene: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4058 The first question is whether the right endpoints are being studied. Contrary to prevailing assumptions (including those of a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner8), none of the vaccine trials are designed to detect a significant reduction in hospital admissions, admission to intensive care, or death.9 Rather than studying severe disease, these mega-trials all set a primary endpoint of symptomatic covid-19 of essentially any severity: a laboratory positive result plus mild symptoms such as cough and fever count as outcome events (table 1). These studies seem designed to answer the easiest question in the least amount of time, not the most clinically relevant questions. Peter Doshi is an associate editor at The BMJ and on the News & Views team. Based in Baltimore, he is also an assistant professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. ------------ https://gbdeclaration.org/