- Governments around the world are imposing a new round of lockdowns to stem the tide of the second wave of coronavirus.
- Whereas Dr. Mike Yeadon, the former Chief Science Officer for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer vividly questions the possibility of second wave.
- He says false-positive results from inherently unreliable COVID tests are being used to manufacture a ‘second wave’ based on ‘new cases.’
According to recent news article in Tech Startup, written by Nickie Louise, Dr. Mike Yeadon doubts the chances of second wave. He himself a former Chief Science Officer for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says “there is no science to suggest a second wave should happen.”
Fact-file about Dr. Mike Yeadon
Dr. Michael Yeadon is an Allergy & Respiratory Therapeutic Area expert.
HeHe holds a degree in biochemistry and toxicology and a research-based Ph.D. in respiratory pharmacology from the University of Surrey (UK) in 1988.
Dr. Mike Yeadon spent over 30 years leading new medicines research in some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.
A founder of his own company
Before 2011, Dr. Michael Yeadon worked for Pfizer for 16 years as Vice President & Chief Scientist for Allergy & Respiratory.
Since leaving Pfizer, Dr. Yeadon has founded his own biotech company, Ziarco, which was sold to the world’s biggest drug company, Novartis, in 2017.
Repeat the covid tests once again
In an interview with Julia Hartley-Brewer, Dr. Yeadon said the Government is “using a test with an undeclared false positive rate.”
He said that he wants those who have tested positive for coronavirus to be tested again to eliminate the possibility of the test being a false positive.
Pandemic is fundamentally over
Even if all positives were to be correct, Dr. Yeadon explained that given the “shape” of all important indicators in a worldwide pandemic, such as hospitalizations, ICU utilization, and deaths, “the pandemic is fundamentally over.”
Are there any signs for second wave?
“Were it not for the test data that you get from the TV all the time, you would rightly conclude that the pandemic was over, as nothing much has happened. Of course people go to the hospital, moving into the autumn flu season…but there is no science to suggest a second wave should happen,” Yeadon said in the interview.
No second wave, an attempt to prove it right
Back in September, Dr. Yeadon also co-authored a paper with two of his colleagues. In the paper, which is titled: “How Likely is a Second wave?” they explained:
“It has widely been observed that in all heavily infected countries in Europe and several of the US states likewise, that the shape of the daily deaths vs. time curves is similar to ours in the UK. Many of these curves are not just similar, but almost super imposable.”
Digging more to find the facts
Dr. Yeadon and the two scientists also looked at the national weekly mortality data from the UK to see the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.
They used the data of the past four years for comparison purposes and to calculate upper and lower control limits (based on two standard deviations).
Below is how they described their findings
The findings show that in the pandemic peak (April 17th to 30th) more than twice the number of seasonal average deaths occurred, with the number of deaths above the upper control limit from March 27th through to June 12th, totalling 44,895 excess deaths.
Since June 26th the number of weekly deaths has now fallen so it is not only below the weekly average but has regularly dropped below the lower control limit, showing that we are now at the lowest number of weekly deaths recorded in many years.
No increase in deaths
Based on their study, they found that “over the last three months since lockdown measures started easing on the May 10th there has been no increase in weekly deaths. On the contrary, these have continued to fall.”
Amplified rates of testing
They “contend that the many claims in the media for outbreaks, spikes, and second waves are all artifacts of amplified rates of testing.”
Number of deaths remain flat
“It should be noted that illness, hospitalisations and deaths have not reversed in any clear and sustained manner. Specifically, careful examination of the weekly all-causes mortality data in France is completely clear. Six weeks into an apparent surge of cases, the number of deaths remain completely flat and normal, in all age bands (as of mid-August when this document was written).”
The authors concluded with recent charts of daily cases from the two countries to further support their claim that the second wave is over.
Did you subscribe to our daily newsletter?
It’s Free! Click here to Subscribe!
Source: Tech Startups
