Dr Dominic Pimenta (Director MSI, hospital ICU doctor and chairman of healthcare workers’ charity) debunks Ivor Cummins (@fatemperor) rebuttal video “Debunk the detractors”.
What’s this about?
A few days ago Dr Dominic Pimenta debunked a series of pseudoscientific and unevidenced assertions Ivor made in a video entitled “Viral update: Crucial issue” ( concerning COVID. Ivor then re-submitted his own video for peer review to YouTube and we will look over his comments now.
References:
Gompertz Functions:
Mucosal immunity:
T-cell cross-immunity in unexposed donors:
Mathematical modelling of individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2:
Herd immunity:
Serology studies to COVID:
What are T-cells?
COVID 19 on the Diamond Princess:
Estimating the IFR of COVID-19 (age specific)
Swedish COVID ICU demand:
CDC Spanish Flu:
(There is a mistake here, IFR for Spanish Flu in Sweden was calculated for total population not 1/3 infected and would = 1.8%)
Euro MoMo excess mortality curves:
Uppsala university:
Imperial reports:
Nature paper:
German professors rebuttal:
(unpublished)
Lockdown measures in Germany:
R rate and Nowcast in Germany:
Stats for dummies:
UK COVID dashboard:
(cases,tests, hospitalisations)
COVID Occupational risk:
OralHealth: