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Swedish professor quits COVID-19 research amid hostility over his findings
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Mar 9, 2021, 1:56:42 PM3/9/21
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A Swedish professor of epidemiology has quit researching COVID-19 after
facing fierce backlash over his findings that the illness poses a low
threat to children — undermining the political argument that schools can’t
reopen.
Jonas Ludvigsson, a professor of clinical epidemiology at the Karolinska
Institute, said he has lost sleep as a result of the “angry messages
through social media and email” assailing his study and partly blaming him
for Sweden’s contrarian COVID-19 strategy, the College Fix reported.
His research focused on children ages 1 to 16 during the first wave of the
pandemic last spring, including those with “laboratory-verified or
clinically verified COVID-19, including patients who were admitted for
multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children” because it’s “likely”
related to the bug.
Only 15 children went to the ICU — a rate of 0.77 per 100,000, according
to the report. Four had “an underlying chronic coexisting condition” and
none died.
As far as teachers, “fewer than” 30 ended up in the ICU during the same
period — a rate of about 19 per 100,000.
Ludvigsson also noted that children weren’t wearing face masks, while the
rest of Swedish citizens were simply “encouraged” to practice social
distancing.
Now, due to the backlash Ludvigsson faced over his research, Sweden plans
to boost academic freedom protections in law, according to the College
Fix.
Higher education minister Matilda Ernkrans told the British Medical
Journal that the government is planning to amend the Higher Education Act
to ensure “that education and research must be protected to enable people
to freely discover, research and share knowledge.”
Karolinska Institute president Ole Petter Ottersen told the journal that
“hateful and scornful accusations and personal attacks cannot be
tolerated,” whether against the pediatrician or other researchers who have
“retreat[ed] from the public debate after being threatened or harassed.”
Ludvigsson said his letter to the editor, which was published in the Feb.
18 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, had gone through several
revisions and “formal external peer review,” including statistically.
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A Swedish professor of epidemiology has quit researching COVID-19 after
facing fierce backlash over his findings that the illness poses a low
threat to children — undermining the political argument that schools can’t
reopen.
Jonas Ludvigsson, a professor of clinical epidemiology at the Karolinska
Institute, said he has lost sleep as a result of the “angry messages
through social media and email” assailing his study and partly blaming him
for Sweden’s contrarian COVID-19 strategy, the College Fix reported.
His research focused on children ages 1 to 16 during the first wave of the
pandemic last spring, including those with “laboratory-verified or
clinically verified COVID-19, including patients who were admitted for
multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children” because it’s “likely”
related to the bug.
Only 15 children went to the ICU — a rate of 0.77 per 100,000, according
to the report. Four had “an underlying chronic coexisting condition” and
none died.
As far as teachers, “fewer than” 30 ended up in the ICU during the same
period — a rate of about 19 per 100,000.
Ludvigsson also noted that children weren’t wearing face masks, while the
rest of Swedish citizens were simply “encouraged” to practice social
distancing.
Now, due to the backlash Ludvigsson faced over his research, Sweden plans
to boost academic freedom protections in law, according to the College
Fix.
Higher education minister Matilda Ernkrans told the British Medical
Journal that the government is planning to amend the Higher Education Act
to ensure “that education and research must be protected to enable people
to freely discover, research and share knowledge.”
Karolinska Institute president Ole Petter Ottersen told the journal that
“hateful and scornful accusations and personal attacks cannot be
tolerated,” whether against the pediatrician or other researchers who have
“retreat[ed] from the public debate after being threatened or harassed.”
Ludvigsson said his letter to the editor, which was published in the Feb.
18 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, had gone through several
revisions and “formal external peer review,” including statistically.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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