COVID and The Academy: What Have We Learned? Ram Duriseti, MD, Ph.D.

Heterodox Academy Research Symposium
Held on February 23, 2024, at the Stanford Faculty Club
Ram's Doctoral background and academic interests are in the computational modeling of complex decisions, algorithm design and implementation, and data-driven decision making. Outside of clinical work, his main competencies in this regard are software development, algorithm design and implementation, cost-effectiveness analysis, and decision analysis through computational models. He has also collaborated with the industry to create and deploy operation-specific software involving statistical computing and reasoning under inference. He has been practicing clinical Emergency Medicine in both community and academic settings for over 20 years.

[@billburr5881]

Can anyone remind me what was the peer-reviewed, double blind studies that supported the lockdown policies or the use of ventilators to treat covid-19?
Odd how only one side of this is required to provide studies to back up their claims!

Conspiracy theorist!
(And no,they cant...because all of that was merely a guessing game)

[@billburr5881]

Conspiracy theorist - thank you, that is the nicest thing anyone has said to me all day!
Was there a conspiracy? All the governments took the same actions - lock downs, vaccine mandates etc. Did they all decide these policies independently or did they conspire among each other?

@@billburr5881 (hoping the sarcasm was evident?) And ftr, yes...they conspired, with a heavy dose of 'if u don't believe me, u don't believe in science'.

[@yamishogun6501]

China's lockdown of a city in 2009 when the H1N1 was a concern was shown to have no effectiveness. Fauci and his comrades new this

[@mattwa33186]

The study supporting use of ventilators was issued by the NIH when they told hospitals they would pay $39,000 per day for a ventilator for a COVID patient as opposed to the normal $4K Medicare rate.