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Hey, everyone, this is Dr. Dr. Richel, show.

Today I spoke with Dr. Kirk Parsley about coronavirus.

And we drill down into some facets of this conversation that I think are important

to maybe allay the, what seems to be in some cases, runaway concerns.

And this is not to mitigate the concern here, but I am worried that a lot of people have a

far worse perspective on this than they should. And that fear is paralyzing people from making evidence-based or data-driven decisions.

Because when you're operating under fear, you're not thinking logically. You're not applying

rationality in math. And certainly not to profess that I have all the answers. But we touched

on a few important topics, one of which is being careful with the case

fatality rate because that may make the death rate look worse than it actually is.

And it may be obviously better to look at what's on as the infection fatality rate, which

looks at everyone who's been infected, not just the cases that are severe enough

to present to a hospital or to a doctor's office. He also outlines a very

provoking, thought-provoking that is, I guess, and potentially politically provoking,

hypothesis, which is there might be an upper limit in terms of how many people are susceptible

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