an accomplished physician,

physician, a scholar of public health

and a colleague of mine at the Hoover Institution,

Scott Atlas, on what we've learned about the virus

and why the time has come to end the lockdown.

Welcome everyone to another special plague time edition of Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson

Scott. Welcome. Thanks for making the time.

Yeah, happy to be in speaking in early March. Dr. Anthony Fauchy, director of the National Institute of

Allergy and Infectious Diseases, quote, the flu has a mortality rate of

0.1%, this, the COVID-19 virus, this has a mortality rate of 10 times that. Close quote.

Dr Atlas was Dr. Fauchy, correct?

Well, no, I mean, at the time, there was very little known to be fair.

The evidence that was

3.4 percent.

And at that point in time, the fatality rate of that high,

it's reasonable to say, hey, that's justifiable to lock down

temporarily because that would have been really catastrophic.

And the models that were made at that time projected literally catastrophic losses, millions of people dying in the US, millions of people dying in the UK, for example.

But of course, we've learned since then. So the answer is no. Okay, we will come to that. The costs of the lockdown. We've heard over and over and over again about the costs of the virus to us, but you have written lately about the cost of the lockdown.

So let me ask you to take us through an article that you and your co-authors, John Burge, how's that?

John Burge, John Burge and Ralph Keeney published in the Hill in late May from that article

quote statistically every 10 million to 24 million lost in US incomes

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