Here’s his “claim”
Published online in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM.org), the editorial stated:
“...the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%).”4
Almost as a parenthetical afterthought, the NEJM editorial inaccurately stated that 0.1% is the
approximate case fatality rate of seasonal influenza.
Here’s where he’s misrepresented the first source. They said severe seasonal influenza and he felt it was okay to drop the severe tag. And not to mention we fight influenza with vaccines and known antivirals.
Moving along, a direct quote from the source for the article where he admits he doesn’t know that they used bad data, he just thinks it may have happened.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/serv...s_in_coronavirus_mortality_overestimation.pdf
This terminology omission, in conjunction with questionable use of fatality rate terminology in the NEJM editorial, raises red flags—
warning of possible inaccuracies in the coronavirus mortality estimation presented to Congress.