Stanford epidemiologist who warned about bad COVID data finds low fatality rate even in ‘hotbeds’

Are you under 65 and have no “underlying predisposing conditions” for COVID-19 complications?

Then don’t worry about the novel coronavirus, even if you live in a “hotbed” of infection.

Stanford University epidemiologist John Ioannidis (above), who blew the whistle on the bad data being used to justify coronavirus crackdowns on daily life, has new research with his colleagues at Stanford Medical School. Their specialties also include “meta-research” and women’s and children’s health.

The preprint study in Medrxiv, which has not been peer-reviewed, sought to evaluate the risk of COVID-19 to...