![]() ![]() ![]() Too good.įor Hanson, and apparently the reporters at KSBW, all of this was suspicious. California had issued a statewide stay-at-home order only three days before a similar order was passed in New York. The report goes on to explain Hanson’s theory about why the Bay area has been so successful in not just suppressing cases of COVID-19, but snuffing out the nation’s first hot spot. At the time of writing, California had 374 deaths from COVID-19, a tiny fraction of those in New York or other states, despite having a much larger population. Then, exactly one paragraph later, the whole story goes off the rails.Īccording to Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow with Stanford's Hoover Institute, the hypothesis that COVID-19 first started spreading in California in the fall of 2019 is one explanation for the state's lower than expected case numbers. Good on you, Stanford medical researchers. In fact, tests exactly like this are absolutely necessary in determining the reach of the virus, identifying asymptomatic cases, and ultimately bringing the outbreak under control. On the surface, that’s a very reasonable, worthwhile, and completely admirable experiment. What’s really making this particular version of the apparently unkillable theory gain extra momentum is that the way it’s being reported makes it appear to have actual scientists behind it-Stanford medical researchers no less.Īs first reported by Salinas, California television station KSBW, a team from Stanford has made a blood test of 3,000 people in the San Francisco Bay area to see how many of them have coronavirus antibodies in their blood. It’s getting genuine attention from national media after first getting pushed by a California news source. And yet … here we are again, about to take another swing of the math machete to this same brain-eating topic.īecause this time around, it’s not just social media records of “hey, remember that cough we all had in November?” pushing this along. Not only has shooting down this theme featured as a side issue in almost a dozen posts, it kept returning so often that I did a whole piece on why an unrecognized wave of coronavirus did not already sweep the country just ten days ago. If this article seems like a repeat, that’s because it is. ![]()
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