RE: Here again24 Mar 2020 11:44
And here again is why his central argument is wrong "Bhakdi attributes the high number of victims in Italy to external environmental factors alone. He explicitly mentions high air pollution in northern Italy and China. "The lungs of people in these areas are affected and diseased very differently than our lungs." Statistics from the OECD on the health effects of air pollution cast doubt on this thesis: in 2017, 450 people per million inhabitants in Germany died from the effects of air pollution. There were 436 in Italy and only 289 in Spain, which was severely affected by the coronavirus. Before the corona pandemic broke out, Italy did not have an excessive number of fatal lung diseases. Presenting the air pollution factor as the sole trigger of the crisis, as Sucharit Bhakdi does in his video, is unscientific. He does not cite reputable sources for his claim. Furthermore, The video is currently being spread by people and groups such as conspiracy theorist Oliver Janich, anti-vaccination groups on Facebook, and also rapper Fler on Instagram.