Then in May, I brought in John Ioannidis, who had done the analysis of the Princess Cruz data, just to calm everybody down. And this was, you know, kind of started the pandemic, said, This is not Ebola. It's not SARS, it's not MERS. It might be, you know, twice as bad as the bad flu season. So don't freak out if you're elderly, if you have certain comorbidities, you know, take precautions. For the rest of us, we'll probably get over it. (02:14–02:22)
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Asserts that COVID-19 is not as severe as Ebola, SARS, or MERS, and may be twice as bad as a bad flu season.
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