{"id":5201,"date":"2020-04-09T05:54:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2020-04-09T07:20:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T12:20:58","slug":"498-perspectives-on-the-pandemic-professor-knut-wittkowski-episode-2-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/498-perspectives-on-the-pandemic-professor-knut-wittkowski-episode-2-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspectives on the Pandemic | Professor Knut Wittkowski | Episode 2 &#8211; YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGC5sGdz4kg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"top-row\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\">\n<div id=\"upload-info\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer\">\n<div id=\"container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\">\n<div id=\"text-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\"><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCM2YmsRUeIbRkqjgNm0eTGQ\">Journeyman Pictures<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"badge badge-style-type-verified style-scope ytd-badge-supported-renderer\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"style-scope ytd-expander\">\n<div id=\"description\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Perspectives on the Pandemic Episode 2: In this explosive second edition of Perspectives on the Pandemic, Professor Knut Wittkowski, for twenty years head of The Rockefeller University&#8217;s Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design, says that social distancing and lockdown is the absolutely worst way to deal with an airborne respiratory virus. Further, he offers data to show that China and South Korea had already reached their peak number of cases when they instituted their containment measures. In other words, nature had already achieved, or nearly achieved, herd immunity. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Watch episode 1 here: <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d6MZy-2fcBw\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/d6MZy-2fcBw<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Interview highlights: <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=36s\">00:36<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Professor Wittkowski explains his recommendations for how to best deal with COVID-19 <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=96s\">01:36<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Is self-isolation prolonging the duration of COVID-19? <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=153s\">02:33<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Are policies of self-isolation or shelter-in-place a good idea? <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=226s\">03:46<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">The pandemic is over <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=267s\">04:27<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-Did China lie about its COVID-19 statistics? <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=303s\">05:03<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-The truth behind the statistics given by the government of the United States <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=472s\">07:52<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-Are we even reporting flu deaths anymore? <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=496s\">08:16<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-Why are hospitals being overwhelmed? <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=556s\">09:16<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-Shortage of medial supplies <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=619s\">10:19<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-Has social distancing prevented deaths from COVID-19? <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=715s\">11:55<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-Staying indoors can make the virus worse<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=962s\">16:02<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-Why social distancing won\u2019t work for an airborne contagion <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=1061s\">17:41<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-Do we need a vaccine for COVID-19? <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=1111s\">18:31<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-Humans can grow immune to this virus <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=1135s\">18:55<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-The data doesn\u2019t say that COVID-19 is more contagious than the flu <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=1363s\">22:43<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-Changes in reporting COVID-19 cases <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=1533s\">25:33<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-What makes COVID-19 different than the Swine Flu <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=1625s\">27:05<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-What are the possible health risks of sheltering in place? <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=1663s\">27:43<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-The \u201cSecond Wave\u201d of COVID-19<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=1810s\">30:10<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-The truth about <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23FlattentheCurve\">#FlattentheCurve<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=1870s\">31:10<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-What should we do about sheltering in place? <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=1944s\">32:24<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-Why we need to achieve natural herd immunity <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=2057s\">34:17<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-Should we be testing everyone for COVID-19? <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=2135s\">35:35<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-The real effects of COVID-19 <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=2333s\">38:53<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-The percentage of people who won\u2019t have any symptoms <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=2374s\">39:34<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-What should we do about COVID-19 at this point? <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=2440s\">40:40<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-Is this really a pandemic? <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;t=2450s\">40:50<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">-What you should know Subscribe to Journeyman here: <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_c&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Professor Wittkowski urges that the schools be open now, so that the virus may spread harmlessly among the young, and thus shorten the amount of time the elderly and immune compromised must be sequestered. Our current course, he warns, will only prolong the crisis and likely guarantee a ?second wave? of infections in the Fall. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">For more information and a full transcript, head to: <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;v=lGC5sGdz4kg&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.journeyman.tv%2F7815&amp;redir_token=_QB54--0n3XhSSajwadBjnMsUtV8MTU4NjUxNTM5MkAxNTg2NDI4OTky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.journeyman.tv\/7815<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-wnd\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8Poz2XiufO\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2020\/04\/epidemiologist-coronavirus-exterminated-lockdowns-lifted\/\">Epidemiologist: Coronavirus could be &#8216;exterminated&#8217; if lockdowns lifted<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2020\/04\/epidemiologist-coronavirus-exterminated-lockdowns-lifted\/embed\/#?secret=8Poz2XiufO\" data-secret=\"8Poz2XiufO\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" title=\"&#8220;Epidemiologist: Coronavirus could be &#039;exterminated&#039; if lockdowns lifted&#8221; &#8212; WND\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journeyman Pictures \u00a0 Perspectives on the Pandemic Episode 2: In this explosive second edition of Perspectives on the Pandemic, Professor Knut Wittkowski, for twenty years head of The Rockefeller University&#8217;s Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design, says that social distancing and lockdown is the absolutely worst way to deal with an airborne respiratory virus. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/498-perspectives-on-the-pandemic-professor-knut-wittkowski-episode-2-youtube\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perspectives on the Pandemic | Professor Knut Wittkowski | Episode 2 &#8211; YouTube<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5203,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}