{"id":12262,"date":"2020-03-25T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12262"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:51:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:51:56","slug":"questions-about-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/questions-about-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions about the Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More data is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/03\/17\/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">critical in understanding the virus<\/a>&nbsp;in general and in particular its transmission in particular countries. Anyone who looks at rates of morality and lethality of influenza and related pneumonia, especially in the elderly and infirm, can be shocked at the wide variances between&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6815659\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">particular countries. &nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/questions-about-the-coronavirus\/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&amp;utm_campaign=799f765728-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_19_06_34&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-799f765728-73437989#\">52<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reliable data alone should drive proper policy, especially given that any decision made henceforth in the present landscape of bad and worse choices can involve on the one hand greater viral death and morbidity, and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/coronavirus-isnt-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\">on the other economic catastrophe<\/a>\u00a0with its own particular role in ensuring non-viral morbidity and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what we would like to know, it seems, are a few of numbers of which we are not often apprised:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>What is the percentage of negatives of all those tested?<\/li><li>What are the percentages of those who request, or are given tests, who are showing some symptoms of illness or at least feel that they are in some way ill?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/questions-about-the-coronavirus\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review More data is&nbsp;critical in understanding the virus&nbsp;in general and in particular its transmission in particular countries. Anyone who looks at rates of morality and lethality of influenza and related pneumonia, especially in the elderly and infirm, can be shocked at the wide variances between&nbsp;particular countries. &nbsp;52 Reliable data alone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3bM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2017,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-state-departments-skewed-standards\/","url_meta":{"origin":12262,"position":0},"title":"The State Department&#8217;s Skewed Standards","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Earlier this month in the\u00a0West Bank, \"settlers attempted to burn two mosques, and vandalized an IDF base as part of the latest 'price tag' attacks. 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