There are so many strategy opinions being shoved down our throats these days about COVID and what to do about it that it leaves us spinning as to what to believe.

We found interesting statements made by Jay Bhattacharya, a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University where he received an M.D. and Ph. D. in economics.

Dr. Jay's remarks took place in a panel presentation in Omaha Nebraska and he noted his “goal now is to present facts about how deadly COVID-19 actually is and to present the facts about who is at risk from the COVID.”

“In discussing the deadliness of COVID we need to distinguish COVID cases from COVID infections…a lot of fear and confusion has resulted from failing to understand the difference,” Dr. Jay said.

“We have heard much this year about the ‘case fatality rate' of COVID and they said roughly three percent…nearly three out of every hundred people in early March died from it so we compare it today where less that one half of one percent die from it,” the Stanford professor noted.

In answering the single most important fact about the COVID pandemic he says, “it is not equally dangerous for everybody and this became clear very early on…but for some reason our public health messaging failed to get this fact out to the public.”

Dr. Jay strongly pointed out that the mortality rate is more in older people 70 and up and that this rate is about four percent.

Dr. Jay and two other doctors from Harvard and Oxford University agreed “that the widespread lock-down policy has been a devastating public health mistake and our strategy is not to let people die but to protect the vulnerable and to continue to act as if we do not know these things makes no sense.”