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kmud-200320-coronavirus — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-200320-coronavirus. The excerpt begins at 5:46 and runs for 1 minute 35 seconds.

Yeah, when a person gets a verified influenza virus, for example, a typical analysis will find various other viruses like common cold viruses and other respiratory pathogens as well as the true influenza virus. So even when there's a confirmed definite flu virus, you can't be sure that that's really the culprit because like at present, most of the people getting seriously sick or dying are old, definitely beyond their mid-50s, and the highest mortality is over 70. And one place said that 99% of the people dying with the coronavirus were suffering from other very serious things such as diabetes, hypertension, stroke symptoms, and things that made it much more likely that they would die from a stress. But also other pathogens take advantage of that weak condition. And then just because you have one particular pathogen that you have a test for, you can't be sure that that is really a contributing factor even when there are so many other pathogens present.