Most of what you hear from the mainstream media about “stay in place” orders and “social distancing” must be right because those measures are based on “good science.”
However, as Live Science Associate Editor, Laura Geggel notes there are still more unknowns than knowns about COVID-19.
One example of what science has yet to answer is why “the novel coronavirus tends to affect men more severely than it does women.” Geggel reports that, “In an analysis of 5,700 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in New York City, just over 60% were men, according to an April 22 study published in the journal JAMA. What’s more, ‘mortality rates were higher for male compared with female patients at every 10-year age interval older than 20 year.’”
Much of the Live Science report is peppered with phrases like “perhaps” and “researchers hypothesize” but there have yet to be any “ideas” that have moved from “hypothesis to theory”, much less “remedy.”
Other coronavirus outbreaks like SARS in 2003 and MERS in 2012 also had higher fatality rates in men than in women. In fact, a 2016 study showed that men were 40% more likely to die from MERS than women. There are still no solid answers as to why.
One thing we do know about COVID-19 is that stay in place is not the answer. Studies are proving that the overwhelming majority of people who catch the virus do not get it from public places like parks and beaches. Most people catch it from someone else in their household.
Watch the video to learn why Liz Wheeler of One American News says that the “draconian lockdown” enforcement we are seeing is actually anti-science.
