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Corona, False Alarm? Facts and Figures Paperback – October 2, 2020
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Does the race for vaccine development make sense? What are the chances of success? Will the vaccine be safe? Will people accept it??
In June 2020, Corona, False Alarm? exploded into the German market, selling 200,000 copies and 75,000 e-books in the first six weeks.
No other topic dominates our attention as much as coronavirus and COVID-19, the infectious disease it triggers. There’s been a global deluge of contradictory opinions, fake news, and politically controlled information. Differing views on the dangers posed by the pandemic have led to deep division and confusion, within governments, society, and even among friends and family.
In Corona, False Alarm?, award-winning researchers Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Karina Reiss give clarity to these confusing and stressful times. They offer analysis of whether radical protective measures―including lockdown, social distancing, and mandatory masking―have been justified, and what the ramifications have been for society, the economy, and public health. Dr. Bhakdi and Dr. Reiss provide dates, facts, and background information, including:
- How Covid-19 compares with previous coronaviruses and the flu virus
- What infection numbers and the death rate really tell us
- The challenges around lockdown: Were the protective measures justified?
- Mandatory mask-wearing: Does the science support it?
- Vaccines: What are the chances of success? What are the risks?
Corona, False Alarm? provides you with sound information and substantiated facts―and encourages you to form your own opinion on the corona crisis.
- Print length160 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherChelsea Green Publishing
- Publication dateOctober 2, 2020
- Dimensions5 x 0.4 x 7.75 inches
- ISBN-101645020576
- ISBN-13978-1645020578
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Karina Reiss was born in Germany and studied biology at the University of Kiel where she received her PhD in 2001. She became assistant professor in 2006 and associate professor in 2008 at the University of Kiel. She has published over sixty articles in the fields of cell biology, biochemistry, inflammation, and infection, which have gained international recognition and received prestigious honors and awards.
Sucharit Bhakdi was born in Washington, DC, and educated at schools in Switzerland, Egypt, and Thailand. He studied medicine at the University of Bonn in Germany, where he received his MD in 1970. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg from 1972 to 1976, and at The Protein Laboratory in Copenhagen from 1976 to 1977. He joined the Institute of Medical Microbiology at Giessen University in 1977 and was appointed associate professor in 1982. He was named chair of Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz in 1990, where he remained until his retirement in 2012. Dr. Bhakdi has published over three hundred articles in the fields of immunology, bacteriology, virology, and parasitology, for which he has received numerous awards and the Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate. Sucharit Bhakdi and his wife, Karina Reiss, live with their three-year-old son, Jonathan Atsadjan, in a small village near the city of Kiel.
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As a side remark, after much has happened since the book bot in print, then many persons tell that for Sweden, which we read about, it turned out bad with only few infection restrictions. When I calculate with numbers found in Google, we see that in Sweden 1.33%, opposite to Denmark, with much restrictions, 0.823% of the infected died. But actually, it’s enormous unprecise just to compare measures from different countries, as daily learn by seeing how WHO mixes the measures.
And concerning failure in the public media, daily I see this in the Thailand Tv news. Now daily 50 – 110 persons are told to have died of Covid-19, but until in March, when then daily only 10 – 20 dead, it then was printed down if they also had been suffering other diseases (heart, cancer, fat, diabetes…) and which of these. And then daily only 0 – 1 suffering Covid-19. So, from until then less than 1 - 5% dead by Covid-19, to now 100% dead by Covid-19. And my Thai wife is awful scared, and wants me to be vaccinated.
In the book we read about a person who daily corrects the information told in the news, by simple calculations, just as I do. For example, if one day double as many persons af measured, then strangely, then probably there will be found double as many infected. And then told that the disease is increasing! My wife, and all of the other around here, can not understand why I can find different results, and instead highly trusts the news.
As the book originally was written for Germans, then concerning scaring peoples, it would have ideally to, as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. do it in the foreword in the book by Dr. Joseph Mercola & Ronnie Cummins: “The Truth About COVID-19”, by there putting in words from Herman Göring, during the trials at Nuremberg. Göring then: “It is always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it is a democracy, a fascist……dictatorship. All you have to tell them that they are being attacked.… It works the same way in any country.”
In the book we get the quote: James Shannon: “The only safe vaccine is the one that is never used”. The same as I have been saying since I was teenager.
We in northern countries are used to every wither being hit by Influenza, as we have no sun. And if we compare the Influenza (Flu) with the Covid-19 (also an Influenza), we see that probably there are no change in the numbers of deaths either caused by winter Flu or Covid-19. In Denmark (5.6 million inhabitants), I during decades was used to each winter hearing about 2,000 – 6,000 expected to die by the Flu, and advised to be vaccinated, which I never did. And then I recalled, that 2 month ago, in the Danish news then I read that in the past winter, only 1 person (in Google told 17) was registered as dead by Influenza. So, I now here, went to Google for searching, and first I found that in Denmark, until now, 299,223 has been Covid-19 infected, and 2,539 deaths, (less than 1% dead!). Then I asked for Flu during all of the previous winters, (none before 2017/18 showed up!), and found that for the winter 2017/18 2,822 deaths, for 2018/19 790, and the 2019/20 not shown, but instead written “caused by Covid-19 no Influenza”! Strang, 2,822 dead by Influenza -> 0 by Influenza + 2,530 by Covid-19. To me, no big brain should be needed to find a connection to the strange high numbers of dead by Covid-19, which WHO = Bill Gates, and drug producers want us to believe.
In the book they point on air pollution. Which I also, during months, have looked at, caused by problems during the last 1 1/2 year. And if we for example go to Google for reading about air pollution, then we find that last year Worldwide 4,3 million died by this! And this is around doble as many dead by air pollution than what we have been told about Covid-19, if we adjust down to 1 year for the number told for SARS-CoV-2 during the past 1½ year (but still WHOs numbers). And for Thailand, last year 32,000 dead, while until now 4,140 told dead by Covid-19; and strangely nearly all of these besides also was suffering for cancer, diabetes, lungs and so on, but only killed by Covid-19.
To me, what now is going on, is the worst catastrophe in history, by which we ought to recall the wise words from George Santayana: “Those who do not recall history are doomed to repeat it”. When we think of the previous many cases with vaccines not needed, and resulting in death or many hurt cases for the rest of life.
This original version of the book was written months ago and there are new facts always popping up but the way viruses work and transmit do not change.
Dr. Reiss and Dr. Bhakdi outline how:
-- the standard PCR testing for the virus was rushed, without quality assurance, offering up huge amounts of false positives.
-- covid-19 is a designation that, really, only belongs to the 10% of infected individuals with severe illness. Thus, the "covid-19 cases" are improperly labeled and pushed.
-- any death with a positive test is listed as a covid death, thus inflating mortality.
-- government officials in Germany conspired to make things look worse than they were.
-- the risk is very low for most people and children. schools should have never closed.
-- background immunity to the virus from T-Cells or lymphocytes is apparent in roughly 50% of the population so we are closer to natural Herd Immunity than we thought. We were lied to, being told this virus is totally novel with no existing immunity.
-- censorship has been implemented worldwide like never seen in the modern era.
-- the WHO seems to be being much of the censorship and misinformation on the subject.
-- corporations have profited during the crisis (Amazon?) and much has been fueled by the vaccine producers' drive for a 20/1 return on their investment, hoping to mandate injections for 7 billion people, all of earth.
This is not conspiracy theory. This is criminal negligence by our leaders at best and most likely corporate-government criminal collusion.
Interestingly the Germans seem to be the most woke on the subject, with massive lockdown protests, perhaps sensing a scenario similar to their 1933—now on a global scale.
Yikes.
We ask for open debate worldwide and this book is a must-read for all critical thinkers no matter what their beliefs on the subject.
Thank you Dr. Reiss & Dr. Bhakdi
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In early 2020 I saw the videos from China of people falling over in the street, the videos from Italy of the packed hospital corridors and then the UK videos of people struggling to breath supposedly on ventilators. As a father and husband I reacted in worry and concern and went along with instructions. We stayed in if possible, washed our hands religiously and went for walks whilst keeping a distance if coming into contact with anyone.
However, after months of Lockdown my wife and I started to discuss why we're not seeing any of the hospitals full, why were all the nurses just creating dancing TikTok videos, why don't we know anyone that's actually had this virus? So we started to look at data - all available online via the NHS website. We started doing maths and realised that the figures just didn't add up to the restrictions that were being enforced - a 99.8% survival rate - those that were actually dying were 80 years of age + and had health issues - also those of a younger age also had health issues. Any relatively healthy person between the age of 0-70 years of age had practically zero chance of having any issues with this virus - maybe just a small bout of flu.
Having contacted my Welsh Senedd representative (Labour) I asked why our recent Local Lockdown was implemented - where and how did they get their data from? She sent me a link to the NHS website.
This whole COVID-19 is either a complete and utter plane crash response by the Governments around the world or being run it's course by the Pharmaceutical Companies alongside those that are going to make BILLIONS from all of this.
This book provides data, actual hard hitting factual scientific data with links and sources. I read it within 24 hours because I just couldn't put it down. This is an absolute must for anyone who has started to question what the hell is going on.
This book confirms that the science of Covid in no way justifies lockdowns, surveillance, and tracking. Also, what is the point of a vaccine for a disease with 99%+ survival rate?
Covid is more of a pretext for social and economic remodelling. The financial system has been staggering ever since the 2007 credit crunch.

