ladies and gentlemen, family and friends from around the country and literally around the world. This is another episode with your host, David J. Harris, jr, and today I have the privilege. And the honor of having dr Dan Erickson on with me. He and his coat doctor that owned the several urgent cares in Kern County absolutely exploded the internet. YouTube took their video down because of the information that some of what she's going to share, and we're going to get a little bit deeper into that as well. It's a privilege to have on with me this morning, dr Dan Erickson, dr Dan, how are you doing today? My brother. You know, it's 84 degrees here in Southern California and I'm feeling good. That's good. Did you have any idea that your video was going to go so epically viral? Shh. No, this, this was, we were supposed to give a raw data sharing to our local media. They were going to record it and do a two minute news segment. And then somehow it went Facebook live and kind of went all over the place. So no, this was, this was a fireside chat for Kern County. That's all it was intended to be. And you and your, uh, your, your, the co owner of the, um, the urgent cares, you are actual coven 19 doctors. You've been asked and tasked with conducting research and collecting data on individuals in your area. Correct. Yeah, we've, we've done almost close to 7,000 tests. We do the nasal swab and we're just starting to do the IgG immunity test. We weren't, we weren't essentially elected. We just noticed there was a demand for testing. So we, we set aside one of our main corporate centers to start doing a lot of testing. We've done close to 7,000 and where we'd have about 8.3% positives via PCR method, which is the nasal swab to this point. How different is that from the current studies that we're hearing from CDC, from the original, uh, from the original expectations of, of, uh, how many people we're going to contract this or have contracted it. And then compare that to em to the mortality rate. How, how off from the original, which has kind of created this entire pandemic of stay at home orders. Where does that compare? Well, I think you have to go back a couple months ago when we were using sort of these academic models and they were predict predicting, you know, 2.2 million deaths, which obviously has not been materialized. Uh, the second wave of predictions comes from Stanford, from LA County. Where Stanford looked at 3,300 people. They did antibody tests and they found 2.6 to 4.1% of the people in the population of Santa Clara had, uh, had immunity. Well, their public health department had 956 on record. So what dr Leo Natus and others are saying is. It's actually 50 times that they said it's more like 50 to 80,000 cases instead of 956 so the, the these studies we're seeing are saying that it's a lot more prevalent. Prevalent means the, the amount of current disease, it's a lot more prevalent than we initially thought. And if it's a lot more prevalent, the death rate therefore, is much lower. So now we see, uh, then dr Fowchee as been found saying, this is the new England journal, the death rate around the country, uh, the highest we're seeing is 0.5. I think dr Fowchee said under 1%. So 99 to 99.5% of people who get get better. When did you first realize that something was wrong with the testing and the reporting on the testing? Well, I wouldn't say something's wrong with the testing. I would say that what I was trying to do was give the people of Kern County a realistic sense of my data. I said, we're not New York. We're not, we're not China. So I said, I've done, at that time, I had done 5,000, 213 tests. Uh, I had gotten about a 6.5% positive, which was 340 at that time. And I said, here's my data. And I said, California at that time had. You know, I was going over the positives and how much testing had been do
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