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To be fair to her, she did not claim that hospitals in Florida specifically were at risk from being overwhelmed. Instead, she takes issue with Levitt telling th
by nhod 6y ago
To be fair to her, she did not claim that hospitals in Florida specifically were at risk from being overwhelmed. Instead, she takes issue with Levitt telling the governor of Florida that COVID generally does not present a significant threat in terms of overwhelming hospitals, which is in fact verifiably false; COVID has overwhelmed hospitals all over the world multiple times. I write this from LA, where our hospitals are currently overwhelmed, and likely to get more so in the next three weeks as people return from holiday travel.
- timr 6y agoYes, I considered this. The sentence is phrased somewhat ambiguously, which is why I said she's being loose with the facts. But the links she provides neither back up the claim (all are speculative), and 3/4 are not specific to Florida, so I think it's a fair critique given the forceful nature of the statement, and the fact that she's calling out Levitt for his own past speculation. The link to Levitt's supposed comments to the governor is broken, so we can't verify what he actually said in detail. However, if you follow the other links, you can see that she is not above taking comments out of context when it serves her purpose. In the comment about about 10 deaths in Israel, it's fairly clear that Levitt is not making a bold claim about the distant future -- he's saying that given the case counts at the time, it would be surprising to see more than ten deaths, not predicting ten deaths in Israel, ever.