Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Blasts John Bolton: The Information He Released Puts Criminal Liability Squarely on Him (

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on with Sean Hannity on Monday night

During their segment Secretary of State Pompeo weighed in on John Bolton’s book release.

Secretary of State Pompeo: It’s both sad and dangerous. I haven’t read the book in its entirety but the excerpts I’ve seen, lots of falsehoods, lots of lies. Indeed the cover itself, “The Room Where It Happened,” isn’t completely true. The president and others myself included had to cut him out of meetings because he was leaking or he would twist things or he would lie. It was a really difficult situation for the president of the United States and the people… Frankly the information he released puts criminality squarely on him.

Pompeo went on to say his leaks were as damaging as the leaks by Edward Snowden.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/secretary-state-mike-pompeo-blasts-john-bolton-information-released-puts-criminal-liability-squarely-video/

Stanford Prof: Median Infection Fatality Rate Of COVID-19 For Those Under-70 Is Just 0.04%

A scientist known for his contrarian takes to dire COVID-19 predictions has released a paper claiming that antibody evidence suggests the median coronavirus infection fatality rate for those under 70 is just 0.04%.

The estimate throws into sharp relief the lopsided mortality figures for the disease, which has claimed an inordinate number of elderly people across the planet while leaving younger individuals mostly unscathed.

John Ioannidis, a professor of epidemiology and population health at Stanford University, argues in a paper published earlier this month that COVID-19 "seroprevalence studies," which measure infection rates using the presence of antibodies in blood samples, "typically show a much lower fatality than initially speculated in the earlier days of the pandemic."

"It should be appreciated," he writes in the paper, "that [the fatality rate] is not a fixed physical constant and it can vary substantially across locations, depending on the population structure, the case-mix of infected and deceased individuals and other, local factors."

In the paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, Ioannidis surveyed 23 different seroprevalence studies and found that "among people <70 years old, infection fatality rates ranged from … 0.00-0.23% with median of 0.04%."

The median fatality rate of all cases, he writes, is 0.26%, significantly lower than some earlier estimates that suggested rates as high as over 3%.

In the paper, Ioannidis acknowledges that "while COVID-19 is a formidable threat," the apparently low fatality rate compared to earlier estimates "is a welcome piece of evidence."

"Decision-makers can use measures that will try to avert having the virus infect people and settings who are at high risk of severe outcomes," he writes.

"These measures may be possible to be far more precise and tailored to specific high- risk individuals and settings than blind lockdown of the entire society."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stanford-prof-median-infection-fatality-rate-covid-19-those-under-70-just-004