A professor of infectious diseases and immunology is questioning Quebec’s COVID-19 pandemic management with an analysis of provincial data, saying risks were overstated and measures uncalled for.
“The threat from COVID-19 was very real, but was it as significant as reported?” said Patrick Provost in the piece published in Québecor media company platforms on June 22.
Provost is a full professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Laval University, with his current research focusing on Ribonucleic Acid (RNA).
He noted that the mortality rate is 1.44 percent for COVID-19, but he said the rate is overestimated due to the inclusion of deaths “with COVID” and the underreporting of cases….