The following is a response to this video from Dr Emily Porter
PSA:
If you see this video, please do not click or share it. It contains serious flaws in data analysis and YouTube may pay these guys for ads—see below for their motivation for making the video.
Several people have asked me about a video of a “press briefing” that went viral yesterday.
As an actual board certified emergency physician, I can tell you no one I know who practices emergency medicine agrees with these guys on almost all the “data” they appear to present. They way overstate their experience with immunology and infectious disease. Dr. Erickson isn’t boarded in EM, or anything; he did not finish residency. These two doctors own a bunch of urgent cares which are at half volume right now due to the shelter in place order. They threw together some nonsense data with obvious selection bias (sick and hypoxic patients dying at home or in hospital; 911 doesn’t go to urgent care and most don’t take Medicare or Medicaid. That means you can’t apply the percentage of sick people at one urgent care to a larger non-random population because only sick people were the ones being tested. They don’t sign death certificates in urgent care.) Then tried to extrapolate that data to a larger population which is not how statistics work. Their local public health department has already called them out on their lies. (https://bakersfieldnow.com/amp/news/local/public-health-responds-to-claims-from-doctors-at-accelerated-urgent-care)
Their “press briefing” was a local news channel (and likely paid) used as a marketing ploy to drum up business for their struggling urgent cares. They are dangerous and should honestly be called out for what they are doing. Anyone insulting Dr. Fauci right now has serious issues. We are discussing in a group of 150K physicians right now and drafting an organized complaint to their medical board in California. This is highly unethical and dangerous to be doing amidst a pandemic when citizens are looking for reliable information.