I look at these links for about 5 mins, and I want to register that my impression is consistent with the FDA person having correct beliefs about the facts on the ground and just being imprecise when trying to explain it in simple terms to the public. If 100 people were going to die of covid, then the plasma thing would have saved 35 of them.
But I’m also having difficulty finding primary sources, so perhaps they did just say the straightforward absolute-risk thing.
I 100% listened and heard him get it very wrong, and lots of other people did too. And if he’d gotten it right, he wouldn’t have had to apologize afterwards, so I’m rather confident he got it wrong.
(Which is why, sadly, apologizing is once again clearly the wrong strategic move, even when clearly the right thing to do. Sigh.)
If his sentence was 1 word away from right to super wrong I still think it’s terribly unprofessional.
In any case, he should know that the sentence is absolutely critical. He should have made three sentences in a row to clarify just in case, because if he missed the word “dying” from your sentence the consequences are enormous.
I look at these links for about 5 mins, and I want to register that my impression is consistent with the FDA person having correct beliefs about the facts on the ground and just being imprecise when trying to explain it in simple terms to the public. If 100 people were going to die of covid, then the plasma thing would have saved 35 of them.
But I’m also having difficulty finding primary sources, so perhaps they did just say the straightforward absolute-risk thing.
I 100% listened and heard him get it very wrong, and lots of other people did too. And if he’d gotten it right, he wouldn’t have had to apologize afterwards, so I’m rather confident he got it wrong.
(Which is why, sadly, apologizing is once again clearly the wrong strategic move, even when clearly the right thing to do. Sigh.)
Gotcha, you saw the primary source.
What a sad state of affairs...
The statement is in the first 20 seconds of this video: https://twitter.com/US_FDA/status/1297662384060981248
If his sentence was 1 word away from right to super wrong I still think it’s terribly unprofessional.
In any case, he should know that the sentence is absolutely critical. He should have made three sentences in a row to clarify just in case, because if he missed the word “dying” from your sentence the consequences are enormous.