Politics playing medicine, and that's a very dangerous game." He ascribed ulterior motives to the alarm over COVID-19, saying it's: There is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians, it's outrageous, this is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public. His background means, he said, "I might know a little bit about all this." He told the committee: Hodkinson, a pathologist who received his medical education in the United Kingdom but has practiced in Canada for more than 40 years, said on the call he also has experience in virology, according to the article. Users on social media only saw this title, description and thumbnail: Top Pathologist Claims Coronavirus is "The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on an Unsuspecting Public" Hodkinson's comments were made during a discussion involving the Community and Public Services Committee and the clip was subsequently uploaded to YouTube.
Roger Hodkinson told government officials in Alberta during a Zoom conference call that the current coronavirus crisis is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public." The claim appeared in an article published by Infowars on November 18, 2020, titled "Top Pathologist Claims Coronavirus is 'The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on an Unsuspecting Public'" (archived here) which opened:
Health officials also point out that COVID-19 is more easily transmitted than the flu. Clearly, the severity of COVID-19 is not a hoax and the fatality rate for the disease surpasses that of even the worst year for the flu. Similarly, data from the WHO show that COVID deaths worldwide so far are more than double the average number of global flu deaths.
Roger Hodkinson correct when he asserts that COVID-19 is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public" and "just another bad flu"? No, neither of those claims is true: Data from the CDC show that COVID-19 deaths so far in the United States are four times greater than the highest level of deaths reported each year from flu.
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