The vortex to the report of the “Bild”newspaper from Monday, Germany’s Top virologist Christian Drosten of the Berlin Charité attacks, and his children-study as “grossly incorrect” described, that is in the next round. In his NDR Podcast on Tuesday, the scientists took position and fired back again verbally.
Drosten criticized the “image”-article with the Heading “Drosten-study of infectious children in a grossly wrong – As long as the Star-virologist already knows about it.” The 48-Year-old said in his Podcast: “you can build, of course, is now somewhere, either from Twitter or these Preprints together, what you want to quote because of it. Just so you don’t understand yeah, what these scientists criticise there at all in our study. But it was now time to go. All four scientists have not distanced itself very clearly now from this report as a whole, because that is simply the content or even what they have to say.“
The quoted in the report, scientists pointed out, in the meantime, also even the fact that the statements were taken out of context and no one had spoken directly with the newspaper. So statisticians Dominik Liebl on Twitter said: “I knew nothing of the request, the IMAGE and distance myself from this kind of people to put pressure on auf's sharpest. We can have more lucky @c_drosten and his Team at the science location of Germany. They saved lifes!“
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Quite different opinions to Drostens study
Particularly, the method, the Drosten at the on 29. April has used study published, inflamed the critics. The Economist Jörg Stoye, who teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, USA, and as a “key witness” will be performed, manifests itself in the “mirror”-Interview. With regard to the potential virus load of children as Carriers of the Coronavirus Stoye has a different opinion than Drosten, want to know but scientific discourse is understood, not as a criticism of Drosten, he is referred to as the “giant of Virology”.
Drosten explained in the Podcast now, once again, the method of its study, the came to the conclusion that children could be just as contagious as adults. “We have evaluated virus were – so, as they come, in principle from the lab. This is a evaluation of very large Numbers, which we can now only say: what is there to sophistry behind it, we don’t know.“
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Drosten to "Bild": "This is completely irreführend"
He compares the criticism of his method with an everyday situation: “you can build in your spare time at home, a garden shed and walls, the high. Then a master Mason comes in and says: “you would have a better trowel to use the joints have turned out to be beautiful.” Until then, everything is authorized. But then, when someone from the outside comes running and says: “what is there in your garden, which incidentally is also not in the house, because the master Mason has just complained,” we are maybe a little bit in terms of what is happening in Public. This is completely misleading. Therefore, the cited scientists have distanced themselves also from it. In the article that has been published, in what, actually, the criticism is.“
Virologist Drosten: "As such things come, then heraus"
On the way, such as trials arise, revised; and finally, the journals will be submitted, the researchers said: “This is a normal scientific process, perhaps the certain media do not understand or are not transferred in a shortened reporting. Since such things come out, then, sometimes.“
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