by: Sara Middleton, staff writer | May 3, 2020
(NaturalHealth365) Is it finally time for Americans to get back to work? Two doctors from California certainly seem to think so. In a new and recently banned YouTube video, Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi share their professional opinions regarding California’s COVID-19 stay-at-home (“shelter in place”) orders.
The pair of docs, along with many other concerned citizens, believe that maintaining shelter-in-place policies for too long, and without a sensible plan for reopening the economy, will have shocking consequences that go well beyond hurting Americans’ livelihoods.
West coast physicians warn: Stay-at-home orders could actually harm our health by weaken immunity
In an April 22 interview with a local Californian news station, Dr. Erickson and Dr. Massihi of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, CA state that based on their data – which includes over 5,200 patients tested for COVID-19, or more than half of all the testing in their county), the chances of dying of COVID-19 in their community is less than one percent (about 0.03 percent, according to Dr. Erickson).
As a comparison, the seasonal flu has a reported fatality rate of 0.1 percent. Meanwhile, the tentative