The Minutes of David Friedberg on covid-19 https://minutesof.com/david-friedberg/on/covid-19/ Everything David Friedberg has said on covid-19: 9 verbatim quotes between May 2020 and June 2020, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:43 +0000 Friedberg dismisses six-foot social distancing rules as ineffective for indoor spaces where viral particles ac https://minutesof.com/q/a1074aee-892a-4e82-b050-85618b692a91/ https://minutesof.com/q/a1074aee-892a-4e82-b050-85618b692a91/ “Like if you're six foot away from someone in a room, people are coughing and that room gets filled with those particles over a one hour period.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 02:45:29 +0000 covid-19 Friedberg argues that the U.S. has politicized public health issues like masks in ways that undermine good sol https://minutesof.com/q/b4bbfd05-777a-4675-8063-d92f3019aa1a/ https://minutesof.com/q/b4bbfd05-777a-4675-8063-d92f3019aa1a/ “But things of public health, when they get sort of distorted and viewed through a political lens or just idiotic, we view masks as a political statement.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 02:45:29 +0000 covid-19 Friedberg predicts staged vaccine release starting Q4 2020, with production ramping in parallel to testing des https://minutesof.com/q/518a6cea-80b9-442c-b962-4475fb7504b5/ https://minutesof.com/q/518a6cea-80b9-442c-b962-4475fb7504b5/ “So there's gonna, I think there's gonna be a staged release of vaccines that'll probably, believe it or not, start in Q4 of this year.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 02:45:29 +0000 covid-19 Friedberg predicts staged vaccine release starting Q4 of 2020 with parallel production ramp-up underway. https://minutesof.com/q/309804ce-a023-4a59-a4f8-4a3dd8cd2a8b/ https://minutesof.com/q/309804ce-a023-4a59-a4f8-4a3dd8cd2a8b/ “I think there's gonna be a staged release of vaccines that'll probably believe it or not, start in q four of this year, and there's been production ramp up going on in parallel to testing.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 01:15:25 +0000 covid-19 Friedberg says hospitals never became overwhelmed yet lockdowns continue, and those wanting to end lockdowns r https://minutesof.com/q/ea4c04c9-8271-41b8-bbef-e580abfbfc8e/ https://minutesof.com/q/ea4c04c9-8271-41b8-bbef-e580abfbfc8e/ “Well, nowhere in the country did the hospitals get overwhelmed and we're still in these lockdowns. And so, you know, I think that it's long overdue for it to end.” — All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:18:18 +0000 covid-19 Friedberg advocates ending lockdowns while wearing masks, a position he says neither political side supports. https://minutesof.com/q/0822ee2c-aa7b-4051-94f8-379c30297f26/ https://minutesof.com/q/0822ee2c-aa7b-4051-94f8-379c30297f26/ “where I come out on this thing is that I think we should end lockdowns but wear masks, and it's very hard to find anybody, you know, in the political spectrum who agrees with that because, you know, one side wants to keep lockdowns going indefinitely and the other doesn't want us to wear masks.” — All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:18:18 +0000 covid-19 Friedberg states people under 60 without preexisting conditions face 50 times lower risk from COVID-19. https://minutesof.com/q/0b6e92d8-6e0f-47d5-8dfa-d84c99ae1082/ https://minutesof.com/q/0b6e92d8-6e0f-47d5-8dfa-d84c99ae1082/ “the data seems to suggest that people 60 who are healthy don't have sort of preexisting conditions are 50 times less likely to develop or there's a 50X greater chance for those 60 in terms of having a really bad outcome. And so for people 60 who don't have these preexisting conditions, it's just not,” — All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:18:18 +0000 covid-19 Friedberg argues widespread mask use alone is sufficient to stop exponential viral spread, citing Asian countr https://minutesof.com/q/18c5fe18-2784-42b8-8db1-4cc47ab7fa69/ https://minutesof.com/q/18c5fe18-2784-42b8-8db1-4cc47ab7fa69/ “We've seen in the Asian countries or Czechoslovakia, other places, they've been able to get the so called R naught,” — All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:18:18 +0000 covid-19 Friedberg reports 40-60% of people have pre-existing T-cell immunity to COVID-19 from prior coronavirus exposu https://minutesof.com/q/a9250658-9265-445f-afb8-5a8ff0053b20/ https://minutesof.com/q/a9250658-9265-445f-afb8-5a8ff0053b20/ “forty to sixty percent of the population that has never been exposed to SARS coronavirus to the current coronavirus already have activated T cells to the virus.” — All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:18:18 +0000 covid-19