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Corona, False Alarm? Facts and Figures Paperback – October 2, 2020

by Karina Reiss Ph.D. (Author), Sucharit Bhakdi MD (Author)
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Does the race for vaccine development make sense? What are the chances of success? Will the vaccine be safe? Will people accept it??

In June 2020, Corona, False Alarm? exploded into the German market, selling 200,000 copies and 75,000 e-books in the first six weeks.

No other topic dominates our attention as much as coronavirus and COVID-19, the infectious disease it triggers. There’s been a global deluge of contradictory opinions, fake news, and politically controlled information. Differing views on the dangers posed by the pandemic have led to deep division and confusion, within governments, society, and even among friends and family.

In Corona, False Alarm?, award-winning researchers Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Karina Reiss give clarity to these confusing and stressful times. They offer analysis of whether radical protective measures―including lockdown, social distancing, and mandatory masking―have been justified, and what the ramifications have been for society, the economy, and public health. Dr. Bhakdi and Dr. Reiss provide dates, facts, and background information, including:

  • How Covid-19 compares with previous coronaviruses and the flu virus
  • What infection numbers and the death rate really tell us
  • The challenges around lockdown: Were the protective measures justified?
  • Mandatory mask-wearing: Does the science support it?
  • Vaccines: What are the chances of success? What are the risks?

Corona, False Alarm? provides you with sound information and substantiated facts―and encourages you to form your own opinion on the corona crisis.

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Karina Reiss was born in Germany and studied biology at the University of Kiel where she received her PhD in 2001. She became assistant professor in 2006 and associate professor in 2008 at the University of Kiel. She has published over sixty articles in the fields of cell biology, biochemistry, inflammation, and infection, which have gained international recognition and received prestigious honors and awards.



Sucharit Bhakdi was born in Washington, DC, and educated at schools in Switzerland, Egypt, and Thailand. He studied medicine at the University of Bonn in Germany, where he received his MD in 1970. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg from 1972 to 1976, and at The Protein Laboratory in Copenhagen from 1976 to 1977. He joined the Institute of Medical Microbiology at Giessen University in 1977 and was appointed associate professor in 1982. He was named chair of Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz in 1990, where he remained until his retirement in 2012. Dr. Bhakdi has published over three hundred articles in the fields of immunology, bacteriology, virology, and parasitology, for which he has received numerous awards and the Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate. Sucharit Bhakdi and his wife, Karina Reiss, live with their three-year-old son, Jonathan Atsadjan, in a small village near the city of Kiel.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chelsea Green Publishing; 1st edition (October 2, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1645020576
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I bought it because I lived in Germany and I know for fact how well prepared are most Germans. Most of them have PhD degrees and well educated. I also heard the doctors in a broadcast and made me confident I will get good information for my own research around the plandemic. It is not a pandemic. If anything, a PCR pandemic not mend for diagnosis and misused by those using it.Medicine have deviated from science. Doctors should treat patients at their offices and not dictated by a machine given them false positive results.
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Raphael Ketani
5.0 out of 5 stars True facts from two scientists who actually know about viruses and epidemics.
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2020
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I bought the paperback version. The prose is well written and I didn't find any grammatical errors - something that can take away from the enjoyment of reading a book. There are 10 chapters, but, strangely, they are not numbered in the body of the book. There's also a long list of references, but no Index section. The book is an easy read.

The book is packed with true information (facts). The authors are actual experts in the study of viruses, and other phages, and appear to understand what an epidemic is and how it works. Though they write from their first hand experience with the epidemic as it took place in Germany (the book is translated from the German version), the information and the events they describe are exactly the same as those for the United States and other countries.

Importantly, they describe how the government and the media have exaggerated the impact of the virus and have pushed an alarmist agenda and conducted fear mongering in order to control the public (sounds like what is taking place in the U.S.). COVID-19 is compared to other causes of deaths of people over 80 years old such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and respiratory infections, and the number of viral deaths is shown to be insignificant! By the way 1.2 million people die in auto accidents every year, though the media doesn't publish much of these incidents - it's just a statistic. Information is also presented which describes the development of the vaccines. The authors state that a number of safety checks have been bypassed in order to bring the vaccines to market quickly. I'm sure the officers of each drug company are jumping for joy. Did you think that the pharmaceutical industry was really being charitable? The taxpayers are footing the bill! So, with all of the shortcuts being taken, it's questionable whether the vaccines are really safe. The authors point this out in the book. With this information in mind, I'm not taking the vaccine.

The book was published in October 2020. So, unfortunately, we don't have the authors' comments regarding the existence of a second wave of COVID infections. However, they did state that the peak of the viral infections took place during April 2020.

So, turn off the news. Put down the newspapers. Take some deep breaths and relax. Make a cup of tea or eat something very delicious and take a walk outside! Get back to living a normal life. The authors have stated - and I believe they have successfully made the point - that COVID is no worse than the flu and life should go on.

I highly recommend the book!

Raphael Ketani
Sunnyside, NY
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Don
5.0 out of 5 stars Corona false alarm
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2024
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Great book. We have defense against this! Dipahydramine and lactoferrin studied in Florida!
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Gert Bo Thorgersen
5.0 out of 5 stars Goverments ought to read the book and then realize how bad they have been misinformed.
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2021
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A week ago, I bought the book, even though I already owned old books about vaccines, and new about Covid-19, because by in Amazon reading in it, I then got interested and ordered it. And after now having read it, I must say that I am very happy to have bought the book, which tomorrow I will lend a doctor.

As a side remark, after much has happened since the book bot in print, then many persons tell that for Sweden, which we read about, it turned out bad with only few infection restrictions. When I calculate with numbers found in Google, we see that in Sweden 1.33%, opposite to Denmark, with much restrictions, 0.823% of the infected died. But actually, it’s enormous unprecise just to compare measures from different countries, as daily learn by seeing how WHO mixes the measures.

And concerning failure in the public media, daily I see this in the Thailand Tv news. Now daily 50 – 110 persons are told to have died of Covid-19, but until in March, when then daily only 10 – 20 dead, it then was printed down if they also had been suffering other diseases (heart, cancer, fat, diabetes…) and which of these. And then daily only 0 – 1 suffering Covid-19. So, from until then less than 1 - 5% dead by Covid-19, to now 100% dead by Covid-19. And my Thai wife is awful scared, and wants me to be vaccinated.

In the book we read about a person who daily corrects the information told in the news, by simple calculations, just as I do. For example, if one day double as many persons af measured, then strangely, then probably there will be found double as many infected. And then told that the disease is increasing! My wife, and all of the other around here, can not understand why I can find different results, and instead highly trusts the news.

As the book originally was written for Germans, then concerning scaring peoples, it would have ideally to, as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. do it in the foreword in the book by Dr. Joseph Mercola & Ronnie Cummins: “The Truth About COVID-19”, by there putting in words from Herman Göring, during the trials at Nuremberg. Göring then: “It is always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it is a democracy, a fascist……dictatorship. All you have to tell them that they are being attacked.… It works the same way in any country.”

In the book we get the quote: James Shannon: “The only safe vaccine is the one that is never used”. The same as I have been saying since I was teenager.

We in northern countries are used to every wither being hit by Influenza, as we have no sun. And if we compare the Influenza (Flu) with the Covid-19 (also an Influenza), we see that probably there are no change in the numbers of deaths either caused by winter Flu or Covid-19. In Denmark (5.6 million inhabitants), I during decades was used to each winter hearing about 2,000 – 6,000 expected to die by the Flu, and advised to be vaccinated, which I never did. And then I recalled, that 2 month ago, in the Danish news then I read that in the past winter, only 1 person (in Google told 17) was registered as dead by Influenza. So, I now here, went to Google for searching, and first I found that in Denmark, until now, 299,223 has been Covid-19 infected, and 2,539 deaths, (less than 1% dead!). Then I asked for Flu during all of the previous winters, (none before 2017/18 showed up!), and found that for the winter 2017/18 2,822 deaths, for 2018/19 790, and the 2019/20 not shown, but instead written “caused by Covid-19 no Influenza”! Strang, 2,822 dead by Influenza -> 0 by Influenza + 2,530 by Covid-19. To me, no big brain should be needed to find a connection to the strange high numbers of dead by Covid-19, which WHO = Bill Gates, and drug producers want us to believe.

In the book they point on air pollution. Which I also, during months, have looked at, caused by problems during the last 1 1/2 year. And if we for example go to Google for reading about air pollution, then we find that last year Worldwide 4,3 million died by this! And this is around doble as many dead by air pollution than what we have been told about Covid-19, if we adjust down to 1 year for the number told for SARS-CoV-2 during the past 1½ year (but still WHOs numbers). And for Thailand, last year 32,000 dead, while until now 4,140 told dead by Covid-19; and strangely nearly all of these besides also was suffering for cancer, diabetes, lungs and so on, but only killed by Covid-19.

To me, what now is going on, is the worst catastrophe in history, by which we ought to recall the wise words from George Santayana: “Those who do not recall history are doomed to repeat it”. When we think of the previous many cases with vaccines not needed, and resulting in death or many hurt cases for the rest of life.
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Giulio
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and informative!
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2021
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This book blows the lid of the covid-19 "coup" with lots of facts and coherent arguments. The information presented therein is mainly about the German narrative, but you can use your critical thinking to connect the dots and realise that a similar agenda exists in most Western societies regarding the covid-19 "coup".

Read the book, think critically (yes, it'll make you think), analyse the facts, and really question what you've been told for over a year now. Get informed and help others do the same. Humanity is in desperate need of critical thinking/common sense. Our politicians and the so-called "medical experts" may have degrees in their respective fields but they surely do not possess degrees in common sense.
Get informed and AVOID THE MSM rubbish. TURN OFF THE DAMN TV cos that's real virus!
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Samantha Rinne Hooker
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Christmas Present
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2023
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Whether you're cynical about COVID, or know someone who is, this has plenty of information to let the reader make decisions with. As for me, I gave this to someone else.
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SteMar
5.0 out of 5 stars Schnell und tolles Buch!
Reviewed in Germany on January 10, 2024
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5.0 out of 5 stars Short, powerful and straight to the point book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2023
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I recently finished reading "Corona, False Alarm?: Facts and Figures" and, as a big fan of Dr. Bhakdi's activism on the government and big pharma's COVID-19 scam, I was thoroughly impressed by the level of research and expertise that he brought along to the subject, as he's been continuously doing online over the past 3 years. The book is well-written, considering that it's been translated from German, and the information is presented in a clear, concise and slightly sarcastic manner, making it a great pleasure to read (even if you're not a medical expert). I have to admit the way it criticizes the ignorance (or perhaps, the corruption?) of modern governments made me laugh aloud, a couple of times.
Bhakdi certainly did an excellent job of presenting both sides of the argument and offering an accurate and objective perspective on the matter, covering the social, medical, ethical, financial and psychological damage that the press and the operators of this scandal had caused in Germany, and not only.
Overall, I highly recommend the book to anyone who can appreciate good scientific writing more than corporate mainstream media propaganda. It's a well-written and informative book that I believe would be of value to anyone looking to learn more about this fascinating topic. Needless to mention, the claims in this short book are all backed by more than a hundred external references.
Thank you, Dr. Bhakdi, for the privilege to learn from you.
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Monocled Libertarian
5.0 out of 5 stars Provides an over-arching warning and concern
Reviewed in Canada on December 23, 2020
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This is an important book. It is more than just about statistics (and this book provides ample stats. Though much of it should be obvious to those who follow events closely. Do keep in mind it does focus on Germany but what happened there applies to most countries; particularly in the West including my country of Canada), which are indeed crucial if we're to contextualize things properly if not dispassionately, but about how we're handling the situation, and what the potential poor ramifications that may come of it.

My concern from the onset was once we tap into people's primal emotions like fear, it's impossible to reason it back into calm. It has to pass. This is the biggest failure in my judgement. Another monumental mistake were the lockdowns which were disproportionate to the threat and come with tragic trade-offs; Bastiat's dictum of 'the unseen' rears its mysterious head once more. We over played the precautionary principle to the point of grotesqueness.

We allowed government to essentially take over our lives and with it came a loss of liberty and independence all under the guise of 'public health'. We became slaves to medical bureaucrats and infectious disease experts corroded with tunnel vision. All we were pretend was there was death and masks and vaccines were the only way out. Media, unsurprisingly, opted to be mouthpieces of the government disinterested in discourse that could bring a sense of perspective if not truth to people. Politicians hide behind the 'experts' as they deprive people of their inalienable right to assemble, worship and earn a living.

Why this is happening goes beyond the scope of this book and subsequent review. The whole darn thing has to be investigated from public health officials, to politicians to Big Pharma to the WHO.

They failed us. All of them.

We must no let this become a precedent because what we're witnessing is hysteria.
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Rafael P.
5.0 out of 5 stars Corona,False Alarm?
Reviewed in Spain on July 16, 2021
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El libro está bien estructurado con múltiples referencias.
Fácil de entender, escrito para el público en general, sin conocimientos en la materia
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Thierry Landrieu
5.0 out of 5 stars Corrélation de crise ... Allemagne et France .
Reviewed in France on March 29, 2021
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J'imaginais que l'Allemagne , bien mieux équipée que nous au point de vue médical en général et surtout en lits de réanimation, sortirait bien mieux que nous son épingle de la pandémie . Et bien que nenni , ils ont mangé confinements, masques et fermetures de restaurants à la même sauce que nous et avec les mêmes justifications .
Alors vu qu'on nous a rabâché que nous devions nous confiner pour " aplatir la courbe et éviter d'engorger les hôpitaux " et qu'aujourd'hui après un an d'épidémie on n'a toujours pas plus - parait il - de lits de réanimation , si on a servi le même message aux allemands.... elle est où la logique ?
L'auteur fait déjà les mêmes constatations qu'on fait aujourd'hui en France , une réaction énorme face à une surmortalité assez limitée . ( évaluée à 4% en France pour 2020 ... ce qui reste exceptionnel certes ) .
Donc ... j'ai vraiment été sidéré de voir comment cette critique de la gestion de la crise rejoint celles qu'on lit en France ...
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