Dr. Rhonda Patrick on covid: what the evidence says · JRE #1701
SUBJECT: COVID
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
You know, there was a study published in The Lancet like last year showing there was a sevenfold increase in stroke incidents in people under 50 in the United States compared to the year before that, before the pandemic start.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
The "sevenfold" figure traces to a widely publicized April 2020 letter in the New England Journal of Medicine (Oxley et al.), not The Lancet, describing five patients under age 50 treated for large-vessel stroke at a single New York City health system over a two-week period during the early pandemic. The authors described this small case cluster as roughly seven times the typical caseload for that age group at that hospital system over a comparable interval, not a national, year-over-year US statistic as characterized in the claim. No verifiable Lancet study reporting a nationwide sevenfold increase in stroke incidence among Americans under 50 compared with the prior year has been identified. The claim as stated misattributes the journal, generalizes a small single-city case series into what sounds like a national epidemiological finding, and mischaracterizes the comparison period.