The fake antivaxx expert doctors of disinformation have, from the very beginning, been wrong about just about everything.
They also twisted the truth.
Have you heard that COVID cases were over-counted, that the numbers were inflated?
Of course you have.
Well, you were lied to.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-home-covid-tests-lead-vast-undercount-cases-positivity-rates
Not only have we under counted cases. We under counted deaths.
This means the scale of the genocide inflicted by the antivaxx doctors of disinformation is even worse than we thought.
The reservoir is larger than we thought. More virus persists than we thought. More replication. More mutation. More variants. More threat to public heath.
COVID isn’t over.
The antivaxx movement and the fake expert doctors of disinformation made it all much worse and continue to do so.
Most everybody agrees that the official figures for covid cases are undercounts; that is, at least, if you define a "covid case" as a positive PCR test. Of course lots of people get sick & then recover without ever being tested. Or now they self-test with home antigen tests, and then they get better.
The significance is that the case fatality rate is dramatically overstated in official figures. CFR = fatalities divided by cases. The number of fatalities is known (probably overstated) but the number of (mild) cases is understated.