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Vinay Prasad MD MPH

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2 years

" I'm done with COVID" is short for: "Continuing draconian restrictions at this moment is inflicting far more damage on vulnerable populations (especially kids) than benefit, and I will no longer participate in your inability to consider trade-offs" 🧵

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When serious people start saying 'actually babies don't need to see faces' and 'did you know, most of your ancestors never attended school,' I think it's fair to say the train is off the track

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Something is deeply broken with your COVID policy if the more vaccine doses you get in your arm, the more layers of mask you wear, and the more restrictions you face

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When people say "we are never returning to normal" they just mean they aren't. Everyone else will soon.

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2 years

Yes, COVID is on par with Flu in terms of risk to kids, but more to the point, the amount of restrictions we placed on children is in no way whatsoever commensurate with their risk of COVID. We restructured their entire lives, and deprived them of a year of education. Horrible

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It Is Now Undeniable 👇 Vaccine can cause more Myocarditis in Men Under 40 Than COVID-19; Just OUT! Patrone Circ 2022; I have said repeatedly Moderna should be banned in Men<40 FDA failed Americans & this analysis is more complicated Everyone gets breakthrough eventually 1/7

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2 years

Every organization mandating boosters in young healthy people knowing the data on omicron's breakthrough rate despite boosting is making a big error. It is ethically bankrupt, it is scientifically bankrupt, and it is going to cause serious damage to future vaccination efforts.

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2 years

I don't know if people know this but vaccinating 6 month to 4-year-olds with an old MRNA vaccine that has very weak vaccine effectiveness against the dominant strain and can't generate high antibody titers is not going to magically end the pandemic.

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2 years

There really is a disconnect in a society where a 79 year old who gets COVID just keep working while it clears, but cities and school districts panic and cloth mask kids to 'stop the spread'.

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2 years

Wearing a mask from the door to the table, but at no point during the meal, in a crowded restaurant Making kids wear masks outside at recess Two examples of real policies that are metaphors for how the US handled COVID-19

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1 year

Eventually politicians will strip CDC and other public health agencies of their power, and I won't be able to argue with them. Why? Public health misused and abused its powers Closing beaches Pouring sand into outdoor skateboard parks............ 🧵

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2 years

University students who did not comply with booster mandate are not permitted to enroll even in online classes. Wtf? Coercing a 20 year old to be boosted after the FDA top 2 vax regulators resigned over it? The virus didn't do this Bad policymakers did

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2 years

Pre-covid, I was a strong supporter of Public Health having broad legal authority to take action, but PH broke the social contract PH mandated 2 year olds wear masks, but ran zero RCTs to reduce uncertainty Pushed vax passports, even after clear vax'd could transmit 🤔 🧵🧵

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2 years

If Sweden went on Joe Rogan, Spotify would delete the episode, and the White House would cheer. I think that's a problem.

Sweden decides against recommending COVID vaccines for kids aged 5-11

Sweden has decided against recommending COVID vaccines for kids aged 5-11, the Health Agency said on Thursday, arguing that the benefits did not outweigh the risks.

www.reuters.com

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2 years

Maybe some people are unaware, but if everyone wore an n95 for 21 days... COVID would circulate among human beings forever and we will all be infected multiple times in our lives Keep that in mind, when you feel the metal nose wire cut into your flesh outside at the park

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1 year

The @nytimes that recommends we all mask Says there is strong evidence masking helps Click on the word 'evidence' and it leads to a cluster RCT that was.... wait for it... Negative. It Failed to show a benefit of masking The strongest evidence they can find is negative! 🤣🤣

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2 years

Things that won't age well: Bans on loved ones visiting the hospital, particular limits for 1 parent of a child and limits at end of life School closure Restrictions on children

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2 years

Every healthy 20-year-old who is triple vaxed and is still scared about their personal health risk from contracting COVID-19 is a public health communication failure. We failed to communicate risks accurately, and catastrophizing ensued

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2 years

Denmark tells parents if their healthy kid had covid they don't need a vaccine. Sweden advises against 5 to 11 healthy kid getting vax If US pursues vax mandate for kids as prerequisite for school It will be an error. It will push out kids unfairly.

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3 years

It really doesn't make sense to call it a "case" of covid when what you are referring to is a asymptomatic young person getting an unnecessary test and being told the result is positive.

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2 years

If we drop mask mandates too soon.... The pandemic will take the exact same trajectory it otherwise would

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10 months

I refuse to debate @peterhotez Real scientists can't legitimize ppl who supported masking toddlers, lockdowns, prolonged school closure, and mandating a vaccine that did not have evidence it benefit 3rd parties. People might get the wrong idea that his COVID views were helpful

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8 months

I remember when the world's dumbest public health experts prevented him from playing

US Open Tennis

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24 and counting for Novak Djokovic!

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2 years

Vaccine passports at restaurants separate people who can spread covid from those who can spread covid

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2 years

Every time you walk around a city and see packed indoor restaurants of unmasked diners, while people wear masks outside, you can rest assured that you have a public health science communication failure.

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2 years

Perhaps people are unaware, but if 100% of people globally were vaccinated with this mRNA construct... COVID would continue to circulate forever There is no herd immunity; we have to live with it So easy on coercively vaccinating those least at risk Easy tiger

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3 years

Let me be perfectly clear: children DO NOT NEED a sars-cov-2 vaccine before they are permitted to return to normal activities, such as school and visiting loved ones. Any claims to the contrary are demoralizing and counter to common sense and medicine Here is why [thread]

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10 months

Honestly, Peter Hotez is not the person for the task. The man is a steady stream of incorrect COVID-19 policy, and naked partisan politics. The truth will be entirely undefended.

Joe Rogan

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10 months

Peter, if you claim what RFKjr is saying is “misinformation” I am offering you $100,000.00 to the charity of your choice if you’re willing to debate him on my show with no time limit.

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2 years

Mask and vaccine policies in California are already stricter for attending public school than attending the Superbowl Everyone involved in such a contradiction is a failure.

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2 years

I was following the science the other day, and it turned right, entered a bank and froze all these people's assets

Banks Have Begun Freezing Accounts Linked to Trucker Protest

Under the Emergencies Act, banks have been prohibited from providing "any financial or related services" to people connected with the protests in Ottawa.

www.newsweek.com

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2 years

Every school district not open tomorrow has failed it's kids and society Public schools will need total reform/ replacement in the future. Vouchers/ charter are coming Teachers unions destroyed a generation. As a life long liberal, it was sad to watch

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2 years

The two biggest failures in COVID19 policy were 1. Hubris to think humans were all powerful & could entirely change mother nature 2. Not subjecting our interventions to empirical testing, creating bitter tribal disputes, based on no credible data & never learning the answer 🧵🧵

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2 years

Not only am I a progressive, Bernie Sanders fan, but I wrote 2 books about how to reform drug regulation & medicine to improve health & save society $$ So it has been heartbreaking to watch the left on the wrong side of many COVID19 issues: masking, kids, school, mandates, etc

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2 years

Joe Rogan is right. At some ages, for Men, for some doses of specific mRNA shots, the risk of vaccine induced myocarditis exceeds the risk of myocarditis from infection. It was proven by the UK group 👇 We have to be honest about this fact to have productive conversations

Joe Rogan

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2 years

This is a substack article on the Nature Medicine paper revisited by Vinay Prasad

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3 years

There will not be a level of vaccination (with or without boosters) that will bring the risk of acquiring sars-cov-2 to zero; The sooner we accept that, the sooner we can have sensible health policy

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2 years

My only question is: Who woke up on Sunday in DC and said, you know what, that failed Pfizer Vax trial in 6mo-4yo is probably good enough, can we ask Pfizer to submit it, and tell people to push the narrative on twitter/ newspapers?

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1 year

High quality masks definitely work. As NIAID director, Fauci launched six randomized trials that showed benefit. Oh wait! He ran zero studies and just went on TV and made shit up.

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2 years

I found a slide with all the evidence that vaccinating a child <5 that already had COVID19 provides a benefit to that child

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2 years

Does the CDC know I am writing a long form article detailing examples where they manipulated data or pushed flawed science verging on propaganda to further policy goals? And if so, are they trying to help my thesis each week in MMWR?

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Booster mandates make me feel safe Knowing I am surrounded by people who got boosted months ago who are modestly less likely to have symptomatic sars-cov-2 than someone unvaccinated without nat immunity (given Omicrons vax effectiveness) reassures me Until I actually think

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2 years

Coercing child vaccination by having fewer days of quarantine for vaccinated kids, or by making vaccination a prerequisite to remove masks, or worst as a prerequisite for in-person school is a catastrophically bad policy choice, and will lead to bad outcomes.

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3 years

If Donald Trump's White House announced everyone will get boosters before anyone has seen clinical trial data, medical Twitter would spontaneously combust.

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2 years

White House policy: stay safe! Wear a mask to avoid COVID, but don't worry you will all get it anyway; When you do you take Paxlovid-- obv if CVS says ok--If your symptoms return maybe take some more 🤷idk dude; Wash it down with a new booster this Sept Level of evidence: 🗑️

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2 years

The CDC director getting COVID-19 one month after bivalent booster is a reminder that she doesn't know what she's talking about. That's because she has never asked Pfizer for appropriate randomized data. The CDC is headed for a cliff.

The CDC director just got COVID. She got the new bivalent booster a month ago.

It's time to be honest about bad evidence and bad leadership

www.sensible-med.com

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2 years

It's odd that public health Twitter is silent on open bars, restaurants, gyms, vacations, ski lodges, sporting events, weddings, parties, night clubs, their own academic conferences, but really keen on making sure school kids wear a mask that doesn't work (cloth)

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6 months

Bullshit. At the time, given available information, it was obvious to many of us, and most of europe, that schools should be open. Some of us worked very hard to try to get them open, in the face of intense criticism & outright censorship. You're not wrong in retrospect, you…

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"I was on the board of my kids' school during COVID. I wanted a harsher lockdown policy. In retrospect: I was wrong. The damage to kids of keeping them out of school longer was greater than the risk. But here's the bottom line: We were doing our best. But let's give a little…

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2 years

Just a lie. There are no randomized data, nor even a single observational study that has shown a reduction in severe disease in this age group. 6mo-4yo Government-sponsored misinformation from the administration seeking to police misinformation Pathetic

HHS.gov

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2 years

Nothing matters more than keeping them safe. If your child is 6 months or older, you can now help protect them from severe COVID illness by getting them a COVID vaccine. Talk to your child’s doctor about vaccines and visit . #WeCanDoThis

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Someone texted me that they're graduating from @Yale but their children can't watch them graduate, because children haven't gotten three doses of mRNA. (A fine decision btw) Commencement speaker Fauci. That's a double dose of #TheScience Shame on Yale

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Dear Journalists, There is a story here 👇 Phil Krause and Marion Gruber #2 & #1 at FDA vax have resigned over white house pressure on boosters. Now FDA pushes this without advisory committee & with uncertain safety in boys. Interview the 2 who resigned! 1/2

Marty Makary MD, MPH

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2 years

Dear President Biden, FDA is bypassing it's scientific advisors to authorize boosters for all kids 12-15 next week. This is unconscionable--undermines the integrity of the FDA's standard process! Please require FDA to put this authoriz before the VRBPAC advisory comm for a vote!

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It was bizarre when the American academy of pediatrics and the CDC defied the WHO and recommended masking two through four year-olds But it's even weirder that municipalities/ school are dropping the masking five and up, but keeping masking two through four. Deranged behavior

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All I know is: if you read the studies they are publishing, the reason they aren't sharing this data is absolutely not that they want to get the analysis right. The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects

The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects (Published 2022)

The agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations and, until recently, wastewater analyses.

www.nytimes.com

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The last two groups in America forced to wear a worthless cloth mask are Children Waiters/ servers/ staff Masks apparently only work on people without power We should be disgusting by this

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This is REALLY bad. The Surgeon General in his capacity in executive branch asked Facebook to suppress truthful content. Also, the admin lied about the spectrum of myocarditis harm outcomes. So he is wrong too. This is a first amendment violation 👇and anti American.

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The Biden administration also wanted Facebook to remove TRUE information as well.

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2 years

Now that most schools are reopen with most kids unvaccinated, no masks in sight, and no $100000 hepa ventilation -maybe we can admit that these were all unnecessary for schools to open safely, a lesson we could have taken from Sweden circa April 2020

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As more and more boosted people have breakthrough, and more and more unvaxd have natural immunity, what is the goal of checking vaccine cards at restaurants and bars? Is there some preference for catching covid from a vaccinated person?

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3 years

Based on an @Plenary_Session request, gonna tweet a thread of articles and podcasts I have done on or including the theme of COVID19 1 The first one, and perhaps still most relevant

Scientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized

Scientific consensus is important, but it isn't uncommon when some of the most important voices turn out to be those of independent thinkers whose views were initially doubted.

www.statnews.com

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It takes a real hero to implement a booster mandate for a 20 year, healthy male employee who got 2 doses of Moderna, had & recovered from Omicron, and is indefinitely a remote worker #FollowTheScience

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Just to be accurate: The judge only struck down a portion of the cloth mask airplane mandate. A can of soda, or bag of pretzels already struck down the first 45 minutes worth of it. And a first class ticket struck down about 2 hours.

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Randomized trials of boosters in young, healthy adults showing further reductions in hospitalization from getting a 3rd dose... 0 Number of booster mandates... thousands Pfizer profits... Billions

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If a healthy 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 yo already had COVID, there is literally zero evidence that vaccination further lowers risk of MIS C, hospitalization or death. Something is seriously wrong when many assert otherwise without data. It's delusional Ps seroprevalance is sky high

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In order to get EUA for 6mo-4yrs, Pfizer had to show a noninferior Ab titer from 2 doses. They failed. Instead of trying a slightly higher dose, or making a new omicron vax, they added a 3rd dose(debatable) Suddenly white house wants to approve? Who is left to resign at FDA?

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When you give Paxlovid to someone who's had three or four shots, you have no randomized data to hang your hat on Then you get rebound. And you have no idea whether to restart, give a longer course, or if it didn't help at all. Evidence-based medicine failure.

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Vaccine efficacy against symptomatic disease must count any case that occurs after randomization That's how trials work The Pfizer documents suggest horrifically poor vaccine efficacy 👇

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A California school is taking kids to the local zoo. Zoo officials want children to wear a mask to "keep animals safe" 🤣🤣🤣 (A parent sent me SSs) Masking kids is a religion; never had data. Masking kids to protect zoo animals is the cult like sect inside the religion

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I dunno what we will tell 12 -17 yo healthy boys who develop myocarditis from D3 mandates We had no evidence this shot would further reduce your risk of severe outcomes We knew the booster had only a small reduction in transmission for Omicron & total spread was inevitable

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"Getting a booster will help prevent adolescents from the serious complications of COVID19, incd. hospitalization & death" Sorry Peter, that is is misinformation There are no reliable data showing boosters at these ages further lowers hospitalization & death beyond 2 doses

U.S. FDA

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In the latest in his “Just a Minute” series, Dr. Peter Marks discusses the importance of 12- through 17-year-olds to receive a #COVID19 vaccine booster.

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If you want more proof we waste medical school years teaching low value topics (krebs cycle) while failing to teach high value topics (evidence appraisal) then just note how many docs self prescribed hydroxychlorquine and horded it.

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If someone says vaccines for kids < 5 lower the risk of severe disease or death, it's important to remember that no data on earth proves that conclusion. The data we will soon get will be hopelessly confounded. And seroprevalance is already so high.

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Everyone tweeting that new Pediatrics study proving masks slow spread in school. It's really bad people.... Really bad.... Come on, we can do better no matter what policy you favor. My take

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1 year

I hope Elon swaps out the COVID-19 health experts curated by Twitter with people who actually understand evidence based policy

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With time, the second dose of vax has 0% vaccine effectiveness against omicron How can anyone justify vaccine mandates? With 0% effectiveness they are incapable of slowing the spread to others Todays CDC slides

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1 year

Have finally seen it all: fit person wearing n95 mask in a 200 degree sauna The death of common sense

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2 years

We have to face it: Dems are getting bad COVID policy advice. Masking 2 year olds in headstart (wtf!) and boosting 20 yo men with a new vax tested in 8 mice is openly crazy, out of touch policy. They need to fire people, and fast. My latest 👇👇

The White House Needs New COVID Advisors

The current cast has made too many mistakes

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A visual metaphor for the US treatment of children during the COVID-19 pandemic. 👇

Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist

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"mask mandates for thee but not for me!"

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Wow, I see the CDC now recommends you wear a mask that does NOT work (cloth) at a threshold that is NOT based on any data what-so-ever Following the Science is so much fun! Historians will see clearly how embarrassing this is

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When you look at the average age of those hospitalized with covid you think.... I really want to vaccinate 2 year olds despite the negative Pfizer trial, can you send me that lousy data pls

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This is absolute madness 👇👇 Universities have overstepped their role and are practicing medicine without a license.

Saagar Enjeti

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A @JohnsHopkins student who is vaccinated, contracted COVID twice, and received medical exemption for booster based upon hospitalization history has provided me with proof that the university has REJECTED his Dr’s exemption and intends to expel him if he doesn’t get the booster

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Nothing says now is not the time to loosen restrictions like a 25000 person gathering to watch a sporting event!

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2 years

Only took a few months, but it appears everyone agrees with all of the conclusions in our paper that population-wide cloth masking had no credible evidence at any time point

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

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2 years

Our Review of Cloth Masking for COVID19 is OUT 👇👇👇 60 Pages 371 References 3 Tables 25,000 words 1 must read I hope part of the COVID19 healing process is finally telling the truth about this evidence W/ Ian Liu (Colorado) & @JonathanDarrow (Harvard)

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Wow. Researchers find Moderna has more myocarditis than Pfizer 👇 Imagine if we had a competent FDA who cared about safety and banned Moderna in men under 40, as I and others suggested repeatedly

Researchers compare the risk of myocarditis between Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines

Incidence of myocarditis, pericarditis or myopericarditis is two- to threefold higher after a second dose of the Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine when compared to the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19...

www.news-medical.net

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RFK Jr would destroy Hotez. I would be happy to have a conversation with RFK Jr. I think it is important to acknowledge what RFK is saying about regulatory capture that is very right and then I would probe the parts I disagree with.

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@joerogan forget @PeterHotez - have @VPrasadMDMPH on your show to debate @RobertKennedyJr . An RFK vs. Hotez debate would be brutal for Hotez, & would not be particularly informative either

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Why didn't more doctors speak out about bad mask data, need for RCT, bad booster data, myocarditis, school closure, lockdown sooner? Truth is: medicine selects for obedience. Perhaps rivaled only by military. Questioning established practice is seldom done 1/5

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Friend visiting from Texas surprised to be asked for vax card at restaurants/bars. "Is the point so I know for sure the person who spreads breakthrough COVID to me was vaccinated?"

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Australia is facing a real tragedy. Despite prolonged lockdowns and widespread vaccination, deaths continue to rise. History will be the ultimate judge, but Sweden's balanced approach-- keeping schools open in particular-- appears wiser by the day

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Maybe the best White House policy is to throw a family off an airplane if their 2 year old does not wear the mask properly prior to take off. It combines a total lack of compassion with an utter lack of efficacy. The sweet spot for this administration.

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Was just checking on Sweden Looks like they are STILL not recommending universal vaccination for kids 5 to 11 They also never closed primary school Go figure

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Lessons From Gridiron dinner 1. Vaccine passports do not work (Mandates & passports became ethically bankrupt when breakthrough became inevitable @ID_ethics ) 2. Fauci & Walensky go to 700 unmasked dinner but Toddlers in NYC r victims of CDCs data free toddler mask guidance, wtf

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Right now America is intoxicated on masking 2 year olds outside and inside ('cept when they nap - virus naps too) Soon we will be sober and look at what have we done. It won't age well, I promise.

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Why does the new york times COVID coverage still quote the same people who supported school closure, prolonged lockdowns, preemptive school closure for omicron (smh), booster mandates for young college kids, and ineffective cloth masking in year 3 of the pandemic?

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I am sad that @UCIrvine fired @akheriaty 👇 After the recent @Lancet paper it is clear that he was correct that his risk was as low as a vaccinated person. I honestly didn't think things like this happened in America. A great disappointment. Our loss

UC Irvine fires physician who refused to get vaccinated, claiming 'natural immunity'

Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, a professor of psychiatry and human behavior, wrote in a blog post that the UC system removed him from his job on Dec. 17.

www.latimes.com

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The perfect photo to sum up 5 days of bone marrow transplant & blood cancer docs conference #ASH22 👇 Not a mask in sight, packed indoor setting Multiply this x10000 It's time to end the charade Stop virtue signalling Abolish masking in hospitals

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OMG. @KathyHochul won't rehire unvaccinated workers b/c she thinks vax means you can't spread virus. That's wrong, and just as anti-science as wearing a tin foil hat thinking that 5G causes COVID. It's also self-defeating policy

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Pfizer expects 100 billion $$ this year, in part due to COVID vax USA cannot let them continue to debut 4th, 5th, 6th doses without randomized trials proving reduction in severe disease We might as well send our tax check on April 15th directly to Bourla...

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Great summary of Thailand study by @anish_koka "there are no cardiologists who want to see their child have a cardiac troponin that is 2x normal or 40x normal after administration of some therapeutic" Honestly, this study should have been done in USA 👇

Vaccine myocarditis update from Thailand

First some background for 1st time readers. Readers who are regular followers can skip this section and go straight to the Thailand study section. Background: It has long ago been established that...

anishkokamd.substack.com

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It is really tragic that a healthy kid who had Omicron would get a booster soon thereafter, and get Myocarditis 👇 It is sad that our vaccine regulators have focused so much on boosting, that 2 resigned, and this safety signal is ignored. Science has a long arc; won't age well

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So " I'm done with COVID" is the honorable, equitable, altruistic, egalitarian, pro-science message that we need right now to combat the delusional thinking that ignored trade-offs for so long and would have us live in a bunker forever.

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The best way to sell vaccines is to tell healthy 20 year olds that after 3 doses you get the pleasure of wearing an n95 for the rest of your life (no stopping rule)

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UMass Amherst tweaks its mask mandate, requiring students and staff to wear N95 or KN95 masks.

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Recent lancet paper showing prior infection as good as vaccination & all our mandates were unjust means Public health lied Also this is a meta analysis so the lie has been known for sometime I explain

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The CDC was so stupid it added covid19 vaccines to the childhood schedule. This is a useless vaccine for healthy kids to get. So naturally, parents would doubt them all. CDC is totally incompetent. I would fire all employees tbh.

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The number of kids whose caregivers are opting them out of routine vaccines has reached an all-time high, the CDC says, potentially leaving hundreds of thousands of children unprotected against preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough.

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It's amazing that the @nytimes is so incompetent they don't know what standardized death rate means and that @RonDeSantis is correct

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