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Farid Jalali, MD

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@farid__jalali

Farid Jalali, MD

10 months

🧵 on our preprint with @ZaidYounes9 and team In this study, we delve deep into COVID pathophysiology to show that: SARS-CoV-2 infects the human bone marrow megakaryocytes, and this shapes the trajectory and severity of the illness by triggering ... 🔗

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Megakaryocyte infection by SARS-CoV-2 drives the formation of pathogenic afucosylated IgG antibod...

More than 90% of total human plasma immunoglobulin G (IgG) is found in a fucosylated form, but specific IgGs with low core fucosylation (afucosylated IgGs) are found in response to infections with...

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

To borrow an infamous phrase: I don’t know how to put this in a half-acceptable way. New Omicron variants are actively killing vaccinated and recently boosted 60-70 year-olds with very average comorbidites, as we speak. It’s a bog-standard medical reality in our hospitals.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Monkeypox cannot spread so rapidly without having a decent ability for airborne transmission — I can’t believe we have to drag the public in the mud and gaslight everyone for a fact that was on CDC’s website until 4 weeks ago.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Thank you CDC for actively harming our patients Your fake 5-day “isolation” rule has led to patients showing up to SURGERY infected and positive, adamantly claiming they did “their time” and should not be turned back Also yelling at us without a mask FML

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

A detailed 🧵 on the alarming rise in cases of acute liver failure in healthy children: Media + scientific bodies have placed undue emphasis on Adenovirus infection as the leading culprit in such cases of liver failure. Let us see if this claim holds water [short answer: No!]

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Please for the love of God, for the love of your family members, attempt to understand that we have nothing to gain by reporting the reality. Doctors are not having a mid-term elections. Protect yourself. Wear a well-fitting N95 indoors. Ride the wave out without a death

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

BA.5 is not a joke. I have young fit MD friends who decided to tough it out while quadruple vaccinated, and instead ended up filling their Paxlovid prescription a mere 48 hours into it due to the severity of symptoms.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Before anyone hijacks this message with an anti-vax angle: Getting vaccinated + boosted is profoundly important in reducing risk of admission + death However, the protection from vaccines wears off and is lower against the new Omicron variants N95s don’t have waning protection

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

There have been cases of severe hepatitis and acute liver failure in children for the past 3-4 months, some requiring liver transplantation. This is EXCEEDINGLY RARE, and CATASTROPHIC. Why is there NO histopathology report of a SINGLE case on a preprint server or on Pubmed?

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Overhearing a patient conversation: “I’m a teacher and these kids are coming in positive for COVID to class without a mask — and the worst part is, they think it’s a cool thing. They brag about being positive. They have no shame. They think it’s cool to infect everyone else” 😔

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Farid Jalali, MD

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SARS-CoV-2 most definitely infects the bone marrow. Not only in the acute infection. But also chronically, the spike protein is found present in the bone marrow on autopsies of patients who died for other reasons. I wish I could share more, but ...

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Here is what a “Covid centrist” looks like to me: ➊ N95 indoors ➋ mask outdoors if in close proximity ➌ get boosters ➍ don’t expose others if infected ➎ send kids to school, with masks ➏ air filtration in every indoor space possible ➐ live life to the fullest otherwise

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

If Ebola becomes a pandemic in US, expect SCORES of healthcare workers to quit. We are done!

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

In what world did physicians ever say during flu season: “hey Mary, don’t worry about the flu, we all get it, and if you got the flu, please come to work unmasked the next day, so we can all catch it” When did minimizing become fashionable among a group of doctors?

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

These are ICU fellows. Invariably, most will be wearing baggy blue masks in the ICU a mere 24 hours after this maskless gathering, to take care of critically ill patients that cannot afford to get COVID on top of their critical illness. Negligence knows no bounds.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

I did one thread on hepatitis in kids where I simply laid out lack of evidence against adenovirus hepatitis Numerous “high-profile” public health influencers with subtle or overt minimization tendencies blocked me Just wanted to say thank you for weeding yourself out of my feed

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

I apologize on behalf of all MDs for this. We don’t know how she graduated anything.

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Farid Jalali, MD

1 year

Hard truth: Lay people with an appetite to read can be more of an expert in diseases that affect them or their loved ones severely — than the physicians who like to invoke the term “lay people” and who like to restrict the open flow of information to “lay people.”

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

BA.5 My god BA.5 Don’t act like nobody warned. Mask the hell up if you care about yourself. That’s all I will say.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

If we begin to accept the evidence that acute COVID19 is — at its core — a severe autoimmune ‼️𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 disorder then all of below “with” COVID hospitalizations become “for” COVID: Heart attacks Strokes Lung clots Deep vein clots Bowel infarction

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Infections with COVID do 𝙣𝙤𝙩 produce durable immunity. If they did, pandemic would have ended by now. Even a 3-year old can see this. People should seriously question 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 of those selling this mirage of “reinfections are good for ya!”

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Farid Jalali, MD

1 year

Repeated COVID infections cause immune dysregulation, render vital components of immune system incompetent, allowing more invasive infections to take over. That's all we're seeing in kids these days. I said it!

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Please don’t forget that I am a parent of small kids It’s not my goal here to prove liver failure is a delayed consequence of SARS-CoV-2 But ignorance is NOT bliss in this case, so us adults can just roam around mask-free, going to bars, pretending we can’t ever harm kids

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Dear Cardiologists: Please STOP sending your patients with POTS and rapid HR after COVID to GI doctors simply because their heart rate went to 140 one time when they ate a sandwich at Chipotle Please do your damn job Please acknowledge that POTS is a postcovid complication

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

New COVID admits: - received 2nd booster one month ago - healthy otherwise - several passengers on plane with cough … … … - admit to ICU for respiratory failure Facts

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

What have we done to basic human decency? Is shamelessly spreading Polio next? We have not just orphaned 7 million kids. We have undone basic life and health values for a whole generation of soon to be adults Was it worth it, minimizers?

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

A pretty good indicator of whether or not Ebola is here in the US is the sheer number of blue checkmarks who suddenly — without any coordination allegedly — started tweeting today about how we should not be fearful, and how we should trust the experts and the system 😉

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

There is too rapid of variants emergence, to the point that infection 3 months ago with BA.1 in unvaccinated kids is not protective from another infection with BA.2 or other subvariants now. This is a problem. Immune dysregulation every 3 months is a problem.

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Farid Jalali, MD

1 year

The idea that recent viral infections predispose to more *severe* superimposed (or soon after) bacterial infections is an ESTABLISHED science Happens routinely with influenza, RSV This is due to immunologic dysfunction stemming from the response to the initial viral infection

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

⚠️ BREAKTHROUGH on mucosal immunity ⚠️ In a wild twist, N95s are now shown to protect mucosa against infection by 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 !!

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

“we estimate that 10,500,000 children lost parents or caregivers … and 7,500,000 children experienced COVID-19–associated orphanhood through May 1, 2022.” JAMA 😔

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

I can’t do this anymore. Infectious Disease doctor at ID conference full of unmasked gatherers is now positive, has “paid time off” and is happy he took a calculated risk. I can’t watch this stupid space anymore.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Can all the adults in the room please show some empathy by wearing a mask towards the little babies who are 83rd on the waiting list to be seen in the ER for respiratory viral infections?

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

If you advocated for children intentionally getting infected, there is no excuse to cry foul when your policy backfires in a tragic and painful way. Kids shouldn’t be disabled by #longcovid Kids shouldn’t die from an epidemic of liver failure Kids didn’t CHOOSE this.

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Farid Jalali, MD

1 year

@CDCDirector Please utter the words “wear masks” for once in your life. It won’t end the world. Voters are already voting.

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Farid Jalali, MD

1 year

Dear God, grant me the patience to not say anything untoward in response to this trainee.

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Farid Jalali, MD

9 months

I’m a physician. I also get harassed for wearing an N95 to protect patients. Stay the course Julia.

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9 months

Was just harassed on @IrishRail for wearing a mask. Passenger was blatantly taking photos of me, shouting, making faces and hand gestures to tell me he thinks I’m crazy. I shouldn’t feel unsafe for wearing a mask. But that’s the reality we live in thanks to failed public health

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Let it rip = death of (all?) post-transplant patients despite vaccination I have never seen such tragedy in my life. Systematically being wiped from face of the Earth so economy can prosper and “freedoms” can be preserved I have no nice words for anyone, so don’t reply.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

My physician colleague has COVID. His rapid became negative on day 12. He isolated himself an extra 2 days, for 14 days, to keep his patients and family safe. That’s how you do things when you care about other people.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

And as expected, the "anti-mandate" crowd has invaded this thread If a doctor advises you to stop smoking, he's not passing a law to mandate smoking ban on you He is simply giving you honest advice. You can do whatever you want with it There is no mandate being prescribed here

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Farid Jalali, MD

1 year

The right: anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-science, Ivermectin fanatics The left: anti-mask, vaxx-and-done, pro-COVID spread, "immunity debt" misinformers, Paxlovid fanatics The middle: loners still wearing well-fitting masks, getting hit from both sides

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

It is profoundly embarrassing that major scientific bodies in US and UK are using such weak circumstantial evidence to distract the public perception from the likely possibility that recent SARS-CoV-2 infection may be driving the increase in cases of acute liver failure.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Cardiac arrest does not explain a *cause* Everyone’s death is marked by cardiac arrest. That’s how we die. When our heart — you know — stops. Stop saying “cause was cardiac arrest.” Say the cause. Say the likely cause instead.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Please be up to date with vaccinations. Please seek therapy early. Please don’t assume it’s going to be an easy ride. This is not the January Omicron. Don’t become a statistic.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

If you are offended that millions of frustrated people are resorting to satire and snark to express their bottled-up frustration at a central figure who has engineered and carried out the complete dismantling of pandemic response, then you’re part of the problem.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

As doctors, we are repulsively tired of the minimizing virologists and immunologist and epidemiologists and politicians telling us how and when to convey risks to people. You’ve failed for 2.5 years while we’ve put our lives on the line. Don’t expect us to continue to roll over.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Your mild Omicron COVID infections are causing major gut dysmotility Please don't ask for a fix There ain't one The fix is to STOP infecting your gut and ⤵️myenteric plexus with SARS-CoV-2 repeatedly There aren't enough GI doctors in the world for all this dysmotility burden

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Baffled at the angling going on to justify how HCWs do *not* deserve to get priority access to the monkeypox vaccine As colonoscopists, we examine 10+ anuses daily, with (soon monkeypox laden) fluids on our gowns and often splashing We are HCWs. Do we deserve to be vaccinated?

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Farid Jalali, MD

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Sweden right now: Older kids need to stay out of school and sit home in order to prevent bringing in RSV to home where an infant lives. China: Older kids go to school just fine. Because they didn’t FAFO with a pathogen like Sweden did for 3 years.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

List of *fake* pandemic terms that are scientifically debunked: Immunity debt Immunity gap Hybrid immunity Droplet transmission 5-day isolation “Pandemic is over” “Kids don’t get sick” “Longcovid is rare” “T-cells”

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

The CDC Director caused harm. The harm was real. People died. Kids died. Millions got disabled, lost jobs, lost homes. That’s the reality. Pent up frustration with her will continue to be voiced by the millions who were hurt by her policies. She deserves it. Get used to it.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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Red Herrings festival: 1⃣adenovirus 2⃣wait, we didn't even find that when we looked on metagenomics, it's another virus called "adeno-associated virus 2" 3⃣immunity debt 4⃣dog ownership 5⃣paracetamol Maybe now focus on immunopathology caused by repeated SARS-CoV-2 infections?

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

The other day my staff was ridiculed for wearing a mask in a crowded elevator while taking a patient downstairs in a wheelchair to her car. How much more horrible can people get?

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Farid Jalali, MD

1 year

Infection by RSV doesn’t form durable immunity to RSV. There ain’t no goddamn debt to be had because there ain’t no gain to begin with from infection. Why the fuck are journalists opining on shit they have no fucking clue about?

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Farid Jalali, MD

1 year

Oh great 🤦‍♂️ “We find evidence of viral presence in the lung up to 359 days after the acute phase of disease, including in patients with negative nasopharyngeal swab tests.”

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

After all, a Pubmed search does not yield any result on adenovirus type 41 causing acute liver failure, much less *any* adenovirus type causing *any* acute liver failure in healthy children. However, it does show SARS-CoV-2 doing exactly that in a healthy child. (PMID: 35127589)

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Farid Jalali, MD

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Reminder that COVID is still a viral infection, somewhat above-average in terms of severity, that does at least average "virus-things" to us, like fever, dizziness, dehydration, delirium, clots, and hospitalizations in elderly Influenza does this once a year. COVID does it 2-3…

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U.S. Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell froze and appeared unwell while speaking at a press conference

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

List of true things in 2022: 1. COVID is airborne 2. Wear N95s whenever you can outside home 3. Vaccines work, but ... 4. Need a booster to keep you out of hospital 5. Kids can and do get sick from Omicron 6. Long-term effects of COVID are serious 7. Hospitals are overwhelmed

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Farid Jalali, MD

3 years

It's about time we stop thinking about COVID-19 as a "respiratory illness" and a "lung disease", and start viewing it as what it is, a platelet-monocyte-infecting, immune-complex-driven, feed-forward cycle of platelet and monocyte activation manifesting most prominently in lungs

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

It is outrageous that *volunteers* who are donating time to vaccinate close contacts of active Monkeypox cases — some of whom may very well be harboring early Monkeypox infections — are not offered vaccination despite close skin and respiratory contact with hundreds of such folks

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

To communicate reality in a real pandemic with wave after wave is not spreading irrational fear It’s the right thing to do, free of political and corporate interference It’s what you’d do for a neighbor. If a fire is nearby, even though the risk is low, you knock on their doors

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

WE HAVE AN EPIDEMIC OF DENIALISM OF PROVEN PUBLISHED SCIENCE OF POSTCOVID COMPLICATIONS BY GROWN, WELL-PAID, MINIMIZING, MASKLESS DOCTORS

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Kaiser Health News @KHNews has chronicled the flip-flopping by CDC on airborne transmission risks here:

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

I have Feb 2020 vibes about this Ebola. The engineered calm before the storm. The “let’s not publicize anything until I can adjust my stock portfolio” Feb 2020 behind closed doors in Congress

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Farid Jalali, MD

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It’s not “immunity debt” It’s “empathy debt” Say it like it is. We as a society don’t give a shit about our children. Whether being gunned down, or falling sick with all hospital beds filled up We. Don’t. Care Adult lives matter more

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Farid Jalali, MD

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Therefore, detection of AdV in pediatric throat samples by sensitive PCR-based methods does not necessarily establish presence of a disease, or causality by AdV. Such detection is frequently due to low-level viral persistence in tonsils and adenoids in children.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Folks: it’s time to put masks back on. Sincerely, Signed, A virus mutating so goddamn rapidly, humans can’t even catch up with naming the variants This is getting ridiculous. It really is. I have _nothing_ to gain whether you heed this advice or not.

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Farid Jalali, MD

1 year

Folks my account will remain private and locked for the foreseeable future. I’m sorry if you find this inconvenient. I will unlock if I have something worthy to share widely. The current version of Twitter is too toxic and many of us physicians are harassed for just existing.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Dear @ballouxfrancois : Nobody funds me. I am an actual physician who doesn’t need to spread minimization to earn a living. God, honesty, and integrity are my principles. You’re wasting your time. Go target someone else.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

CDC just did a briefing on pediatric hepatitis cases now, summary: 1⃣adenovirus is #1 culprit 2⃣clinicians must test for adenovirus 3⃣serologies for SARS-CoV-2 not discussed 4⃣treatment involves antiviral for adenovirus A surgical M&M would eviscerate CDC's briefing Shame☹️

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Farid Jalali, MD

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For the nth time: Your "I-never-had-COVID-I-mean-I-never-had-any-symptoms-so-I-never-had-it" lines are getting tiring. Your last 3 months of nausea, not tolerating food, unresolving acid reflux symptoms, and incessant diarrhea did not come out of thin air.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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It is a sad day that Reddit appears to be the to-go destination for real-world Monkeypox information — a tragic realization in the aftermath of two years of incorrect, inadequate, and outdated information put out by our official institutions for COVID19 that led to untold harm

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Farid Jalali, MD

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COVID — even mild — hastens declining health. That’s a fact.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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Did we ever recommend repeat flu infections in order to train the immune system for next year’s flu? When did we decide to utter this unimaginably horrible take as fact? @CBCNews

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Farid Jalali, MD

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COVID induced ulcerative colitis — is on the menu now. 100% COVID induced. No shred of doubt. Twitter lane police, you’re in my lane. Consider not commenting if all you have is more minimizing.

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Farid Jalali, MD

2 years

Wondering what made them change tone so quickly after going all in on “adenovirus hepatitis” and “can’t be COVID” declarations a mere two weeks ago?

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Farid Jalali, MD

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Where is the urgency to share this knowledge worldwide? 👏EVERY👏SINGLE👏CASE👏OF👏EXPLANTED👏LIVER👏HAS👏A👏DETAILED👏HISTOPATHOLOGY👏REPORT👏 Where are these reports? Why is no one sharing any of it?

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Farid Jalali, MD

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Conversation now with the mother of a child who got COVID a month ago, had to go to ER for fluids, and now slowly recovering with a huge setback yesterday: “But he’s only 11. Why is this happening to him?” Please keep your children safe. Masks and vaccines are not lockdowns.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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We are in an unprecedented era in which the finding of FIVE separate GI pathogens in ONE “healthy” person is not a rare event. Person next door also has four different ones. Exactly WTH is going on?

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Farid Jalali, MD

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If we are to protect our precious, scarce, burnt-out, and weary healthcare workers from further exodus out of healthcare, we need to be honest with them about the possibility of airborne transmissions for Monkeypox — so they can protect themselves accordingly!

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Farid Jalali, MD

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... we are actively investigating and have some very intriguing findings on how the infection of the bone marrow by SARS-CoV-2 brings about the gear shift from early mild disease -> to severe COVID. This ties the various parts of disease pathophysiology in a convincing manner.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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The goal of this 🧵 thus far has been to demonstrate that 1⃣ AdV persistence in throat + stool is very common in children. 2⃣ PCR detection of AdV from such reservoirs is *not* indicative of a disease caused by AdV. It’s simply detection of known viral persistence in children.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ꜰᴀʟʟ ɪɴ ʟɪɴᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍɪɴɪᴍɪᴢᴇʀꜱ’ ɴᴀʀʀᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ. ɴᴏᴛ ɴᴏᴡ. ɴᴏᴛ ᴇᴠᴇʀ. ᴄᴏᴠɪᴅ ʀᴇɪɴꜰᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ᴀ ᴅᴇᴛʀɪᴍᴇɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʜᴇᴀʟᴛʜ. ꜰᴜʟʟ ꜱᴛᴏᴘ.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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In summary, the evidence is weak for adenovirus being the causative agent for the recent pediatric acute liver failure cases. If a medical student used such weak reasoning in rounds, he/she would be asked to hit the books, reformulate thoughts, and come better prepared next time.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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6 of 9 cases had liver biopsies. Recall that among 100+ cases of adenovirus hepatitis described in literature, 100% of biopsies found clear evidence of adenovirus inclusions in hepatocytes. In this Alabama series, 0% had adenovirus inclusions in the liver tissue.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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Greg wrote this thread as he died from COVID last week

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Greg Foley

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Short thread on Covid and respiratory support. There are numerous grifters, and serious academics, out there who seem to think if the fatality stats are not that bad, then Covid is no big deal.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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My worst concern is that I don’t recognize many of my colleagues anymore We don’t sugarcoat influenza or meningitis or cancer or diabetes. We give the appropriate warnings, we advise, we answer questions, and we refrain from editorializing What’s happened to us?

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Farid Jalali, MD

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Adenoviruses (AdV) are viruses that cause self-limited respiratory, gastrointestinal, or conjunctival infection in healthy children > adults. Severe manifestations due to AdV such as acute liver failure and death are not seen in healthy hosts with a competent immune system.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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In contrast, AdV can cause severe disease (acute liver failure) in hosts with severe immunodeficiency (e.g. organ transplant, chemotherapy) Depletion of T-lymphocytes is a major risk factor. Severity of disease depends on intensity + duration of immunosuppression.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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CDC is allowing 𝙣𝙤𝙣-𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 for kids who want to avoid COVID

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Farid Jalali, MD

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PEDIATRICIANS — I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOUR PERSONAL BELIEFS ARE. YOU NEED TO SAY THE HARD PART. THAT RSV IS WORSE POST-COVID.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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Is this as disturbing as I think it is?

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Farid Jalali, MD

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This shows LIVER cells carrying SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein (NP) 180 days after mild infection Host gets rapidly reinfected with a new, antigenically divergent, strain 3 mo. later Immune system reacts What do we expect immune cells to do to such cells harboring viral NP?

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Farid Jalali, MD

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I remain deeply skeptical about whether sewage water could ever, would ever, benefit from water filtration.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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“Do NO harm” applies to your decisions on reducing risks not just in your practice of medicine, but also in your ENVIRONMENT of practice. Letting your patients rampantly catch COVID by ignoring masking rules in a healthcare setting is solidly “HARM” and against your oath.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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To be less inaccurate, we are officially mislabeling COVID deaths as non-COVID (ask me how I know). You’ll see your death spike, Nate, only from excess mortality in 3 months.

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Nate Silver

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To be less polite, the BA.5 scaremongering was bullshit and you should place less trust in the people who engaged in it going forward.

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Farid Jalali, MD

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The worst offenders are the "scientists" who actively advocated for "letting-it-rip" policies and rampant COVID infections at schools Only to now use this opportunity to ascend academic ranks by publishing on a "COVID-link" to the disease entity they brought upon poor kids 😡🤬

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Farid Jalali, MD

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To all the anti-vaxxers flooding my existence here on Twitter: Let me make it easy for you. I do all of below: - N95 mask everywhere unless alone outdoors - Vaccinate + boost - Voraciously read evidence on how to navigate a complex pandemic and adjust my actions accordingly

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Farid Jalali, MD

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Relying on AdV detection by PCR in children (often incidental due to persistence and shedding) can falsely attribute AdV as the cause of a disease for which the clinician may have no other proper explanation (e.g. pediatric acute liver failure in context of COVID-19 pandemic?)

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Farid Jalali, MD

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The worst realization of this pandemic for me — worse than the millions dead including my own family — is that both the left and right politicians have the same playbook as it pertains to the health of the public. Minimization reigns supreme on both sides of the aisle.

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