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Jay Bhattacharya
@DrJBhattacharya
This clip is infuriating. It is an admission of public health malpractice by the
@CDCDirector
. The main clinical endpoint of the vaccine trials was symptomatic infection at 3-4 months post vax, not infection or disease transmission: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10 [1/4]
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Michael P Senger
@MichaelPSenger
Walensky: “When the CNN feed came that it was 95% effective, the vaccine, so many of us wanted it to be helpful, so many of us wanted to say, ‘Ok this is our ticket out.’” Ok… But then you got millions fired and excluded from society for not taking it.
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Jay Bhattacharya
@DrJBhattacharya
"Optimistically" thinking that the vax could stop transmission & wouldn't wane in efficacy, Fauci & the
@CDCDirector
made force vaccinating the whole population the central policy goal, rather than focusing on the vulnerable who benefit most from the vax. [2/4]
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Jay Bhattacharya
@DrJBhattacharya
When it became clear that the vax does not stop transmission & does wane vs. infection, they persisted in error, "optimistically" pushing for boosters even before solid trial data arrived. [3/4]
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Jay Bhattacharya
@DrJBhattacharya
The covid policy disaster of 2021/2 -- vax mandates & vax segregation, violation of informed consent, forced masking & school closures all stemmed from an inability of
@CDCDirector
and other public health leaders to take the vax trial data seriously. [4/4]
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Paul Brassey
@pbrassey
Replying to
@DrJBhattacharya
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@CDCDirector
The word “equity” must come up at least 50 times. That manifests in the CDC’s one-size-fits-all approach. That people crammed together on the streets of NYC must mask means that a solo truck driver in Montana must mask in his truck. They can’t be considered differently.
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