Mortality from #COVID19 differs more than a thousand-fold between the old and young. Focused protection is the compassionate approach that balances COVID risks and collateral damage to public health.
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Jay Bhattacharya
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Professor Stanford School of Medicine. MD, PhD. Health policy: infectious diseases, covid, health economics. Scientific freedom.
Stanford, CA, USAJoined August 2021
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China’s New Covid Wave Set to See 65 Million Cases a Week
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Madness is something rare in individuals- but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages it is the rule.
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This is a bonkers take. If the government wanted mass infection, why did they lock us in our houses and cancel our lives for a year+?
You don’t need to be a psychologist to see that Jonathan Howard has PTSD. I empathize, but he needs treatment instead of constantly pushing… Show more
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Intentional mass infection was a centerpiece of the U.S. pandemic response, months before vaccines were even available. Why?
My review @PsychToday of @19joho’s brilliant, one-of-a-kind We Want Them Infected
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Don't miss today’s episode of taking you into the cockpit with stealth fighter pilot, discussing his book, The Art of Clear Thinking, A Stealth Fighter Pilot’s Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions.
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A sad commentary on American academia, since Apoorva has done little more than spit out misinformation during the pandemic.
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Fantastic @YaleSPH graduation speech from @apoorva_nyc, imploring us all to share the full truth and stand firm against the efforts, by too many, to use misinformation to undermine the public’s health.
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This would have been a national scandal in Sweden or Denmark.
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I don't know why it's not a bigger deal that sent his kids to open private school for almost a year while public schools were still closed. It's almost like Stockholm Syndrome? Americans have such low standards for their politicians.
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Los Angeles forced poor children to do "Zoom school" for over a year in conditions like this. Meanwhile, 's children attended open private school.
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In the UK, students are suing their universities for the rip off that was zoom school. Universities charged full tuition for a substandard product during covid. Why should students and their parents foot the bill?
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Now 5k+ students 'ripped off' by remote learning will have their day in court
“Students have paid unis full fees for a service that was only partly delivered...[they] have tried to fight back but they’ve been no match for these powerful institutions”
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Now 5k+ students 'ripped off' by remote learning will have their day in court
“Students have paid unis full fees for a service that was only partly delivered...[they] have tried to fight back but they’ve been no match for these powerful institutions”
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Apoorva got everything she could possibly get wrong about Covid (see responses to the below tweet.) Her corrections were legendary. She was a top source of misinformation. She remains "Reporter
on global health & infectious diseases" despite being awful at her job.
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Fantastic @YaleSPH graduation speech from @apoorva_nyc, imploring us all to share the full truth and stand firm against the efforts, by too many, to use misinformation to undermine the public’s health.
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Another problem with closing schools — apart from the harm doing so caused to children and families — was that it sent a message of fear and disruption to society at large. My impression was that there was a lot less fear in Sweden. Fear is never helpful during a crisis.
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BBC's "disinformation reporter" deserves a trophy for this ratio.
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Yep. I think is correct here. The excess mortality seen in younger cohorts is most likely a consequence of lockdowns. Dan focused on cases and donut days, and couldn’t quite see far enough ahead to see the longer term consequences
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Yes, exactly this.
The UK government slogan was "Protect the NHS". Not protect patients. Protect the Health Service - the institution and its employees. To hell with the patients. They were sent home to die.
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For those of you living in Blue states in 2020, when did you realize we were hosed? For me it was when Kate Brown shut down State Parks and hiking trails. It was so ludicrous and pointless that I knew all science and actual reasoning was thrown out the window… When did you know?
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Rep. has sent a letter to requesting that she appear at a hearing of the subcommittee.
He also requested that she preserve the communications she had with .
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Here is a breakout of the percentage increase/decrease in all-cause excess deaths for California and Florida for 2020-2022 vs pre-pandemic 2019 baseline.
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So here is a little Germany state thread. It’s all society and economy. As you have wisely warned about in 2020.
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1/ Eine grafische Darstellung im Vergleich zum Anteil der Hartz-IV-Empfänger zeigt, dass die Wirtschaft der Haupttreiber von Sterblichkeit ist - keine Überraschung. Die Korrelation zwischen Impfrate und Sterblichkeit gibt ist daher eine Scheinkorrelation. twitter.com/orwell2022/sta…
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Your daily reminder that , supposedly a scientific organization, publishes a journal which not only is not peer-reviewed, but is open about only accepting papers that support existing CDC guidelines. Refusal to challenge the narrative is a feature, not a bug.
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In 2020 the Australian Govt. engaged the technology set up for counter terrorism purposes to surveil it’s own citizens for misinformation regarding covid.
Posts (4213) were flagged according to Big Tech’s covid misinformation guidelines. The Dept. even admitting they had no… Show more
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Dear ,
I input "causal inference" into the midjourney art AI, and it produced this striking picture that made me think of you and your work. I hope you enjoy it!
Jay
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How to manage our international institutions when they betray their missions and deliberately impoverish billions, kill millions, to benefit a wealthy few?
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Those who pushed lockdowns and school closures absolutely contributed to the deaths of children.
We've been saying it since the beginning and we've been right all along.
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It says everything we need to know about the state of higher education in this country that the queen of covid fear-mongering and error riddled reporting on the subject (one might call it “misinformation”) gave Yale’s graduation speech — about combatting “misinformation”
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Fantastic @YaleSPH graduation speech from @apoorva_nyc, imploring us all to share the full truth and stand firm against the efforts, by too many, to use misinformation to undermine the public’s health.
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Great choice - Apoorva is an expert at public health misinformation. She filled the and Twitter with misinformation about children and Covid, scaring parents and teachers about school reopening. Her reporting contributed to long school closures and harmed kids and teens.
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Fantastic @YaleSPH graduation speech from @apoorva_nyc, imploring us all to share the full truth and stand firm against the efforts, by too many, to use misinformation to undermine the public’s health.
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A reason why governors sent covid infected patients to nursing homes is that public health advisors were focused on protecting hospital systems instead of focused protection of vulnerable people. twitter.com/COVIDSelect/st…
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Dec 2021 – Hayley Hodgson recounts how police came to her home in Australia after a friend tested COVID positive and took her to a quarantine camp, where she was forced to stay 14 days despite testing negative three times. 62/
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It's just incredible how far @sciam -- a periodical I admired -- has fallen from its mission to provide accurate, clear, and vivid coverage of science. whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/05/18/onc
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Why was a national security analyst invited to comment on this? At the time, I probably could have offered a more informed opinion.
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Media: @juliettekayyem on #FL opening all schools in August: "That's insane. It's kids. It defies any explanation from a security and safety perspective. I think @GovRonDeSantis is looking for a save from the @WhiteHouse. Parents may have to do a form of civil disobedience."
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This is brilliant. Anti-plague measures 125 years ago didn't work, and it was only via an honest naval-gazing assessment that that was eventually admitted.
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In 1896, the plague swept through India.
In 1898, the Indian Plague Commission convened to conduct an honest assessment of public health management of the plague. It conducted hundreds of interviews of British and Indian doctors and officials.
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🚨BREAKING🚨
invites Rochelle Walensky to testify on June 13, 2023 and requests her communications & documents are preserved.
Impending departure from federal service does not protect you from accountability👇
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Each time we think the horrific virus of anti-Semitism has been extirpated, it reappears. A plea to my fellow Catholics--especially Catholic young people: Stay a million miles from this evil. Do not let it infect your thinking. The Church has utterly repudiated it. Do the same.
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A reason why governors sent covid infected patients to nursing homes is that public health advisors were focused on protecting hospital systems instead of focused protection of vulnerable people.
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Why were vulnerable, elderly Americans abandoned by state officials in NY, NJ, & PA during the COVID-19 pandemic?
@AndrewCuomo — It's time to answer for your deadly, nursing home policies.
@RepBradWenstrup, @RepMalliotakis, @RepJohnJoyce
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Cumulative all-cause excess mortality during the pandemic through week 14, 2023.
Source: usmortality.com (accessed yesterday)
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Why were vulnerable, elderly Americans abandoned by state officials in NY, NJ, & PA during the COVID-19 pandemic?
— It's time to answer for your deadly, nursing home policies.
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📢Read our new paper:
Analysis suggests Covid-19 boosters likely to cause a net clinical harm to young adults(18-29 yr), where total severe adverse events (SAEs) will outweigh Covid hospitalizations averted
Booster mandates are unethical because:1/13🧵
jme.bmj.com/content/early/
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those grim, reproachful conservatives blaming liberals for "school shutdowns"--as if these did not save countless lives including the lives of teachers. was none of this real? everything a left-wing conspiracy? why do they not care 1/1000th as much about gun violence? twitter.com/JoyceCarolOate…
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