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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 12
      Replying to @davidbautistaqf @bobbywarnsiii and

      Because then we're literally just redefining the word "cause" to a useless meaning

      1 reply 0 retweets 17 likes
    2. David Bautista‏ @davidbautistaqf Mar 12
      Replying to @GidMK @bobbywarnsiii and

      In this case, the virus clearly exhibits higher mortality when you have the things that he's stating (chronic inflammation, inflammaging, inequity issues, etc.). When you don't have those syndemic parameters, the virus is not more harmful that a common cold.

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 12
      Replying to @davidbautistaqf @bobbywarnsiii and

      That is a factually incorrect assertion. In reality, the predominant driver of mortality is age. I also wonder how fatal you think the common cold would be if we solved global inequality and had a vaccine etc?

      2 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
    4. David Bautista‏ @davidbautistaqf Mar 12
      Replying to @GidMK @bobbywarnsiii and

      Age is associated with inflammaging which is basically chronic inflammation, so I'm not wrong. It would be less fatal. I actually is less fatal due to the vaccine. Even if those vaccines are actually not so good.

      3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 12
      Replying to @davidbautistaqf @bobbywarnsiii @Marco_Piani

      pic.twitter.com/KkUsqWJsTE

      1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
    6. David Bautista‏ @davidbautistaqf Mar 12
      Replying to @GidMK @bobbywarnsiii and

      ?

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 12
      Replying to @davidbautistaqf @bobbywarnsiii and

      COVID-19 is many times more deadly than the common cold. Probably somewhere around 100x, depending on the virus. If we were to, say, eliminate global inequity, this would reduce the severity of both the cold and COVID, but COVID would still be much worse

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    8. David Bautista‏ @davidbautistaqf Mar 12
      Replying to @GidMK @bobbywarnsiii and

      In absolute terms, would it be problematic enough to cause a pandemic? No. I understand that inherently COVID-19 has a higher mortality than common cold, but the risk factors and age play an important role in this regard.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    9. David Bautista‏ @davidbautistaqf Mar 12
      Replying to @davidbautistaqf @GidMK and

      Without them, COVID-19 would be still more fatal than common cold yes, but in absolute terms it wouldn't be such a problem as it has been. So why is everyone saying he is not correct? He's just stating that the mortality is heavily associated with those factors

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Robert Warns‏ @bobbywarnsiii Mar 12
      Replying to @davidbautistaqf @GidMK and

      Yes if we lived in an entirely different world then we would indeed live in a different world. Read up on the legal definition of "but for" causation. You'll then understand why he's incorrect.

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 12
      Replying to @bobbywarnsiii @davidbautistaqf and

      If we fixed global inequality and all of our problems it would indeed make infectious disease less of an issue, but it's a truly ridiculous thing to blame COVID-19 deaths on

      7:21 PM - 12 Mar 2021
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        2. David Bautista‏ @davidbautistaqf Mar 12
          Replying to @GidMK @bobbywarnsiii and

          I guess the point that I'm understanding is that we need to pay careful attention to those points in order to prevent lots of deaths that are going to be caused in next pandemics if those viruses happen to thrive on chronic inflammation and inequity

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Alastair McAlpine, MD‏Verified account @AlastairMcA30 Mar 12
          Replying to @davidbautistaqf @GidMK and

          The response is “obviously”. Social determinants of health are real and something we learn about in first year med school. But they apply to almost ALL illnesses. But most of those folk would be alive today if they hadn’t caught... SARS-Cov2. Ergo, they died of SARS-CoV2.

          1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
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