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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

      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
    2. 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
    3. 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
    4. 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
    5. 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

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    6. 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
    7. Marco Piani‏ @Marco_Piani Mar 12
      Replying to @davidbautistaqf @GidMK and

      From just the slides shared here, I would say that he could have rather written "what exacerbated the death toll" not "what really caused..."

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    8. David Bautista‏ @davidbautistaqf Mar 12
      Replying to @Marco_Piani @GidMK and

      I agree.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    9. Robert Warns‏ @bobbywarnsiii Mar 12
      Replying to @davidbautistaqf @Marco_Piani and

      Come on guys. Why do you think he stretched it to "what really caused"?? Obviously for political/grift reasons.

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

      So the controversy is that he's saying "what really caused" instead of "social and immunological determinants explaining the majority of covid-19 deaths"?

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 12
      Replying to @davidbautistaqf @bobbywarnsiii and

      They don't explain ~any~ COVID deaths, that's the point. They CONTRIBUTED to SOME of the deaths

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        2. David Bautista‏ @davidbautistaqf Mar 12
          Replying to @GidMK @bobbywarnsiii and

          Those social and immunological determinant explain/contribute to the majority of deaths.

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

          There is a vast gulf between explaining deaths and contributing to them, conflating the terms is wrong

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        1. David Bautista‏ @davidbautistaqf Mar 12
          Replying to @GidMK @bobbywarnsiii and

          So what do you think it's causing a lot of deaths? the virus doesn't kill children but old people so it must be something related to aging. What is it then?

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