Opens profile photo
Follow
ɪᴀɴ ᴍ. ᴍᴀᴄᴋᴀʏ, ᴘʜᴅ 🦠🤧🧬🥼🦟🧀
@MackayIM
virologist. husband. dad. reader. writer. fixer. bad typist. learner. in no order. opinions mine alone. Also here-mastodon.social/@mackayim2022
Brisbane, Australiavirologydownunder.comJoined April 2013

ɪᴀɴ ᴍ. ᴍᴀᴄᴋᴀʏ, ᴘʜᴅ 🦠🤧🧬🥼🦟🧀’s Tweets

A lie that won’t die is that lockdown caused an increase in youth suicide the actual data is somewhat suggestive the opposite maybe true … see linked threads in next tweet from adolescence psychiatrist and suicidologist
Quote Tweet
Children committed suicide because of lockdown. RIP Mark Horton #thelockdownfiles telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/0
4
116
Show this thread
Replying to
Hi Toby! Our most up to date information on births and newly registered pregnancies in the NHS (to October 2022) shows no decline in either... 1/
Quote Tweet
A lot of people have been asking me about declining birth rates, so I've taken a look at the maternity services data from England (again!) Deliveries and new pregnancies continue to look pretty flat... 1/
Show this thread
Image
16
333
Why it is always crucial to remain open-minded and wait for additional evidence before accepting every conclusion of a study....or dismissing it out of hand. Good studies are to learn from, not adjudicate. Peer review, on Twitter and elsewhere, should be constructive.
Quote Tweet
A year ago @zalaly and colleagues published an important paper @NatureMedicine on 1-year increased risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes with #LongCovid nature.com/articles/s4159 It was met with skepticism
Show this thread
Image
1
69
‘Getting your booster dose is like recharging your phone when the battery is low’: Brett Sutton. Victorian COVID cases have fallen again in the last week but mutant strains — including the highly infectious Kraken strain — are on the rise. #COVID19Vic heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/ge
Image
Image
7
74
Sadly, not at all surprising. Expected if anything. Not a new change. Hopefully lots of these people were vaccinated in this group and so protected by a safe & effective #measles #vaccine.
Quote Tweet
I can’t believe that in 2023 we are talking about #measles in the #USA Sad that one #unvaccinated person with measles has potentially exposed an unknown number of people at a gathering of 20,000 people in #Kentucky The ⬆️ in #vaccine hesitancy has many dangerous effects
Show this thread
Image
6
24