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Former NYT reporter and author of Tell Your Children. In need of a haircut. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

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    Jul 10

    UNTIL THIS YEAR, WE HAD SPECIFIC, DETAILED, AND EVIDENCE-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WHAT TO DO - AND WHAT NOT TO DO - IN CASE OF RESPIRATORY VIRUS EPIDEMICS. WE HAVE THROWN THEM ALL OUT. IN FAVOR OF MEDIA-FED HYSTERIA. What’s changed? Not the science.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Exactly the same number as are alive today. Or do randomized controlled trials, metaanalyses in peer-reviewed journals, and pre-2020 recommendations carry no weight with you?

    Wonder how many people would still be alive if he’d done this 4 months ago.
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  3. 4 hours ago

    Labor more from Texas; before positive tests and hospitalizations can drop, they have to peak. Too early to say for sure, but today’s data is promising; Covid non-ICU hospitalizations down day-over-day in both Houston and SE Texas. The peak in positive tests is more obvious.

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  4. 4 hours ago

    Don’t think developed nations with a tradition of respecting individual rights will trash them for ? I have two words for you: New Zealand. Where indefinite confinement is already real, and PEOPLE IN ISOLATION ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO BREAK FREE. Welcome to the occupation.

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  5. 11 hours ago

    Which, I vaguely seem to recall, was the whole point of lockdowns, way back when (March, the old normal). Flatten the curve, remember? Not: nobody ever dies again.

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  6. 11 hours ago

    Here’s ICU/vent use in SE Texas, and ICU use change in Arizona, where things are tightest, over the last 20 days. No matter how hard you try, you can’t make this a catastrophe. Maybe it becomes one, or maybe it fades slowly, we will see, but for now the hospitals are managing.

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  7. 11 hours ago

    Overall capacity/use in SE Texas (includes Houston). See that blue line in the middle, ? How it rises and falls seemingly at random despite the steady rise in the green? Weird, huh? Same thing in Arizona, btw.

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  8. 11 hours ago

    What if - and bear with me here, this may be hard to understand - you don’t have a massive surge in people needing crisis care, just a lot of people testing Covid-positive and little overall change in hospital use? What then? (Texas screenshots below.)

    If you have an massive surge in people needing crisis care the distinction btw whether they’re dying “from covid” or “with covid” is immaterial/stupid. Fine, redefine it. We’re seeing horrific surge of folks with ordinary diseases who also happen to be covid positive. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  9. 23 hours ago

    Who wants to tell him is much less dangerous than the pandemic influenza strains anticipated in both the and manuals? (They are careful to avoid mortality estimates but they have enough specific language that there’s no doubt of this fact.)

    Yes, the science changed. Because it’s a new virus. You say you’re a journalist but you’re actually just hysterical. To call COVID just a respiratory infection is like calling a banana a cat at this point . You’re an unread cow. And you’re killing people with disinformation.
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  10. Jul 10

    When hospitals deny families access to their dying relatives, everyone suffers. From a man whose father died of cancer in Houston this week: “he was alone until the last few hours of his life.” I know hospitals want to protect patients from , but this is a cruel choice.

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  11. Jul 10

    Thanks for noticing. I learned when I wrote Tell Your Children that “cherry-pick” is how the side with the losing argument says, “presenting facts we don’t like and can’t answer.” It and “misrepresents” (when used against verbatim quotes) are the two great signs of weaseling.

    Masks! Science for You but not for WHO! Entertaining thread. For those who say Berenson cherry picks, cherry picking WHO’s 2019 meta-analysis of masks is one heck of a pick.
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  12. Jul 10

    Trump makes lots of mistakes but what choice did he have in this case? The schools in many states clearly were not headed for reopening even before he spoke. He didn’t politicize this issue; it came to him that way.

    Replying to @AlexBerenson @AmerAcadPeds
    If you look at the wording, you can tell it is in direct response to what Trump said. I'm glad for his support, but I wish Trump hadn't said anything about schools now. It has caused the left to dig their heels in just to spite him.
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  13. Jul 10

    I have no doubt the real story of how the teachers unions muscled the pediatricians - to the extent THEY ISSUED A JOINT STATEMENT - is juicier than usual DC inside baseball. I’m sure will get right on it. Or not.

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  14. Jul 10

    And this statement has already gotten way more media attention than the original. Are you surprised? Me neither.

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  15. Jul 10

    And the caves. In a joint statement with the teachers unions. Yeah, schools should reopen. Maybe. Who knows when? The stakes are too high to quit. Not now, not ever. But I’m not gonna lie. This is a gut punch.

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  16. Jul 10

    Thanks to for the great questions - hope everyone enjoys the interview!

    NEW PODCAST: Listen to and his take on schools and the virus. Click below to listen --->>>
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  17. Jul 10

    Heck of a question

    Replying to @AlexBerenson
    If the droplets from asymptomatic people were carrying such significant virus load why is the PCR test so invasive then? Just spitting on it should be enough to trace the virus.
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  18. Jul 10

    From NJ, an *honest* mask campaign: masks have been shown to “decrease the release of droplets from people’s mouths, which can carry infectious particles.” Yep. And THAT’S ABOUT IT. Also, they make great parking lot decorations. And you’ll never forget what you had for lunch.

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  19. Jul 10

    Wake me when we require college students to be tested for sexually transmitted infections before they’re allowed to attend. Or randomly when they’re there.

    Someone should let know that STIs represent the most common use of contract tracing in the medical field -- & the fact he didnt know this is proof of how overwhelmingly noncontroversial it was and is. (Also proof that he isnt the expert hes presenting himself as)
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  20. Jul 10

    5/ If, as serology studies have suggested, the actual v. reported rate is more like 20x (i.e. for every positive test 20 people have had ), the infection fatality rate will be even lower (possible if treatments have improved or we are protecting nursing homes better).

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  21. Jul 10

    4/ In fact, after adjusting for that two week lag, Florida and Texas are reporting relatively low CASE fatality rates right now; multiplying actual v. reported cases by 10x (this is probably low but they have been testing heavily) puts the IFR right in the 0.2%-0.3% we'd expect.

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