NEW: The Great Barrington Declaration has received a lot of attention, especially from the Trump administration. How did they gain access? And what exactly do they envision? 1/xhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/health/coronavirus-great-barrington.html …
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Here are some of the main pts: 1) protect the older/vulnerable while letting young people get infected 2) No testing of asymptomatic people 3) No contact tracing. 2/x
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BUT how exactly would this work? How do you define, let alone "protect the vulnerable," when a third of the population has underlying risk factors? And how do you physically separate them from the rest of the population? 3/x
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We talked to authors and signatories. Didn't get many details beyond what's in the declaration because, they said, they are not experts in implementation. 4/x
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As one bioethicist noted, people in communities of poverty will be hit hardest by the plan and see the most deaths. so it's unethical--and also doesn't take human behavior into account. 5/x
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Read on for a deep dive into the plan and its critiques. w/
@SherylNYT and feat. Jay Bhattacharya,@RWalensky@dgurdasani1@davidnabarro@mgmgomes1@sdbaral and othershttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/health/coronavirus-great-barrington.html …11 replies 15 retweets 74 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @apoorva_nyc @SherylNYT and
Kausik Retweeted Apoorva Mandavilli
I’m curious. Sunetra Gupta is not a physician. Jay Bhattacharya is an MD/PhD but does he ever see patients, let alone COVID19 patients? How is this “let the youngsters get disease” plan any different from the antivaxxer pox & measles parties? How’s this ethical?https://twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/status/1318312312609083393 …
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Apoorva MandavilliVerified account @apoorva_nycNEW: The Great Barrington Declaration has received a lot of attention, especially from the Trump administration. How did they gain access? And what exactly do they envision? 1/x https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/health/coronavirus-great-barrington.html …Show this thread3 replies 2 retweets 5 likes -
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Kausik Retweeted Kausik
Aside from issues already in the report, should the Barrington authors & signatories be held accountable for
#publichealth harms—if the plan’s implemented—in a situation where there’s reinfection, 210,000+ from all ages have already died, & long term impacts are being seen?https://twitter.com/kausikdatta22/status/1318517396618027008 …Kausik added,
Kausik @kausikdatta22Replying to @apoorva_nyc @SherylNYT and 5 othersI’m curious. Sunetra Gupta is not a physician. Jay Bhattacharya is an MD/PhD but does he ever see patients, let alone COVID19 patients? How is this “let the youngsters get disease” plan any different from the antivaxxer pox & measles parties? How’s this ethical? https://twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/status/1318312312609083393 …1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes -
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Given the
#publichealth disaster wrought in Sweden due to its weird#COVID19 policies, why’re we even considering that system as a model? Who benefits if a substantial population of the country—especially the underprivileged—succumbs to a pandemic disease?https://time.com/5899432/sweden-coronovirus-disaster/ …1 reply 5 retweets 10 likes -
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Kausik Retweeted Apoorva Mandavilli
Herd immunity’s important to protect the vulnerable, but letting a natural disease with severe consequences—like
#COVID19—run amok is certainly not the way to get to it; we need the#vaccines to be available & do their job to protect folks & generate herd immunity.#VaccinesWorkhttps://twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/status/1318312821868953600 …Kausik added,
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“Not an expert in implementation” is such a deeply & shamefully unethical, responsibility-shirking, cover-your-own-arse-while-pontificating-from-the-ivory-tower kinda stance from supposed “experts” in #publichealth who are promulgating policy that affects a large number of folks! https://twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/status/1318313117886054400 …pic.twitter.com/JBjM1AcTRD
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Whoa
I had not made this connection even though I remember the episode. The much-criticized science-by-press-release seroprevalence study from USC had JB as one of the authors! (HT @joshtpm) https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1328162000443232256 …pic.twitter.com/ALq6zILNQk
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