Public Health
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@johananderberg @unherd Sweden relied more heavily on voluntary measures than other Scandinavian countries did, and, unfortunately, they paid a heavy price for it. Their death rate...
@dperetti One the anti-vax scammers' favorite lies is the claim that Covid-19 vaccines have killed thousands of people. They haven't. Here are links to two different debunkings of...
SNAKE OIL: HOW XI JINPING SHUT DOWN THE WORLD Through propaganda and fraud, the CCP under Xi Jinping transformed the snake oil of lockdowns into “science,” the greatest crime of t...
Ban on firecrackers during Deepavali is the classic ‘take the easiest decision’ and be seen as doing ‘something’ ostensibly to tackle pollution. Tackling major causes for pollution...
1/“Hey Rose, it’s time to print the articles we cued up to make parents jab their kids. To make it extra scary, don’t mention that 75% of kids already have natural immunity, and te...
If anything should move young people to get vaccinated, it's the seemingly endless number of tragic stories about young people who regret not being vaccinated. Like this pregnant...
Weight and height of children are not solely determined by food intake but are an outcome genetics, the environment, sanitation and much more.
@j_malhocarvalho @Trouble91775621 @DoomsdayDebunks @nytimes That's wrong. You've confused death AFTER vaccination with death FROM vaccination. ≈0.016% of any random population die...
@anmol_ambani (1) WHO has it's faults but it is an international forum whose advice has been critical in mitigating covid-19 impacts. If we disagree on the fundamentals (trust tow...
@MathewMoisture @stevenmosher @Johnath58542975 @AndrewLazarus4 @fiddy_PP @Tony__Heller @PPALtd @DCGreenZone1 @mcfunny @doritmi @SkepticalMutant @JanetWood101 @richykirsh @chickaboy...
🦠Covid has nowhere left to go to mutate into a deadly variant. Covid is unlikely to mutate into a much deadlier variant because there “aren’t many places for the virus to go”, th...
UNBELIEVABLY BASED (Pt.1) https://t.co/TcBZWmchBC
I'm watching CDC's independent scientific advisors debate boosters. First up is Pfizer's Bill Gruber, who has to show his face just days after his faceplant at FDA's VRBPAC Fri...
Herd immunity to Covid? Maybe an impossible dream. We need to reframe our approach to the pandemic and learn more, and limit the death and disruption. Here’s how. 1/thread
OK. I’m tired of the emotional reasoning, so I went to the CDC’s website and sorted through the data myself. Here are the cold, hard facts as of 9/4/21. TOTAL CASES (US): 40,048,2...
1/ @POTUS Biden's 6-point Delta plan has much of what I've been wanting to see: Making use of the ENTIRE toolbox against COVID, including but not limited to vaccines. Here's a su...
PSA: 🚨 DO NOT TAKE YOUR MASK OFF INDOORS, even if there is no one else around.🚨 The virus persists in the air for HOURS because #CovidIsAirborne Only take your mask off outdoors...
We need to talk about the pediatric bed situation in the USA. Because things are going to get really bad, real fast, unless people doing things to stop it. This is an important t...
QUICK THREAD ON VACCINES & DELTA: Friday's @PHE_uk report said that viral load in infected vaccinated people was similar to that of uninfected people. As has been pointed out by...
🧵/ NEW: UK study throws cold water (again) on the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” the upshots are: 🔸#VaccinesWork but #DeltaVariant changed the game so #MaskUp 🔸unvaxed kids are the...
Think this through with me - a brief narrated slide deck. https://t.co/4JhAVudLyA
Leaked CDC slides on delta variant got you concerned? I find the slides insightful & largely reassuring Bottom line Delta variant is a problem Vaccines prevent vast majority of...
Here's a little thread on crappy public responses to pandemics of the past. Whenever you feel angry about the behaviour of your fellow man, remember, all this has happened before,...
OK, time for another one of these. My positions - 1) bioethics require full risk disclosure and free choice. Neither of these are being met. 2) For high risk populations, the ris...