Thread by @DoctorTro

🚨 THREAD ON COVID (it’s going to get ugly) 🚨

•no politics 🙏
•no crazies 🙏

Today I watched segments of an interview with a prominent immunologist (name rhymes with ouchy)

This scientist said he doesn’t believe in T-cell immunity for the novel coronavirus

1/11

Now, I’m certainly no expert in immunology but I decided to educate myself

I started here and here

bmj.com/content/370/bm…

nature.com/articles/s4158…

I also read these key citations below on T cell immunity

2/11

How can a prominent immunologist not consider this early body of research? So I thought about potential roadblocks to accepting new data... a process called anchoring bias

This is a bias that’s created when you commit to an outcome & don’t assimilate new info as it arises

3/11

initially I was accepting of lockdown but as evidence presented itself I changed my tune... specifically I started to change my tune after no uptick in NYC after 2 weeks of Floyd protests

4/11

I became even more questioning after we understood what exactly happened with the fraud regarding surgisphere which lead to several retractions from major journals and the errors in dosage admitted by principal investigator regarding the recovery trial dosage of HCQ...

5/11

I became even more questioning then even moreso after successive data on immunity that I recently reviewed.

5/11

after all of this I really started to question the public health messaging. We all thought Sweden was crazy initially... but we have to admit now when Denmark, Norway, Finland and all of Europe is having cases go up while Sweden is flat ... maybe they got it right

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6/11

it's okay to be wrong and change - I admit I was wrong. Initially I was scared and supported lockdown and have now changed tune - but many things prevent accepting new data and being wrong - namely ANCHORING BIAS

7/11

Another issue that’s keeping people from accepting new data besides anchoring bias is hyperbole.

People may hear me say I’m against lockdowns, but they believe it means something else
8/11

I support protected our immune-compromised, elderly

Anyone should be able to wear a mask in close proximity indoor environments

Anyone should take common sense precautions of distancing in indoor environments

We should have access to PPE for healthcare workers

9/11

The main issue for me is that I now believe that lockdowns were likely not helpful and I admit I was wrong before... I pray that I’m not wrong again but so far this is where my re-evaluation has brought me

10/11

While for me it may be easy to admit I was wrong

It may be much harder for politicians during an election year

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