Thread by @tomselliott

Best part is when Scarborough introduces Dr. Osterholm — who has been one of the most reliably inaccurate Covid forecasters from the get-go — and says he's “gotten this right all the way through”

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1393151094885322754

In a failure of elementary logic, @mtosterholm frets: "The next question is going to be, How will we know if someone has been vaccinated? If you’re sitting close to someone at a restaurant or ... in a theater, how are you going to know that they’re not just kind of fibbing?"

Per @JoeNBC, here are some examples of @mtosterholm having "gotten this right all the way through"

1) At the outset, Osterholm said it's "nonsense" to wear masks/gloves to stop the spread of Covid

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1326206484410216449?s=20

In November, Osterholm called for another national lockdown, which he falsely claimed would be emulating Japan's successful management of Covid

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1326140195717017600?s=20

Also last November, Osterholm falsely predicted we'll see "hospitals collapsing in the next 2 to 3 weeks"

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1329398370989957122?s=20

Last fall Osterholm told Americans not to visit their families over the holidays so as to avoid killing off grandparents. Americans ignored the advice and cases nonetheless began precipitously dropping in January

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1313937764388347907?s=20

In January, Osterholm predicted cases would start "taking off" within "6-8 weeks." As usual, the opposite occurred.

https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1370509086828167170

In February, Osterholm predicted the UK variant would result in almost 200K Americans being hospitalized. In reality, hospitalizations plunged 40,000

https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1376618574362578954?s=20

In March of this year, as states began removing Covid restrictions, Osterholm incorrectly predicted imminent disaster

https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1367960390349512705

Osterholm also inaccurately predicted Florida would become a "house on fire" after dropping its Covid restrictions.

https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1370500596483170307

In January, Osterholm predicted the next 6-14 weeks would be "the darkest" period of the pandemic. Instead cases have continued their downward trajectory through today.

https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1387495643325734912?s=20