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31 Aug, 5 tweets, 2 min read
It's important to note that CDC's own death certificate analysis of 2020 pediatric death certs found that 35% of the deaths in the COVID count has causes of death not plausibly related to COVID.
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
Overascertainment of pediatric hospitalizations is was at least 40%, according to AAP's own studies before the RSV wave.

hosppeds.aappublications.org/content/early/…
hosppeds.aappublications.org/content/early/…
This is definitional. We count any hosp of any cause, any death of any cause, with a positive SARS-CoV2 test in the count.
We had empty childrens hospitals most of the year. Now they are full of RSV patients. This makes recent data heavily confounded.
But CDC and AAP have both conceded Delta is no more dangerous for children, and the UK data is clear on this.

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8 Sep
As suspected, the CDC's current school mask guidance came at the request/demand of the teachers unions, not based on any science.

Thanks @apublictrust for obtaining the emails.

foxnews.com/politics/cdc-t…
This explains the mystery of the CDC "science brief" that contained no science supporting the mask guidance and excluded the CDC's own most relevant study, which found no significant effect of student mask mandates.
CDC aided and abetted teachers unions (ineffectively!) trying to minimize their members' already microscopic post-vax COVID risk over the social/emotional health and language/communication development of children.
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7 Sep
This baffling string of Randi-esque non sequiturs is quite remarkable.

I do appreciate the confession that child-masking is driven by **anger**.

Anger, apparently, that someone, somewhere, might be living a normal life.

Let's take a look.
Ample! is one link, refs endpoint-driven ecological studies from last summer (fall/winter data showed no mask effect so none ever updated) and mechanistic stuff with mannequins assuming a larger article size than respiratory aerosols. And hairdressers!
Keep cloth-masking kids, because the Bangladesh study found no reduction in symptoms in villages with adults given cloth masks, and a small reduction (only in age 50+) in villages with adults given surgical masks. This is an argument *for* child-masking?
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6 Sep
"Primary school pupils were not required to wear masks"
The school closures, the masks, the cancellation of sports and activities... the years and months of denying kids normal life was for *absolutely nothing*.
The same people who were 100% wrong about school closures are sure as ever about forced child-masking. No surprise there. But why is anybody still listening to them???
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5 Sep
Is Twitter banning purveyors of "ivermectin overdoses crowding Oklahoma emergency room" misinformation?

The actual number of such patients at the hospital where Jason McElyea worked is zero.

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You'll be shocked to learn McElyea is suing the last hospital system he worked at for revoking his medical staff membership and clinical privileges.
oscn.net/dockets/GetCas…
Apologies; link I used was not permalink and shifted with cache.

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CJ-2018-00079
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31 Aug
This is why the White House getting ahead of FDA is such a disaster. Scientists can't do their job with a predetermined outcome.
How would the media handle these FDA resignations if the president who pre-announced booster authorization were named Trump?
Did any network news cover FDA's top two vaccine officials resigning in protest today over White House meddling?
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30 Aug
Biden admin, for stupid political reasons, is asserting that what *most of our allies do* -- not masking schoolkids -- is a civil rights violation.
Rather incoherently, only if parental opt-out is a state policy. No alleged violation if the same policy is at the local level. So problem is no local control. Except in states with statewide mandates. That's fine.
This despite child-maskers producing no evidence of benefit (appeal to authority is a fallacy, not evidence) and refusing to conduct a quality trial of their preferred intervention for 18 months and counting.
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