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Sep 6, 2021 10 tweets 7 min read Read on X
Increasingly difficult to break through to many patients skeptical of recommendations seen coming from the medical establishment or through the mainstream media 🧵
Why is there a growing segment of the population that doesn’t believe experts/media ? Let’s start with a tragic non-med story of the last week.

Here’s the @AP account on a drone attack & what comes to light after someone actually investigates.

Everyone now knows about the fake ivermectin overdoses flooding ER story.

Journalists clearly know the headlines their audience will lap up — almost anything that will paint the half of the country that didn’t vote with them in a bad light will do
Imagine the fact checking that would take place if someone reported vaccine adverse events were flooding phone lines / ERs.

Yet the @AP rushes out an alarming
Amazing thread here on the massive # of outlets and truth warriors that ran with the ivermectin story
Sturgis, anti-lockdown protestors, college football crowds are super spreaders, but riots for social justice, lollapalooza never are

(Read about the ‘data’ on Sturgis here : thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2020/10/2… )
‘Experts’ almost canceled college football for Fall 2020 mostly driven by hyperventilating media outlets. Thanks to @MJAckermanMDPhD & other ‘contrarians’ CFB went on. There was no tsunami of COVID myocarditis and it was always incredibly unlikely : medscape.com/viewarticle/93…
In 2020, you couldn’t trust the federal govt. If they rolled out a vaccine.

A who’s who of medical elite wrote a letter to Pfizer demanding a delay Of the vaccine until after the election..
In March 2020, the theory a virus may have leaked from a Chinese lab funded by the United States was called a conspiracy.. a lancet letter attested to it.. and if you mentioned the possibility At the time.. you were probably a bigot..

There is precious little trust in the ‘accomplished’ class or the politically aligned journalist class that regurgitates whatever confirms their biases.

The intellectual class has only themselves to blame for their growing irrelevance.

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More from @anish_koka

Nov 21
Thread on Medicare Advantage denials

1. MA denies an MRI to follow up / characterize a suspicious adrenal mass seen on a CT Image
2. MA denies a walker to a 76 year old polio survivor because he received a cane in the past 5 years Image
3. MA denies radiation treatment to a patient with a pancreatic tumor because no prior authorization had been submitted (it had been submitted) Image
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Mar 23
Comments / summary on Pfizer subclinical myocarditis study

Overall really confusing

Group 1: 1487 total randomized to Pfizer vs placebo, troponin done at baseline, post usual dose (30mg)

Group 2 : Broken into 2 bc EUA for 12-15 arrived during trial, so majority of 12-15 unblinded and took Pfizer vaccine
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Troponin tested pre and post vaccine dose.

Rather than show individual baseline troponin and rise after placebo vs drug , results shown in summary format, so cannot track individual rise In tn
1st study eligibility criteria is Pts who had received 2 or 3 doses of Pfizer > 4 months prior.

I assume patients who had myocarditis with 1st 2 doses are not rushing to enroll in this trial
Read 8 tweets
Mar 8
Ok. So my summary on the @Change_HC @Optum @UHC cyberattack debacle.

TL,DR : Govt. regulation creates billion dollar revenue streams for large corporations. Regulatory capture by large organizations means a healthcare system that is incredibly susceptible to single points of failure, and most of the players in the space have no clue/ don't really care!

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Feb 21, 2024, cyberhackers compromise @Change_HC (formerly Emdeon, acquired a few years prior by @UHC for $13billion).

@Change_HC is the largest medical clearing house that takes electronic claims generated by hospitals and doctors offices , scrubs them, and puts them in a format that insurance companies accept. Insurance companies process claims, and make payments to hospitals and doctors.
The first reaction of @Change_HC is to disconnect from all of its clients, which means, no medical claims are processed to be delivered to insurance companies.

Change HC / United then proceeds to say absolutely nothing of substance for the next 2 weeks with regards to any timeline of coming back online
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Oct 2, 2023
If you have a deep seated fear of COVID you will instinctually seize on any study that confirms that bias.

If you fear the vaccines, you instinctually will want to believe data that confirms that bias.

Neither approach will get you close to the truth

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If the goal is truth, then the real bias everyone should lean into is against the academic-peer-review industrial complex that spends most of its time generating data that doesn’t replicate and then exacerbates the problem with hyperbolic conclusions
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

Academia is full of people who have spent 20 years becoming masters of a particular domain that usually has no practical, real world application.
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Sep 30, 2023
The coverage of this wildly speculative paper linking sars-cov2 is much worse than the actual paper is.

To give you a flavor.

The study is based on 8 autopsies of patients with a diagnosis of COVID.

Let’s take Patient 1.

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59 year old black man with a history of CAD.

He was admitted to the hospital 3 times before dying.

Hospitalizations 1 was with a clot in his lungs. His only treatment was heparin and xarelto. This means he didn’t present with a COVID pneumonia.

Hospitalization 2 was listed for heart failure. His ejection fraction was 40-45%. He spent 5 days in the hospital. He was still COVID positive.

Hospitalization 3 was with an acute heart attack. A circumflex artery occlusion associated with rupture of a component of the mitral valve — the papillary muscle. He was now COVID negative. He died of the heart attack and resultant heart failure, I assume.


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The authors of this study took coronary artery tissue and looked for evidence of sars-cov2

They show representative samples of tissue in their main figure. They do not , even in their supplement, show all tissue sampled and stained.

The presence of sars-cov2 rna In patients who were infected by itself doesn’t mean much, but researchers probed tissue for the antisense strand of the S gene (S antisense), which is only produced during viral replication.
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Sep 29, 2023
One of the major issues of the last 3 years has been a seeming inability of US institutions to seek to answer basic questions like how extensive and how long a novel vaccine administered to humans lasts.

Well, these researchers tried to answer this question, and the results are really interesting!
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Human bio-distribution studies are hard by nature.. it requires specimens of a variety of organs at various time point after administration of a therapeutic.

Preclinical animal studies of the mrna/LNP construct suggested a short duration (days)

The few human studies have suggested a much longer duration of action.

“Using human axillary lymph node biopsies, spike protein and vaccine mRNA were reported to persist up to 60 days from vaccination with either BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 as detected by immunohistochem- istry and in-situ hybridization. In that study spike protein was also detected in the plasma up to 7 days from vaccination. BNT162b2 mRNA was detected in patients by PCR in circulating leukocytes up to 6 days from vaccination and in the plasma up to 15 days from vaccination. Using highly sensitive single-molecule array assays, spike protein derived from mRNA-1273 was detected in the plasma of patients up to 28 days from most recent vaccination20. Circulating exosomes containing spike protein derived from BNT162b2 were detected in patients 4 months after vaccination”
This study in Nature went one step further, comprehensively studying human tissue In patients dying after vaccination.

Importantly, NONE of the patients were deemed to have died from the vaccination.
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