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6 Oct

@MonicaGandhi

Opening by calling quarantine “age old” as if, like leeching, it was largely quackery, @MonicaGandhi takes readers on a path of omissions & oversights before arriving, as if clandestinely, at a conclusion so sane, one suspects she is embarrassed by it.🧵
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/1…

Despite its age, much like leeching, quarantine has a modern-day place. Gandhi concedes as much in a paragraph mixed with a variety of platitudes about costs and benefits.

Though Gandhi is correct that “in many cases quarantines are probably doing more harm than good”, “probably” carries a lot of weight given that cases where quarantine would do more harm than good are indistinguishable from those where quarantine wouldn’t.

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12 Sep

@TracyBethHoeg

Unhappy with the CDC’s paltry number of myocarditis cases attributable to mRNA vaccines, @TracyBethHoeg et al set out on the vast sea of VAERS in hopes of catching more fish by using "broader search and inclusion criteria" aka a bigger, but definitely not better, net. 🧵

Admirable if only for the nakedness of its ambition, the authors don’t hide that their aim is to “update” the CDC’s estimate,

or that, by “update” they mean “inflate”.

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21 Aug

@TracyBethHoeg

This study by @TracyBethHoeg, @KrugAlli et al. reinvents the need for the adage "absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence" as a response to the authors’ novel approach “If you don’t have symptoms, you don’t have cases."🧵
bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjspor…

The study is allegedly about player-to-player transmission being contained by the protocols for youth ice hockey the authors develop. Alarm bells ring almost immediately when the authors introduce us to the study’s crew: a “volunteer epidemiologist”,

and other “neutral” parties.

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19 Aug

Judith Danovitch's researches how preschool & elementary school kids evaluate & think about information. In this article, she evaluates claims of "mask harms" and the impiactions, for cognitive development, of not seeing mouths, smiles & frowns.🧵
nytimes.com/2021/08/18/opi…

Daovitch admits that, though there is little data on masks per se, there is evidence from head coverings. “Children in cultures where caregivers & educators wear head coverings that obscure their mouths & noses develop skills just as children in other cultures do.”

What’s more, she adds, blind people still learn to speak, read and socialize.

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14 Aug

@drlucymcbride

Covid minimizers, like @drlucymcbride, are like eclipses that cover astronomical objects. The disaster behind their obfuscations is still there despite the cover of misleading and often irrelevant “good cheer” they try to throw in front of it. 🧵
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Implying the well-off and protected have nothing to fear because hospitals are only filling up “in states with where low vaccination rates” may reassure the privileged McBride seems most concerned with.

However, it belies the actual evidence.

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12 Aug

@ProfEmilyOster

While @ProfEmilyOster denies consulting with @GovRonDesantis, she hasn’t yet repudiated her study. She should. The study claims to show mitigations don't work but has so many design flaws, even effective measures would fail her trials. Very long🧵.
nytimes.com/2021/06/22/us/…

Probably because they’re assumed to be the “gold standard”, Oster’s studies employ the all the signs of being Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) in which mitigations: mask mandates, in-person density and ventilation are compared with schools absent those same mitigations.

Oster’s conclusion is, more or less, that mitigations make no difference to Covid case counts in students, staff and teachers associated with schools.

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