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16 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
AIRBORNE WARNING FEB 2020—look how scientists long warned that the “coronavirus is airborne”—that it can float in the air & still **infect someone even after the infected person leaves the room**. Why was #COVIDisAirborne ignored? Because it came from China? Maybe a racist lens?
2) Damnit we have warned about airborne transmission a long time. We need to stop it with the dangerously ignorant 6 feet / 2 meter rule.
3) If anyone leading pandemic response still claims that the coronavirus isn’t airborne — they need to be immediately sacked and replaced!
4) this was also unfortunate - Dr Tedros first said it was airborne in March 2020. But somehow he was forced to recant right after this was said.
5) Japanese scientists 🇯🇵 also long warned it was airborne from the beginning. Was it also an ethnic or racial bias to dismiss the airborne science simply because the warnings came from Asia? Or was it inconvenient to acknowledge #COVIDisAirborne ? 🤔

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18 Oct
📍FACT: Popcorn 🍿 is the number one whole-grain in the American diet. Whole grains are health and prevent diabetes, heart disease and strokes. But…

📍SAD FACT: Most popcorn eaten is buttered🧈 or salted🧂

📍SADDER: Microwave🍿 can cause lung 🫁 scarring if hot fumes inhaled. Image
2) That bag of microwave popcorn may smell good, but it's best to let the bag cool before you open it.
“Popcorn lung” is an irreversible scarring of the smallest airways in the lungs…
cspinet.org/tip/do-you-ris…
3) It’s caused by inhaling vapors of a buttery-tasting chemical that some manufacturers used to add to microwave 🍿. Diacetyl is a natural compound found in cheese, butter, yogurt, & wine. It’s not harmful when swallowed, but it can damage the lungs if large amounts are inhaled.
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18 Oct
Medical schools are infamously bad at teaching epidemiology. Utterly absent or completely rudimentary teaching of epidemiology. It’s a miracle if medical doctors learn any biostatistics (very different from college “coin flip” statistics). Just beware when reading #COVID stats.
2) Many medical schools have zero courses in epidemiology and zero courses in population biostatistics. I had attended medical school myself years ago (before I withdrew) and examined school curriculums—it’s very lacking. Some doctors are smart and self learn, but most don’t.
3) This is a not criticism of MD/DO doctors - they have to learn so much with a firehose volume of information to memorize already. But it is a reality of medical schools in prioritizing some topics over more useful ones like epidemiology which they need to know to read research.
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18 Oct
Whoa—@politico is now owned by a new German parent company BILD that is:

📌”bitterly ”anti-immigration
📌Pro-Trump in leaked memos
📌anti-COVID safety measures?

Ummmm, why is a right wing foreign media corporation now controlling a DC political outlet?
nytimes.com/2021/10/17/bus… Image
2) to be clear, Bild is the flagship publication of Axel Springer, a titan of German media. The company is now focusing much of its energy on the United States.
3) Bild leadership also tolerated workplace sexual harassment exploitation among its editors and even promoted him??? Jeez. Image
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15 Oct
Serious red flags🚩 to spot bad health officials—

🚩Coronavirus isn’t airborne🚩
🚩Just stay 6 feet🚩
🚩Plexiglass🚩
🚩Don’t worry about variants🚩
🚩Can’t get reinfected🚩
🚩No need to mask indoors🚩
🚩”Learn to live” with the virus🚩
🚩Kids are practically immune🚩
#COVID19
2) Until we all recognize that #COVIDisAirborne (which should not be political)… we are going to be screwed by the pandemic for a long time.
3) In other words… “Until we recognise that #COVID19 is airborne we are setting ourselves up for repeated failure”
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15 Oct
BREAKING—a panel of outside experts advised the FDA on Friday to authorize a booster dose of the Johnson & Johnson #COVID19 vaccine for people 18+, with a recommendation it be given at least 2 months after the first shot. FDA expected to authorize 🧵
washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10…
2) The unanimous recommendation will now be taken up by the FDA, which is expected to make a decision within days — a decision that will clarify the path forward for the 14 million people in US who have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, many of whom have felt left behind.
3) A CDC the analysis found that while the Johnson & Johnson vaccine offered a strong shield of protection, it was somewhat weaker than the other products. covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
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15 Oct
💡WOW—3rd/4th grade ‘Science Olympiad’ on “Disease Detectives” requires kids to: “📊Calculate disease risk & frequencies as a ratio, proportion, incidence proportion (attack rate), incidence rate, prevalence rate, mortality rate”! ➡️Who here did epidemiology as a 8-10 year old?!
2) Like seriously - who among you can even do that epidemiology now, not to mention in 3rd or 4th grade elementary school?!

P.s. most MDs can’t even do these epidemiology calculations well.
3) To be fair, I didn’t decide to pursue epidemiology until I majored in @JohnsHopkinsPHS at @JohnsHopkins. But I did have a NEJM subscription starting in middle school. But 3rd/4th grade learning intro epidemiology 101 is hardcore.
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