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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷

@VPrasadMDMPH

Jan 26

https://twitter.com/gogreen18/status/1483914521454383110

Touching piece. It's sad but vaccines and masking have become anchored to a culture war where people feel glee about misfortune of their political opponents. It has made everyone cruel and blind to the scientific truth... 1/6

https://twitter.com/gogreen18/status/1483914521454383110

Cloth masking never had good data. We didn't run proper studies in high income nations. We didn't run any good studies in kids. And now we are escalating to higher quality masks precisely in a moment when they serve less societal purpose, than pre vaccine, where they held value

Vaccines are tremendous good. They save lives. They work very well in older people to lower the risk of death.

But diminishing vaccine effectiveness against mild infection subverts the need for mandates. And pushing boosters in the young is misguided

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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷

@VPrasadMDMPH

Jan 26

@TheAtlantic

Great essay in the @TheAtlantic on masking kids

You can't impose restrictions for year after year with no credible data. 👇👇. Check it out

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

My take from last week
tabletmag.com/sections/scien…

From Sept
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷

@VPrasadMDMPH

Jan 25

@mlythoe

New paper out led by @mlythoe @vkprasadlab

We summarize comments received by FDA in response to their proposal that you don't need to receive standard of care to enroll in trials

We detailed the proposal first in NRCO...
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authors.elsevier.com/a/1eTQf7tJEDOI…

https://twitter.com/vkprasadlab/status/1438877919254695943?s=20

Here was that summary along with pitfalls

https://twitter.com/vkprasadlab/status/1438877919254695943?s=20

Now many have written to the FDA supportive of changes, which will allow easier paths to front line and large market share

It seems like it will come to pass

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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷

@VPrasadMDMPH

Jan 24

https://twitter.com/yyvonwang/status/1485723710254301184

Yes! Vax booster mandates are just like seat belts. In 3 months in 1984, for anyone who didn't buckle up 100%, they were fired from their place of employment and not allowed to work again in that sector. Enforcement was absolute...

https://twitter.com/yyvonwang/status/1485723710254301184

Also people who had seat belts already (natural immunity) That didn't count. You had to install the special new seat belt. And you only had a few months to do it.

Oh, and we initially believed that seat belts would protect other people. But then very quickly we learned that there was a new variant and they only protect the wearer, but that didn't stop us.

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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷

@VPrasadMDMPH

Jan 24

@tabletmag

Brilliant essay by John Ioannidis and Michaela Schippers in @tabletmag

I share their concern that suppression of democratic norms to combat the pandemic is a dangerous precedent, and has no checks or balances

Censorship fuels this

tabletmag.com/sections/scien…

Who decides when a public health crisis rises to emergency levels?

Once the decision is made, wide scale suppression of democracy can follow.

Including freedom of Assembly, freedom of speech, limitations on political protest

The media has become an arm for the government's version of scientific facts. Descending facts and opinions are squelched under the guise of 'misinformation'

Yet in many cases the censors are not qualified for the task

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