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Jan 28 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Wow 3 great articles this week
Is the tide turning?
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sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
newsweek.com/were-physician…
and one from last week
tabletmag.com/sections/scien…
npr.org/2022/01/28/107…
nytimes.com/2022/01/28/opi…

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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷 Profile picture
Jan 31
Not only am I a progressive, Bernie Sanders fan, but I wrote 2 books about how to reform drug regulation & medicine to improve health & save society $$

So it has been heartbreaking to watch the left on the wrong side of many COVID19 issues: masking, kids, school, mandates, etc
Everything done to keep kids "safe" has been delusional, unproven, harmful mitigation that is not proportionate to the risks they face, harmful to their language and development, and has hurt a generation more than any other insult this century.

The left failed kids
End of story
Here are some links:
I can't believe they never ran a single, cluster RCT in kids
tabletmag.com/sections/scien…
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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷 Profile picture
Jan 30
Wes' argument is that misinformation thrives in a vacuum where experts/ institutions have lost trust through repeatedly lying or pushing flawed or distorted science...
Is True!

A few e.g.
The Nobel Lies: slate.com/technology/202…
🧵
That was just the start on many issues...
city-journal.org/public-healths…
It even applies to people outside of anointed circles.

What am I to think when someone offers this paper as evidence that masks keep daycares open?

Just read the issues with it. It is astonishing.

vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/a-new-paper-…
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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷 Profile picture
Jan 30
We need to censor mis-information from podcasts so the only people who can spread it are the New York Times 👇👇👇

Vaccinating healthy kids 5 to 11 is subject of global disagreement

See thread...
nytimes.com/2022/01/29/hea… Image
bmj.com/content/374/bm…
bmj.com/content/373/bm… Image
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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷 Profile picture
Jan 29
21 year old soccer player (aka fit) gets 1 vax then has covid. Ok for France, but Canada says no

No wonder trust in public health is in the toilet. 1. Omicron makes vaccine mandates pointless. 2. This gentleman does not need more vax 3. Rule is stupid

si.com/soccer/2022/01…
A world class 21 year old male soccer player gets 1 vax and then covid. Leave him alone. You cannot make him healthier. Using coercive mandates for dose 2 or 3 shatters your credibility. Mandates also won't protect others w omicron piercing vax left, right and center.
Would you advise this man to get dose 2?

(Thinking about his health and health of others around him)
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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷 Profile picture
Jan 27
Censoring misinformation is removing a tumor with a sword, not a scalpel

You are definitely going to cut a lot of healthy tissue-- debate

And you might not like the outcome

Oh and the people wielding the sword have no idea what they're doing, have seldom published sci papers.
Even more rarely have they engaged in a scientific field that is subject to significant debate and controversy over a prolonged period of time. Without that perspective they have no idea the bounds of legitimate debate.
This is how you reply to the Rogan episodes with a scalpel. Not a sword. Acknowledging what was true. And what wasn't. It's called dialogue

unherd.com/2022/01/we-nee…
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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷 Profile picture
Jan 27
When we understand & accept that just about everyone will get infected with sars-cov-2 👇👇

Policy must adapt
Fear must dissipate

Massive testing of kids & workers who feel fine & quarantines is madness

Booster mandates for young, vaccine passports are pointless
🧵
Testing kids who feel fine in school is particularly foolish

It will lead to massive educational disruptions and serves no purpose.

These kids will be infected, maybe this year, next year, the year after... and many times in their lives.
slate.com/technology/202…
If parents want they can get kids vaccinated, but other nations view the uncertainty differently and advise vaccination for only vulnerable

Either way, disrupting their lives makes no sense

reuters.com/world/europe/s…
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