Thread by @VPrasadMDMPH

This administration's COVID-19 policy is best summarized by n95 for kids, while nursing home patients are unboosted

We do controversial things on the lowest risk that will make no difference, but poison public sentiment

And we don't do simple things that would save lives

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Here are some controversies:
White House pushes boosters so FDA officials resign
We push boosters down to 12 years old without all appropriate advisory committees
We use Pfizer data so Moderna can be given booster at 5 months

We mandate millions of 20-year-olds get boosted in college or for certain employers even though they are at negligible risk after vaccine, and there is no evidence, booster will further lower their risk of severe outcomes

We literally change the rules at the FDA to try to bring a failed vaccine product to 6-month-old to 4-year-olds

The administration has aggressively pursued masking children despite weak evidence

The administration is obsessed with pushing interventions on the low risk population

Meanwhile

Nurses were actively sick with COVID-19. Can work in nursing homes

The US lags European nations in vaccination of the elderly

The US is a total failure in boosting the elderly

US has no mechanism to exert pressure on the elderly, and settles for exerting pressure on children

The unique aspect of the administration is that they are willing to use the brute force power of government to try to stop the pandemic, yet they routinely use that force in the wrong direction

They were quickly burn through all their political capital. They will create a deep resentment from most people, and they will still witness staggering death tolls when the virus eventually sweeps back through the older community

The administration has never articulated what its strategy is. The left hand is not talking to the right hand. Messages are confused and muddled

One week fauci says we'll all get the virus and the next week they mail you an n95 but not enough to last

There testing is a fiasco
The FDA has such low rules for vaccinating children, but such high rules for selling tests. It's crazy

And at no point has anyone actually said who is in charge of these decisions. Who is actually making these decisions. It's not even known.

Any historian of public Health will view 2021 as a total failure of government to tackle a pandemic

Focusing on the wrong population, and using force in a way that will create an inevitable backlash

I truly worry that in the next 20 years many states will pass laws that actually make it harder to do the routine vaccination that we know works. They will be a huge backlash to all these efforts.

They will be a huge backlash to all these efforts.I truly worry that in the next 20 years many states will pass laws that actually make it harder to do the routine vaccination that we know works.

There were two kinds of people in the world. People who understand the risk of gradient by age and people who want to push restrictions on kids

As a lifelong progressive, Bernie Sanders supporter, it's been sad for me to watch the follow. The science administration basically follow the Twitter. At times actually seed stories on Twitter with their agents

It will be a toss up. But I think some historians of science will recognize that greater errors were made in 2021 than 2020. When it comes to US pandemic policy.

Each day those people who resign from FDA, Gruber and Krause are probably more and more happy that they are not going to be responsible for this fiasco