It is about time that national media stop giving @monicagandhi9 a national platform. If her wrong, sweeping statements are intended only for a local audience (they're not, she writes nationally), then she should NOT be amplified nation/world wide.
Btw she wasn't right about that either.
If you watch the clip again, the pieces selected were specifically NOT local, like statememts on California (the state, not her UCSF area), boosters, WaPo articles about delta. There's more! She's predicted that people would only need boosters once every 10y because immune rxn.
Monica Gandhi is dangerously wrong about the pandemic.

Where is she right? She has always been very good about children being vaccinated quite vocal about it, generally early on provided good mask advice.
Thank you @mehdirhasan for doing what no journalist (who could have) has done: get Dr. Gandhi to face her COVID mistakes.

Sometimes it feels like these doctors are playing games to get on media - this is serious business, lives are at stake.

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Feb 5
Why yes, selective-article grabber, I did thoroughly read the BBC news article about children and NHS referrals, and I have a few comments.

#schoolclosures #UKPolitics #ENGLAND

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First, it's important to note that I did what any normal human and not a data robot does when they read an infographic, I faithfully transcribed it using machine-reading software to translate it into Excel. If anyone can find the raw data, thanks.

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I then sourced school closures directly from gov.uk

This allowed me to create two lockdown periods (<30% school attendance) and open school periods (>75% attendance)

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Feb 4
Update for @mehdirhasan @MehdiHasanShow - she did not, in fact, take her obvious problem of mis-predicting seriously: Here are some of her statements and predictions during this time (Mar 30, 2021)

RECEIPTS:

1/x
“Yes. I truly believe we're panicking way too much about the variants.” (to be fair, was saying if everyone got vaxxed, the bad outcomes from variants would be less). Ironically, this was shared as a reason NOT to get vaccines or worry about variants.

sfgate.com/news/editorspi…
2/x
“It’s an overblown concern that the virus has somehow mutated to a variant that is so transmissible that it is overtaking the population. That is simply not occurring.”

missionlocal.org/2021/03/varian…

3/x
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Feb 3
🇨🇦New data from: @statcan_eng 🇨🇦

KIDS SPEAK
Aug 2021 survey (12-17yo)

"How has your MH been compared to pre-pandemic?"

60% "same"
20% "better"
20% "worse"

CLAIM "kids say their mental health is worse during the pandemic"

20% worse
80% not worse

DATA does not support CLAIM
Male Gender
67% same / 20% better / 13% worse
TEST OF CLAIM "worse"
13% vs 87% "not"

Female Gender
52% same / 20% better / 28% worse
ADVOCACY CLAIM "worse"
28% vs 68% "not" 68%
Data from: Table 13-10-0806-01 Canadians health and COVID-19, by age and gender, monthly estimates.
Read 4 tweets
Feb 3
I often get accused of saying that I don't think that kids in distress. I wrote this yesterday, I hope this clears up this misconception.

Distress sucks, but distress during distressing times is not pathology.

We worry about its impacts, and what could make it 🔼/🔽

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But knowing what I knew prepandemic:

▶️ I'm busiest on school days (all MH ERs are)

▶️ school stress a major issue for ~30% of mental health crises

▶️ kids rate of suicide 🔼40% on school days vs nonschool days

▶️ kids routinely sharing school stressors in my practice

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▶️ my commonest prescription is time/pressure off school

▶️ Kids are telling me during this pandemic a variety of things, but rarely is it "I'm glad to be back in person because it's reduced my stress", and unlike some in this space I clinically work with and listen to kids

/3
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Feb 2
A devastating thread in which one of my medical communication heroes is exposed for some of the worst messaging about public health ever. For whatever reason, I will no longer trust her opinions.

Try to follow this thread.

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If you are ever in a position of power or influence, OR PUBLIC HEALTH, and you say public health must "do the greatest good for the most people" (literally: benefit the majority), you have fallen far astray.

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Of course, we want broad benefit from public health policy. It is a good thing to want to benefit the most you can. But, in fact, in public health often our goal is to prevent harm to vulnerable people.

/3
Read 5 tweets
Feb 2
More ghoulish suicide shenanigans from #UrgencyOfNormal

Watch the switch - they couldn't lose the word suicide! V1 talks about "other mental health impacts," on top of the INCORRECT suicide line.

/1
New version: Now that suicides not useful, just remove it!

It just disappears. That's awful & unscientific.

It should keep the topic, but more accurately:
"Fortunately, there were no significant increases in child suicides in 2020."

Hiding it is unscientific & biased.

/2
However, they definitely have to scare parents, teachers, and educators with the word "suicide", because they are ghoulish about suicide.

So they BORROW "suicide attempts" from secondary slides (not important enough before) put it back in the summary slide.

/3
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