Thread by @DrEricDing

📍To Whom It May Concern—if you hear a new COVID stat you didn’t know:

📌First is to directly ask the person for a source

📌Don’t blindly QT/RT a COVID-minimizer

📌Assume most doctors don’t read/scroll thru multitudes of daily COVID reports from 🌍countries like my team does🙏

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1491779545812320260

2) Folks— there is a literal AVALANCHE of COVID data emerging daily. Most doctors scientists don’t see all the data out there—how can they without a whole team of information distillers and global network of sources? For example—this 👇 came out late after 🇿🇦 wave already passed.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1485011065276620807

3) Heck, even the @CDCgov staffers are completely burnt out and exhausted. They barely have time to review all the evidence that is coming out—it’s exhausting for sure. But that’s why my team from @TheWHN @CovidActionGrp @IndependentSage @ISAGCOVID19 help.
politico.com/news/2022/01/1…

4) The news media also has to sort through thousands of potential stories a week. Often media is influenced by pitches from PR firms and personal publicists who nudge editors / producers / writers. And **they** decide what to publish.

P.s. for COVID, I have not paid any PR agent

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1485011065276620807

5) More early Dec 2021 that already found ⬆️ 20% higher hospitalization risk for kids if infected. From a database of 211,000 COVID positive tests!!! You have to look at severity in this way.