It Is Now Undeniable πŸ‘‡
Vaccine can cause more Myocarditis in Men Under 40 Than COVID-19;
Just OUT! Patrone Circ 2022;

I have said repeatedly Moderna should be banned in Men<40
FDA failed Americans
& this analysis is more complicated
Everyone gets breakthrough eventually 1/7
You have to add myocarditis rates post COVID19 (among ppl w 1 dose) to D1 vaccine induced myocarditis rates for total myocarditis from 1 dose + breakthrough

And COVID myocarditis rates (s/p D2) to D1 & D2 vax rates for total myocarditis rates if you get 2 doses... etc
And of course also consider all complications post breakthrough, which may vary based on 0, 1, 2, or 3 doses

Dose 1 Pfizer in young men then breakthrough might have been optimal (full data to do the calc is not provided);

Moderna looks awful, as I have cautioned. Clearly bad
The lesson is all or nothing was always misguided. We proved that a long time ago

We urged public health to consider middle strategies

But it fell on deaf ears; trapped btw 2 irrational zealots (anti vax & anti-anti-vax)
medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…
The other concern is this paper still lumps all boys <40

But boys 16-24 are going to face the WORST balance
Public health, CDC, and FDA failed these boys, by ignoring a safety signal

Author need more bins

The goal was to vaccinate SAFELY
That means you have to act on SAFETY
Kaiser Northwest and European nations banned Moderna in Men <40;

The US missed this opportunity;

It was indifferent to men's health, and seemed to not what to deny Moderna business.

Now it pushes Boosters w/ sizable uncertainty

White House is drunk on power
Here is the Circulation paper

The writing is weak; It needed a stronger editor

The truth is even worse for a number of reasons that are hard to get across in tweets; Perhaps a substack soon

ahajournals.org/doi/epdf/10.11…
The difference between my analysis and this little news piece is that I can tell the difference between a 26 year old man and 85 year old woman, and they apparently cannot.

If you lump everyone together, you are hiding the safety signal

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Aug 27
I would prefer if my WH Covid czar understood:
Immortal time bias
Residual Confounding
Testing/ ascertainment bias
Endpoint adjudication bias
And:
Why we run RCTs

Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case
Read 4 tweets
Aug 25
Key pt in πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡: the burden is to prove toddler masking helps anyone

Not that it is harmful

Only a moron would deprive children of sensory experience till RCT shows harm signal

Masking toddlers requires proof of BENEFIT

Seeing none. It should be abandoned
This is not hard.

Medicine has always demanded that the person selling you the idea proves it actually works

Making a 2yr old wear a cloth mask strikes me as something w v low prob of helping

A believer has a duty to prove in cluster RCT

They failed

Game over

No mandates
I truly cannot understand how any rational person would think masking toddlers in 2022 has any value.

They have nearly all had covid anyway
Cloth masks don't work in adults
You have never run any trial ever

Total madness
Read 5 tweets
Aug 17
Usually when a leader fails, over and over and over again, they do the honorable thing and resign

...or you can throw you entire staff under the bus
CDC director thinks the agency spends more time trying to write papers for MMWR than actually collecting and reporting data

that must be why the intellectual rigor & methodology are so high in that publication
Pre-covid if the CDC presented their color coded map as a basis to recommend masking to the American population with high vaccine uptake & high natural immunity and were asked to explain their work & thought process, they would rank toward the bottom of a 6th grade science fair.
Read 4 tweets
Aug 17
Im no fan of moralizing diet gurus. I know nutrition evidence is poor. I will eat a Krispy Kreme donut happily. It's delicious. But her claim was eating it *every day* is bad. And they object. I just can't understand that. Of course, eating it every day is bad. That's obvious 🀣
I just can't understand hating someone so much that you attack them for saying eating Krispy Kreme donuts "EVERY DAY" is bad. We are talking about every day forever... What is going on...🀣🀣
Sorry, I just laughed so hard today thinking about this.
Read 4 tweets
Aug 16
After a year of swabbing docs, some got covid; some didn't.

THEN we asked docs to *remember* what mask they used

Wow! respirators work better than surgical masks!

Who needs RCTs when "scientists" think research letters like this are not garbage?

jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
we need to send twitter experts back to school
Read 4 tweets
Aug 14
MUST READ essay by @DouthatNYT on the CDC

"all I can think is: I can never trust anything these people say again"

As someone who followed admin closely, I agree;
here are 7 pieces where I track NIAID, NIH, CDC & FDA errors, falsehoods & mistakes 🧡

nytimes.com/2022/08/13/opi…
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