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David Zweig Profile picture
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Apr 30, 2023 • 2 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
This take the checkmark is so embarrassing

I don't think anyone pays for Blue thinking it's a status symbol. They are paying for the additional features it offers. The insecurity of celebrities, media types, and others, terrified they'll appear uncool, is remarkable
I've seen two separate NYT articles in the past week about how *lame* the checkmark is. This quote is from a Times reporter who "writes about the internet"

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David Zweig Profile picture
Jan 4, 2023
Merely citing hospitalizations, see original tweet, can be misleading

In the last 8 months severe Covid has decoupled from Covid hospital numbers. The portion of Covid admins in ICU are *half* of what they were earlier in pandemic

And huge difference for >70 vs rest of pop

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We've known for a long time that a significant portion of Covid hospitalizations are incidental. I reported on this twice. First, for pediatric numbers, in May 2021

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nymag.com/intelligencer/…
And again for adults in Sept 2021

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theatlantic.com/health/archive…
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David Zweig Profile picture
Dec 26, 2022
1. THREAD:

THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE

– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*
2. So far the Twitter Files have focused on evidence of Twitter’s secret blacklists; how the company functioned as a kind of subsidiary of the FBI; and how execs rewrote the platform’s rules to accommodate their own political desires.
3. What we have yet to cover is Covid. This reporting, for The Free Press, @TheFP, is one piece of that important story.
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David Zweig Profile picture
Nov 29, 2022
THREAD

UK Report on masks in schools

*75% of teachers said masks made communicating harder for special needs kids
*Teachers said masks made teaching languages harder
*Masks muffled sound, making communication hard for teachers and kids hard of hearing
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assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
*Masks were an issue with kids who needed to lip read (clear masks did not resolve issue)
*Teachers struggled to pick up non verbal cues from masked autistic children
*Masks enabled quieter pupils to not participate as much

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*1 in 5 pupils said wearing a mask made them feel anxious, with special needs kids overrepresented in this group
*Teachers said masks made it hard to see which kids were struggling
*Students noticed acne and skin issues from mask wearing

/3
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David Zweig Profile picture
Oct 25, 2022
The NAEP scores and NYT article are misleading a lot of people to conclude remote school didn't correlate with lower scores. That's bc state data are too crude

Multiple analyses comparing districts show an overt correlation btwn time out of school and learning loss

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This study by @vkoganpolisci in Ohio found "Districts with fully remote instruction experienced test scores declines up to three times greater than districts that had in-person instruction"

glenn.osu.edu/how-covid-19-p…
This paper from
@ProfEmilyOster et al (see "% in person")
emilyoster.net/wp-content/upl…
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David Zweig Profile picture
Sep 5, 2022
Short 🧵

This thread purporting that school closures/remote learning was not correlated with learning loss unsurprisingly has gotten a lot of traction. Yet it likely suffers from some major flaws and limitations, calling its conclusion into question

/1
Primarily, state-level data, which the author relies on, is overly crude. At the local and district level, numerous, more rigorous analyses have found an overt correlation between time out of school and learning loss
Eg A: This study in Ohio found "Districts with fully remote instruction experienced test scores declines up to three times greater than districts that had in-person instruction"

glenn.osu.edu/how-covid-19-p…
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Aug 10, 2021
THREAD

I corresponded with the authors of the Duke study behind this opinion piece weeks ago... nytimes.com/2021/08/10/opi…
A topline finding of the Duke/ABC Science Collaborative report, and what they claim here, is that masks in schools help lower transmission. Except all their schools were under a mask mandate. I asked the authors how they could make a claim on masks when there was no control ...
In order to claim an effect you must compare one group with an intervention to a different group *without* the intervention, which they didn't do. Instead, the authors replied with the Israeli study, saying that showed masks in schools work. Except...
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