This is how it works.
Your hospital signs you up to an overseas EMR (health record) corporation.
They get your health data.
You get zip.
That data is used to generate artificial study data that promotes a drug, and Pharma makes $billions.
Here's an example. @addenbrookes hospital - one of the biggest hospitals in the country and a massive #BigPharma advocate...
Gives your health data to @epic.
What, you didn't know?
It's written in the T&C. Right at the bottom of a 4,400 word disclaimer.
Can't you see it?
Now comes the smart part.
Usually @NEJM or @TheLancet are involved.
A noob medic comes along with a first author paper from a massive collaboration of people who don't know each other.
@IQVIA_global@MartinNeil9 BINGO. Holy crap.
This study was published in 2020 and was basically the third in the #Lancetgate series.
Completely unverifiable and no possibility of being real data.
Where did the data come from?
IQVIA. Jennifer Lane (an unknown). Oxford. OHDSI...
Here is the claim from @BillyZhong229 the lead author, who seems to be a student (his twitter is less than a year old).
It's propaganda reinforcing the "Antimicrobial stewardship" dictat:
YOU WILL NOT PRESCRIBE ANTIBIOTICS FOR COVID
What were "COVID-19 national restrictions"?
Well I did this analysis back in Feb showing the HUGE GAP between normal cyclical antibiotic prescriptions and the actual prescriptions during COVID - when GPs were told to stop prescribing antibiotics to the elderly and give them #midazolam instead.
The tweet was posted around the same time that there was a drive to increase COVID vaccination in minority communities in the US, because many non-white communities had rejected the government propaganda.