In a 2018 paper, Nobel Prize Winner Drew Weissman warned about the potential risks of mRNA vaccines, including the development of autoimmunity and "blood coagulation and pathological thrombus formation".
Both the Pfizer and Moderna randomized controlled trials showed signals of coagulation disorders--blood clots--resulting from the COVID-19 vaccine.
Why are we not talking about these potential risks of mRNA vaccines more?
The @nytimes's @fstonenyc has responded to our letter of the editor about @zeynep's recent op-ed about @DrJBhattacharya's NIH Director nomination.
Let's break it down.
Word for word.
A🧵. Instructing @zeynep and @fstonenyc how to read basic sentences in the English language.
@MartinKulldorff @Bryce_Nickels @anish_koka
@fstonenyc opens his response by claiming that, in fact:
"The March 24, 2020 essay in the Wall Street Journal, co-written by Dr. Bhattacharya, never describes 2 million as the high range of potential death estimates."
Oh really?
Let's take a look at the article, then, shall we?
Bhattacharya:
"The degree of bias is uncertain because available data are limited. But it could make the difference between an epidemic that kills 20,000 and one that kills two million."
"In the early days of the pandemic, Bhattacharya repeatedly predicted that the virus would likely kill about 20,000 to 40,000 Americans. (The death toll turned out to be about 1.2 million.)"
Just months later, researchers re-analyzed these exact same data, found a 65-day half-life, and came to the exact opposite conclusion, publishing it in Nature Medicine.
In his latest Kamala campaign speech, Obama implies that if Trump followed his pandemic playbook, implementing stricter measures, deaths would have been the same as Canada, with 400,000 fewer.
Obama is lying to score political points.👇
To be clear, Obama's claims are impossible.
Obama's 2016 pandemic playbook did not specify what measures should be used against a pathogen like SARS-CoV-2, or indeed, against any pathogen.
It provides no guidance as to what specific mitigation decisions should be made.
The first 41 pages merely specify how the pandemic response should be coordinated administratively and how agencies should work together.
They provide very rough guidelines about what kinds of assessments should be done, leaving the rest up to the experts involved.