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Dr Peter Beaver 🇵🇸 Profile picture
Dr Peter Beaver 🇵🇸
@PeterJBeaver
Sociologist (patient safety). Doing qualitative market research. Complexity. Green. Pākehā. Anti-Racism/Sexism/AGW/SARS-2. Let's hear all the silent voices.
Dec 24, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
1. A friend shared frustration and incredulity that Cardiologists investigating her father’s heart issue during a hospital stay were unmasked. During a SARS2 surge. Cardiologists. Don’t they know SARS2 causes vascular damage?

It occurred to me, this is about culture.

THREAD(11) 2. Culture is irrational. We follow culture even when it contradicts science. Medical professionals are no different. An interesting medical objection to Semmelweis’ infection control work almost 200 years ago was “a gentleman’s hands are clean.” What could that mean?
Apr 18, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Question. Why have many epidemiologists shamed themselves & their profession by minimising SARS2 harms and pushing misinformation?

They’ve contributed to death, ill-health, and the permanent horror of ‘‘living’ with the virus.’

I have theory … The professional identity of the epidemiologists should have driven them to fight heroically. They did the opposite.

I make no claims about how many and what proportion of epidemiologists. It just seems like too many.
Apr 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I keep wondering what pandemic lesson can be drawn from Vaughan’s 1996 ethnographic account of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger?
Vaughan reconstructed the native viewpoint: How did NASA engineers & managers make sense of complex technology not performing as expected? The Challenger burnt up due to heat erosion on the rocket booster O rings. A known fault. Most explanations suggest managers were too concerned with the schedule and organisational reputation. They pushed for launch to save face, save costs, and save time redesigning the booster.
Oct 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is the first study of SARS-2 reinfection.

The risk of at least one sequela at 180 days increased from 135% after one infection, to 211% after two, to 300% after three.

SARS-2 hits you harder each time.

erictopol.substack.com/p/a-reinfectio… The study is a preprint. Eric Topol: "I have not previously seen any substantive differences from their preprints compared with the final publications."

The median time between infections was: 79 days (1st & 2nd) and 65 days (2nd & 3rd).

researchsquare.com/article/rs-174…