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Rebekah Diamond MD Profile picture
Rebekah Diamond MD
@rebekah_diamond
Author, Parent Like a Pediatrician (September 2022). Using my platform as a physician to make healthcare better for everyone.
Nov 13, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Any harm the covid vaccine could do—even in your wildest imagination—the disease will do worse.

It’s the same spike protein that gets made! The only difference is so much more badness comes on board with the virus.

A helpful visual, then 🧵 :

instagram.com/p/CWJ0ifmPe0i/… Image One of the trends I’m seeing when it comes to covid vaccines in kids is the idea that there’s some nebulous, long term harm we will see with the vaccines that we won’t see with the virus. But this really makes no sense.
Sep 10, 2021 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
I keep seeing hot takes on how covid affects kids + if it’s dangerous for them.

But amazingly there’s still a striking shortage of pediatrician voices given the opportunity to provide our nuanced and expert opinion.

What would we say if you asked us?

A thread 🧵 Pediatricians have a lot to say about the covid in kids, how to balance the risks and benefits of exposure, and how to make personal + public health decisions that prioritize the needs of children.

What would we say if asked how dangerous covid is for kids?
Jul 14, 2021 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Can we talk about all the “kids don’t need masks” hot takes from “experts” that keep cropping up?

I’m exhausted and frustrated and just need to lay some thoughts out there

A 🧵

#pandemic #parenting #tweetiatrician #medtwitter #covid #vaccines #masks I’ve been bombarded with DMs, comments, articles arguing for a back to normal for kids that ditches all masks for kids + insists covid isn’t bad for them.

The main tactic is the same old using stats + missing the big picture to ultimately argue covid isn’t dangerous for kids
May 6, 2020 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
While the real biostatisticians get back to me here’s a #tweetorial on why it’s super important to be careful in how doctors, people, anyone interprets #covid test or antibody results. Hope it helps in the hospitals 🏥, doctors offices, ppl deciding if testing makes sense I declined antibody testing until I was able to enroll in a study where my results would be useful and checked longitudinally. Convinced my husband to decline too. We started with a quick review of sensitivity and specificity which he understood from college/news