The NYT article on VIP treatment at NYU ERs is good. Although this kind of thing happens at every major medical center, the article says a few quiet things loudly and in medicine we need to get much better at saying the quiet injustices of routine clinical operations out loud On quiet things: I’m certain Langone never asked for special treatment, but he didn’t need to, he already bought it for 100M dollars.

a few wks ago this very censored man called for university leadership to lose their jobs seconds after bragging he personally advised DeSantis re: covid. This week he was at a gala dinner in Miami hosted by Br*wnstone that had a 1,000$/person pricetag. a heretic, persona non grata

A viral origins preprint has gone viral again, this time claiming that the restriction enzyme map of the SARS-CoV-2 genome is suggestive of a lab / synthetic origin instead of zoonotic origin, which remains the dominant theory in the literature. I don't think it shows that. 🧵 I have a feeling others will go into more detail on this but I'm going to highlight some big, obvious problems with the argument first, as presented. I'll link to the preprint at the end and others can decide for themselves.

GBD propaganda arm, the Brownstone institute, has published an article claiming 1) the mRNA vax might be the 'wrong' vax for the population, 2) COVID vax dont reduce overall mortality and therefore governments shouldn't mandate COVID vax. Let's look at these claims. 🧵 First, let us look at the primary source of data for these claims, a preprint attempting to assess some signal of non-specific effects of the two major classes of COVID vaccines through a meta-analysis of industry-led vaccine RCTs. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…