Health and social justice activist. "The Struggle for Health: Medicine and the politics of underdevelopment." https://t.co/QCH1fZmLSd
Mar 4, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Dat hele anti-woke debat is gewoon een partijtje schaduwboksen, vechten tegen een ingebeelde vijand. Geen beter voorbeeld dan het interview van @jfabbeloos met #BDW in @destandaard . Iemand al een #factcheck gedaan? 1/9 standaard.be/cnt/dmf2023030…
BDW: “Het was toch De Standaard die de Verenigde Staten onlangs nog omschreef als een witte grootmacht?” 2/9
Nov 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In this remarkably balanced assessment of public health policy dilemmas in China, @devisridhar dissects the country's Covid situation, which is vastly different from ours with regard to its health system, population immunity or vaccine stocks. 1/7 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
China was an early adopter of overwhelming measures to contain Covid that worked in stopping Covid-19 initially. While country after country pivoted to "living with Covid", China stayed with this strategy of elimination within its borders. 2/7
Jun 19, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
It's almost one year ago that I wrote an article explaining why the 'race to develop COVID-19 vaccines' led to very profitable vaccines but that these were not necessarily the best ones. Two recent studies might support this thesis. 1/9
Remember that the initial randomised control trials that led to market authorisation of mRNA vaccines were testing if the vaccines prevented disease, not death. A group of researchers recently looked into their ability to prevent death. 2/9 @StabellBennpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…