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We’ve people engaged in promoting egregious antivax and Covid denialist propaganda that has actually killed people; targeted threats/harassment of all sorts goes unchecked
— Stuart Neil (@stuartjdneil) May 15, 2022
Yet @edrybicki gets canned for impersonating a lairy cat!
WTAF @Twitter? https://t.co/l80eSOKYIq
This is a must read, and I will die on this hill: #Children must be protected from #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 - Guest column: Don't be fooled by the myths about kids and COVID flourishing on social media https://t.co/8a3Z33CrPj via @theadvocatebr
— Isabella Eckerle (@EckerleIsabella) May 15, 2022
The Covid Capitulation - excellent (but somewhat dreary) summary on where our nation stands from my friend and colleague @EricTopol https://t.co/e0F2x3bnf9
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) May 15, 2022
I was starting to worry when I hadn’t seen one of my favorite Twitter pals and virologist around lately. I started Googling and found this. I am speechless, @Twitter. Have a human read this and see if you can’t see your error: Twitter, where art thou? https://t.co/sbyaNqBwsO
— Larry Lynam (@scopedbylarry) May 14, 2022
"More Americans have died of Covid-19 than in two decades of car crashes or on battlefields in all of the country’s wars combined." https://t.co/QuAtxEI5J3
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) May 14, 2022
Two more cases of #monkeypox diagnosed in the #UK not related to the original case reported last week
— Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA (@KrutikaKuppalli) May 14, 2022
Full information here from @UKHSA https://t.co/7FCSoyleau
As we mark 1 mill. Covid deaths this weekend, we launched a new dashboard that delivers a hard truth: about every second person who died from Covid-19 since vaccines became available could have been saved by – yes, vaccines. A 🧵about data, people & trust https://t.co/tzhd6fxXB5
— StefanieFriedhoff (@stef_friedhoff) May 14, 2022
What a quote to mark one million deaths: “A lot of what has effectively been a slaughter has been the product of policies & public health failings, & just not caring,” said Dr. Louise Aronson, a geriatrician at the University of California, San Francisco.” https://t.co/n0eW7fNvgf
— Dr Kathleen Bachynski (@bachyns) May 14, 2022
Thrilled to share this new @CIDJournal supplement describing the importance of #SoME in #InfectiousDiseases. HUGE thanks to @CarlosdelRio7 @FungalDoc @DrJRMarcelin, to @NikaFord_ for the #coverart, and the many awesome contributors https://t.co/Xsvs1BS5wA
— Talia H. Swartz (@taliaswartz) May 15, 2022
“At every stage, the attorney general, Suella Braverman, has covered his back. She has disgraced herself, her office, her profession and her country” @NickCohen4 https://t.co/RwHZzEIKmZ
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) May 15, 2022
The #heatwave in India+Pakistan over the last several weeks has affected over a billion people but has attracted relatively little media coverage in the UK. Maybe the impact on global wheat yields will make it more salient.#ClimateCrisis #FoodSecurity https://t.co/YZ26NK9uaH
— Colin Davis (@ProfColinDavis) May 15, 2022
"When will we learn that climate change is a core threat to health, as well as to economies?"
— Madhu Pai, MD, PhD (@paimadhu) May 14, 2022
India and Pakistan are early victims of extreme heat conditions due to climate injustice@yogeshjain_CG & Rachna Jain via @bmj_latest https://t.co/hDAXfx7Zpt
NEW: for this week’s column I dug into the curious case of British attitudes to immigration
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) May 15, 2022
Before the EU ref, concern about immigration tracked levels of arrivals. Since then, immigration has kept rising but concerns have evaporated
What’s going on?https://t.co/dWtOCZ9Dkt pic.twitter.com/q6fl60zPdf
Paediatric hepatitis twitter is a little wild at the moment
— Alasdair Munro (@apsmunro) May 15, 2022
As a result, there is a lot of stuff circulating which is totally incorrect
Whilst there's much we don't know, there is some stuff we KNOW is not true
A short thread to bust some myths 💥
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I looked at the Buffalo mass shooter's manifesto and it was heartbreaking to see so many of the same bad statistical arguments concerning racial differences that I see every day on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/j7sJBQK9Vw
— 🔥🔥Kareem Carr 🔥🔥 (@kareem_carr) May 15, 2022
This sentiment has been shared incessantly for the last 2 years.
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) May 15, 2022
We did a lot of things wrong in our response—we being the global public health community, governments, etc.
But we didn’t grossly underestimate the mortality rate nor willfully understand what that means at scale pic.twitter.com/S41jVmIWlo
My article with Theo Chan published today in Mingpao (in Chinese) argues that while COVID vaccines should be *recommended* for younger adults in HK, we believe there is insufficient justification at present to *mandate* vaccination in this group … (1/24)https://t.co/6DXeZbZmj3
— Ben Cowling (@bencowling88) May 16, 2022
well deserved pic.twitter.com/Kcom5UChsd
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) May 15, 2022
I’m so grateful that @japanairlinesJP requires masking in the airplane and at airports 🙏🏼
— Prof. Akiko Iwasaki (@VirusesImmunity) May 15, 2022
Taking off to Tokyo to celebrate the winners of the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Prize for young female scientists 👩🏻🔬
I wrote about the Covid capitulation https://t.co/N5zk6WsPWB
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) May 15, 2022
Noting that in AP copy, 18-yeear-old Michael Brown was an “18-year old Black man,” while 18-year-old Payton Gendron is a “white teenager.” pic.twitter.com/53Jt1vWuqf
— Dr. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) May 15, 2022
It's sad that after the Buffalo shooting, some Canadians be like "it doesn't happen here." A London Muslim family was murdered just for being Muslim. Elected politicians supported a convoy led by a white supremacist. We're seeing a record rise in hate crimes. IT DOES HAPPEN HERE.
— Naheed Dosani (@NaheedD) May 15, 2022
I'm just gonna say it. If you've been saying the pandemic is over, telling people to just get out there & stopping worrying about infection, all tied to the assumptions you are making based on your own pampered status, your absolute disregard for others, you can go fuck yourself.
— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) May 15, 2022
It didn't have to be this way pic.twitter.com/nojsbSwKiQ
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) May 15, 2022
We need clear public health guidance on Paxlovid rebound.
— Infectious Diseases (@InfectiousDz) May 15, 2022
We have to assume they are infectious.
Many, aware of the potential, are testing and finding themselves newly positive well after their first 10 days, after isolation for 5 days and masking for another 5.
Last week I visited a hospital in Makariv, #Ukraine, that is severely damaged & out of function, and a #primaryhealthcare facility that is completely destroyed. This tragic outcome is denying people of health services. Health care is #NotATarget. We ask Russia to end this war. pic.twitter.com/rT76PRieZF
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) May 15, 2022
This thread will be dedicated to the victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo.
— Natasha ⚯͛ (@ndelriego) May 15, 2022
This is Ruth Whitfield, 86. Her son, the former Buffalo Fire Commissioner, said she was on her way from visiting her husband in a nursing home and stopped at the store to get something to eat. pic.twitter.com/LDTD81QNpd
Freedom isn’t owning 25 rifles, it’s going to the grocery store and not having to worry about being killed by one.
— Kevin ☕️🎶 (@KevinSixx13) May 14, 2022
While children are at low risk of severe #COVID, they can get ill (esp those with underlying condns like asthma, obesity, heart or neurological dis, immunosuppressives etc). They can also get #LongCovid. Vaccines protect them & help reduce transmission so economies can function https://t.co/C28D3lT6zU
— Soumya Swaminathan (@doctorsoumya) May 15, 2022
So yes, let’s deal w/the insane access to weapons of war. But don’t say “it’s all about guns.” Because they used to hang us from trees in front of the courthouse.They have killed us w/swords in Manhattan, dragged us behind cars in Jasper, Tx. They have beaten us to death.
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) May 15, 2022
No, because the kids in the UK that have it haven’t been vaccinated.
— Stuart Neil (@stuartjdneil) May 15, 2022
Perhaps look at he incidence in other countries before formulating your next conspiracist nonsense you antivax lunatic https://t.co/ORWIRFpufu
1 million Americans lost from Covid and Biden Admin presents ridiculous CDC “fields of green” maps as BA.2.12 ramps up another wave, more hospitalizations. This is not the way, they need a plan to squash this. It’s doable. They need to get their mojo back, make a plan. I can help
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) May 15, 2022