2023-02-27 01:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

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2023-02-16 03:03:22 RT @zchagla: The first glance at RSV vaccines - showing pre-F vaccines in those >

2023-02-15 19:28:44 RT @DavidDeutschOxf: There is a phenomenon in apocalypse cults, that when the spectacular event they were absolutely sure would happen demo…

2023-02-15 18:51:17 Already neglected one severe illness, and then a pandemic and many newly suffering from a heterogeneous set of illnesses under a single umbrella term, while mainstream neglect continues and otherwise marginal/fringe people see an opportunity to prey on this population? Not good.

2023-02-15 18:45:14 From having studied these platforms: Twitter, by design and algorithm, will inflame arguments and divisions — a preexisting problem for any movement — that could, perhaps, be much more easily handled in other settings. Patients can least afford needless bickering, though.

2023-02-15 18:39:23 From the literature/talking to clinicians. Long Covid is an umbrella term. Some clearly meet ME/CFS criteria based on symptoms/history. As far as I know, nobody can say what percent, because all the studies about this are from *clinics* and small samples—not representative.

2023-02-15 14:45:12 To clarify, the above off-hand reference to gas fumes wasn't about the NO2 debate — NO2 isn't the only harmful output of gas stoves. That said, many HEPA filers come with activated carbon filters for NO2, so the combination is great. For me, it's a "set it and forget it".

2023-02-15 14:38:27 @adsquires @je_mclaughlin Thanks! Yeah, original tweet was on general effects of gas cooking, which I had looked up and told by experts that HEPA does help, though I thought there was some potential reduction for NO2 as well? Will look up.

2023-02-15 14:35:34 @d_a_keldsen @je_mclaughlin Though there is other particulates with gas stoves (hence my tweet not focusing solely on NO2) that the HEPA helps with, and most commercial/home HEPA filter do come with carbon filters.

2023-02-15 14:23:12 See great HEPA noise/cost/size chart by @marwa_zaatari. Data: https://t.co/cw431w732g Don't underestimate noise as a factor. These numbers are for the highest setting, so if noisy, people will run them lower. Corsi-Rosenthal is a DIY option that works! https://t.co/bXpxxHcb5b

2023-02-15 14:17:20 HEPA is a well-established standard and they all work. Multipurpose good! The goal is to buy one that matches the size of the room, with noise and budget as considerations, WHILE AVOIDING GIMMICKS. HEPA is what one needs. Links/explanation in next tweet. https://t.co/9ZxmxnQEB4 https://t.co/BnPfux5PiQ

2023-02-15 13:48:13 RT @j_g_allen: 1/ REPORTERS: I spoke to a few reporters looking into the Ohio train derailment. Informative to look at this prior derailmen…

2023-02-15 13:40:57 @je_mclaughlin I’ve seen multiple studies that show a reduction. But ventilation is surely more efficient, agree. https://t.co/kDrTFU7HRS

2023-02-15 13:34:48 @MollyHouse77 Sorry.

2023-02-15 13:34:31 RT @BillHanage: Good article on what is likely to have actually happened covid wise over the last few months in China https://t.co/gcM8dHpY…

2023-02-15 13:30:32 Pre-pandemic, I was meh about infection control, tbh, partially because I rarely get sick. (I know, luck of the immune system). Now I have a quiet, high-capacity HEPA filter in my home and I do run it. Why not? Good for the gas stove fumes as well. I also wash my hands more!

2023-02-15 13:23:49 There is prepandemic work showing it can be aerosolized, especially through vomitting — there was a correlation between time since vomitting (few hours) and airborne concentrations/outbreak. See paper below. It’s a stubbornly stable virus.  https://t.co/U3D1OdqNfj https://t.co/ZT0IsVM1H7

2023-02-15 13:09:26 Norovirus is known to have a short course but really unpleasant. Quick reminder: It does spread by surface and touch. Soap works but hand sanitizer doesn’t. Diluted bleach works for disinfecting surfaces. Staying hydrated and resting while waiting it out is the advice. https://t.co/RztUmcZf8I

2023-02-15 03:51:33 @MarvinH2_G2 @DavidSteadson @jbakcoleman Not sure why we’re comparing here? Q was on multiple infections. That said, I think we went from incorrectly saying “worry about the flu instead” (I loudly objected in early 2020) to dismissing it. Influenza kills and triggers post-viral, cardio &

2023-02-15 03:04:39 @MarvinH2_G2 @DavidSteadson @jbakcoleman Also. In general influenza has a huge burden. Also associated with a lot of neurological negative outcomes https://t.co/uKfisCJzX2

2023-02-15 03:02:52 @MarvinH2_G2 @DavidSteadson @jbakcoleman Influenza is really bad for cardiovascular outcomes. Noticeable uptick. See this trial in heart patients. (Vaccines really help.) https://t.co/1X3MAncMyo

2023-02-15 03:00:08 @biztsar @jbakcoleman I’m deleting the above, misread a line. See below! It’s 17% of the infected who get it twice a year. Same point though. It’s not unheard of with other viruses either, even flu. https://t.co/UctWW8ZbyI

2023-02-15 02:56:22 @GkaKgrab @jbakcoleman Thanks. Saw that. Corrected here. Same point though. https://t.co/UctWW8ZbyI

2023-02-15 02:47:24 @DavidSteadson @jbakcoleman (Above: People with two children in the household, have one or more viral infections in the house more than half the year. Kids under five are infected more than half the year. Much of the time, people don’t even know they’re positive. No home tests).

2023-02-15 02:44:43 @DavidSteadson @jbakcoleman Ah, good catch on the first. Thanks. Same point though slightly different numbers — people would test positive a lot more often if they tested like we do for COVID. See here — see kids under 5 or people with two kids. https://t.co/kw4avVTJKr

2023-02-15 02:32:14 RT @jamesinturkey: Turkey’s former parliament speaker last night sent up a test balloon to gauge what the public mood would be if this summ…

2023-02-15 01:56:00 RT @paulmozur: Twitter's current dysfunction is having a major impact far from the culture wars that dominate the platform in the U.S. On C…

2023-02-15 01:53:12 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Elon Musk directed Twitter engineers to design a secret system to boost his tweets over everyone else's after his pos…

2023-02-15 01:19:47 RT @VirusesImmunity: Thrilled to share this Comment in @TheLancetInfDis that I coauthored with the amazing @PutrinoLab on “Why we need a de…

2023-02-14 22:44:36 @heidithewiz @jbakcoleman Not true. We just don’t test for it like Covid. https://t.co/qAA9xOnGrF

2023-02-14 22:29:27 @tweetviapete @jbakcoleman Reading the scientific literature for studies that looks into these questions. See here for that study. https://t.co/qAA9xOnGrF

2023-02-14 18:05:44 RT @j_g_allen: Good tick-tock of the Ohio train derailment https://t.co/UEfwJ2PkIf

2023-02-14 15:57:26 RT @PaulMainwood: If anyone believed that epidemiologists were in some way special in struggling to communicate the difference between fair…

2023-02-14 14:05:25 @bete_n0ire @biztsar @jbakcoleman Yeah, that’s an example of medical doctors being unable to read an epidemiological study. Sadly common.

2023-02-14 13:44:23 @OmicronData @GidMK @BristOliver Proportionally speaking, highest risk for second type was pre-vaccine (primary infection with a novel virus as an adult)

2023-02-14 13:38:45 @OmicronData @GidMK @BristOliver Sequelae from severity have come down. Plus that group is also highly correlated with age since elderly have more severe cases from all infections. Immune dysregulation type resembles ME/CFS and doesn’t correlate with severity of acute phase, but it is a very severe illness.

2023-02-14 13:36:04 @OmicronData @GidMK @BristOliver But those are clearly very different subcategories of LC: 1-one that correlates with severity 2-one that correlates with prior exposure that’s seen among young with mild cases (hence the large pre-vaccine era group). Vaccines reduced both, but causal pathways seem different.

2023-02-14 13:12:52 RT @jbakcoleman: Reading this entirely obvious point, somehow absent from covid twitter discourse, was a breath of fresh air. https://t.co/…

2023-02-13 16:13:41 This is so useful. Many obviously can’t follow complicated topics like this. Meanwhile, there are people on Twitter, who will misrepresent what complex immunology studies are actually saying, essentially using jargon salad and bluster. (Works for antivaxxers, too!) Thanks, Marc! https://t.co/eFgNmkhHYE

2023-02-13 02:10:52 RT @davenewworld_2: Elon Musk is at the Super Bowl sitting next to Rupert Murdoch https://t.co/xQdyqo7H5Q

2023-02-13 02:04:42 RT @BaileyCarlin: White blood cells showing up to help the body fight infection and other disease https://t.co/04QMBUFmBA

2023-02-13 01:53:34 Sorry, tomorrow’s extraterrestrial event quota is full. How about *checks calendar* next Thursday? https://t.co/LOWCDvW9xf

2023-02-12 21:14:32 More studies being explained with contexts. Helpful. https://t.co/Xg7Ba7s552

2023-02-12 19:00:15 @IppoAng @ShaneyWright But clearly, there is a significant number of people with ME/CFS, and I suspect a lot of underdiagnoses if people are kinda managing, because doctors don't know how to screen for PEM, POTS, etc. — the more telltale stuff even if the person is able to kinda keep going.

2023-02-12 18:59:06 @IppoAng @ShaneyWright Yeah, lacking good data. Maybe total risk will be measured now. Per infection is hard. We don't measure infection rates for much else. When we do, we find almost half the population gets the flu once a year, and about 17% twice a year (most don't know, mild due to immunity).

2023-02-12 18:46:08 @IppoAng @ShaneyWright One open question is what the ME/CFS baseline risk may have been before? We had (largely ignored, neglected &

2023-02-12 18:39:09 @IppoAng @ShaneyWright So if almost entire of UK got Omicron — compared to maybe 7% from all of 2020 and considering how many are still ill from that 7%, you can look at current ONS national results from 2022 &

2023-02-12 18:36:27 @IppoAng @ShaneyWright Hence my point about sampling. If one uses electronic health records, as most of the studies besides ones like the ONS do, you can get misleading results. After Omicron essentially infecting almost the entire population, national-level surveys are better than biased subsamples.

2023-02-12 18:26:40 @IppoAng @ShaneyWright Top notch immunologists studying Long Covid like Akiko Iwasaki don't expect reinfections to produce similar levels of Long Covid—something we'll look for as data comes in. And the problem is those who are ill are finding themselves left behind, in terms of attention and support. https://t.co/InYnnxcJN9

2023-02-12 18:22:09 @IppoAng @ShaneyWright So you get two conclusions: the pre-Omicron era produced many more people who got syndromic Long Covid per infection basis, and also the Omicron wave produced many because it was so huge, though risk per infection looks to be way down.

2023-02-12 18:20:33 @IppoAng @ShaneyWright People are definitely self-reporting Long Covid from Omicron though you can't compare easily year to year, since methodology changed. But you have more people (and seemingly stuck) from earlier era less of infection, compared to the era when the entire population got infected.

2023-02-12 17:56:25 @ShaneyWright @IppoAng Biomarker is ideal but imo self-report would go a long way with better definitions/sampling. ONS is good even without controls. A recent paper asked college students if they had “fatique”, no controls, at four weeks and then said 34% have LC. Say what? This hurts patients.

2023-02-12 17:50:58 @ShaneyWright @IppoAng Also see this infection estimate from ONS. Seems pretty much the entire UK population has been infected at least once during Omicron waves, but bulk of the people with debilitating Long Covid are from before that era, again based on the ONS survey. Those people are clearly stuck. https://t.co/MSSxMlwWB3

2023-02-12 17:44:01 @ShaneyWright @IppoAng Yeah. 12 weeks, severity measures, more precise symptom definitions (include PEM an POTS symptoms) and a control group — lots of people have stuff happen, you want to catch the post-Covid ones not just population baseline — would go a long way, along with a proper sampling frame.

2023-02-12 17:36:04 @ShaneyWright @IppoAng If you sample from clinics, or like the above — very biased response rate, so likely people in trouble are responding — recovery is way lower. The vague and imprecise definition of Long Covid, imo, has greatly harmed Long Covid patients who have chronic, debilitating illness.

2023-02-12 17:34:45 @ShaneyWright @IppoAng Problem is the definition and lack of proper sampling. If you define Long Covid as “lingering symptoms”, even one, at four weeks without controls—which is where the highest prevalance estimates come from—most appear to recover because that’s… well, expected for mundane sequelae.

2023-02-12 15:02:52 Official death toll from the earthquake is now 30,000. Still going up. The destruction spans a wide area. This is larger than the 1938 Erzincan quake — previously the largest loss of life in a disaster in the republic era. Millions of people are internally displaced as well. https://t.co/dVku01DTSe

2023-02-12 01:10:54 Adding to thread! Marc is explains a preprint of interest for Long Covid. (Always useful to have these explanations from an expert as immunology is complex!) https://t.co/8hB10lSR3e

2023-02-11 21:54:57 @Dave99117584 @DrNeilStone @michaelmina_lab More people get initial dose, huge and target benefit, and also longer interval produces higher quality and broader immune response, and, we didn’t know at the time, it greatly reduces the risk of myocarditis. Three to four weeks is too short and uncommon. Done to speed trials.

2023-02-11 21:39:50 @cjmaddison Agree it may be contributing. However, middle age men dropping out of the workforce after a bump is a prepandemic known issue in the US (the deaths of despair…) and it would be weird to have women, more affected to show an increase in participation like this if men were all LC.

2023-02-11 21:32:27 @technoslerphile @DrToddLee @villagerssn Surgisphere did something peer review is bad at catching: fraud. What we’re doing here, scrutinizing a paper for a particular issue, is the stuff peer review should catch better imo. Fake data is a different problem. Though for that case, it was screaming something is weird.

2023-02-11 21:29:27 @SeaFlourChild @EricTopol @TheLancetInfDis NYC has a great distribution system. Exemplary.

2023-02-11 21:27:14 @DrNeilStone @michaelmina_lab Someone will eventually do the paper showing how many deaths and hospitalizations and Long Covid could have been averted had the US followed the logical route taken by UK, Canada and many others. In the US, it couldn’t even be discussed rationally, imo.

2023-02-11 21:25:22 @DrNeilStone @michaelmina_lab When we proposed voluntary delay and trial, the vitriol from highly-credentialed non-immunologists was interesting. I get nothing is simple, many immunologists were clear that three (Moderna!) or four weeks was *too short* for affinity maturation—picked to speed up the trials.

2023-02-11 21:19:34 @MAbsoud @kellmano9 I realize it’s become politicized and there are other risks, but I think pandemic produced a lot of solid immunology and epi on higher risk of sequelae and/or complications from primary infection. Whether it’s substantial enough likely depends on prevalance as age is also factor

2023-02-11 21:15:16 @DrToddLee @villagerssn @AditGinde @EricTopol Oh my goodness. It’s one of my prouder moments that I took one look at the Surgisphere study and decided it was either bunk or magic. I decided to wait for someone else to do the leg work.

2023-02-11 21:12:25 @cjmaddison For the people struggling with Long Covid and working? For sure, productivity must have taken a hit. How many? I’ve not seen any good data. IMO, lack of a better effort at systematic, reliable data on the epi of this is an indication of how little importance is given to it.

2023-02-11 21:05:46 @MAbsoud @kellmano9 Something to check back on, after an immunonaive cohort grows up for a few years, and we have comparative data from a few countries. I think everyone agrees that adverse outcomes are rare, but we vaccinate children against many relatively rare negative possibilities.

2023-02-11 21:03:41 @kellmano9 @MAbsoud But right now, the seropositivity is so high among children, if there is to be data to convince them, it’s not going to come up quickly, and thankfully, adverse events are lower incidence enough that it would take some time to accumulate it from the cohort that’s now being born.

2023-02-11 21:02:27 @kellmano9 @MAbsoud On childhood vaccinations, I get their logic. I do think pre-vaccine era data, MISC, sequelae, and the fact that most people deep in immunology I know *rushed* to immunize their children based on the basic principle of safer first exposure, think they may change their mind.

2023-02-11 21:00:38 @kellmano9 @MAbsoud Well, not gonna defend Twitter discourse. Also remember there was a huge outcry when they, sensibly, said it’s fine to mix-and-match vaccines if you don’t know brand of first one rather than delay vaccination. That’s almost certainly better anyway? At least not a problem.

2023-02-11 01:43:47 @MarkELindsay brb buying twitter blue, gonna need lotsa extra characters..

2023-02-10 21:12:45 RT @ahoysvet: "We also need heightened surveillance for poultry and pig farm workers" Calls for screening for viruses among pigs and peop…

2023-02-10 21:03:34 @norabird

2023-02-10 18:45:32 @BenMazer This is very common in this area. People don’t understand what’s actually going on and think AI threatens things that it will actually strengthen. (Opposite also true from the other direction, people thinking AI will never do X because X is sooo special. AI will be good enough!)

2023-02-10 18:43:11 RT @BenMazer: Doctors have been promoting AI in medicine relentlessly. Complete lack of understanding of the incentive structures here.

2023-02-10 18:00:48 Please don’t listen to nonsense about H5N1 either. It’s important for authorities to act, yes. But seeing social media folks with a terrible track record on COVID now jumping on this, with nonsensical claims.Maybe it’s because their COVID echo chamber has dwindled so much? https://t.co/rFQjuyAWBI

2023-02-10 17:51:01 And when @michaelmina_lab and I proposed in December 2020 to consider this in the US and to trial it, and that principles of immunology suggested it would produce better outcomes *and* we’d have faster wider coverage… we got treated as if we’d been proposing something wild. https://t.co/Y8H97WoAkS

2023-02-10 16:25:41 So making view counts visible hasn’t increased participation, huh, quelle surprise. (See top of thread). https://t.co/GnJSA6EQcN

2023-02-10 16:08:41 These are the conditions under which so many people — families to volunteers to crews from so many countries —have been crawling under the unstable piles of rubble to try to save people. https://t.co/emTB0IrD11

2023-02-10 15:29:38 RT @p_zalewski: Man interrupts Turkish state TV broadcast from earthquake zone. “Can you ask them, are they pleased they left this place al…

2023-02-10 15:02:40 RT @linseymarr: "Monitoring the indoor environment for pollution should become standard practice in public spaces." https://t.co/sgO16SyZ7…

2023-02-10 14:55:55 RT @arzugeybulla: The building in the photo is making rounds on social media. It belongs to the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and…

2023-02-10 14:43:07 RT @Derya_: This was one of the major results of our 5 year hard work on #MECFS - We found major disruptions in metabolism and linked micro…

2023-02-10 14:43:04 @Derya_ Thank you both for your work.

2023-02-10 12:53:20 Striking satellite imagery investigation from the NYT, showing the extent of the damage. The collapse in historic downtown of Maraş is catastrophic. Also "soft story" buildings —commercial outlet in the first floor— seem to have had a major impact. https://t.co/INZTYlDyvO https://t.co/KPHe8OwsFG

2023-02-10 12:43:44 RT @SusanKentMN: Deeply moving &

2023-02-10 12:43:32 JAMA H5N1 article. Additional info: In the mink outbreak, no workers were infected, though in Europe farm workers wear masks and other PPE because of past COVID outbreaks among minks. We also need heightened surveillance for poultry and pig farm workers. https://t.co/DYkHrmhB3E https://t.co/u6v99SJ2TA

2023-02-10 04:48:35 RT @ArditiMd: Thank you Zeynep

2023-02-10 02:36:04 RT @belinda17802257: This is a beautifully tender &

2023-02-10 02:35:15 This article. I have vivid memories of an elderly gentlemen I encountered in the 1999 quake. Sitting outside the rubble of his house. Tending to his birds. He said he'd gone back to rescue them. He burst into tears talking about his house, his family. https://t.co/3FFr8ksMno https://t.co/F9gVTtdYwi

2023-02-10 01:53:02 RT @quinnemmett: A beautiful, crushing, reflective, and urgent piece from @nytdavidbrooks.

2023-02-10 01:33:58 @ArditiMd Of course! Thank you for all your work, despite all the Twitter nonsense.

2023-02-09 22:50:52 @DeryaTR_ Hep aynı sorun.

2023-02-09 22:50:02 Scientists walking along the surface rupture, documenting a 6.7m offset. Largest I’ve seen from this. https://t.co/TPxjOfhbgR https://t.co/9sWYxyxQaa

2023-02-09 21:30:13 @CSexton_Writer @nytdavidbrooks

2023-02-09 21:06:50 @BobSmit74625407 @LilanaPa In which case consider yourself lucky and follow the scientists! I assure you it’s not a random rant. I have about two years of experience with this now. Obviously, if you’re not encountering it, please feel free to ignore it.

2023-02-09 21:02:38 RT @NeedhiBhalla: "I learned, very gradually, that a friend’s job in these circumstances is not to cheer the person up. It’s to acknowledge…

2023-02-09 21:02:19 @DonJRobertson @joeszaka The complexity is the whole range of things I'd want to connect this to, beyond psychotherapy. But genuinely hard to discuss on Twitter because it's full of sensitive topics that I'd need both space and precise wording, I think. Not 240 at a time.

2023-02-09 21:00:22 @LilanaPa See below. A huge amount of tweeting on Twitter on this topic comes from the third crew. You've quite likely encountered it from them, because they tweet nonstop. I just take the opportunities to direct people to the actual scientists. Have a great day! https://t.co/F1fjyn5Raa

2023-02-09 20:58:32 @LilanaPa The con that the third crew is "positing" anything. You have to be doing science to be positing anything, not tweeting bluster on *other* people's work that one is not part of—especially when the actual scientists who work on the topic are clear on what they think of the nonsense

2023-02-09 20:56:08 @LilanaPa Separate. I linked to the actual scientists working on this question. Some other scientists are skeptical. That's fine. A third crew just shouts nonsense about the topic very loudly on Twitter, but they aren't involved in the science/research. They're the liars obsessed with me.

2023-02-09 20:52:24 @LilanaPa (I was told of rumors they will now try to sue people like me and others to try to shut us up from alerting people like you. What can I say? LOL and I look forward to the opportunity to bring more publicity to this, as I do feel bad for the conned folks). Have a great day!

2023-02-09 20:49:22 @LilanaPa @BrodinPetter @ArditiMd That's why I post! Maybe a few people like you who have been conned can recognize the real scientists who are working on this hypothesis. Science isn't people making claims based on other people's work with nothing more than constantly tweeting I WAS RIGHT while also lying.

2023-02-09 20:47:48 @LilanaPa @BrodinPetter @ArditiMd I'm not subtweeting. They haven't posited anything, it's just word salad from that end. Here are the two actual scientists working on that hypothesis. Science isn't just blustering word salad *about* OTHER PEOPLE'S real work, while also lying about it. This is the science part.

2023-02-09 03:46:44 A BBC article about THE topic in Turkey — after rescues and helping survivors, of course. “In part the problem is that there's very little retrofitting of existing buildings, but there's also very little enforcement of building standards on new builds,” says Prof Alexander. https://t.co/2i6YqbhfBq

2023-02-09 03:43:09 @javierpallero That logic makes no sense.

2023-02-09 03:39:06 RT @nytimes: The death toll from the earthquake rose to more than 15,000 in southern Turkey and northern Syria on Wednesday, with unknown n…

2023-02-09 03:35:21 Another amazing surface rupture photo — 3.5m lateral offset. https://t.co/UJLVTCZFs1 https://t.co/Q2bSDBMvCr

2023-02-09 02:45:50 Striking before and after photos from Reuters, for Kahramanmaraş. (The stadium now has tents.) Too many collapsed buildings look somewhat new from the picture. There needs to be a study of what happened and why, and in relation to where the fault line was located. https://t.co/VjkreN1785

2023-02-09 00:01:14 @evacide Both happened. (The former more throttle).

2023-02-08 23:08:00 Video instructions for using scheduled tweet to get around the current outage. Dünya çapındaki şu anki Twitter sorununu aşmak için ileri tarihe planlama yöntemi. It works, well, if you are able to access Twitter (which may require VPN in Turkey). https://t.co/64u0q4iHjR

2023-02-08 22:48:02 Global outage might be related to this. Uhh, how much to subscribe a recently earthquake-stricken country to Twitter Blue? Ability to tweet is enough! People had been trying to shift to Instagram, anyway, due to the throttle but that seems down, too? https://t.co/pnHpxvVCF7

2023-02-08 22:42:02 And now, there seems to be a global outage as well — this isn't related to whatever was happening in Turkey. This is affecting everyone. (How am I tweeting? The "schedule this tweet for future posting" option from the browser UI works). https://t.co/Zklf1jWCjX

2023-02-08 21:17:04 Person coordinating aid and rescues in Turkey earthquake says: “We did most of our aid coordination on Twitter. Since the restriction, we went down by 70%”. He gives examples of people being pulled alive from the rubble after Twitter messaging and coordination directed help. https://t.co/FrPyVmLihL

2023-02-08 19:24:38 Two more incredible photos of the surface rupture from the Turkey earthquake, a 3.3m left lateral slide (measured by the scientist doing the field work). https://t.co/MK6CF9nvnU https://t.co/Y4p2tJtR60

2023-02-08 18:01:50 RT @p_zalewski: The scale of this is just overwhelming. In Antep, as rescue workers search for survivors in one building, another collapses…

2023-02-08 17:10:53 Some journalists are reporting that the official internet agency BTK is, indeed, confirming that Twitter is being throttled in Turkey. But I haven’t seen a direct announcement from them. Meanwhile, VPNs reportedly do work, and some VPN companies responded by expanding bandwidth. https://t.co/sQemBll5yg

2023-02-08 16:38:08 RT @azizfirat: i don't know what to say anymore

2023-02-08 16:36:38 @EpsilonTheory Thank you!

2023-02-08 16:16:19 And if a dreaded outbreak happens, it wouldn't be as high a fatality rate as the (so far) dead-end infections from close contact with poultry. We likely only detect severe ones. But that's largely irrelevant. It could easily be, and likely be, catastrophically high anyway.

2023-02-08 16:11:13 Is H5N1 the only potential pandemic influenza? No. Can anyone make predictions? Again, it's like predicting earthquakes. Influenza pandemics are *regular* in human history. Some risk factors are up, but also more tools. What's the response? That's the question that matters.

2023-02-08 16:05:56 But that’s not how it goes. That’s like saying a big earthquake didn’t happen before therefore it won’t happen in the future. Getting lucky with avian or swine flu or successfully suppressing it before doesn’t eliminate future threats. At all. https://t.co/2w0d0LbEMW

2023-02-08 15:59:36 @JenniferNuzzo Great interview! But last June, thus pre mink farm outbreak. Also a bear cluster in Montana, possible single exposure but.. Awaiting report. Everyone I spoke with ratcheted up risk after the mink farm, and CDC saying "we got this" needs more detail after last three years...

2023-02-08 15:53:51 Many Twitter folk respond they're mad at public health, so they won't take a future H5N1 vaccine. I urge some thought to who would be punished, but okay. Others say: you rejected some (nonsensical), alarmist claim about COVID, so what now? Yeah, exactly. Let's reject nonsense.

2023-02-07 23:29:40 @sogrady

2023-02-07 22:33:55 RT @IdaRudolfsen: I tried to think of something to write, but there are no words. Please, donate to the relief organizations who are workin…

2023-02-07 21:51:48 Widespread reports of not just lack of rescue crews and specialized equipment, which is hard to have enough of given the scale of the destruction, but also generators, fuel and lights for rescue efforts with whatever is available. Second night below freezing. This is so tragic.

2023-02-07 21:47:13 Journalist turns off own lights, you see whole area is dark. Race against time. One thing I did a lot in the 1999 earthquake rescue was to “acquire” lights. We didn’t have enough. Work stopped without. Many apartments, uh, “donated” via me. But we had fuel. Seems they’re short. https://t.co/xzLVfIxkVn

2023-02-07 18:53:10 RT @cagataykurt: Amerikadaki arkadaşlar tpf e yardım yapabilirler. 501c3 non-profit.

2023-02-07 18:22:57 RT @DawnHulot: See for ways to donate #earthquake

2023-02-07 17:32:41 I’m not there. But I lived through the 1999 earthquake, including witnessing first hand the frustrations afterwards. We were first to reach some areas that had been completely neglected. The scale this time of the destruction and the despair and increasing anger is.. notable. https://t.co/FvjqN1ff6V

2023-02-07 17:26:03 RT @seabbs: Everything I have seen from the CFA is really encouraging in terms of mission and implementation. I think this could be a pre…

2023-02-07 14:43:57 Notice the rescuer emerging from under the rubble with the girl. Rescuers often work under the unstable rubble for long periods of while major aftershocks continue unabated. And they’re also cutting through, increasing the risk. I counted 10 at M5 or larger just in the last day. https://t.co/WfXjMFh2AR

2023-02-07 14:15:15 RT @heissenstat: That didn't take long. Istanbul State Prosecutor begins first Investigations of journalists for reporting on emergency re…

2023-02-07 13:54:17 RT @WilliamMcNulty: Not how it’s supposed to work when you run the largest news site in the world and get caught pumping Russian propaganda…

2023-02-07 13:48:55 I’ve donated to this campaign to provide relief for earthquake victims in Turkey. US-based NGO. Chobani founder @hamdiulukaya is matching the next million dollars in donations. https://t.co/H1IhTylafL https://t.co/BxwQvj3wNw

2023-02-07 13:45:41 RT @OAJonsson: There’s a lot of people saying Elon is buying Russian propaganda with lamenting ~2,700 NATO personnel killed in Ukraine. An…

2023-02-07 13:44:39 RT @rafsanchez: Elon Musk casually spreading disinformation claiming that NATO has lost thousands of troops in Ukraine.

2023-02-07 13:41:12 @davidmanheim Let me block you so you can sharpen your googling skills.

2023-02-07 13:36:36 @MartianOrthodox No I get it. What I’m saying is you don’t get it who is being punished here by you. If you refuse the H5N1 vaccine, it’s going to benefit people who get earlier access because of less demand, and well.. you are on your own. Same with annual flu tbh though no supply issue there.

2023-02-07 13:28:47 @HoldernessEU Yes. Already heard of some terrible situations. Very difficult conditions.

2023-02-07 13:26:45 @davidmanheim No. Seismologists aren’t classifying as an aftershock. See map as well.

2023-02-07 13:16:36 I think I accidentally bifurcated the thread. I’m just adding the other one here, you can scroll up for a few of the updates if you’re interested. But the scale of this is enormous. See below. https://t.co/QExdVLE7ax

2023-02-07 13:04:14 Glad to see @VATF1 mobilizing. In the 1999 earthquake in Izmit, the trained dogs found people we couldn’t otherwise locate or hear from. Then women (often women! smaller frames!) rescue specialists crawled into the rubble amidst the strong aftershocks to cut through the debris. https://t.co/dQGBVLUiE2

2023-02-07 12:43:04 @AkinUnver (I wouldn’t pick the international ones listed for this. Local capacity is there).

2023-02-07 12:42:11 @AkinUnver As an option. https://t.co/ikSkPzZuK9

2023-02-07 02:43:40 @keiramchale @tphilanthropy

2023-02-07 02:11:18 RT @neubadah: For those asking where to donate for relief efforts in Turkey and Syria, two trusted NGOs where the money will reach people o…

2023-02-07 01:05:06 @ArditiMd @VirusesImmunity @yoncabulutmd @esenol @DeryaTR_ @emin_adin @ahbap @rabiagozden @TRConsuLA @atopeli @isil_arican @AkcanArikan @DeannaMarie208

2023-02-06 23:42:13 RT @SamuelBickett: Names and faces of the Hong Kong heroes who have sacrificed so much and are now on trial for trying win an election. The…

2023-02-06 23:17:39 Still hard to wrap one's mind around the scale. Two *separate* earthquakes, ten hours apart, M 7.8 and M 7.7 (matches the largest in all of 20th century in Turkey) with a fault break across hundreds of miles —anywhere on it is at risk— in heavily populated area with many cities. https://t.co/mJPnLOZRR4

2023-02-06 23:06:02 @rashmi Thank you!

2023-02-06 23:01:32 RT @PutrinoLab: Hi all, we're recruiting for another #LongCOVID trial, but we need to tap our FULLY RECOVERED or NEVER INFECTED community f…

2023-02-06 22:45:21 @nataliesurely @smithsj @WilboBaggins95 You could have said "where's the tissue damage, then, eh?" to other patient groups who finally got the actual answers once money to research and technology to measure caught up. This one looks like them. Go pick something else without "tissue damage": how about cancer brain fog?

2023-02-06 22:42:31 @nataliesurely @smithsj @WilboBaggins95 Correct you've written this one (and response which I found lacking) but many (other) pieces in this vein. On the evidence: I'm convinced you're wrong and on the wrong side of history, and your refusal to grapple with this is harmful to very, very vulnerable, maligned patients.

2023-02-06 22:18:31 For those asking how to help with the earthquake in Turkey, see pinned tweet. I’ve donated to this US-based NGO because I know they have local capacity and will do good work. I suspect the situation in Northern Syria is horrendous. I welcome suggestions. https://t.co/H1IhTykCqd https://t.co/ikSkPzZuK9

2023-02-06 22:11:32 @m_monemy I still remember this woman we almost missed. No sound. Confused dogs. Many places to try. Desperate relatives. Too few crews with equipment. Went back for one last Hail Mary and there she was. Not even badly hurt—just days under the rubble. Imagine knowing and being unable.

2023-02-06 22:07:08 @rashmi https://t.co/ikSkPzZuK9

2023-02-06 21:56:29 Ongoing problem. Live news footage: they get an aftershock and more buildings collapse. It's very cold, and millions can't go into the buildings. The buildings are also very dense, where to even camp? (Judging by timestamp, it's this M 6.0 one). https://t.co/f9ZPGEn8Io https://t.co/zlgBFYvc7A

2023-02-06 21:44:47 @RodrigueBiscuit @nataliesurely @smithsj @WilboBaggins95 When I realized "it's airborne" scientists had the clear weight of evidence, and the people still writing denials based on accumulated historic errors would end up as case studies in future studies of the failures, I tried to warn people not to be the last ones. Same here.

2023-02-06 21:32:39 RT @gillyarcht: There’s some very basic to-do list in here, now how do we possibly get everyone to listen to those people who are concerned…

2023-02-06 21:31:59 In the 1999 earthquake, I worked with rescue teams to pull from the rubble survivors we found using trained dogs and listening equipment. It's not easy to get to people. The agony of knowing people can call for help, but perish anyway because they can't be reached? Devastating.

2023-02-06 21:18:29 @RodrigueBiscuit @nataliesurely @smithsj @WilboBaggins95 I’d have respect if she picked an example where the key problem wasn’t that the desperate patients were being denied research, treatment and help exactly because of false beliefs that deny the role of the viral infection. This? It’s poorly done and harmful. And opposite of brave.

2023-02-06 21:15:44 A devastating part is survivors from under the rubble have been calling for help, but it’s not always possible to reach them. Sometimes, it’s led to rescues—to much joy. But often, people watch helplessly as they stop texting or tweeting, often after saying their goodbyes.

2023-02-06 21:12:27 @JustinMcAleer Many after, too. Hence the crisis.

2023-02-06 21:09:46 @VirusesImmunity @yoncabulutmd @ArditiMd @esenol @DeryaTR_ @emin_adin @ahbap @rabiagozden @TRConsuLA @atopeli @isil_arican @AkcanArikan @DeannaMarie208 Thank you.

2023-02-06 06:19:41 Preliminary USGS estimates. Note the scale is logarithmic. I wouldn’t be surprised if it nudged a bit more towards the worse end. Widespread destruction over a wide area with a shallow lateral slip. https://t.co/lwxPOGE13u https://t.co/hNABWlHAc5

2023-02-06 05:25:11 First visuals after sunrise. Massive destruction. https://t.co/LYRbYYoSFi

2023-02-06 04:07:58 I think likely eight cities are affected in Turkey— and very preliminary estimate but it looks like at least hundreds of buildings have collapsed. Sunrise in about half an hour, may get some aerial surveys than. It’s quite cold and the aftershocks were big.

2023-02-06 03:53:54 RT @matthew_pines: This looks very bad. Massive search and rescue needed asap. I suspect we’ll deploy our Tier 1 task forces, starting with…

2023-02-06 03:53:46 @elifgunce @matthew_pines @VATF1 Exactly.

2023-02-06 03:40:17 Also, thank you for the many kind inquiries. I don’t have close family and friends in the affected areas, and none that I know who’ve traveled there. Especially concerning news out of Northern Syria as well. That area is already decimated from the war.

2023-02-06 03:36:46 @BanGaoRen @iingwen @MOFA_Taiwan

2023-02-06 03:28:05 An expert estimating the length of the fault break. Populated cities all around the area. https://t.co/Z3tF1XDr0m

2023-02-06 03:26:51 @matthew_pines @VATF1 I hope they’re mobilizing!

2023-02-06 03:21:51 Sounds terrible. This is a region already devastated by war. Many in makeshift structures already. They will need urgent help as well, and under difficult international and national conditions given the conflict. https://t.co/RpDRJgMyxH

2023-02-06 03:17:40 Northern Syria, too, must be affected too, no? We may be getting less news from there. But the magnitude plus potential length of the fault line suggests impact there as well.

2023-02-06 03:14:49 So yes, Diyarbakir, too. The fault break could be covering a huge area. https://t.co/KttCv9WnUn

2023-02-06 03:10:24 I can’t confirm the locations but multiple pretty credible seeming photos of collapsed buildings as far away as Adana — that’s more than 200 km from the epicenter. The entire area is densely populated.

2023-02-06 02:53:49 Minister of interior confirming they will be asking for international rescue teams to convene — this is standard procedure for big earthquakes. Multiple high population density cities are affected by the M 7.8 one. https://t.co/CV6YtIJSI0

2023-02-06 02:46:29 Yeah this one is big. https://t.co/cdIAgcIQCv

2023-02-06 02:34:49 @fergusonbj

2023-02-06 02:34:43 Lacking complete clarity but the first quake appears to be in Kahramanmaraş (estimates are M 7.4 to 7.8) and then one or two more about 11 minutes later (M 6.4) in Gaziantep—about 55 miles south. Densely populated areas. The 1999 quake in Izmit was 7.6, estimated 18,000 dead.

2023-02-06 02:18:02 Area weather. Not good. Time is always of the essence with earthquake rescues. Especially with cold. Any rescue team would likely fly through Istanbul or Ankara. It’s not an area with direct flights. (Global rescue teams convening is standard—many countries have standby teams). https://t.co/btBWxTcppX

2023-02-06 02:04:55 Seeing photos of pancaked buildings from multiple cities from the major earthquake in Turkey. And widespread reports of people calling for help from under the rubble where they’re trapped. Almost certainly an event that will require mobilization from international rescue teams.

2023-02-06 01:58:02 Big earthquake in Southeast Turkey, populated area and at night—people will be caught asleep at home. Preliminary reports are M 7.8. Early photos already showed pancaked bulletin. #DEPREMOLDU is the hashtag. (Or #deprem). Almost certainly needs global rescue team mobilization. https://t.co/MD4vQ6IpTw

2023-02-05 16:47:12 "We didn't have an SF earthquake recently" isn't an argument that invalidates the San Andreas Fault. Pandemics have special features: 1-Some things make them more likely

2023-02-05 16:41:27 So H5N1 (and other avian flus) came up before and no pandemic. Exactly. We contained SARS in 2004, with much effort and luck. Then came SARS-CoV-2. We contained H5N1 and got lucky before. We now have the biggest outbreak AND first outbreak with mammal-to-mammal transmission. https://t.co/udWdPqYQxf

2023-02-05 16:21:25 @PeacockFlu @SCOTTeHENSLEY @thijskuiken Corrected! @SanderFMC pointed out my error. I don’t know what I was thinking. https://t.co/9MufI0WNKx

2023-02-05 16:19:42 That’s not all. The third expert quoted is Thijs Kuiken, an avian influenza expert in Netherlands. Seems Kuiken means chick, in Dutch. So yeah, drs Peacock, HENsley and Kuiken. I am afraid to learn whether professor Peter Palese has a middle name related to any of this. https://t.co/hs1zBBbcnl https://t.co/IfzWYHT6BZ

2023-02-05 16:15:43 @SanderFMC Ah sorry! Correcting! Thanks.

2023-02-05 16:06:37 @PeacockFlu @SCOTTeHENSLEY @thijskuiken https://t.co/pSv34QzwpS

2023-02-05 15:49:14 @JoeyOtweets I agree we should try for a global treaty. But there is no way to get started when major wealthy countries won’t even ban theirs. Plus risk reduction is risk reduction.

2023-02-05 15:28:58 US recently came very close to banning mink farms because they are pandemic virus breeding factories and cruel. Then Wisconsin Senators (one Republican, one Democrat) led the effort to block it, to protect the few farms in WI. Many Democrats joined them. https://t.co/v58YzATII2 https://t.co/OkDXMNiAM7

2023-02-05 15:13:11 There are people —even MDs!— trying to start “lockdowns were bad!” fights over H5N1. The point now is to avoid human outbreaks, not play Twitter clout games with unserious people. Meanwhile? Speedier vaccine production would need getting ready. Which do need money and attention. https://t.co/ojG7L7OT17

2023-02-05 14:20:48 A Spanish translation thread. https://t.co/iqwIiAc8BP

2023-02-05 14:11:35 RT @GaviSeth: .⁦@zeynep⁩ warns us of a potential new and more severe pandemic staring us right in the face. There are many things we could…

2023-02-05 14:04:25 @ShakeelHashim @ChanaMessinger @AFraserUrq “Single digit” chance of a global pandemic soonish seems catastrophically serious to me.

2023-02-05 02:11:57 RT @Bureli: "Mink farms must be shut down. It’s hard to imagine a better way to incubate and spread a deadly virus than letting it evolve a…

2023-02-04 23:46:14 @BrianRWasik It’s the opposite of panic. It’s prevention. Reduces panic.

2023-02-04 22:49:41 RT @sara_bee: I've known about the government chickens for a while but did not know how much I wanted to hear from their bodyguards until t…

2023-02-04 19:32:47 RT @arpitrage: Chicken and egg problem— vaccines against the bird flu require incubation of doses in eggs, but the bird flu itself is devas…

2023-02-04 18:37:26 @PawelRawicki Nuts

2023-02-04 18:31:24 From one of the experts I talked with for my piece. Mink farming is unethical and dangerous. (Minks are not rodents. They are carnivorous mammals and solitary hunters. Think cats, not mice. Keeping them in packed in crowded industrial facilities is especially cruel). https://t.co/MCHhKNAnYD

2023-02-04 16:32:17 RT @1t1sAdam: Great piece about why people are worried about H5N1. This part about the US stockpile of avian flu vaccines is crazy An Ev…

2023-02-04 15:10:28 RT @daniel_kraft: Bird Flu &

2023-02-04 14:03:05 UK-specific advice if encountering dead birds. But once again, the important thing here is for the world to act now, so that it’s not something ordinary people have to think about. We wait too long, that can change. https://t.co/HX1zlMDjfL

2023-02-04 14:01:18 @PawelRawicki

2023-02-04 14:00:36 Depending on country, there may be animal control to call? Long story why but yes this can spread by contact with dead animals but not likely from a brief encounter or just proximity. I’d still be cautious. Here’s what CDC recommends for poultry exposure. https://t.co/eH0iUJSHuQ https://t.co/hnSCQxRkqp

2023-02-04 13:52:55 I also don’t understand “don’t panic” messaging. Understanding a threat to act on it is the opposite of panic. That’s not the same as fear-mongering by exaggerating or misrepresenting. Also the way counter “panic” is plans and actions, not words.

2023-02-04 13:44:39 There are important steps to take now, not because it’s a threat to humans now (it’s not

2023-02-04 13:07:24 RT @tomgara: Covid had a low enough fatality rate that a lot of people, especially younger &

2023-02-04 12:20:41 RT @seeCFC: Another source on this story: https://t.co/2vxlcgS73c

2023-02-04 03:40:07 @BernardAFox @POTUS @CDCDirector @US_FDA @NIHDirector

2023-02-04 03:08:21 RT @ShakeelHashim: It seems like these things are probably worth the costs, given the potential risks here

2023-02-04 02:48:37 @smithsj @VersatiIeTwink @teri0n Agree. 0.5-1% isn’t that small at all. It’s a large population. Especially at pandemic scale. And the debilitating version is a very severe illness and likely related to some other key processes.

2023-02-04 01:14:15 RT @erikbryn: .@zeynep is right. By far the best and cheapest way to stop a pandemic is to act early, before it spreads widely.

2023-02-04 01:07:15 RT @kellymnyc: The H5N1 virus is infecting migratory birds, allowing it to spread more widely A mutant strain is now spreading among minks…

2023-02-04 00:38:07 @OmicronData Any specific questions? I’ve been reading and talking to a bunch of people in the trenches for a while.

2023-02-04 00:13:54 @DanielleFong

2023-02-04 00:10:56 The next potential hurricane doesn’t care if you’re mad at the previous weather reporter at the local TV channel. In this case, unlike weather, one could even stop it. Or one can keep yelling about how the last batch of weather reporters were annoying or incompetent or whatever. https://t.co/Nqx5bRaqLH

2023-02-04 00:07:13 @dr_kkjetelina @wanderer_jasnah It is noted at the end and I did carefully say among known cases, exactly for that reason. But couldn’t really get into even more details which would be too much hand waving. https://t.co/HPPR7o3Bdk

2023-02-03 23:08:40 RT @Holly_713: This is super important!!!The general population doesn’t need to do anything right now except not pick up dead animals, but…

2023-02-03 22:46:53 @pekikimkibu I'm awaiting better public health guidance on this. We know cats be infected (there is a case in France) but it is yet, rare, and transmission back to humans from cats is also very, very rare, that we know of. The people I spoke with weren't at the stage of cat-specific recs.

2023-02-03 22:26:38 @mikewwilson3 The illustration is about the “naked” threat profile. Wuhan had little to nothing but still exponentially increased threat by age. But yes, wouldn't necessarily be identical.

2023-02-03 22:23:41 Not that much for the public to do right now. (Don’t pick up dead birds or animals!). But there is much to do now, before it’s too late, by the authorities to try to keep it that way. Best defense is preventing a human outbreak from happening, or greatly lowering the odds. https://t.co/gn1uquRZ1I

2023-02-03 21:59:37 RT @anthonymacuk: Seems bad https://t.co/FwTLp2WrGR

2023-02-03 21:19:40 @Harry1T6 You've never written much of anything I wrote, I suppose? I'm not lacking for topics or readership. This one is a terrible topic to write about, and I'm writing it now so, hopefully, I don't have to keep writing about it because it's not a thing.

2023-02-03 21:17:31 @LucreSnooker @tomgara It's quite unlikely anyone would be re-litigating mask RCTs — that's the luxury people have after three years, vaccines, population immunity, and a CFR that started out at about 1.4% without any treatments or vaccines (tragic for the victims, for sure) and exponential with age.

2023-02-03 21:07:50 Age/death curve from Kentucky for 1918 flu pandemic, which killed more people than WWI. Like Covid, increased deaths among the elderly, a tragedy. Do note the bump among the young and the spike for children. Why not prevent an H5N1 outbreak into humans? https://t.co/4ZQ1vkFa0c https://t.co/yAtCvvrXEj

2023-02-03 20:55:01 @tomgara Yep. A bunch of people want to argue about masks with me. This has little to no connection to masks for the public at the moment, on what needs to be done to stop it, but if it does breakthrough, that is so not what we’re going to be “worrying” about.

2023-02-03 20:49:16 @phealthsean I think it'd quickly do what a for-real measles outbreak does to an antivaxx group that was free-riding on the herd-immunity in the population. I've bunch of people who want to argue masks or vaccines or beach closures with me about this. It's.. not COVID. Not gonna go like that.

2023-02-03 20:36:04 @works2late It's a bit like hurricanes, or maybe earthquakes. A mix? There are some signals, but it's hard to predict exactly. But when it happens, it can be really, really bad. And we have big influenza pandemics at least about a century. Last one in 1918 killed more than world war i.

2023-02-02 16:50:03 RT @HelenBranswell: 1. Finally a vaccine effectiveness estimate for this season's #flu shot — from Canada. Canadian researchers estimated…

2023-02-02 13:40:55 The news here should be for large numbers of people Long Covid doesn’t resolve even after many years, and affects them a lot. The fact that our measures pick up some transient stuff is true, but that’s not where the deep crisis is occurring. Suggest looking at that subset at ONS.

2023-02-02 13:38:23 Good that self-reported Long Covid population continues to decrease despite sizable waves of new infections and reinfections. More evidence that surveys also detect some transient symptoms. But, crucially, a sizable number of people are debilitated—many for years. They’re stuck.

2023-02-02 13:34:30 UK ONS latest on Long Covid. Good: Total numbers of people self-reporting Long Covid continue to decrease. Bad: Little change for the subset of people who’ve had LC for a long time and are affected a lot. Con: no control group. Pro: great sampling, longitudunal, asks severity. https://t.co/wjPDTBhIun

2023-02-01 20:47:25 RT @MackayIM: "But I haven’t seen anything in our data or other studies that makes me worried about long-term impacts on immunity to other…

2023-02-01 13:17:01 Immunologist @EJohnWherry “We’re not seeing evidence this one virus has changed our immune system’s ability to keep us healthy.. not seeing the kinds of things.. where the immune system was compromised, or dysregulated, because of an infectious disease”. https://t.co/NephdaTKrC https://t.co/9NYNVXTcmj

2023-02-01 03:51:23 @bigdbaggino That’s the method.

2023-02-01 03:29:54 RT @SaladBarFan: Good thread debunking a lot of sensationalist views on covid:

2023-02-01 02:26:05 @smithsj https://t.co/nctjIaqFju

2023-01-31 22:29:03 @SurpriseSparrow Huh??? Where do you get that? Different topic. It's a well-known aspect of electronic health record studies that people get diagnoses of pre-existing illnesses — say, high blood pressure — during medical interactions. It's not about Long Covid. See here. https://t.co/jNezDRh6va

2023-01-31 22:25:01 @ShaneyWright But also, talking to clinicians who see a lot of Long Covid, and some of whom also see ME/CFS, it seems that they have subtypes in their heads, and I've seen inter-coder reliability *among* clinicians who work from symptoms. At a minimum, that could be checked against biomarkers.

2023-01-31 22:23:27 @ShaneyWright What gets defined as Long Covid clearly has multiple phenotypes. Post-ICU/severity sequelae

2023-01-31 22:19:57 Preprints aren't perfect. Fine. Science doesn't stop with a single published article. Experts within the field *follow* developments—replications, confirmations, negations. Pseudoscience posts old snippets over and over —they don't know the latest, or don't want you to know.

2023-01-31 22:13:44 Caveat about the preprint. It's an association, not causal. Also focuses on relative risk. As authors note, preexisting illnesses get diagnosed *because* people interact with doctors. Plus relative risk needs baseline and subgroup data, will likely be asked during peer review. https://t.co/AvZqWoqArw

2023-01-31 22:05:18 Multiple top immunologists doing research on these very topics (It's the Biggest Topic!) are all making the same points—despite different policy views, and whatever *within-science* debates are going on— along with research into complex, less-understood questions like Long Covid.

2023-01-31 22:00:47 So @timrequarth has a great, nuanced overview, with explanations from multiple top immunologists. @profshanecrotty : "I haven’t seen anything in our data or other studies that makes me worried about long-term impacts on immunity to other infections." https://t.co/ObIZ7UUY6l https://t.co/rNOSoQpX4a

2023-01-31 19:06:45 RT @Laura52872w: During yesterday's discussion, I mentioned someome got IRB approval to study one of the non-traditional microbiome-related…

2023-01-31 18:37:45 @ShaneyWright Ampligen. That appears to have been a big problem for that trial. Big potential loss to patients. Key reason I keep trying to advocate for better sub-phenotype definitions of LC rather than this current too broad umbrella—something clinicians already do! This is bad for patients.

2023-01-31 18:34:12 @YaleSPH @meganranney Wow! Congratulations!

2023-01-31 17:34:58 @natashaloder @nytimes

2023-01-30 23:12:12 @cjmaddison @Todd_Friesen @RoseEdmunds @wanderer_jasnah Otoh, mundane sequelae that we see for other respiratory illnesses that resolve, likely resolve for this too. But in my opinion, everyone in the ME/CFS type category is now a patient even if symptoms go away. Hopefully they stay away, but I would classify it as "in remission."

2023-01-30 23:10:05 @cjmaddison @Todd_Friesen @RoseEdmunds @wanderer_jasnah Phenotyping of the LC umbrella is really imprecise, lumping post-ICU syndrome with ME/CFS like presentation but imo, even the mildest or resolved version of ME/CFS category should be treated as a serious illness in danger of worsening or relapse, because we know that from ME/CFS.

2023-01-30 23:08:17 @cjmaddison @Todd_Friesen @RoseEdmunds @wanderer_jasnah Also missing from ONS is something that comes up: prevaccine infection ->

2023-01-30 22:36:12 @cjmaddison @Todd_Friesen @RoseEdmunds @wanderer_jasnah Also ONS tracks length of being affected, and hospitalization. In combination, that’s a solid infection. Shortcomings is no control group but sampling is excellent and there’s underdiagnosis, too. And it’s still a very large number! Small % of a huge number is still large.

2023-01-30 20:44:48 RT @VirusesImmunity: We are looking for people who never had COVID or who recovered from COVID as important control participants in our Yal…

2023-01-30 19:53:25 RT @IEthics: #ethics #internet #socialmedia #Twitter

2023-01-30 18:59:19 @DonEford @smithsj @Marc_Veld Wait, you're unblocked? Aren't you the actor — Brandon Nelson was it?— who claims to have solved Long Covid and managed the Bernie Sanders and, dunno, invented a perpetual motion machine? That is indeed damaging to my "brand". My apologies. Blocking again. Sorry about that.

2023-01-30 18:07:16 RT @ElizHagedorn: Asked about #Egypt's political prisoners including Alaa Abdel Fattah, Mohamed El-Baqer, and Mohamed "Oxygen" Ibrahim, @Se…

2023-01-30 12:45:59 @BogDr @smithsj A bit unfair. Many departments have deadwood faculty, they don’t all do stuff like this. They contribute positively otherwise and at least learn stuff. In contrast, it takes effort to avoid learning difference between adaptive and innate immunity after years of pandemic tweeting.

2023-01-30 12:38:01 @oliver_phil @smithsj @Marc_Veld I hope you take notes of this very very obvious warming sign as well. Repeatedly posting snippets from a single paper from more than a year ago isn’t how a scientific field operates. Established, important findings have multiple papers and advances. Have a good day! https://t.co/uF8tTxBKfu

2023-01-30 12:28:38 @oliver_phil @smithsj @Marc_Veld Thank you for asking. It’s smart to rely on actual immunologists in the field for such questions, rather than the people with too much free time on their hands and spewing out jargon salad on Twitter. Here you go, Marc explains here. Nice of him to do this as he has an actual job https://t.co/ToXpxUduK3

2023-01-30 04:51:58 @smithsj @loscharlos @cjmaddison @NIH Pretty sure I know it from before but it may have been around for a long time!

2023-01-30 03:59:51 RT @CorsIAQ: "An Engineering Perspective on the Secret Lives of Airborne Viruses" Really looking forward to @linseymarr's visit as one of…

2023-01-30 03:04:49 @AltenbergLee @macroliter @PhilippMarkolin No clue but wow. At least read the paper and try to understand what it’s saying before paying to promote a tweet describing it so incorrectly as some sort of goal on alleged minimizers. Paper is explaining why kids are spared severe outcomes compared to adults!

2023-01-30 02:08:17 RT @JChengWSJ: @jamestareddy In August, as his wife was on a trip to Shanghai, authorities told her they want Mr. Yu to return to China for…

2023-01-30 02:03:44 @macroliter @PhilippMarkolin Seriously??? Wow

2023-01-30 01:59:53 @walidgellad This is so frustrating, for its impacts on Long Covid patients. This shouldn’t pass an undergrad survey methods class. And yet…

2023-01-30 01:05:57 @selise @Marc_Veld @macroliter https://t.co/kw4avVUhzZ

2023-01-30 01:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-01-24 04:10:46 RT @rolandlisf: Twitter sued by landlord at SF HQ after alleged nonpayment of $6.8 million in rent: https://t.co/i823gBIf6R The company was…

2023-01-24 03:57:47 RT @RadioFreeTom: "In short: after cutting back on servers and entire data centers, Twitter can no longer keep up with its own content."

2023-01-24 03:55:05 @SaadOmer3 @nytimes Alas.

2023-01-24 01:04:23 RT @emilybell: Good thread … and by good I mean bad. Local officials increasingly co-opting their own media or avoiding independent journal…

2023-01-24 01:02:14 @wanderer_jasnah What on earth makes you think this is "public health comms"??? It's year three, and Twitter now has a dwindling group being competed over by these accounts, hence the accelerating nonsense. (Biggest tragedy here is there are LC patients being preyed on as part of this dynamic).

2023-01-24 00:38:15 RT @PGTimmune: Tl

2023-01-23 23:29:07 @OC4RC @andrew_croxford Yes he is explaining what it *actually means.* Which is not at all what gets presented on Twitter. Certainly not something you’re going to make an argument by screenshotting titles. Best of luck!

2023-01-23 23:20:01 RT @MackayIM: Covid is not destroying kids immune systems, by @apsmunro https://t.co/kwb455Bz5r

2023-01-23 22:45:54 Also this is unfortunate. Many immunocompromised people are under-vaccinated. There is a myth out there the vaccine doesn’t benefit them. That’s simply not true. Almost all of them benefit, but may need extra doses than others for more robust protection. https://t.co/I5Li4w8P9B https://t.co/gWybJoiTt1

2023-01-23 22:37:26 @BrianRWasik It’s more fun to make up stuff, especially without having published a single thing relevant to it or doing any research or having anyone else in the field agree and backup the claims.

2023-01-23 22:34:54 @OC4RC @andrew_croxford I’m sorry you’ve been lied to so much. Best of luck.

2023-01-23 22:34:33 @OC4RC @andrew_croxford No, it’s about people who don’t understand the topic having been lied to by others, and then them trying to prove stuff to an actual immunologist by using screenshots of.. *titles.* Here’s one of the actual co-authors of the study YOU cite trying to correct the nonsense claims. https://t.co/FDNIEn2G3D

2023-01-23 21:30:01 RT @JohnWoodrowCox: A reminder that @drewharwell and several other journalists have been suspended from this platform for more than a month…

2023-01-23 17:35:36 @3dPartyInternet @md_wallach @andrew_croxford Chekc actual polls, the ones that are random/representative. There is a dramatic change in what people worry about and how they behave. Even what they read in regular papers. Also, especially after Musk, Twitter has become even weirder and definitely less representative.

2023-01-23 16:06:12 And obviously, infrastructure improvements — to how healthcare is practiced, paid sick leave, to testing, to indoor air quality, etc. — aren't easy but there is so much upside to it. https://t.co/yJyR8pucuA

2023-01-23 16:02:52 Sure, the kind of stuff people who lie on social media for attention/ego predicted about immunity, severity etc. obviously didn't happen (wasn't going to). The opposite isn't complete complacency. These illnesses take a real toll, and most of that falls on the more vulnerable.

2023-01-23 16:00:03 @md_wallach @andrew_croxford The backpedaling started already. The ones not completely unmoored from reality but rode wave to attention will start acting to self-preserve. The ones with no other outlet (no regular academic/research job) but lying on social media will go the antivax grift model, is my guess.

2023-01-23 15:56:25 As the hospital chief notes here, flu, RSV and Covid are all sharply down —the first two had earlier than usual waves and COVID had a smaller uptick before declining. But it's still Winter. Flu sometimes has a second wave, so not too late for vaccination. https://t.co/iIm2mqVRLF https://t.co/CqPzFREhwS

2023-01-23 15:41:40 @andrew_croxford Eventually, the reckoning becomes inevitable. Barring a major change, I predict a shift to newsletters/private accounts for the ones who were outright charlatans/hacks and many with regular jobs/appointments who got carried away will just go back to that life and backpedal.

2023-01-23 15:39:58 @andrew_croxford There are sociology studies on this phenomenon, most famous one is called "When Prophesy Fails"—when a group gets convinced something is imminent, and it keeps not happening. How does the group cope/continue? At first, they ignore evidence. Double down. (As they're trying now).

2023-01-23 00:00:01 Cafiac fix

2023-01-17 00:24:51 @Illusionist999 @vijayiyer312 @IppokratisAnge1 Once again, they’re moving on. They. Don’t. Care. And no outside pressure on them to care enough to do what’s necessary. Waiting for that to happen is a bad idea. This is the terrible reality. In my view, saying anything else is good for Twitter now but very bad for the long run.

2023-01-17 00:22:40 @Illusionist999 @vijayiyer312 @IppokratisAnge1 I clearly say *millions of people* in the interview. It’s not misunderstood there. Small % can be a huge in real numbers. Only by a few on Twitter does that get portrayed as minimizing when, in fact, nobody was bringing up the topic at all till I did—common in my experience.

2023-01-16 23:59:20 @Illusionist999 @vijayiyer312 @IppokratisAnge1 Ah come on read what I wrote. That’s exactly what I explained in the piece. The patients are too ill to protest, and go birddog politicians and break into the FDA and turnover tables like the HIV victims did before AIDS set in. So yes, exactly. That’s what I’m saying.

2023-01-16 23:57:16 @Illusionist999 @vijayiyer312 @IppokratisAnge1 Yes. I wrote exactly that in the NYT. A small % of a very large number is a large, substantial number. Take the ONS stats and explain how substantial a number that is would be a smart strategy. It’s millions of people, many sick of years already, potentially with lifelong illness https://t.co/85L6UnN0JK

2023-01-16 23:52:24 @Illusionist999 @vijayiyer312 @IppokratisAnge1 Congress. Doesn’t. Care. NIH and CDC may repeat some of the numbers but they’re not acting at all like they believe any of it. At all. Chronic illness is ignored anyway. That billion is almost gone, with little to show, and there is no new money. Few care. THAT is the problem.

2023-01-16 23:49:34 @Illusionist999 @vijayiyer312 @IppokratisAnge1 I traveled to attend the one protest they did, and followed up with people with weeks afterwards to document their plight and PEM/crash &

2023-01-16 23:43:56 @Mormolykeia @IppokratisAnge1 @GregDore2 ONS has length of time and severity as well as self-reported symptoms. It’s not the ideal dataset, lacking control, but it’s the best one we have equipped to catch cases exactly like yours exactly because of the sampling method. Many other studies would miss cases like yours.

2023-01-16 23:02:18 @vijayiyer312 @IppokratisAnge1 If they actually behaved like they believed those numbers, and if the magnitude of the impact bore it out, nobody would care what I thought about any of this. I was yelling in February 2020 that a pandemic was coming and we needed to act and got similarly shouted at. So it goes.

2023-01-16 23:00:19 @vijayiyer312 @IppokratisAnge1 The NIH or CDC may repeat numbers like 10% or “one in five” that I criticized, based on actual careful reading of the studies and comparing them to better ones like the ONS &

2023-01-16 22:54:34 @vijayiyer312 @IppokratisAnge1 There is almost no money in next year’s budget for Long Covid. That billion is almost all gone with, yet, a single Paxlovid trial starting *just recently.* That’s it. Despite occasional good media articles, the attention isn’t there. This isn’t good. Needs a huge, focused push.

2023-01-16 22:51:02 @vijayiyer312 @IppokratisAnge1 Also despite the disproportionate attention this topic gets on Twitter, I do, of course, focus on the toll and the urgent needs. I was invited to do Stewart podcast to talk about *other* things. I just bring up Long Covid myself because otherwise it goes completely unmentioned.

2023-01-16 21:30:37 RT @houseofsnarks: look what elon deleted today. precious.

2023-01-16 17:42:58 RT @t0nyyates: wtaf.

2023-01-16 17:39:10 @IppokratisAnge1 @AlexGaggio @GregDore2 Folks. This part seems.. not the best use of anyone’s energy? Feel free to untag me.

2023-01-16 17:37:41 @reflectfirst @mlipsitch @DocJeffD @CarlosdelRio7 @EricTopol @DeptVetAffairs @NatureMedicine @zalaly @walidgellad Here’s the direct part from their paper. Media hasn’t been doing well describing this study. Not an uncommon problem. https://t.co/nZ6PwXcarV

2023-01-16 16:47:27 @KrauthBen @macroliter @MichaelSFuhrer From the paper itself. https://t.co/dO9PKZNG30 See upthread for more about generalizability &

2023-01-16 16:14:47 RT @MarkELindsay: Every time I think these people are terrible @zeynep shows up and points out they are so much worse than you thought

2023-01-16 15:58:58 From today. So, so subtle. https://t.co/h2XHiNrs6r https://t.co/uI3TeeaWT7

2023-01-16 15:27:27 @IppokratisAnge1 @LongCovidComms @GregDore2 I do exactly that, when I write/speak. When it comes up, I do say, but with little focus, that existing numbers conflate multiple things, but that’s *all* some Twitter folks focus on. Twitter exaggration. See gift links below to what I *actually* write. https://t.co/wMyWPz7O5Z https://t.co/0Xj78r7wtW

2023-01-16 14:44:42 @LongCovidComms @IppokratisAnge1 @GregDore2 100%. That’s why this is so perplexing. ONS numbers, as ballpark —yes self-reported and no control group but likely missing some because of underdiagnosis— ARE HUGE. The realistic, best numbers we have are staggeringly high. Why make unrealistic claims by conflating minor stuff?

2023-01-16 00:20:13 @md_wallach @MarkELindsay If we got a true severity escape variant, shudder, or these H5N1 jumps to mammals one should keep an eye on, we probably couldn’t convince most people to pay any attention precautionarily. Who has credibility left? Long Covid patients are especially preyed on here. It sucks.

2023-01-16 00:17:17 @md_wallach @MarkELindsay Yes, exactly. They’re flat out lying in ways that wouldn’t, and do not, fly outside of Twitter but sometimes snare some gullible journalists. It’s not sophisticated lying. It’s not nuances of advanced science. It’s flat out bullshit. It makes sane people tune out the topic.

2023-01-16 00:02:44 @MarkELindsay And this too. These are very pro-mitigation immunologists. Unlike the charlatans, though, they are scientists first. They’re not gonna make up stuff to gain Twitter followers. https://t.co/dOx0Cecjqs

2023-01-16 00:00:31 @MarkELindsay And they keep lying about this one study in Nature, about eight months of immune dysregulation. The actual co-author of that study goes on Twitter to try to correct them. No go. The charlatans *still* use the study to mislead people who don’t understand what it actually says. https://t.co/FDNIEn2G3D

2023-01-15 23:57:36 @MarkELindsay Also see. https://t.co/JyZydJtnuh

2023-01-15 23:42:29 RT @SergioEfe: Este no es un tema inmunológico. Como tantos otros es sociológico y psicológico.

2023-01-15 23:42:10 @MarkELindsay The worst part is that these charlatans are misleading patients—and what Twitter followers they’ve acquired—and their enablers don’t seem to care. I lost a lot of respect for people who should’ve known better. We know what scientific disagreement looks like vs pseudoscience.

2023-01-15 23:39:41 @MarkELindsay It’s incredible really. Same thing happened when the Zero Covid friendly Indie Sage immunologists essentially said the same thing: “Never really seen evidence for covid infection knocking down your T-cells in any kind of ongoing way.. [Not a thing] unless very severely infected."

2023-01-15 23:37:21 @MarkELindsay Yep. One of world’s actual top T cell experts, now doing deep immunological study of Long Covid patients, shows up to say “no evidence whatsoever of any T cell depletion” and gets harassed—led by dude whose only “proof” is repeatedly tweeting “I was right” to a gullible audience.

2023-01-15 22:04:09 RT @zeynep: @LastGreatAct @PChildermass @sciencecohen @SetteLab Altmann, part of very pro-mitigation Indie Sage in UK, is a T cell immunolo…

2023-01-15 21:20:03 @DannyFischer35 @md_wallach @MarkELindsay Even the scientist who figured out how HIV infects T cells got harassed for talking about his ongoing research! I How much more of an actual T cell expert you could be in the real world? Got harassed by the Twitter rando whose only proof is constantly tweeting “he was right”. https://t.co/HIUueylAzK

2023-01-15 21:13:42 @DannyFischer35 @md_wallach @MarkELindsay https://t.co/OiiA67YJ49

2023-01-15 19:58:23 RT @zeynep: @TactNowInfo @unbiasedscipod @melissa_zegar Here’s the *actual coauthor* of that study, trying to stop the nonsense.

2023-01-15 19:57:59 @TactNowInfo @unbiasedscipod @melissa_zegar Here’s the *actual coauthor* of that study, trying to stop the nonsense. https://t.co/FDNIEn2G3D

2023-01-15 19:47:36 RT @MarkELindsay: The replies here

2023-01-15 19:41:15 @md_wallach @MarkELindsay It’s more a sociological issue. The same people reacted badly even when multiple immunologists associated with UK’s Indie Sage, which is as far away from “minimizer” as it gets, basically said the same thing. There are people preying on people by lying to them. They push it.

2023-01-15 01:02:30 @swastrosarah Of course. The topic was vaccines, myocarditis, side effects, communication, etc. but I couldn’t let the episode happen without bringing up Long Covid and ME patients so I just pivoted. I think we need celebrities to do what Jon did for firefighters after 9/11 — push Congress.

2023-01-15 01:00:09 RT @swastrosarah: "these ppl are so sick, so severely sick, THEY CAN'T PROTEST" #LongCovid is #ME Thanks Adam, always &

2023-01-14 15:13:30 RT @GYamey: It has been *very* instructive seeing who Elon Musk calls on to write his “Twitter Files” series—&

2023-01-14 14:14:01 @johndowe49

2023-01-13 03:00:41 RT @Dakota_150: 'The Problem With Jon Stewart' Podcast 32:40, Zeynep Tufekci: "...the tragedy of the Long COVID patients who are still lef…

2023-01-13 03:00:26 @MayaLindemannRN @Dakota_150 @jonstewart @TheProblem @exceedhergrasp1 I hope so too.

2023-01-12 23:35:14 Incorrect takeaway would be saying "Long Covid patients, see, you'll mostly recover" TO CURRENT PATIENTS because we know substantial numbers aren't recovering. This study says most with mild illness from the first year are fine. That's good, but doesn't help the ones who aren't.

2023-01-12 23:26:18 @GenrokuRyoran Yes, check the table there. The vaccinated follow up time is very short, and the cohort is small (hence why they don't say much about it in the paper and put a few tables in the supplement). Will wait for them to follow up and then we should have a better idea.

2023-01-12 23:18:31 This study has advantages—lengthy follow up and good attempt to compensate for biases of electronic health records. But the measures aren't very specific for debilitating LC (few studies look at that) and, again, it's not studying a LC cohort. Just *all* people with mild cases.

2023-01-12 23:08:05 What we measure broadly as "Long Covid" has sub types. Persistent smell disorders as sole symptom seems common, as well as regular post-viral syndromes that resolve. But there's also debilitating versions, even after mild cases and also post-ICU type cases after hospitalization.

2023-01-12 23:05:59 I saw people wondering why this study did not ask about fatigue. It does! It's just called "weakness". It's the second most common symptom. Again, most people with mild Covid recover fully is great, but isn't the same as most people with chronic Long Covid recover from that. https://t.co/oaPtzl3TlV

2023-01-12 23:02:00 New Long Covid study. Unvaccinated people "with mild covid-19 had an increased risk for a small number of health outcomes, most of which resolved within a year." Pro: Lengthy, large study. Solid. Note: Doesn't mean people who *do* develop chronic LC recover. LC has subtypes. https://t.co/l3nUvQWumA

2023-01-12 19:45:12 RT @chrischirp: Axing the ONS infection survey would be a MASSIVE mistake. Instead of cutting it we should be EXPANDING it - we have an op…

2023-01-12 19:06:59 This is good news, as influenza is also sharply down. However, in some seasons influenza has a second peak in spring. This year’s flu strain has a history of being more severe but this year’s vaccine is a great match to the circulating strain! Not too late to get the vaccine! https://t.co/nisaa5RZhS

2023-01-12 14:18:39 RT @zeynep: I can confirm that this is the gofundme organized by his current and past colleagues. The proceeds will go to his family. Our t…

2023-01-12 01:29:44 I can confirm that this is the gofundme organized by his current and past colleagues. The proceeds will go to his family. Our thoughts are with them. https://t.co/BYxRloLkok

2023-01-12 01:25:48 Soon after their first child was born, Blake and his wife came to a dinner. To help, I held the newborn and.. explained the central limit theorem. As one does. Result: peaceful sleep. Sad to be now raising funds for their two kids, whom he loved so much. https://t.co/BYxRloLkok https://t.co/RLpzbXmbWe

2023-01-11 13:38:34 RT @GYamey: It has been *very* instructive seeing who Elon Musk calls on to write his “Twitter Files” series—&

2023-01-10 23:11:20 @WergildBlake @zengreaser @TaylorLorenz @smithsj @robbysoave See a thread, from a very real leafing expert on functional disorders! She’s not even a post-viral infectious disease expert and look how much she has to say. Instead of addressing any of this, let’s lean on Lorenz as a “hysteric” as the critic? Weak sauce. https://t.co/RuvpgnhNZ7

2023-01-10 23:05:25 @WergildBlake @zengreaser @TaylorLorenz @smithsj @robbysoave Yes and yes.

2023-01-10 20:35:37 This is heartbreaking. My thoughts are with Blake's family. I've known him since Arab Spring. He was always nice, hard-working and considerate. But work aside, he was so happy to be a father and loved his children so much. I can't imagine how devastating this is for them. https://t.co/b56Gbl9HR8

2023-01-10 19:53:48 RT @benryanwriter: Exaggerating the threat of infectious disease has real-world harms. I got DMs all summer from parents terrified that the…

2023-01-10 18:50:55 RT @GYamey: It has been *very* instructive seeing who Elon Musk calls on to write his “Twitter Files” series—&

2023-01-10 16:36:31 Also for the idiots. Scott was among the first to highlight infection-based immunity. He just *correctly* argued vaccines were the safer way to acquire immunity. He was also wary of vaccine mandates. Inciting the loons is all this is. There is no “criticism” here. https://t.co/GKbz8szwz3

2023-01-10 15:27:49 And to the people who still think all this may be imperfect but brings accountability or balance: All Musk is doing is destroy any semblance of accountability. Unleash the loons in the stupidest manner possible is all you'll get. And no sane person will step up in the future.

2023-01-10 14:31:45 By coincidence, I ended up being among the last few tweets of a few people Musk put on crosshairs. So I get some of their mentions. The stuff they’re getting is vile beyond imagination and dangerous. Inciting the loons like this has predictable potential consequences.

2023-01-10 14:25:55 We aren’t getting transparency. Or accountability. This is all a pathetic attempt to target individuals in a reckless, dangerous and uninformative manner while pushing the stupidest theories about institutions and people. Anyway it’s now down to pandemic’s worst grifters.

2023-01-10 14:22:09 “He made money being on the board.” Yes. That’s why I was so wary. After ~three years though, I’m glad he stepped up publicly. And what Musk’s doing isn’t some critical examination. It’s trying to get people harmed by having pathetic grifters paint a target on them, one by one.

2023-01-10 14:15:38 It’s absolutely true he has a (disclosed) conflict of interest. People should take that into account. This is my impression. It was a surprise for me. He went on business/conservative media and made sensible, informative, fair comments for almost three years now. Very valuable.

2023-01-10 14:09:54 It’s true Scott is on Pfizer’s board and ex head of FDA. I was *very* wary. I didn’t expect to find him to be so informative and balanced. But he was. Among first to advocate for masks. Balanced on vaccines. Musk has him personally targeted by one of Pandemic’s worst grifters. https://t.co/Nn3sVg2p1y

2023-01-10 01:59:47 @smithsj @robbysoave Also Lorenz as easy target is lazy and shows they know they don’t have a leg to stand on. Why not me? Why not the many, many scientists who are conducting actual research? Why not a few informed patients? Just lean into Twitter personality fights and call it a day. Embarrassing.

2023-01-10 01:57:42 @smithsj @robbysoave Incredible. Hysteria? 2023. I would’ve been happy to put the hosts in touch with some of the world’s most advanced neurologists and scientists from top universities. Skepticism is fine, especially since the evidence base is strong once people do the work, but this is ridiculous.

2023-01-10 01:55:01 RT @smithsj: It’s amazing how stupid @robbysoave comes off here. “The disease component of the disease”? The half-remembered anecdotes from…

2023-01-09 23:15:12 @nickjudin Well, I’m glad to hear my work was useful!

2023-01-09 23:12:51 @LongCovidComms @ENirenberg @NIH Exactly this. There is no solution until the medical/scientific community steps up. The desperate patients are easy prey for these charlatans. Worse a few of the frauds have PhDs and are MDs, though no real research or patient experience, just like the antivax grifters.

2023-01-09 22:47:33 @nickjudin What's also weird is the same media that was so late to understanding a pandemic was on its way and wasn't going to be over in two weeks (winter/spring 2020 was very frustrating) is now falling for opposite nonsense. Alas... Not many minds are being changed at all, anymore.

2023-01-09 22:38:02 RT @phealthsean: More from an expert who actually works on this stuff (unlike Eric):

2023-01-09 22:37:28 RT @phealthsean: This is a ridiculous conspiracy theory started by Eric Feigl Ding. There is no coverup, and the data has always been publi…

2023-01-09 22:33:04 @nickjudin It still lives on Twitter widely—was just responding to someone about it. It's like the nonsensical viral article claiming that everyone was going to get Omicron every two weeks (obviously no). That faction of nonsense purveyors helped destroy credibility of non-official sources.

2023-01-09 22:31:30 @nickjudin Yep. That incorrect claim was widespread and, besides clearly wrong, it was easy to understand why so wrong by anyone observing the world and five minutes with some basic epi data, a napkin and 2nd grade math. This environment is partly why most people have completely tuned out.

2023-01-09 22:24:34 @spatt786 There's little evidence the virus is "weakening" per se — to people without any immunity, Omicron was fairly dangerous, as we saw in Hong Kong where they went from Zero Covid to an epidemic with many unvaccinated, uninfected elderly. Immunity, though, is reducing average risks.

2023-01-09 22:22:18 @nickjudin Yes, there is no other result possible, in my estimation. People who get sick more have worse health outcomes compared to people who do not get sick more. I can't imagine a different finding? (This study doesn't compare reinfection vs first infection).

2023-01-09 22:17:51 @AllyBrownSIPHER @drclairetaylor @LauraSteckley @Wikisteff So that headline "impact of reinfections" (whoever made that?) is incorrect and misleading. On the other hand, we have systematic studies from multiple countries that demonstrate, conclusively, as immunologists long told us, reinfections are milder to asymptomatic on average.

2023-01-09 22:16:13 @AllyBrownSIPHER @drclairetaylor @LauraSteckley @Wikisteff Yeah that's misleading. The paper *explicitly* does not compare reinfections to initial infections, and arrives at no other conclusion than that people who got sick more had worse outcomes than people who happen to get sick less—which is obviously true for all illnesses.

2023-01-09 19:42:29 @sheencr @kimisgubbed @Daltmann10 @IndependentSage I'm sorry to hear that. Has happened to too many immunologists, unfortunately.

2023-01-09 17:51:49 @CounsellingSam Thanks. I do try to get to questions, but some are very hard to answer on Twitter because of the way the medium works. I will, absolutely, keep writing about post-viral illness and why and how the patients need much more consideration, support and research. It's truly important.

2023-01-09 17:50:28 @DrSimonAshworth Besides contributing to the timing of wave, I think the pandemic created additional pressures on already stretched-thin hospitals: a lot more medical people are burnt out after three years, and now, unfortunately, one more respiratory illness on a system with little slack. Alas.

2023-01-09 17:48:32 @DrSimonAshworth Recent paper on that, essentially showing the relationship between susceptible pile-ups, waves and vaccines. In addition, this year's flu is H3N2—it is a more severe strain, something repeatedly shown from pre-pandemic waves. 2017-2018 too, it sucked. https://t.co/3iehG4dRr2

2023-01-09 17:42:04 @PatrickHeizer Ah, thanks. Will check. It’s incredible how much Twitter-only nonsense there is because of misrepresentation of a few papers by persistent echo-chambers. Even the actual authors of the papers cannot convince people about the *actual* results or what they mean in the real world!

2023-01-09 16:17:15 @CounsellingSam @stooplites This topic isn't about Long Covid. Clearly no widespread immunodeficiency due to COVID like with HIV—we'd see an explosion in, say, Kaposi's Sarcoma, not just viral epidemics (that ebb). That said, post-viral sequelae are very real—I've written multiple articles. Different topic.

2023-01-09 16:12:59 @CounsellingSam @stooplites Here's the second one. (It's true I'm not always on Twitter — seems like such national/international high-profile articles is a better use of my time, and such research, of course, takes time). Have a good day! https://t.co/S9lSYchQF9

2023-01-09 16:10:19 @CounsellingSam @stooplites First, obviously, this isn't about Long Covid, but since you asked. I wrote two full-page articles in the New York Times about Long Covid, which, of course, involved talking to many with the illness but also clinicians and scientists. See thread for one. https://t.co/9pG3Q9vG28

2023-01-09 15:53:21 @stooplites Twitter-only phenomenon but a few journalists fall for it here and there. It’s interesting sociologically! Actual immunologists across policy preferences keep refuting it, as it’s obviously false, but they keep getting harassed and they leave Twitter or avoid the nonsense!

2023-01-09 00:47:00 @kimisgubbed @Daltmann10 @sheencr @IndependentSage Check all the immunologists — a range of policy views — who RT’ed this, for example. Many have been harassed a lot though for stating basic facts and straightforward findings. (That’s how Twitter liars keep the con going—harass the actual scientists and anyone telling the truth). https://t.co/FkpjKLZy6R

2023-01-09 00:42:16 @kimisgubbed @Daltmann10 @sheencr @IndependentSage Here’s a few you could follow. Check where people work (or who doesn’t do any research but makes up stuff on Twitter), where they publish, if they get cited—or whether they had to block most of the actual field after being called out for misrepresenting papers again &

2023-01-09 00:39:36 @kimisgubbed @Daltmann10 @sheencr @IndependentSage Not just Prof. Altman. I asked a range of top immunologists. Here’s one of world’s top T cell experts on Long Covid subset. (Prof. Unutmaz figured out how HIV infects T cells.) Twitter-only conspiracies aside: No big rise in opportunistic infections. Lab studies consistent, too. https://t.co/SFwPskZvXp

2023-01-08 22:45:12 RT @peterbakernyt: US military initially said it had "no indications" of civilian deaths in drone strike. But in fact analysts reported wit…

2023-01-08 21:42:26 Exactly, but the other way around. Similar to climate science: systematic multi-country evidence and immunology research pointing in the same direction. Scientists *in the field* keep pointing this out. Other “side” is a few random people making baseless claims on Twitter. https://t.co/zsR8Y9lG1y

2023-01-08 20:47:12 @LCalabreseDO

2023-01-08 20:21:43 RT @byelin: Excellent thread, as usual. There are people (they know who they are) who have undermined the movement to learn more about Long…

2023-01-08 18:43:58 @KashPrime @StraightStats Totally agree on that problem. In the US, situation especially dire for pediatric care: it doesn’t make a lot of money, and there is very little slack in the already small system. Doesn’t take much to overwhem it, to great detriment of children. See this: https://t.co/cKroTLV9vZ

2023-01-08 18:16:10 @thetechnojoe @MECFSNews Here's the *co-author* of that very study trying to correct people constantly misrepresenting their study. Twitter is full of people — even MDs &

2023-01-08 17:23:36 @MECFSNews A lot of claims that this is like HIV or a flavor of it, etc. which, if untreated, always leads to horrific immunodeficiency or that there is no robust immunity to it. Short-term perturbations in the immune system are standard, of course, for every viral illness.

2023-01-08 17:20:58 @techn0politics @TaylorLorenz Absolutely. I'm convinced that for some, including many mild acute cases, COVID has triggered a horrible chronic post-viral illness—resembling ME/CFS &

2023-01-08 17:13:23 As many with a napkin and 2nd grade math ability have noticed, absurd claims about Long Covid do float around. That's *NOT* the patients' fault. Many quacks, frauds and opportunists use cancer, too. It doesn't invalidate the reality of the illness. https://t.co/m2ElfWIdQT

2023-01-08 17:06:55 As usual, I'll end with a plea to not let all this Twitter etc. nonsense lead people ignoring or denying the plight of Long Covid patients. These patients are really ill. Such upticks in horrible post-viral sequelae happened after previous pandemics, too. https://t.co/Fi31RNA5KR

2023-01-08 17:01:22 Of course, a few threads will do little good. On Twitter, this hardened into small echo-chambers impervious to evidence. Elsewhere, most everyone has tuned out, which is a shame especially since the burden of everyone tuning out falls disproportionately on the more vulnerable.

2023-01-08 16:57:55 It *is* possible to advocate for stronger protections against the burden of COVID and other respiratory illnesses — just check the prepandemic stats. It wasn't just flu either! They suck! — without making obviously empirically invalid claims. Just saying.

2023-01-08 16:47:32 We should do more to combat the burden of respiratory illnesses. The toll is real. It's high. It can be lower. Vaccines (Covid &

2023-01-08 16:37:41 Anyway, the gravely damaging pseudoscience of anti-vaxxers isn't confined to anti-vaxxers unfortunately. Science isn't infallible and not everything is fully known, obviously, but claims have to be judged by research and empirical reality. Big claims need big empirical support.

2023-01-08 16:30:52 The epi is clear enough — widespread immunodeficiency is not a subtle thing — but here's direct explanations by two eminent immunologists who are *very close* in policy preferences to strong mitigations, even zero COVID — they echo the rest of their field. https://t.co/dOx0CebLAU

2023-01-08 16:24:57 Not all good news. Look at the age breakdown of COVID-19 hospitalizations in WA and MA which track this well. Numbers largely due to people over 80, and some 70+ and 65+. Yes, the elderly do get ill from many viruses but this is also a failure of sufficient booster uptake. https://t.co/6u07itBPLh

2023-01-08 16:20:08 Updates: US flu trends: sharply down. US RSV hospitalizations: sharply down. US Monkeypox: close to zero. Same in Europe. Remember the claims that widespread post-COVID immunodeficiency had caused their earlier rises? If that were true, cases would have to be going up and up. https://t.co/AgGGvpHk1J

2023-01-07 22:27:46 Most amazing bright orange full moon rising over Manhattan, in case you’re local and want to look up. (Sorry crappy camera for the job). https://t.co/n7LmnLUvUe

2023-01-07 22:11:27 @smithsj Yeah. I can’t blame the patients — when one is so sick and when the medical establishment is treating you this badly, who can blame them? But I do blame the enablers. That process of empowering cranks, liars and posers discredits the reality and the urgency of the illness.

2023-01-07 22:07:42 @nataliesurely (I don’t think the letter is weak. I also don’t think your article covered most of it. By “weak” I mean making it look like the criticisms are a person’s tweet. It’s not. The article was weak, wrong, outdated and should be retracted or allow a lengthy reply, in my opinion).

2023-01-07 22:02:00 @microbear1

2023-01-07 22:00:12 @nataliesurely Your article had a many factual issues and basically lack of consideration for updated science that were raised by a lot of people, so picking the weakest arguments against isn’t a great idea. But it’s easy, I guess. I think NR should consider retracting or publishing a reply.

2023-01-07 21:57:42 @wsbgnl Those aren’t the ones that fool people who tend to follow me or traditional media like Toronto Star. This crowd does via a combination of relentless pseudoscience, ignoring empirical reality and abusive mob harassment tactics directed at anyone who points out the obvious.

2023-01-07 21:40:18 This “self-described” guy was quoted widely, including by the Toronto Star as an expert. His stuff never made sense. Gaining platform on Covid Twitter while spouting nonsense and being a misogynist jerk seem common. Narcissists exploiting people’s fears and information voids… https://t.co/au5OYsSntb

2023-01-07 21:30:13 @andrew_croxford Shocking, right? The most convoluted, evidence-free Twitter only theory is obviously empirically false.

2023-01-07 20:09:20 RT @jonathanstea: Two hallmark warning signs of pseudoscience: - Evasion of peer review - A focus on confirmation rather than refutation…

2023-01-07 19:51:45 RT @Daltmann10: Adaptive immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 persist in the pharyngeal lymphoid tissue of children | Nature Immunology. ‘Our re…

2023-01-06 05:31:24 CAFIAC FIX

2023-01-03 15:31:24 @afilonov @elonmusk Actually this long predates that. Some of the “experts” Twitter officially recommended were… absolutely unreliable.

2023-01-03 15:24:17 @alf_hanna Not their crew scheduling software.

2023-01-03 15:18:59 @sebastiangood @CJHandmer @idlewords @pameeela We can't yet manage true closed-loop life support systems on earth *with* gravity and endless water, and in some cases even with air for free, for the kind of length of time that would get us to Mars, let alone stay there. Send the robots! Send lots of robots!

2023-01-03 15:15:02 @VersatiIeTwink @wanderer_jasnah The worst offenders are the few MDs and PhDs, imo, that rode the misery of other people to a Twitter following, and then blocked the actual rest of the field— accusing everyone else of being "minimizers", rude, etc. etc. Pathological liars that discredit science is their reality.

2023-01-03 15:13:17 @VersatiIeTwink @wanderer_jasnah It's especially weird because influenza does so much damage, including sometimes triggering debilitating post-viral illness. These liars prey on the patients, by simultaneously downplaying other viruses AND lying about this one AND making up stuff about immunity. Unconscionable.

2023-01-03 14:26:54 RT @propublica: ProPublica is looking for three newsrooms to join our Local Reporting Network! Deadline to apply: Feb. 1. (THREAD) https…

2023-01-03 04:57:22 RT @smithsj: If you have post-COVID POTS and can get to NorthShore Glenbrook Hospital (near Chicago) once a week for 24 weeks for infusions…

2023-01-03 04:41:26 That kind of day again. (Not referring to the medical doctors giving educated information about the observed event but the anecdote warriors who’ve long ago decided everything is due to past Covid OR the past vaccination). https://t.co/YfdoTixvNM

2023-01-03 00:38:13 RT @bengrosser: .@zeynep focuses on the relationships between old software, technical debt, executive reward, and deregulation as the heart…

2023-01-02 23:35:16 @OldDogHotel @LCalabreseDO Also here’s an print version of both in NYT in case it’s easier to access. https://t.co/8hX74LkC9C

2023-01-02 23:34:08 @OldDogHotel @rosanthony3 @MEActNet Does this work? https://t.co/TqGksk5RwJ

2023-01-02 23:28:45 @OldDogHotel @LCalabreseDO And gift link to my other follow article on post-viral illness. (Working on more atm). https://t.co/9od4Fqk95l

2023-01-02 23:25:33 @OldDogHotel @LCalabreseDO Gift link here! https://t.co/ekqUM0zLkJ

2023-01-02 22:59:40 @LCalabreseDO @my @ClevelandClinic Thank you! Will look.

2023-01-02 22:50:18 @wanderer_jasnah Since when is making up facts about the virus or the immune system or variants not allowed on Twitter? That crowd does that all the time. Including a few PhDs and MDs. Retrovirus, it is.

2023-01-02 22:31:53 @woolhatwoman @Doc_Valerie I learned of systems designed in the 90s that were using to two digits. 1990s!

2023-01-02 19:03:20 Yes, exactly. https://t.co/eBoUXldxrv

2023-01-02 18:17:12 @LCalabreseDO

2023-01-02 16:27:16 Government oversight doesn't mean micromanaging software. It means holding companies accountable for preventable failures because they decided to take the cheap route. Commercial flying is safe exactly because it is regulated well. Boeing Max debacle is example of when it fails.

2023-01-02 02:17:29 RT @idlewords: Here's the first installment of my case against landing human beings on Mars. You may think you disagree, but I'm going to t…

2023-01-02 01:36:03 RT @DrEBrauner: More about the Southwest debacle https://t.co/TQahQSzGmn

2023-01-01 17:59:48 RT @anecdotal: The excellent @zeynep details the history here but too late. What kind of stories were needed and where did they need to app…

2023-01-01 17:51:47 RT @greenhousenyt: While Southwest's CEO focused on maximizing profits—and avoiding big investments in software because that would reduce p…

2023-01-01 16:13:31 RT @rkgwork: "In March, in its open letter to the company, the union even placed updating the creaking scheduling technology above its dema…

2023-01-01 16:03:21 @MarketUrbanism @Queens4Evah Same. Would love a source. I have ton about the tuberculosis ventilation connection from early 20th century. Also corners accumulating pathogens. But interested now if this claim is single-source.

2023-01-01 15:57:50 @MarketUrbanism @Fwstanton So did know if the claim was single-sourced (seen it from multiple post-pandemic publications) and will look up, that said, they definitely understood the ventilation/tuberculosis connection and there were campaigns and designs about it. Agree any "mandate" would have records.

2023-01-01 15:46:25 @MarketUrbanism @Fwstanton Let me see. It’s not a post-pandemic claim.

2023-01-01 14:57:36 RT @michaelehead: Currently reading Sooner, Safer, Happier and at the part about Boeing’s abysmal company culture during the early 2000s. I…

2023-01-01 05:59:20 And yes, this. May 2023 bring health to more. https://t.co/rLzKY8jOcY

2023-01-01 05:43:13 Cheering on the 35+ minute 5k runners through Central Park, my best time, lol. What a great tradition, the midnight run. Here’s to doing more of many things for another year just because it’s fun, whatever the rankings. Happy New Year! https://t.co/OhM9igkWRO

2023-01-01 02:00:55 RT @ericacbarnett: Great explanation of the problems that felled @southwestair over the holidays and why a similar situation is inevitable…

2023-01-01 00:06:32 Cafiac Fix

2022-12-29 00:06:32 RT @RickABright: This is amazing to be able to test for 4 different viruses in a single, low-cost, in-home rapid test. This type of technol…

2022-12-29 00:00:12 *waves at chromeos folks* Last update broke access to Files/Folders in incognito mode. Anyone know when/if/how to fix this? (Preemptively: I *do* have a use case for this

2022-12-28 19:28:18 @zergdonkey @DanTappan I'd like to know if there was any "dial down the oxygen" in NYC in early 2020. I know the supply was strained and I followed "ran out of oxygen" stories elsewhere. But this is the first claim I've seen that they "dialed it down", and in a very public way. Someone should remember.

2022-12-28 19:09:15 @jonst0kes @mattyglesias Btw who really benefits from him mismanaging Twitter like this? Traditional gatekeepers. Twitter had mixed dynamics, but it did give space to dissidents, smaller voices, etc. at the expense of traditional gatekeepers. The current implosion and/or Mastodon flight helps them most.

2022-12-28 19:05:17 @DanTappan The supply was strained. They ended up putting tanks in ICUs, where they don't normally use them. If it got to the point that there was an "overhead speaker" announcement publicly telling medical staff to dial down down the oxygen, there should be a witness or two around, no?

2022-12-28 19:02:23 @fromgroundlevel @Disney I don't disagree with you on Disney's behavior on China. Disney is also sues academics to stop them from publishing critical academic articles few would even read. It's terrible. Disney is also not seen as a leader of free speech blah blah by a deceived fan base.

2022-12-28 18:57:53 @jonst0kes @mattyglesias The other groups may irritate you, but have marginal power on most things that matter. And they have their own grifters who benefit from this. They're fine. They're probably more than fine, in fact. Couldn't ask for a better "enemy", so to speak.

2022-12-28 18:56:35 @jonst0kes @mattyglesias Spear? Instead, they'll get eaten alive by more traditional, profit-driven capitalists as well as by lawyers because they're running things by the seat of their pants, while subsuming to powers like China.

2022-12-28 18:50:53 Any NYC medical staff or patient remember an announcement from the "overhead speaker" in early 2020 to "dial down the oxygen?" Surely, there'd be witnesses to a public announcement. An important fact to document, if so. India actually ran out of oxygen, it was catastrophic. https://t.co/N0MUkkF8AD https://t.co/Wd3MzmmjLq

2022-12-28 18:39:05 @jonst0kes @mattyglesias I submit that "fragile ego playing to an increasingly fringe fan base" will be a better fit as an explanation than "strong convictions held back by unpleasant but necessary trade-offs." He's not making those trade-offs where they'd count. He's not trade-off driven.

2022-12-28 18:37:25 @jonst0kes @mattyglesias Also, how stupid is it to *polarize* around his one paid product, by constantly saying the previous blue checks were so desperate and lame etc. etc. they'd pony up. He made it hard for most to pay. But while blue checks should have opened up, the existing ones helped the ecology.

2022-12-28 18:36:27 @jonst0kes @mattyglesias They're checking you're not imitating a brand/celeb, not authenticating you. Not the same.

2022-12-28 18:30:45 @jonst0kes @mattyglesias I wanted them to open up verification, but they're not verifying. Just selling checks. I'm a huge proponent of subscription systems. But Twitter blue is almost identically to what it's been for two years. You still can't search or download your bookmarks. Where's the new code?

2022-12-28 18:28:45 I'm not saying hypocrisy due to business interests is a problem for him alone. That's pretty common. I'm saying his behavior isn't demonstrating lack of purity, but a lack of conviction and a fragile ego. Hypocrisy requires conviction to begin with. https://t.co/cMtaPGwTFq

2022-12-28 18:21:43 @jonst0kes @mattyglesias Extremely thin-skinned, impulsive, and nobody around to stop him from tweeting lamest "tiny testicles" "insult" at 2am to a rando account AND he believes whatever stupid theories get thrown at him as long as it flatter him even in the dumbest way. Trumpian. Watch this space, eh?

2022-12-28 18:17:53 @jonst0kes @mattyglesias He could have had it all: a few firings for cred, turn over docs to good journalists, intro transparency, reinstate some suspensions, ship new product worth paying for... But his ego can't resist the unhinged wing of the fan cub. Watch China &

2022-12-28 18:06:02 @jonst0kes @mattyglesias Okay, but even assuming a purely instrumentalist approach (whatever his convictions, does the behavior result in something you like "net-net"), I'll wager you'll lose "net-net", including say, platform overreach/monopoly, biosafety, performative/excessive mitigations, etc.

2022-12-28 17:58:52 @jonst0kes @mattyglesias Cost benefit, hypocrisy, cowardice, etc. are obviously not limited to him. Agree other corporations/celebs doing the same with China. But he's pretending he's *driven* by free speech and overdone mitigations, lab leak concerns etc. etc. Come on. Bridge in King's County for sale.

2022-12-28 17:58:51 RT @PM_Thornton: DW: Zhang Zhan, the citizen journalist arrested for reporting on the #Wuhan lockdown, marks her second year in prison in #…

2022-12-28 17:56:02 @jonst0kes @mattyglesias Actually, at least I am saying the opposite. What he's saying publicly is NOT what he privately cares about—like with China, look at behavior is the better test. He's tweeting red meat at his increasingly lamer online fans. The behavior is proof of lack of strong private belief.

2022-12-27 20:25:59 @Illusionist999 @Steve_Sailer @jonstewart I don't get the urge to belittle patients or deny its reality. Complex chronic illnesses can be especially cruel, and we just had a pandemic so it's not surprising that some people suffered worse and chronic outcomes. I wish we had better data. But that's not the patients fault.

2022-12-27 20:23:34 @Illusionist999 @Steve_Sailer @jonstewart I don't have an exact numbers lacking data, especially since it has sub-types: post-ICU folks like other severe illnesses

2022-12-27 20:21:23 @Illusionist999 @Steve_Sailer @jonstewart I have looked into available studies. The research into the epidemiology is not great, and we haven't put enough work into identifying biomarkers (simple clinical stuff obviously don't work — but it's not the first time a very real illness didn't, at first, have biomarkers).

2022-12-27 20:20:13 @ellbail @jonstewart Yeah. Paging Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts (for real: the illness does need a celebrity or two to coax proper research and relief funds out of lawmakers).

2022-12-27 17:32:06 @Steve_Sailer @jonstewart We don’t have a number for what you say: people “claiming” to have Long Covid. The epidemiology is lacking. A few people on Twitter with weird claims? So what? People fake cancer. That doesn’t make cancer fake. The illness is real. The suffering is real. That’s what’s important.

2022-12-27 17:06:41 @TheClarksTale @Steve_Sailer @jonstewart Look up their history. Especially ulcers. For the longest time it was seen as psychological in cause, especially for ambitious men who were thought to be defying doctors. A few doctors persisted and proved bacteria. In addition, stomach cancer have now essentially disappeared.

2022-12-27 15:18:08 @Steve_Sailer @jonstewart May be a better comparison for you is ulcers? For decades, men were told that peptic ulcers —a painful, potentially fatal illness— were result of their driven personalities and noncompliance with doctors. It was in the eighties that medicine caught up with its bacterial causes.

2022-12-27 15:15:42 @Steve_Sailer @jonstewart You mean modern version of multiple sclerosis, another post-viral illness? Luckily, after decades of denying the illness, which does occur more in women, as there are significant differences in the immune systems of men and women, we got advanced tech to visualize the lesions.

2022-12-27 15:03:23 Yes, the epi is lacking. Yes, some sketchy people got high profile on social media by using the issue. But that's not the patients fault! They are real. Their suffering is real. A substantial number of people are severely ill. Trials are sluggish and few. There is no cure.

2022-12-27 14:56:20 Also please look at this issue beyond the Twitter dramas and personalities, which do not necessarily represent, and absolutely do not invalidate dire reality. There are a substantial number of people who are very, very ill and have run out of options, financially and personally.

2022-12-27 14:52:36 Urging news editors not to overlook Long Covid patients in their 2022 roundups. Some have had their third Christmas while desperately ill. After 9/11 it took years (and @jonstewart) to get action on the ongoing health problems of the first responders. We should not repeat that. https://t.co/tkloJz6nr5

2022-12-27 14:42:19 It's a skill but unfortunately, it's part of how authoritarian systems end up in big trouble, too. Nobody left to tell the big guy the facts.

2022-12-27 05:17:20 RT @mestizoqueso: TFW someone reminds you that the markets reopen tomorrow. https://t.co/4ZngsJg99m

2022-12-26 23:30:37 The point isn’t Medvedev was making straightforward predictions. (He’s not stupid). It’s that they purposefully do this messaging aimed at certain kinds of personalities. https://t.co/xv08kJuvRG

2022-12-26 23:25:50 @jason_pontin I get what they’re mocking. But the Elon reference/response is classic—it’s designed to elicit his reaction. And they actually used these themes in their actual propaganda efforts.

2022-12-26 23:03:55 "Yes, sir, all your [half-baked] ideas are most amazing ideas, sir. Those so-called elites that look down on you are the real stupid ones, sir. You're the most amazing brilliant one, sir." Many in countries ruled for long by authoritarians have to learn to do this to survive.

2022-12-26 22:57:43 Official Russia isn't that good at understanding the US—Texas secession is an ongoing theme in their propaganda because their mental model is Central Asian republics that *would* want to secede. But they know how to identify and flatter certain personality types. See also Trump. https://t.co/T5sncxLn0O

2022-12-26 22:50:03 @petersgoodman @DeanBaker13 @delong @dwallacewells @Noahpinion I don't think there's substantive "better" that they'd need to shell out for, though, for a different result. Inactivated vaccines may even be more appropriate now compared with with spike-only ones, given antigenic evolution, had they actually used them to vaccinate fully.

2022-12-26 20:11:29 @petersgoodman @DeanBaker13 @delong @dwallacewells @Noahpinion Again, key paper. There is some advantages here, too. Their vaccines are fine. https://t.co/1cYNcBL8ae

2022-12-26 20:04:46 @petersgoodman @DeanBaker13 @delong @dwallacewells @Noahpinion If they were being rational, they would’ve at least opened up slowly with some mitigations to protect hospital capacity. And they would gave properly used the vaccines they had. They’re fine as vaccines. This is classic authoritarian incompetence and callousness, imo.

2022-12-26 20:02:31 @petersgoodman @DeanBaker13 @delong @dwallacewells @Noahpinion But not because of the type of vaccine. Their vaccines are perfectly fine for all their purposes as long as it’s implemented properly, meaning the population got vaccinated and boosted. Inactivated vaccines have trade-offs, not all of it for the worse. They didn’t vaccinate well.

2022-12-26 15:29:40 @delong @dwallacewells @Noahpinion They don’t even seem to have managed fever medication supply, especially for children. Uncontrolled high fever is a risk. Just terrible management to have it spread this fast without good preparation. It’s so incompetent that it boggles the mind. Authoritarianism isn’t efficient.

2022-12-26 15:26:40 @delong @dwallacewells @Noahpinion Inactivated vaccines have drawbacks but may have other advantages even, and they could have managed this so much better. Better vaccination campaign. Slow exit with continuing mitigations to protect hospital capacity rather than this rapid pivot during respiratory virus season.

2022-12-26 15:23:41 @delong @dwallacewells @Noahpinion There are too many elderly unvaccinated and undervaccinated, plus they didn’t do a proper booster campaign this fall: important for elderly folks whose immune memory is less robust—true for all viruses. Plus they didn’t update hospital capacity so rapid spread is a big problem.

2022-12-26 01:22:15 @vijayiyer312 Yeah, not sure but it’s an interesting finding. Needs a deeper five. The lack of precision in defining Long Covid subsets is probably one of the biggest obstacles to efficient research. And yet, saying this results in Twitter pile-ons and backlash.

2022-12-25 18:34:17 @onegrenouille They got the endpoint by asking about clinical diagnosis so no other information. Not sure if they can go back and dig up the info. I hope they do.

2022-12-25 18:33:02 We should have had / and should have so many more clinical trials UK Recovery Trial. Randomized, blinded clinical trials are so, so valuable even from a basic science point of view. They provide huge clues to potential mechanisms to explore.

2022-12-25 18:30:49 Please note this from co-author. While it needs more investigation, it doesn't appear to be merely undiagnosed or pre-diabetes. Metformin is known to have anti-viral properties. This is a very interesting finding and why clinical trials are so important. https://t.co/vOhTi45nYz

2022-12-25 18:26:02 Ivermectin, no effect. Fluvoxamine... what's up? Weird curve, and while difference isn't statistically significant but it is in the wrong direction. Needs investigation, could be an important clue. Also, note the sex differences. Blinded study, but larger effect size for women.

2022-12-25 18:20:57 Significant. Two weeks on metformin, an anti-diabetic drug, reduced Long Covid diagnosis by 42% in high-BMI patients (>

2022-12-25 17:15:41 RT @SecKermani: Brave Afghan women protest against the Taliban’s ban on them attending university in Herat The Taliban *fire a water cann…

2022-12-25 15:11:43 @AngelidisAn @VirusesImmunity @PutrinoLab @resiapretorius @Daltmann10 @WesElyMD Wishing health to all, and may 2023 be the year for scientific breakthroughs for treatments that spread health to Long Covid patients.

2022-12-25 15:00:59 @dwallacewells @Noahpinion Also see, pretty important given where they are. https://t.co/1cYNcBLFZM

2022-12-25 14:50:49 @dwallacewells @Noahpinion I think there is more than enough evidence their vaccines are just fine, just need extra doses. There are papers *and* immunological reasons suggesting they work well, especially for severity. The Hk data is fine. Lack of mRNA vaccines are a rounding error to their core issues.

2022-12-24 18:38:20 RT @dakekang: I just came back from two harrowing days traveling from emergency ward to emergency ward around Baoding in Hebei, one of the…

2022-12-23 21:47:03 @ClarissaOakes2 Lol

2022-12-23 21:46:46 Also true. But my observation is that Twitter is very much a “rich get richer” environment. Some tweets get huge views, most get very, very few. Power law / preferential attachment type dynamics. This is likely true for all engagement-driven social media environments. https://t.co/V0xVlLAWUB

2022-12-23 19:27:21 Viewcounts discourage replies and threads, the conversational aspects which are more interesting parts of Twitter for many, and encourage broadcast-style tweeting and gunning for virality—engagement-driven dynamics. Basically, viewcounts likely discouraging for small accounts. https://t.co/an5cB9KjPz

2022-12-23 17:39:00 RT @chrischirp: See also this thread from @jburnmurdoch today where he brings the receipts (and a much broader conversation than just healt…

2022-12-23 17:16:36 RT @crtrud: Talked $TSLA this morning with @EdLudlow and @mattmiller1973 Will the third time Musk says "I'm done selling" be the charm?…

2022-12-23 14:00:21 @BenMazer At this point, it’s mostly a small Twitter bubble. I feel bad for the people they conned, which, unfortunately, even includes some scientists who have been very understandably disappointed by the official response, especially on denial of airborne transmission, and lost trust.

2022-12-23 13:57:17 @BenMazer I’ve seen the same crew discount findings or attempts to explain from very Zero Covid friendly eminent immunologists, from prominent Long Covid researchers, and even the authors of the studies they are “citing” (aka screenshots or snippets of jargon the audience can’t interpret)!

2022-12-23 13:55:03 @BenMazer So Long Covid —obviously a debilitating condition for many— findings should all be chased down. But the brouhaha over *maybe* but also very tiny (statistically significant but unclear if actually different) among the recovered is fascinating because all people seek is *keywords*.

2022-12-23 13:15:19 RT @CityLimitsNews: New Job Alert! City Limits, an award-winning nonprofit newsroom that has covered New York City since 1976, is seeking a…

2022-12-23 13:14:24 Despite the claim that the suspended journalists would be reinstated, at least the CNN and Washington Post reporters remain kicked off Twitter. They had noted the developments around the account reporting private jet info that Musk said would allow but later reversed course on. https://t.co/8O3lptg2hz

2022-12-23 04:27:26 RT @Campster: This whole thread is at once incredible and utterly unsurprising

2022-12-23 04:11:50 RT @niubi: TikTok admits tracking FT journalist in leaks investigation https://t.co/ijCJ5u2hX9 2 members of staff in US and 2 in China gain…

2022-12-23 01:29:26 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @BallouxFrancois @macroliter @michaelmina_lab @jakescottMD @origincanada It’s as if the entire field of aerosol science was saying transmission was airborne but there was a *Twitter only* theory it was *fomite only*—where things are at with Twitter only faux immunology. Not sure much else to do but let many eventually realize immunology is a field?

2022-12-23 01:25:14 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @BallouxFrancois @macroliter @michaelmina_lab @jakescottMD @origincanada They don’t even listen to immunologists like Danny Altmann of UK Indie Sage—close to Zero Covid world. They don’t listen to Akiko Iwasaki. They don’t listen to authors of studies they cite in these threads! But it’s Twitter only. Many immunologists may never heard these claims.

2022-12-22 21:19:06 RT @NasimiShabnam: Brave women out on the streets of Kabul today following Talibans BAN on female education. “They closed the schools, the…

2022-12-22 21:17:25 RT @darren_olivier: Phenomenal and damning reporting by the NY Times, providing strong evidence of the intentional killing of civilians in…

2022-12-22 20:07:09 RT @nytimes: ByteDance, the China-based parent company of TikTok, said an internal investigation found that employees had inappropriately o…

2022-12-22 03:59:36 @semaforben @mattblaze Among other things, Musk made the blue check pointless as a signal for reliable curation of news, breaking or otherwise. Why would anyone bother wading even more through noise? News, if it’s there, is harder to find. That’s what happens when people don’t understand ecology.

2022-12-22 03:08:44 @nothingsmonstrd @juicemoorthy The post-Musk changes are, indeed, minimal except the “own the libs” bit. So much for hard core coding.

2022-12-22 02:18:12 @sethjberman How about Twitter ships some product one can subscribe to? The current blue does nothing really useful.

2022-12-22 02:16:00 @juicemoorthy Where’s the experimentation? I’ve been advocating for subscriptions for about a decade now. But one has to offer subscriptions. That do something useful. The current blue model is “pay to own the libs”. That’s… not even a big market.

2022-12-22 02:12:35 @Aelkus https://t.co/EvSualhwCd

2022-12-22 02:00:27 Remarkable clip and thread. I complain that academics don’t put enough effort into understanding the financial structure of our sector, but… that’s not really part of their job. (They still should, imo). This is.. the basics of the business he purchased. To great brouhaha. https://t.co/Fe95JbUaop

2022-12-22 01:42:28 @Anto_Berto Neither repeated in-depth empirical work by so many immunology labs nor the obvious results from the global epidemiological curve can convince the argument by screenshot crowd, but maybe they can ask Elon Musk to do a poll.

2022-12-21 22:17:27 “27% are under 1 year old, meaning they're too young to be vaccinated and were relying on herd immunity for protection.” The anti-vaxxers and their enablers are endangering so many kids, including those too young to be vaccinated. https://t.co/NXnpB6a5uh

2022-12-21 17:29:09 Maybe shipping something new and useful would have moved the paid for blue check’s appeal beyond “own the libs” and/or narcissism. https://t.co/YGetP40rNP

2022-12-21 16:14:17 The way so many men’s stalkery obsession with women is excused as “criticism” amidst so much violence toward women is unacceptable and horrific. So often, it’s clear it’s pure obsession, nothing else. There is hardly a pretense. It’s the enablers that are especially infuriating.

2022-12-21 16:05:20 Employed as journalist. What is it with the UK? “His column, which was published on Sunday, said he was "dreaming of the day when [M Markle] is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while crowds chant, 'Shame!' and throw lumps of excrement at her". https://t.co/Lz0fCcxn8B

2022-12-21 14:17:20 RT @nayyeroar: Up until this moment, there were more women in Afghan universities than men. In a province like Herat, 80% were women.

2022-12-20 22:16:53 RT @nameshiv: I'm genuinely impressed by just how deftly this dude who has never been to the USA constantly pretends to be a US citizen in…

2022-12-20 22:09:25 @amyhoy I dunno. I’m sure stalking may be an issue for famous people. Even i have weirdos obsessed with me, and I’m nobody really. I sympathize with being worried. But no part of this incident seems to involve his private plane’s (not that hard to find with public information) location.

2022-12-20 22:03:53 Musk’s security is the suspect, not victim, says police. “The South Pasadena police has confirmed that an incident involving two vehicles was reported to the police.. but said that a member of Elon Musk’s security team is currently a suspect in the investigation, not a victim.” https://t.co/VrhRWbY2YN

2022-12-20 21:53:01 RT @EpsilonTheory: It's so weird that the macroeconomic environment has impacted Tesla (-41%) and not Ford (+1%) or GM (+8%) over the past…

2022-12-20 21:49:19 @oldfshndanne I’m not mocking anyone. What do you want me to do when immunologists after immunologist, even those whose papers he is citing allegedly in his defense, call him out while he *obsesses* with me? Years. I’ve nothing to do with his one-sided obsession. Anyway, do untag me. Thanks.

2022-12-20 21:40:02 @RichardfromSyd1 @wanderer_jasnah @jburnmurdoch Mild was for when so many people had immunity. Not true in China.

2022-12-20 20:53:48 @wanderer_jasnah @jburnmurdoch Yeah. Fingers crossed they aren’t as badly-prepared as their wildly rapid pivot suggests.

2022-12-20 20:49:51 @MarkELindsay @BenMazer It’s like sprinkling menthol smell on medication. It makes it.. mediciney.

2022-12-20 20:48:43 @jburnmurdoch Yeah but the HK death rate. While some people had nutty R0 numbers because they couldn’t calculate that properly, the CFR got ignored. I wouldn’t be surprised if the immunonaive Omicron CFR is higher than OG Wuhan. Tragic.

2022-12-20 20:45:45 @oldfshndanne Amazing multiyear obsession. I suggest he continue to tweet about immunologists and tag them, or maybe unblock them, as so many have already called him out. This stalkery obsession with me is nuts.

2022-12-20 20:43:39 @oldfshndanne Is that dude obsessively tweeting about me, still??? I know he’s blocked many immunologists or is blocked by them for harassing them. Why the obsession with me? I am *not* the reason his Covid papers remain uncited and so many immunologist have called him out for misinformation.

2022-12-20 20:40:10 @jburnmurdoch We’ve known this from Hong Kong, too. The “mildness” was from population immunity which, of course had a huge impact here. The China situation is tragic.

2022-12-20 20:37:49 @BenMazer @MarkELindsay Is that just US??? Like 10x car deaths???

2022-12-20 20:27:24 @MarkELindsay Lol

2022-12-20 20:27:15 @BenMazer @MarkELindsay Just some napkin math would help some much with these claims!!

2022-12-20 20:21:19 @MarkELindsay Nuts.

2022-12-20 01:26:13 RT @anwesh_satpathy: cannot believe we're at this stage now. https://t.co/vj80PIfbzk

2022-12-20 00:36:44 @goldman https://t.co/xlwESJorPr

2022-12-19 23:58:44 @scienceoverbias @AukeHoekstra Suggest getting off Twitter or find some scientists around you to ask. Have a great day!

2022-12-19 23:58:02 @scienceoverbias @AukeHoekstra Think before getting your science from content farms. If that were true, what would the world look like, given repeat infections are pretty common? That was an observational study on VA veterans: those likely to get reinfected during Delta were already worse off—selection effect.

2022-12-19 23:29:02 Of course, that’s already pretty clear from the epidemiological curve, regardless of Twitter nonsense—of which there is a lot these days. Though still sad for people victimized by all the lies and quackery, grateful for how many lives have been saved by these vaccines.

2022-12-19 23:25:36 New from Özlem Türeci &

2022-12-19 22:26:03 @goldman $tsla plus a debt structure with a big feedback loop will do that, I guess, eventually.

2022-12-19 22:12:38 Meanwhile, *actual* unvaccinated children are dying around the world from measles, the vaccine for which Elon Musk’s buddy Robert F. Kennedy is relentlessly lying about. All this isn’t “criticism” of Dr. Fauci either. It’s just unhinged, baseless rage. This isn’t entertaining. https://t.co/0OqCQSbdcN

2022-12-19 16:27:56 RT @garyblack00: What’s clear from Elon’s tweets last night: 1) Twitter in far worse shape than many believe (“be careful what you wish fo…

2022-12-19 03:51:19 @KDbyProxy Pretty much.

2022-12-19 03:48:51 Twitter a publisher??? Section 230. EU laws. Digital Markets Act. Lawyers leafing through yacht brochures, dreaming. Seized oligarch yachts perhaps within reach? Even funnier: many traditional publishers allow this, so making lawyers dream of based on a false comparison. https://t.co/9eO3ilFi52

2022-12-19 02:40:25 @sspencer_smb How is that Twitter debt going to work? Something has to give. The options aren’t endless.

2022-12-19 02:34:00 This is what that vote is about. Seems like an attempt at saving face before being forced to jump ship, anyway, by financial realities. (His creditors are certainly taking a huge haircut, too). https://t.co/2GJ7vJil3I

2022-12-19 02:11:29 @jbarro Creditors must have reconciled themselves to the large haircut by now, no? He clearly wants to drop it all and run away, probably has to, financially, but needs an excuse to save face. Hence a poll! Vox pecuniae, vox Dei.

2022-12-18 23:40:57 RT @kendallybrown: Shot // Chaser https://t.co/81ozcie9es

2022-12-18 18:27:42 RT @theosanderson: I guess somebody needs to set up a fedifinder which stores the connections in a DB rather than relying on bios. Could ve…

2022-12-18 18:03:27 RT @chrischirp: free speech absolutist

2022-12-18 17:30:50 Elon Musk and Jared Kushner’s actual realtime location disclosed—unlike a link to an account with information about an otherwise easily findable location of a *plane*. What’s the rule again? Anyway, Elon Musk and Trump’s son-in-law Kushner enjoying the World Cup final together. https://t.co/xJbhPIdr9E

2022-12-18 03:25:44 RT @donmoyn: 2. One of the reporters (still) suspended wrote nothing about his flight data. They simply have covered Musk critically. https…

2022-12-17 19:52:08 RT @emollick: Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics &

2022-12-17 17:16:08 @noUpside @paulg @lexfridman @elonmusk Though not even discussing building "communities online". Seems kind of obvious that "what's today's half-baked idea on how to own the libs" may not be a great business plan. That may be fine for the owner, though Tesla shareholders seem also to have noticed that's the plan.

2022-12-17 16:01:01 @shasha55 Yikes. Sorry. People are.. well, there are so many, and all kinds of people exist even if few. Ignoring is best.

2022-12-17 15:58:47 @vansk24 @paulg @lexfridman @elonmusk That’s a question for… 2024, in any real sense given even an optimistic production timeline.

2022-12-17 15:47:46 @hari Boring isn’t making that kind of money. The other two candidates, in addition, depend on government subsidies and/or EU sentiment. Then there’s the China dependency. And the lenders who’ll clearly take a haircut. It’s.. interesting.

2022-12-17 15:28:17 Anyway, the interesting question is how the debt will eventually be restructured, aka which company will be sacrificed for the boring part—main character meltdown of the day, on loop. The debt restructuring is clearly where the action is, and is playing outside blue check wars.

2022-12-17 15:13:48 @vijayiyer312 A good many niche communities have moved off as a group. I mean, if technical aspects of ML or astrophysics is your thing, you don't need to be on Twitter, especially if the rest of Twitter is about the main character meltdown of the day. The serendipity part is definitely worse.

2022-12-17 14:51:54 As an academic who studies platforms, this turmoil is interesting to me but isn't everyone else already bored to tears? There is entertaining chaos of sorts day-to-day, but overall, it's boring. Not that much new to say tbh. It may matter, but it's otherwise.. kinda boring.

2022-12-17 14:48:33 @zamishka I get paid, as an academic, to study all this! By turmoil, you mean fodder for my future paid work on topics that I find fun. It's a great job, can't complain. Blessed. I wonder how everyone else isn't bored to tears, though? I guess if not much else is going on for them?

2022-12-17 14:07:11 RT @roby_bhatt: Two papers this month w outcomes data for BA.5 bivalent booster: - 30-50% effective vs symptomatic infection - 73% effectiv…

2022-12-17 14:03:17 @bhartehome @paulg @lexfridman @elonmusk Not really. Previous brigading attempts via mass reporting were weak in effect though people tried it all the time anyway. Adding friction would make something harder. Not so. This makes paid-for brigading sanctioned and effective—in fact, it makes it part of the business model.

2022-12-17 12:48:28 RT @roscaf: New business plan for bot farms, charge a few to mass mute attack people

2022-12-17 12:38:45 @Shadowling000 @paulg @lexfridman @elonmusk Yes, reporting, which requires employee action and thus expensive, is heavily disincentivized. And turning “the only tool that makes the site tolerable for many” into a brigading tool.. will go in a very predictable path. Also expect mass preemptive blocking of Blue paid users.

2022-12-17 12:27:51 @paulg @lexfridman @elonmusk As far as I can tell, the new business model seems to be: “Can’t ship product so let’s try to monetize ‘owning the libs’ and see what happens.” Napkin math has an answer to how that will go, just from the business side.

2022-12-17 12:14:49 @paulg @lexfridman @elonmusk We *know* exactly what will happen. Groups have been organizing fake mass reporting of ideological opponents for a long time. So the brigading will get supercharged. Meanwhile, Twitter blue still not offering actual new functionality, say better analytics, to incentivize subs.

2022-12-16 23:54:14 RT @talmonsmith: yo this is getting wild, @lopezlinette is both a great markets reporter and someone who also just happens to have done gr…

2022-12-16 03:01:00 For real tragicomic / ridiculous territory here. https://t.co/fsHTuu8mxR

2022-12-16 02:57:40 RT @DaveLeeFT: Twitter is preventing me (and others) from linking to their Mastodon profiles here https://t.co/KSfk26XbT1

2022-12-16 02:52:23 RT @Osinttechnical: Steve Herman, Voice of America's chief national correspondent, has been suspended. https://t.co/CplgDQefND

2022-12-16 02:50:07 RT @dburbach: Good lord, Twitter is now marking any Mastodon link as "sensitive content" and taking you to a "this link may be unsafe" warn…

2022-12-16 01:37:59 RT @oneunderscore__: Political pundit @keitholbermann has been suspended by Twitter. He had been tweeting critically of Elon Musk.

2022-12-16 01:31:43 RT @lichtspektrum: While so many of my journalist peers covering the Musk beat are being banned on Twitter literally right now, I would lik…

2022-12-16 01:23:09 RT @Kantrowitz: In retrospect, hilarious

2022-12-16 01:13:01 RT @oneunderscore__: @drewharwell The Intercept journalist @micahflee has been suspended. He had been writing critically about Elon Musk.

2022-12-16 01:10:08 RT @JDLand: Perhaps a good night for mass RTing of this.

2022-12-16 01:04:21 RT @az_rww: Literally as I was reading @MattBinder's tweet about Donie O'Sullivan's suspension he also got suspended https://t.co/HkrG3XO41q

2022-12-16 01:00:06 RT @mattyglesias: Started / going https://t.co/Bn6B80AITS

2022-12-16 00:54:16 RT @samstein: Reporters who cover Twitter at the NYT, CNN and WaPo, along with a few others, have seen their accounts on Twitter suspended…

2022-12-16 00:53:05 RT @stevemullis: Uh, wow. Erlon is just nuking a bunch of journalist accounts. Ryan Mac at the NYTimes as well.

2022-12-15 22:20:36 A thread from an English teacher on Chat GPT. I also don't see a world in which such AI tools — not just this specific one — aren't widely used, pretty soon, for a whole variety of applications, with a lot of complicated implications. https://t.co/8KqgSHeUd4

2022-12-15 20:43:03 RT @ByronTau: This case involving Twitter is a good look at how all modern governments collect information from digital platforms. It's not…

2022-12-15 20:09:36 @adamjkucharski @rozeggo

2022-12-15 19:56:47 Agree the calculator isn't an exact fit. ChatGPT *also* produces highly-polished, plausible nonsense. That's actually a big deal. Polished and highly-plausible prose completely loses any role as a signal, exactly as it becomes cheap to produce at scale. https://t.co/SteXhqE4n6

2022-12-15 17:31:38 RT @JenniferNuzzo: Lean≠Resilient "Looking to bolster their bottom lines, hospitals sought to wring more work out of fewer employees. When…

2022-12-15 17:27:31 RT @RosenzweigJane: Agree completely that we should not fight this tech by punishing students who use it. But we also need to recognize way…

2022-12-15 14:43:59 The stark inequalities in education are a huge obstacle, but it's also simply not possible to ignore all this, or deal with AI capabilities purely punitively (as plagiarism) in the classroom. It will just get worse. As before, re-imagining how we value people is the viable path. https://t.co/ClpzC0wTjv

2022-12-15 14:23:44 An actual expert on the topic of aortic aneurysm and dissection, as an antidote to the uninformed, dishonest opportunists of all stripes. His feed earlier had many specific answers. https://t.co/syTSLXOfLQ

2022-12-15 13:39:46 ChatGPT—and AI tools—are here. For education, rather than a futile, harmful battle through punitive surveillance and plagiarism detection, we should pour resources into a transformed education system. We faced this problem since the alphabet. Ask Plato. https://t.co/UfQbarQfNC https://t.co/fwFxTHIzxz

2022-12-14 22:28:30 RT @nytopinion: Many viruses are circulating. “Get your flu shots and updated Covid-19 booster vaccinations, which provide significant prot…

2022-12-11 16:03:04 History is full of such illusions, often deliberately crafted myth-making which helps sustain the illusion which helps the money accumulation which then helps sustain the illusion—see The Apprentice. Often *very* competent people who know better help out because it’s lucrative.

2022-12-11 15:58:43 The illusion people who were more lucky, good at subversion and driven than they were uber-competent geniuses who did magic can sustain itself longer than the money so accumulated that makes it possible runs out. Turns out a Twitter account is a revelation accelerant. See Trump.

2022-12-10 15:16:15 There is a reason we use statistics, not single individual examples, to try to understand causal effects of medical interventions or illness. And these tragedies involve real people and much suffering. They aren’t entertainment. A bit of restraint isn’t too much to expect.

2022-12-10 15:13:11 Many high profile deaths are now jumped on by antivaxxers as proof of vaccines allegedly causing such deaths. Others may want to consider why the baselessly speculated about singular young death is a favorite of the antivaxxer crowd before adopting the method. Tragedies happen.

2022-12-10 15:08:06 People should consider a single personal tragedy isn’t the best vehicle for baseless speculation on potential or imagined rare adverse effects or sequelae of any illness or medical intervention. Antivaxxers have used that method for decades, but now others recklessly jumping in.

2022-12-10 04:34:35 @celinegounder @GrantWahl You’re in our thoughts. Words fail. So sorry for your loss.

2022-12-10 00:42:04 RT @stevendamron: A disconnect between Twitter and Covid-19 reality? Say it's not true!

2022-12-09 22:03:57 @RodrigueBiscuit @dylbabe_ @nataliesurely Yes “Nobody is arguing for the denigration of functional disorders.” I agree that issue is real and complex. But there’s too much evidence to try to apply that framework to post-viral syndromes with symptoms such as cognitive and physical post-extortional malaise, POTS, etc.

2022-12-09 17:31:46 @richardvallee It's changing, and I know the strength of the resistance but the pandemic produced just too many cases, including among medical staff, and also for a virus we do test--so harder to lose and obscure the origin. Along with recent discovery of MS/EBV connection, things are moving.

2022-12-09 17:22:49 @nataliesurely It’s true exercise is great for other conditions, and PACE authors may be stubborn and bitter that they were so wrong about who that applies to, but the direction of the evidence is clear, overwhelming, and the sooner they accept it, the better. I didn’t just arrive at this.

2022-12-09 17:20:12 @nataliesurely Applying that to patients with postviral conditions that create post-exertional malaise—a large number and essentially the hallmark symptom—is like telling multiple sclerosis patients that they just need more exercise or diabetics more sugar—graded exercise is counterproductive.

2022-12-09 17:15:48 @dylbabe_ @nataliesurely Totally fine when it is. Can you imagine if we didn’t fund cancer research, didn’t bother developing effective tests and treatment for multiple sclerosis or cancer, told the patient it was FND and assigned CBT and GET, and then acted like they were resisting medical advice?

2022-12-09 17:09:21 @Etanarachel @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Because I don’t think that’s the most important dynamic. I don’t consider myself too gullible or uninformed. IMO, this is systematic, stubborn &

2022-12-09 17:04:01 @acanopyofstars @nataliesurely There is strikingly high intercoder reliability among actual clinicians—a big deal. Issue not that different from many other illnesses that we diagnose clinically. Yeah, there are challenges given complexity, but if people dug into the evidence, there's also much clarity.

2022-12-09 17:01:47 @nataliesurely And if one went beyond few stubborn PACE authors, who imo just can't accept the fact that they got something major wrong, and catch up with the epi and biomedical science *and* dig into the history, one can then continue to cover FND as it deserves, where it applies—not this.

2022-12-09 16:59:00 @nataliesurely But there's clearly a distinct, debilitating, chronic and not rare condition that's post-viral, many with LC and ME/CFS clearly have it, and for which graded exercise is often counterindicated (POTS, a common comorbidity complicates this), AND medicine has been gaslighting them.+

2022-12-09 16:57:16 @nataliesurely Two, yes. Not all PASC is post-viral syndrome. Some hospitalized have post-ICU syndrome, for ex. Rest in next tweet.

2022-12-09 16:40:42 @ryanlcooper Thanks. It's the second article in just a month or so that is representing what appears to be stubborn insistence of a few scientists whose work was faulty, and that even slow corners of medical science have moved on from. It's a bit like the airborne deniers, imo, at this point.

2022-12-09 16:37:56 @ryanlcooper Having done much research on this topic, and sympathetic to the challenges of functional disorders in general, I think it's actually not good because it is attempting to stuff post-viral syndromes into a bucket that just doesn't fit by ignoring evidence. https://t.co/DgNvRHYz6g

2022-12-09 15:21:28 @nataliesurely There are some cases of misdiagnosis of anything. And I also wrote current definitions of Long Covid are too vague. That doesn’t make post-viral syndromes into functional neurological disorders, which your article implies while relying on outdated and rightfully questioned work.

2022-12-09 13:39:45 If one's view of Long Covid is from Twitter, I'd really, really urge caution. Authors should visit a clinic, or interview a few hundred patients around the country, etc. On Twitter, you can find people who may confirm stereotypes. It doesn't mean they represent the illness.

2022-12-09 13:36:12 Adding: I think exercise is great. But all the many, many patients with post-exertional malaise I talked with HAVE TRIED IT. They *want* to be able to do more. The idea they're all resisting medical advice to be more active really, really doesn't fit. https://t.co/7L0ptJkVon

2022-12-09 13:25:32 Open offer to authors of such articles to introduce them to the increasing biomedical literature on post-viral syndromes (still too little because of lack of funding), a vast number of patients whose history simply do not fit, and top scientists working on this for a long time.

2022-12-09 13:19:43 @evolutionarypsy @onegrenouille Good to hear you say that! I've a friend with major depression who greatly benefits from cardio but slips as she tips into depression. I've nudged her to exercise for decades. After I interviewed many patients with PEM, my jaw was on the floor. How could anyone confuse the two?

2022-12-09 13:15:20 My earlier thread on earlier article with same claims from same few scientists whose study was (rightfully) questioned and medicine is moving on from. IMO, their view is contradicted by much evidence, confuses illness categories, and they need to move on. https://t.co/B4rOIzKGsC

2022-12-09 04:12:43 @nataliesurely @smithsj @SteveWarden20 @mattyglesias Even the WHO and the NHS, slow and bureaucratic, have abandoned GET. These patients want to desperately get better. They tried graded exercise. Some would amputate a limb if there was a glimmer of improvement there. Let me introduce you to many, many, many patients—over decades.

2022-12-09 03:59:02 @nataliesurely @smithsj @SteveWarden20 @mattyglesias The sooner medicine's gaslighting (no other word for it) campaign ends, and research funded and harmful (for this subgroup) approaches like GET abandoned in favor of better treatments, the easier to discuss what you seem to want to focus on, but which simply doesn't work here.

2022-12-09 03:55:24 @nataliesurely @smithsj @SteveWarden20 @mattyglesias Other things including injury (TBI has long been identified) may cause the same set of debilitating symptoms, but it's exceedingly clear that viral infections are a key dynamic, and for those, graded exercise (which many desperately wanting to get better try) does not really work

2022-12-09 03:41:21 @winstoncb @awgaffney @nataliesurely @newrepublic I'd, again, offer to introduce many, many patients whose independent stories do not fit this mold, go over decades (centuries!) of primary documentation of the syndromes, similarity to other examples of medical gaslighting &

2022-12-09 03:36:58 @winstoncb @awgaffney @nataliesurely @newrepublic I interviewed so many patients with these illnesses, and have yet to meet one that hasn't tried pretty much everything suggested, including CBT &

2022-12-09 03:33:16 @SteveWarden20 @smithsj @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Yep. This is SO likely to follow ulcers, HPV, airborne transmission into "wait, how did the establishment deny, reject, resist for so long" And one can write about psychosocial stress &

2022-12-09 03:23:59 @smithsj @SteveWarden20 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias I'm convinced their denial is likely the medical scandal of the century and also big breakthroughs possible if research is finally funded and pursued—especially with advances that finally allow working with viruses and immune system, both hard given very tiny size and complexity.

2022-12-09 03:20:42 @smithsj @SteveWarden20 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias "Post-viral syndromes cause baffling and debilitating chronic illness" absolutely fits the epi, history, the biomedical research as well as *widespread* patient experience, while psychosocial suffering—real and relevant to many things—as the "but for" explainer simply does not.

2022-12-09 03:15:28 @Kantrowitz And what did we even learn? I'm not a fan of how much power these platforms have, or the lack of transparency—among fairly-lengthy beefs I've had with it all—but being treated like we're all idiots isn't really the opposite of that. I mean, see this. https://t.co/Tfcs75X8Ut

2022-12-09 02:38:10 @PatAndriola @vijayiyer312 Consider that the illness is appropriately comparable to imprisonment—some of the “rest” that people undertake to retain minimal functioning are similar to sensory-deprived solitary punishment. Honestly, the analogy isn’t misplaced. Just to communicate its severity.

2022-12-09 02:26:25 @PatAndriola @vijayiyer312 It’s not name calling. This isn’t something that one just jumps into by ignoring so much evidence, and especially given the level of suffering post-viral conditions bring. I speak of this after much research, and I’ve written long articles that reflect a fraction of the research.

2022-12-09 02:04:25 @PatAndriola @vijayiyer312 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias It doesn’t fit the facts of this syndrome—the epidemiology, history, advancing science &

2022-12-09 01:23:53 @Kantrowitz I'm also still awaiting what requests the Trump White House made, we were told that happened and yet, all I've seen revealed is the Biden campaign flagging non-consensual nudes. I don't understand how people are playing this game like everyone else is that stupid.

2022-12-09 01:21:51 @Kantrowitz I'm not sure Twitter even denied "shadowbanning" as they defined it—meaning you just didn't appear. They clearly deboosted stuff, to use Musk's terminology, and Musk's plan is to be *even more aggressive* with deboosting. If that's shadowbanning, we will just have more of it.

2022-12-09 01:15:24 @katypearce @aschrock @jdp23 Ah, thank you! Also happy to have ChatGPT think we are co-author, fine with me, lol.

2022-12-09 01:13:38 @Kantrowitz One of the first things Musk did after purchasing Twitter was to announce that, going forward, Twitter would have an aggressive policy of shadow-banning "negative/hate" and "hate speech" — presumably now defined solely by Musk. It's pretty amazing that nobody seems to care.

2022-12-08 22:50:10 RT @linseymarr: Lots happening to ensure cleaner air. Though not headline-grabbing, these will make a difference: 1⃣ Lancet recs on non-in…

2022-12-08 22:26:19 @PatAndriola @nataliesurely @mattyglesias It's the "but for" bit. Many clearly have an illness not explainable by stress alone, wouldn't be this ill *but for* a post-viral syndrome, which clearly existed throughout history and that medicine, in denial, kept attributing to "psychosocial factors"— like they did to ulcers.

2022-12-08 22:08:46 @PatAndriola @nataliesurely @mattyglesias I could definitely do that as well, and so many have written about it—as have I. It just keeps happening. I understand her argument and I’m sympathetic to it *when it applies*. Just baffled by this ongoing effort to implausibly stuff something that really doesn’t fit into it.

2022-12-08 22:00:59 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Then don’t lump postviral syndromes into your argument. Stick to Havana syndrome or similar examples. Stop interviewing the gaslighting establishment. If you have spoken with that many suffering from post-viral syndromes, then your interpretation is weak. It *simply* doesn’t fit.

2022-12-08 21:45:45 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Your arguments don’t apply here. Please pick relevant examples. You don’t want to be like the people who long resisted the clear evidence of bacterial roots of peptic ulcers, furthering much suffering. This is a version if that. Not everything that exists applies to everything.

2022-12-08 21:43:54 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias I get your argument and sympathetic to it.. when it applies. Speak to 100s of very healthy, active folks who come down with virus and suddenly can’t walk to the bathroom, dig up centuries of examples and talk to immunologists—who never got funds to research deeper. Doesn’t apply.

2022-12-08 21:40:29 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias You’re ignoring much science and the experience &

2022-12-08 21:35:22 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Your article is behind on the science and the epidemiology and the experience of so many, which means something regardless of your dismissal. I sincerely recommend focusing on examples like, say the Havana syndrome, which are plausible examples of what you’re talking about.

2022-12-08 21:33:21 @AdamMantine @mattyglesias @nataliesurely You probably also believe in bloodletting instead of antibiotics for infections.

2022-12-08 21:32:00 @mattyglesias @nataliesurely I wish everyone on this beat would stop, read up on the history of peptic ulcers, a century of patients being gaslit about what caused it and how that changed, before writing yet another article with the same arguments ignoring latest science. That’s not how we overcome dualism.

2022-12-08 21:28:48 @mattyglesias @nataliesurely Also ignoring the fact that the key problem is that the patients are being gaslit by the medical establishment, for post-viral conditions as well as what might plausibly be called functional disorders—and whatever interactions occur between autoimmune disorders and mental states.

2022-12-08 21:25:31 @mattyglesias @nataliesurely The article would’ve been OK if it cut every single sentence after “But Long Covid was never exactly as cut and dried as some quarters made it out to be”. Everything after that is either a distraction or ignores enormous amount of science and experience. It’s really not okay.

2022-12-08 16:47:32 @DannyFischer35 @jeffbenner Yes immunodeficiency is scary (sorry!) and not something subtle as it's so devastating. I guess they use jargon salad to scare regular people who cannot evaluate it so that they'll get Twitter followers. That's why they harass scientists doing real research—they expose the con.

2022-12-08 15:08:48 @Burgos

2022-12-08 13:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2022-12-07 08:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2022-11-15 19:25:02 @Dakota_150 @SenTinaSmith Thank you!

2022-11-15 18:46:04 @oldfshndanne You can see a lot of my writings at NYT and the Atlantic where I focus on that erosion of trust and credibility. I blame the WHO and CDC for that, and social media can't just replace credible, authoritative voices that should represent accurate and nuanced scientific knowledge.

2022-11-15 18:44:30 @oldfshndanne Yeah. I did a lot of work arguing for masks, and later for trying to get airborne transmission accepted, and I completely understand why official pronouncements, even if they exist aren't enough. See early pandemic profile on my work but.. https://t.co/sOrP43rory

2022-11-15 18:41:14 Yes! Method not confined to anti-vaxxers.Screenshot abstract, assume few can go read or understand actual scope

2022-11-15 18:37:41 @oldfshndanne Akiko Iwasaki is one of the scientists working on exactly that, and she really is both a very nice person, and committed to patients. I often ask her for her opinions about such things. She is working very hard, too, and I know their research is ongoing but not conclusive, yet.

2022-11-15 18:35:46 @oldfshndanne He's a leading immunologist of Indie Sage, a UK group very much pro-mitigations and co-author of a recent book on Long Covid. In my opinion, I don't think he'd make a definite claim on immunopathology of Long Covid patients alone, since that is being investigated so not definite.

2022-11-15 18:33:36 Official pandemic name of the method common to much pseudoscience is "argument from Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Balls".Take something real (a study only on X

2022-11-15 18:27:25 I should add this method of lying, a cousin of the anti-vaxxer's anectode.Take something rare but terrible (say MIS-C) or something studied as part of an illness (say immunopathology of Long Covid), and claim it is routine, applies regularly to all, etc.https://t.co/O2hYWZQIK7

2022-11-15 18:22:24 @oldfshndanne Problem is many viral threads on Twitter do not reflect the state of the research: what is routine and regular, what is seen only in severe acute or fatal cases, what is being looked at for Long Covid specifically, etc. Very hard to stay informed on such a complex topic here.

2022-11-15 18:20:48 @oldfshndanne Scientists like Iwasaki (she’s wonderful) are looking at immunopathology of Long Covid. Altmann, also scientist, above refers to the Twitter-viral claims of such immune dysfunction being routine after Covid—he says they, &

2022-11-15 17:50:58 @theosanderson This is such an interesting idea, to graph the Shannon entropy like this. Thank you!

2022-11-15 17:47:42 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford Well, all I can say is my criteria, in my view, is pretty strict. It's the genuine bad actors, liars, loons, etc. that are creating worst of the issues—a lot of people are confused and conned by them, but that's not the same. The usual 90/10 dynamic, though lately it is 99/1.

2022-11-15 17:45:58 @VersatiIeTwink @inducekarmaaa @Aguirre1Gustavo @DenoSignals Classic method to lie on Twitter: take an example of something terrible but rare, and falsely present it as common and routine mechanism. https://t.co/O2hYX08RYf

2022-11-15 17:43:50 @VersatiIeTwink @inducekarmaaa @Aguirre1Gustavo @DenoSignals Plus, I actually talk to researchers working on MIS-C, which is indeed very serious but fortunately quite rare, on how to further reduce the risk that rare. You can find many threads from me on MIS-C. Published in the NYT, too. https://t.co/Dru7vKjpyu https://t.co/UIaMgrqxOO

2022-11-15 17:32:44 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford We’re talking here about the bad actors part though. They also make reasonable debate difficult.

2022-11-15 17:05:32 @deeptabhattacha @andrew_croxford (Though, I'll be the first to say, it's work. They'll lie about you and then you'll get mobbed by people who've been lied to about both you and the state of science, etc. But you can mute/block the toxic people and answer some basic questions, clear up confusion—public service).

2022-11-15 16:38:27 @deeptabhattacha @andrew_croxford Obviously, I'm well aware of the vocal, toxic nonsense crowd (I seem to be their fave target for years now lolsob), so it may seem like they dominate, but they're just vocal—imo, many people would be grateful for better and accurate information, even if they couldn't be as vocal.

2022-11-15 16:36:41 @deeptabhattacha @andrew_croxford See the replies below? Folks in most need of better and accurate information (with all the uncertainties) are often the most vulnerable: Long Covid or ME patients, immunocompromised, etc. Many institutions have either lost credibility, are sluggish, or aren't doing right by them.

2022-11-15 16:33:41 @oldfshndanne When they say "severely infected" they mean acute severe case: hospitalized, very ill, ICU etc.

2022-11-15 15:54:05 @deeptabhattacha @andrew_croxford I get that, obviously. The problem is that some people get misled, usually more vulnerable people, and that’s a big public harm. A collective effort on clarifying just some basics would help the public as you know, some of the nonsense is.. pretty basic stuff being lied about.

2022-11-15 15:50:48 RT @BasharatPeer: Incredibly important essay on the future of internet freedom—considering big, fragile democracies like India— by @lpolgre…

2022-11-14 00:11:10 @GYamey @MarkELindsay @DrEricDing The shameless is one thing. The lying is another. That they are *also* so useless besides lying on Twitter takes the cake. What has that corner of Twitter achieved? I’d have some tolerance for even all this if there were the slightest evidence they had any positive contribution.

2022-11-14 00:07:19 @GYamey @MarkELindsay @DrEricDing Especially since here’s my original thread from March 2021.Ryan Gregory, in contrast, doesn’t even mention Long Covid even once till August 2021. Six mentions from him, total, in all of 2021!And yet people writing full page articles on the illness in the NYT are “minimizers”. https://t.co/RNLwtZBF6Z

2022-11-13 17:55:49 From a business perspective, this is why one probably shouldn’t fold one’s monetization strategy into an aggressive stance against many of the top active users on the site.The paid-for mark is now also a negative status symbol, a stigma, for a sizable portion of users. https://t.co/DbpT2qpWGE

2022-11-13 16:30:10 Second bait-and-switch in just one week. Lawyer says go visit, then denied at prison.Still no proof of life.Alaa Abdel Fattah must be on a plane to the UK, before any photo-op.If this is how they behave *during* #Cop27, what do you think will happen the moment it’s over? https://t.co/BeJPlMOOzK

2022-11-13 15:41:47 @BCarfree @davidtuller1 @NYMag @PutrinoLab @sunsopeningband @meghanor @PlzSolveCFS @mhornig @BatemanHorne Thank you! Yes, that’s the (unusual) order of those letters.

2022-11-13 14:39:41 These brave women *in Egypt* https://t.co/7wMMUU2cfg

2022-11-13 14:37:33 @bXLpedestrian Well your phrase relates to that essay, though it’s describing standard immunology and was fact-checked by multiple immunologists. Hence the campaign to misrepresent it, and the term, by those misleading regular people. In any case, the answer to your question is there.

2022-11-13 14:20:54 @bXLpedestrian Here, read the actual essay. Your description of it is wrong—maybe because it’s influenced by the incessant lying campaign by the same corner who’s been proven constantly wrong (to the degree they even had coherent claims?) and rely on jargon salad to hide that fact. Cheers. https://t.co/7j10tnydMv

2022-11-13 14:15:14 @adamjkucharski Exactly this. It’s turned into unhelpful mudslinging via everyone defining it differently. Weirdly, antibody waning is uncontroversial, and people have learned of antigenic evolution and nAb evasion thanks to SARS-CoV-2, both remain uninvoked as not as useful for mudslinging.

2022-11-13 14:10:56 RT @adamjkucharski: The difficulty with new epidemic terms - whether 'lockdown' or 'immunity debt' - is different people come up with very…

2022-11-13 14:03:08 @DavidSteadson Read the thread. I read the study and the supplements. This kind of causal inference questions is part of my academic area. My thread mainly was about the unchanged study design that keep being misrepresented and misunderstood, I updated thread with final version and tables. https://t.co/bwpLdI5wem

2022-11-13 07:08:46 RT @KatyAnderson: "Alaa is intervening in this global conversation by staking his fragile, incarcerated body as the argument. From his pris…

2022-11-13 06:13:13 @DrEricDing No “bullying” concerns anymore? Here’s the person sharing misleadingly altered tweets from me *warning* about Long Covid for young people in March 2021 to claim my tweet didn’t “age well”. He doesn’t even mention Long Covid once until August 2021. Six times total in all 2021. https://t.co/hBHR5sHyS7

2022-11-13 06:09:25 @andrew_croxford More context. https://t.co/hBHR5sHyS7

2022-11-13 00:08:20 RT @nytimesworld: In Egypt, a country where protests are banned, hundreds rallied at the COP27 climate talks, demanding climate reparations…

2022-11-12 22:02:59 @andrew_croxford Let me add context https://t.co/uvcOPu4cvw

2022-11-12 18:19:44 “The Most Eloquent Speaker at the Climate Summit Is Alaa Abd El Fattah” in the New York Times. https://t.co/nPn7qMlUZt

2022-11-12 16:22:20 RT @FreedomForAlaa: The crowd at Trafalgar Square is huge: it’s almost impossible to imagine we don’t know right now if @Alaa is alive or d…

2022-11-12 15:20:22 @Chris_Said @smithsj See full thread. Ryan didn't tweet about Long Covid *even once* till August 2021 but took my thread from March 2021 where I WARN of Long Covid as risk even for young folks and put a photoshopped screenshot of it in his alleged thread of "minimizer" tweets that "did not age well." https://t.co/uqBOWDuwli

2022-11-12 15:00:22 @Chris_Said @smithsj Twitter has some opportunists, liars &

2022-11-12 14:57:04 @Chris_Said @smithsj Post-viral illnesses are very real, come in different flavors, and there is a subset of Long Covid, that is baffling, chronic, debilitating and strikes many young people, too, even after a mild illness that overlaps with ME/CFS. See my article here. https://t.co/KtqEDJcd0l

2022-11-12 14:55:10 @Chris_Said @smithsj It is real, and patients are suffering. Don't go by Twitter alone, or these people. Here's what Twitter shows me as the entirety of R Gregory's tweets about Long Covid between March 2020 and December 31st 2021. Six tweets total? Get your info elsewhere. https://t.co/I9F7YSlTIZ https://t.co/VsPGTkgoLM

2022-11-12 14:21:30 @masonporter It’s all fun and games till your eyes glaze over while linking to a last minute study, and you ask to run a correction, and your non-academic colleagues are confused to what on earth is going on, and you’re trying to explain well, Springer had an idea and… https://t.co/4NXysyZWWS

2022-11-12 13:49:37 @JesParent

2022-11-12 13:40:24 RT @JesParent: Someone close to me has ME/CFS, and they were very happy to see this:

2022-11-12 13:35:59 @MarkELindsay @DrEricDing *2021!

2022-11-12 13:31:21 @macroliter @DrEricDing My sense: Instead of looking at honest, good scientists *within* that policy preference realm, arguing for strong mitigations, like @Daltmann10 or @chrischirp they got taken by jargon salad immunology, and now they must double down via dishonesty. Hence the photoshoped tweets.

2022-11-12 13:22:45 @MarkELindsay @DrEricDing It’s incredible, him finding out that I was worried about Long Covid in early 2012 even when there were fewer studies, and the main argument I was making was that it’s not enough to say young people are at low risk even if their cased are mild and.. doing what he did. Pathetic.

2022-11-12 13:20:22 @MarkELindsay @DrEricDing It’s in his thread of screenshots of “minimizers” whose threads allegedly did not age well. Actually the non-photoshopped version, me pointing out in early 2021 that Long Covid was a risk even to young people who might not have a severe case, did tragically, age very well. https://t.co/NHlgiLYFjQ

2022-11-12 13:01:14 A version of selection on dependent variable (or conditional probability) is clearly at play during Delta, but not as much for Omicron—antibody evasions meant it reinfected with much correlation to prior health status. The former is a classically difficult analytic challenge.

2022-11-12 12:58:07 Also looking at cohort alone without reading the study isn’t enough. Very high rates of diabetes, immunocompromised, hospitalization for first infection but comparisons control for known variables. Q is how much residual confounding during Delta, a different reinfection pattern? https://t.co/j8nV58QLOB

2022-11-12 12:54:35 Plus, I’m asking people to read the whole paper and supplements to talk to experts in statistics, confounding and electronic health records. My thread focused explaining on study design, widely misunderstood but also identical from preprint. Hence earlier thread.

2022-11-12 12:52:22 Adding clarification and a correction, helpfully pointed out by @bXLpedestrian. Average age in pubished version is 63.5 for non-infected control, 60 for reinfected. (Likely reflecting inclusion of some Omicron whose reinfection pattern was different than Delta. More on that next) https://t.co/5kpWF7illW

2022-11-12 12:48:38 @bXLpedestrian Also it’s “novelty means severity”. Read the article. It also explained antigenic drift, other sources of severity, *and* it has turned out to be prescient and correct. Its’s just been wildly misrepresented by people whose theories were pseudoscience and/or completely disproven.

2022-11-12 12:40:44 @ForgeRat @DocDominik I’m a co-author on the below paper, and another one in Science along with multiple major articles in NYT and the Atlantic arguing for recognizing airborne transmission. “Enemy” thinking isn’t how good science is done. https://t.co/3QwmzY0qey

2022-11-12 12:13:53 @bXLpedestrian @loscharlos I’ll add that to thread when I return to laptop. It’s hard to express everything in a single tweet.

2022-11-12 11:47:17 @bXLpedestrian I respond by explaining what the studies do and don’t measure, so that they realize it really is a major problem even if any one headline is making claims that are obviously at odds with clear empirical reality. Otherwise, why bother? It is easier to pander or keep quiet.

2022-11-12 11:45:08 @bXLpedestrian I spend a good amount of time, off Twitter, trying to convince people, MDs, policymakers, journalists, etc. that Long Covid needs much more attention. “But the numbers thrown around are implausible so I started thinking it was exaggerated” is a tragically common response.

2022-11-11 23:40:02 @zoonotic1 @ENirenberg @phealthsean @CT_Bergstrom It’s few days after I posted a full page article in the New York Times, emphasizing how real Long Covid is. And the carefully whited out tweet is from early 2021, showing I took it seriously even back then, but “incomplete screen grab” just happens to imply the opposite. Come on.

2022-11-11 23:36:20 @zoonotic1 @ENirenberg @phealthsean Give me a break. @CT_Bergstrom pointed it out to him in real time, if you check. There is no way to have that kind of “incomplete screen grab” except by… intentionally whiting out *parts* of the tweet. Also beyond a block, hoping I wouldn’t see it? No link to my thread either.

2022-11-11 21:03:11 RT @ENirenberg: If you have to resort to blatant dishonesty to make your points, consider that maybe you’re doing something wrong.

2022-11-11 21:02:53 @sunsopeningband @shasha55 @RaviHVJ @Dakota_150 @richardvallee @MVGutierrezMD @CNBC @jenloveslon @Emily_Lorsch @patientled @PutrinoLab @research_long @EdMarkey @RepRaskin @MEActNOW Agree

2022-11-11 20:55:04 @missrobinson @DrEricDing Thank you. I think he may be counting on the fact that some Long Covid patients may not have the energy and time to play detective to understand what he’s doing. It’s a low I wouldn’t have expected, but here you go.

2022-11-11 20:52:10 RT @Monasosh: This is by far one of the best interventions made on behalf of our family and @alaa @LadyBasildon truly understands our ord…

2022-11-11 20:33:19 @Todd_Friesen @KrauthBen @DrEricDing

2022-11-11 20:01:29 @loscharlos @llama_survivor It’s actually explained in the paper, at the end. https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-11 17:10:07 Misrepresentation of actual results and context of limits of studies in traditional or social media has many root causes, and it's really harmful to public trust, patient interests and science.That's why I occasionally comment on egregious examples. https://t.co/3HizXzlM07

2022-11-11 16:54:38 @shasha55 @RaviHVJ @Dakota_150 @richardvallee @MVGutierrezMD @CNBC @jenloveslon @Emily_Lorsch @patientled @PutrinoLab @research_long @EdMarkey @RepRaskin @julierehmeyer @brianvastag There's also this history, not ME/CFS but you see the same dynamics. https://t.co/zaTgk6Cyqf

2022-11-11 16:48:16 Indeed. Read. The. Full. Study. Please.Take some to understand the study design, what it is measuring and what it is not, who the cohort is, etc.Then, additionally, people pointed to shortcomings electronic health records—this affects all EHR studies.https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-11 16:35:34 @mlipsitch @DocJeffD @CarlosdelRio7 @EricTopol @DeptVetAffairs @NatureMedicine @zalaly @walidgellad Yep!!!

2022-11-11 16:05:30 @KrauthBen @DrEricDing Sharing photoshopped screenshots of my tweets to make it seem like the opposite of what I am actually saying seems to be way past any defensible line, but hey, let his friends think about ethics and bullying etc., what can I say?

2022-11-11 15:46:21 RT @siobhan_ogrady: Biden is about to meet Sisi. The family of Alaa Abdel Fattah is pleading for him to secure his release — but also not t…

2022-11-11 15:32:55 See thread here. Massive ongoing failure to read the study and even correctly represent what it studied, let alone providing context. https://t.co/Ijox8i3vqq

2022-11-11 15:10:19 @missrobinson @DrEricDing Blatant photoshoping of tweets is a new low, even for that crowd tbh.

2022-11-11 14:50:57 @mlipsitch @DocJeffD @CarlosdelRio7 @EricTopol @DeptVetAffairs @NatureMedicine @zalaly @walidgellad There is the usual questions about what this study has as limitations (cohort, EHR, etc) which affect all studies, and there's also blatant, absolutely misleading misreading of this study that's just disappointly common in media, because they don't read/understand studies.

2022-11-11 14:49:31 @mlipsitch @DocJeffD @CarlosdelRio7 @EricTopol @DeptVetAffairs @NatureMedicine @zalaly @walidgellad Yes. Look at this nonsense headline, and article going viral on Twitter, even though this study hasn't not looked at this particular question (reinfection risks *compared with* first infection), and other studies have and found the opposite. Media fail. https://t.co/TjtlRoobJV

2022-11-11 14:19:55 RT @davidtuller1: It's been great to see a few recent news articles highlight PEM! Most people have no idea what it is. This post mentions…

2022-11-11 14:15:49 @loscharlos Same though, it compares people reinfected to people not reinfected, in a scenario when the reinfected were more frail than the non reinfected, not whether reinfections have worse sequelae than the initial infection. Happy to add it to the thread in a minute!

2022-11-11 14:10:20 @ValeBodi @vijayiyer312 Absolutely. Current stats dominated by the severity-correlated Long Covid sequelae (elderly patient declines after severe illness, for example) and while that subset is, of course, very important, we need separate studies for the young/mild case that turns into debilitating ME.

2022-11-11 14:08:33 @lionel_rich1 Hate me, disagree with me, gossip and nonstop tweet about me behind a block, whatever. I ignore all that. Trying to mislead this vulnerable patient community is inexcusable

2022-11-11 14:06:01 @lionel_rich1 Yep. He shared this blatantly photoshopped tweet from me to make it falsely look like I didn't care about LC, TWO DAYS after I published a full page article in the New York Times about why we should expand and accelerate research on Long Covid, and urgently support the patients.

2022-11-11 13:50:31 @vijayiyer312 So important to keep studying both, and being accurate about which study pertains to what group — the younger, had a mild case that later turned off their life upside down group really needs to be represented in other studies, which VA studies cannot do due to cohort.

2022-11-11 13:49:17 @vijayiyer312 So whatever else about study design, what it can show, limits of using EHR, etc. this is a frail older group where Long Covid is more sequelae from having severe acute illness rather than the cases of younger people with milder cases turning into debilitating, ME-like illness.

2022-11-11 13:47:28 @vijayiyer312 Yes, VA cohort, avg age 65 (half older), almost all men, and average number of meds is 10. IIRC, 30% diabetic, so fairly frail. Sequelae highly correlated with severity, different than the younger, previously active/healthy crowd getting ME-like Long Covid even after mild cases.

2022-11-11 13:42:49 @klausenhauser @DrEricDing It's worse. I've been writing high-profile articles in the NYT, calling for attention, research and support for Long Covid patients, so that group has started a campaign of lies (like the above) to make it seem like I don't care about LC. So photoshopped tweets it is.

2022-11-11 13:40:05 @nxthompson

2022-11-11 01:34:22 RT @AstroKatie: Shocking to see that the pay-for-verification system we all told them would be an utter disaster and impersonation free-for…

2022-11-11 01:03:10 @MartianPontiac @loscharlos @andyaschmidt @Robotistry That is exactly correct and you can see it in the supplements where the cohorts are described. Keep in mind that this was during Delta, which is a very relevant point. I am merely describing the study.

2022-11-11 00:01:36 RT @Monasosh: "The family is now demanding immediate access to him, whether in prison or a hospital, expressing concerns he could die under…

2022-11-10 23:28:30 RT @FreedomForAlaa: HOUSE OF LORDS PRESSURE INCREASES ON @RishiSunak: @LadyBasildon: “If even the PM can’t secure Consular Access for a B…

2022-11-10 21:12:28 @LinzaItkonen

2022-11-10 20:04:09 See thread. The actual finding is in second tweet below. It matters, as long as it’s represented correctly. https://t.co/iSG6m0G2dc https://t.co/ctcbtHiLUS

2022-11-10 19:28:56 Real pressure, not words are necessary. https://t.co/aBimRZvmk3

2022-11-10 19:22:25 Does this mean we don’t care about A? Of course not. The opposite. When studies get misrepresented, the result is people tune it *all* out—just look around. Otherwise I’d ignore such cases, when study design and limitations are poorly represented. https://t.co/Vind2E4ec0

2022-11-10 19:19:49 “If A got shot twice, they’d be worse off than B who got shot once, even if 2nd shot grazed A, plus since it compares hospital records, A was in the hospital and got additional diagnoses B didn’t get checked for *and* being reshot correlated with more frailty in the first place.”

2022-11-10 18:42:11 People saying trying to explain the study means I don't care about what happened to these elderly, frail mostly men who got reinfected with Delta which hit frail people much more? Absolutely opposite. It was a colossal failure. I'm angry about that. Being accurate is a duty!

2022-11-10 18:24:57 Very true. Folks should read the full study and think about methods: What is the design? What are the internal and external validity questions?The public is confused, and misrepresenting studies further confuses everyone.https://t.co/1kGKuXp1FJ

2022-11-10 18:22:23 I'm pretty convinced when things get misunderstood, and claims that aren't correct get made, then everyone tunes out completely, to the part that matters as well.So I urge folks to check out many threads explaining this study, and TO READ IT including supplements. That's all.

2022-11-10 18:21:00 Why is it important to be correct? Because many studies have shown that reinfections are, on average, mild to asymptomatic. But a frail group like this study (average age 65, many illnesses, reinfected 8x more immunocompromised) don't fare as well. https://t.co/heoYzhxIOc

2022-11-10 18:13:39 And also. (This below is an internal validity issue, that all EHR studies are limited by. This is in addition to what the study design is aimed at, which doesn't show the impact of reinfections vs first infection, the common misunderstanding). https://t.co/3q5s8Tpxf4

2022-11-10 18:10:41 Also see here. People have been trying and trying and trying to explain both the generalizability and internal validity issues that pertain to this study (these are issues every study interpretation must consider). https://t.co/eOVOkr3mCH

2022-11-10 18:06:36 It's one of the worst misunderstood studies in media.Take a look at the study design (from the supplements above) before writing about it, if you care to be accurate!

2022-11-10 18:03:40 The study period is mostly Delta, and the cohort is elderly, male and frail — Delta reinfections hit immunocompromised and frail worse, so as a cohort, they are worse off than people who did not get reinfected. (Not reinfections are worse than first infections—different issue.)

2022-11-10 18:00:39 This is now out.Reminder: Study only compares people with multiple infections to those without, not reinfections to first infections."If you fell twice, are you worse off compared with person who only fell once, especially if falls correlate with frailty in the first place". https://t.co/iAn4d5Ol1p https://t.co/z6ip0eW4jN

2022-11-10 17:19:54 @ArisKatzourakis From you? I’m not saying you misunderstood the study. (haven’t seen anything to suggest that.) Just frustrated nobody seems to know read it carefully and it gets misrepresented so much (not saying you!). It’s a long-standing issue. I just occasionally comment when it’s shared.

2022-11-10 17:14:54 @ArisKatzourakis Also, that study gets misinterpreted so often.It's about one vs two infections, not looking at effects of reinfection. (Is someone who falls twice worse off than someone fell only once, especially if they are ill and prone to falling?)See here. https://t.co/UCSuw8EXji

2022-11-10 10:57:27 RT @NGKabra: @shrikant @acorn How about: "Belonging is stronger than facts" — @zeynep https://t.co/BjcPHqIUWX https://t.co/2ePBCOWwKU

2022-11-10 09:08:35 RT @rachel_cheung1: Apple put a 10-min cap on receiving files from strangers thru AirDrop on iPhones in China. “Can’t you tell this is App…

2022-11-10 06:47:04 And now they are going after Alaa’s sister Sanaa. She went back knowingly, to try to save her brother’s life. https://t.co/ubvexmSbuY

2022-11-10 02:16:38 @jmping Sent DM

2022-11-10 02:00:54 Yep. I’m for democratizing it, but this current method is “none of the above.” Status symbol, authentication, purchasable. Pick two. https://t.co/bl5J5qg40d

2022-11-10 01:56:42 Yeah anything. Just wondering if a quick pilot could be quickly done by finding sufficient volunteers to donate wearable health data, especially sleep, movement and heart rate variability. https://t.co/sYQzgVxihJ

2022-11-10 01:53:55 That would be ignoring the poll. https://t.co/KFE9Y7KT6P

2022-11-10 01:52:01 @markmcneilly It’s called ignoring the tweet.

2022-11-10 01:49:48 Quick Poll: Are there folks with 2020-2022 wearable data (Apple Watch, Whoop, etc.) who might consider sharing it with a research team, if it came to be? We’d ask about Covid status and ongoing symptoms or Long Covid. Trying to gauge plausibility of a quick pilot study.

2022-11-10 01:37:41 RT @AmandaMoMorris: It should not be this hard to vote in America.

2022-11-10 01:25:28 RT @limlouisa: Remembering Bao Tong, who died yesterday aged ninety. He was an extraordinary person who paid the highest price for his pri…

2022-11-10 01:06:59 @dsquareddigest You should write a follow-up book, especially after today. I’m finishing up the previous one. Structuralist catnip, it’s great.

2022-11-10 00:51:21 @balajis Awaiting the step afterwards. I don’t think run in the other direction will do it. https://t.co/DstMJJR3ON

2022-11-10 00:50:18 RT @mileswgriffis: 4/ @zeynep, an opinion columnist at the New York Times, compiled a thread (that lead to a lengthy discussion) on the sto…

2022-11-10 00:49:57 @balajis So the dangers of bank runs are painfully being relearnt. Correlated assets, tomorrow I suppose. https://t.co/hIozndblgP https://t.co/GXDzxmEwlD

2022-11-09 23:13:48 She herself is at risk, having gone back to save her brother’s life. https://t.co/rT2oyALwMY

2022-11-09 22:03:34 RT @CT_Bergstrom: We have already seen nuclear bluster as a result of officials confusing fake news stories for true ones. We tell one such…

2022-11-09 21:00:27 @felixsalmon

2022-11-09 19:06:31 Something for #Cop27 attendees to do. Wear something white. You can even use white table napkin or small towel pinned to a visible pocket. It will mean so much for the political prisoners and their families. https://t.co/hgjPIAvsRU

2022-11-09 18:02:02 @shasha55 @D_Bone Thanks. And I’m also not blaming anybody else for frustrations. I’m specifically saying there are a few people obsessively lying about me, and they’ve been doing it *long before* this. My opinions are in my pieces, hence my list, and I welcome disagreements on my actual opinions.

2022-11-09 17:54:53 Three women journalists in Egypt are on a hunger strike in solidarity with Alaa. They could end up in jail, too, under horrific conditions, for who knows how long.Bravery.Perhaps a tiny amount will rub off on world leaders before photo up time at #Cop27. https://t.co/GGaL3yVMq6

2022-11-09 17:39:11 @D_Bone @shasha55 I obviously have a great job, and my risk-taking didn't result in me getting fired, and I'm not looking for kudos. I genuinely consider it a privilege, who wouldn't?But I think focusing on NYT pieces and actual research is better use of my time than those few liars on Twitter.

2022-11-09 17:35:55 @D_Bone @shasha55 Here's my writing from the NYT. I'm always open to disagreements about my *actual* opinions. I'm not looking for kudos, I consider it a privilege to be able to do this. But I'll listen to disagreements about my *actual* opinions, fair, no?https://t.co/yOGaw4pcb2

2022-11-09 17:33:56 @D_Bone @shasha55 Instead, I delayed moving partly because I could keep writing about the pandemic — better masks, warning about variants, airborne transmission, rapid tests, etc. Here's some of that writing from the Atlantic. I'm happy about what I got done that year. https://t.co/LrKHPtlg8f

2022-11-09 17:32:01 @D_Bone @shasha55 Also, I got my Columbia job *before the pandemic* on pre-pandemic work. My previous job was great, too. Here's a profile from before. I could've kept writing about tech/society — much more readers and kudos, if that's what I were chasing to be honest. https://t.co/ApZxiEbVSH

2022-11-09 17:29:53 @D_Bone @shasha55 So, 8/2020 profile of me in the NYT, including pre-pandemic work.At the time, so publicly opposing the CDC and the WHO, saying we should wear masks and it's airborne were not easy, and I thought my public writing career might end. Got attacked so much.https://t.co/ZQbdCcv6Ar

2022-11-09 17:04:11 @D_Bone @shasha55 I could spend my whole day collecting my actual record, refuting lies on Twitter, but honestly, I think my time is better spent working forward. In fact, that's what I'm gonna do right now—but I should spend an hour and collate my actual writing for people who don't know.

2022-11-09 17:02:27 @D_Bone @shasha55 Maybe should collect what I did before? Started with NYT piece March 2020 calling for masks, reporting is it tipped balance for the CDC. Wrote/argued for airborne transmission mitigations from June 2020. Probably earliest mainstream pieces warning about Alpha, Delta &

2022-11-09 16:56:11 @D_Bone @shasha55 Gift link to my NYT article on how ME and LC protesters risked so much to try to get attention, and what it cost them (documenting the PEM/suffering in the aftermath). https://t.co/9od4FqkGUT

2022-11-09 16:54:31 @D_Bone @shasha55 Also, here's the gift link to my full-page NYT article on the sorry state of LC research, why that billion isn't doing much good for treatment, calling for a new institute, and explaining the history of gaslighting with ME/CFS as well. https://t.co/ekqUM0zLkJ

2022-11-09 16:52:50 @D_Bone @shasha55 And here's my thread responding to what I thought was an out-of-date, misleading and harmful piece about graded-exercise-therapy and Long Covid and ME.These are my opinions, happy to hear, always, what people disagree with for my actual opinions. https://t.co/B4rOIzsxeu

2022-11-09 16:50:48 @D_Bone @shasha55 I didn't ask to be called anything. No problem disagreeing with my *actual* opinions. Here: the NYT print versions of my pieces on LC and on ME, and their threads.Should I waste my time on flame wars with liars on Twitter instead?https://t.co/9pG3Q9vG28https://t.co/S9lSYchQF9 https://t.co/5aXQ0b1WAG

2022-11-09 16:41:15 @D_Bone @shasha55 Anyway, aside from the sociology of it, the few liars largely irrelevant. As for actual patients now encountering them? I’ll let time do its work, personally, but as she was saying, this is obviously a tough illness and my personal lack of concern doesn’t mean it’s not harmful.

2022-11-09 16:38:33 @D_Bone @shasha55 The lying campaign was started by few people long ago—they’re not ill, or don’t claim to be, and I didn’t even know they existed until they got obsessed with me. Been more than a year. You’d have to ask them. The sociology of it is interesting as toxicity of Twitter my research.

2022-11-09 16:07:47 RT @AmnestyUK: “We know nothing...@UKinEgypt have been unable to even get proof he is alive“ - Alaa's sister, MonaSince #COP27 began, Ala…

2022-11-09 16:07:42 RT @katha_nina: I hope he is still with us, I hope he will be freed...We need people like my brother #AlaaAbdelfattah to address the global…

2022-11-09 16:07:25 RT @thefreedomi: “There is something truly perverse in Sissi’s assumption that the world would ignore Alaa’s plight,” @thefreedomi's @Allis…

2022-11-09 16:06:38 @shasha55 @NIHDirector @NINDSdirector @minadjenkins Completely agree. Did you see my NYT piece calling for a version of that? Specifically on post-viral illnesses? https://t.co/9BlUds5X2C

2022-11-09 16:03:21 @shasha55 I would love to have that chance! Of course, that crew can mislead a few patients, or if a few patients are joining that stuff, so what? We wouldn't dismiss cancer or its importance if a few cancer patients were saying terrible stuff? It's just the human experience. Cheers!

2022-11-09 01:39:39 RT @mealreplacer: In this piece, I explore a weak-form version of @zeynep's law. My claim is that when we overestimate second-order effects…

2022-11-09 01:10:00 @PepperMarion @PrunerKurt @lailashehata17 Looks beautiful!

2022-11-09 00:54:40 RT @FreedomForAlaa: The Washington Post, on this incident."Human rights advocates said it perfectly exemplified to a crowd of foreign obs…

2022-11-08 23:24:29 RT @louisahsmith: I just enrolled in Pfizer's phase 3 trial of its Lyme disease vaccine! Fellow dog owners and/or outdoorsy types in Lyme-e…

2022-11-08 21:01:26 @Dave99117584 @origincanada @mocoband @evecitizen36339 @LongCovidAdvoc I have a lot of mentions! Sorry, I can't respond to everyone. No interest in the personal animosity side, most of the time, I'm tweeting really basic stuff from many hard-working immunologists, and if people get mad at that, I just ignore it.

2022-11-08 20:52:01 @Dave99117584 @origincanada @mocoband @evecitizen36339 @LongCovidAdvoc Why? I've no connection to him, that corner only pops up occasionally because he seems to tweet lies about me nonstop, and sometimes one of his followers will ping me. It's the field of immunology that he seems to have a problem with, and I certainly don't run that either.

2022-11-08 20:22:26 RT @siobhan_ogrady: Biggest crowd I’ve seen at any pavilion is now gathered outside of the German pavilion for a talk on human rights again…

2022-11-08 18:45:58 @origincanada @mocoband @evecitizen36339 @LongCovidAdvoc There are many scientists also looking at T cells and immunopathology in LC patients as well as for ME/CFS. I talk to them all the time. Very appreciative of their work. They do science, not make stuff up on Twitter and then claim they were right based solely on jargon salad.

2022-11-08 18:43:01 @stephenjudkins Those are VERY VERY pro-mitigation immunologists. They're with UK's Indie Sage. The difference is, whatever their policy positions, their disagreements are within science, clear about remaining uncertainty, and get updated with evidencex. Twitter pseudoscience does not.

2022-11-08 18:38:28 Also, actual scientists can disagree, even vehemently, debate, *move forward* with evidence, and the best of them have high respect for each other through the debate—as below.Nonsense toxic campaigns on Twitter can get RTs and mislead, but not inform. https://t.co/uMbOitapg9

2022-11-08 18:34:34 @origincanada @evecitizen36339 @mocoband @LongCovidAdvoc They're just mad that Bertoletti made fun of the jargon salad used to con them—they can't tell the difference between jargon salad and scientific disagreement, with respect, as between Altmann and Bertolletti.I appreciate scientists who inform on social media despite the abuse.

2022-11-08 18:30:07 RT @Ed_Miliband: Yesterday I met Mona, the sister of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen imprisoned in Egypt for posting on social media.…

2022-11-08 18:28:02 Video: UK very pro-mitigation Indie Sage immunologists about Twitter claims on T cells."[Labs globally] counted lots of T cells.. Never really seen evidence for covid infection knocking down your T-cells in any kind of ongoing way.. [Not a thing] unless very severely infected." https://t.co/6hSdsUnsPU

2022-11-08 18:04:04 RT @nicohaeringer: The German pavilion event with @sana2 is packed.Many people are trying to follow with the live stream, because they're…

2022-11-08 17:09:41 RT @CelineLST: How come the Egyptian authorities have still not realized that the more they wait, the worst it will get for them. Just #Fre…

2022-11-08 17:00:09 RT @zeynep: @origincanada @mocoband They’re both immunologists, clearly with high respect for each other. Actual scientists debate, discuss…

2022-11-08 16:56:28 @origincanada @mocoband They’re both immunologists, clearly with high respect for each other. Actual scientists debate, discuss and move forward with evidence. I’m not making anything more than pointing this, occasionally and hence the multiyear campaign to lie about me. It’s hard to admit being conned. https://t.co/5DgcIItB6l

2022-11-08 16:46:51 @Jody_Houser Thank you!

2022-11-08 16:43:38 RT @siobhan_ogrady: The biggest press gaggle I’ve seen by far at COP27 has been for @sana2 https://t.co/231nMFSkJv

2022-11-08 16:42:09 @sarapod07

2022-11-08 16:20:03 This ongoing tragedy. So heartbreaking. What day and time is the #Cop27 photo-op? Will Alaa Abdel Fattah be dead by then? https://t.co/WqUle7ADx3

2022-11-08 16:10:37 @ofer_n @x3r0gxx Anyway, it's been nonstop from them for more than a year now. It's Twitter for you. But they are fairly isolated in their echo chamber (and fairly irrelevant, to be frank, and not much help to patients from anything I can tell) so I rarely even see it now. Hence I commented.

2022-11-08 16:08:48 @ofer_n @x3r0gxx There is a case from the same crowd: they took a 2021 tweet of mine where I *raise* concerns about Long Covid, whited out half of it and made it look like opposite, and then claimed I was a minimizer. It's sociologically amazing. They have time on their hands, but not much else.

2022-11-08 16:07:21 @ofer_n @x3r0gxx Here's my article on the ME/CFS and Long Covid protest—I spent a lot of effort to document post-exertional malaise, the invisible part of their illness.Not looking for kudos, it's a privilege to do this work. But the idea I'm dismissing LC is nonsense. https://t.co/jQjwKeXC4q

2022-11-08 00:32:41 @johannhari101

2022-11-07 23:58:13 @sarabjustone @ManvBrain I think that would greatly help the understanding. It is baffling till you start researching it, but then the evidence really piles up quickly.

2022-11-07 23:54:42 @CelticStoic Of course. I’ve done a lot of research on this topic, and wanted to make sure all that knowledge wasn’t ignored. So many people are suffering and the specifics of the illness are little known.

2022-11-07 22:16:38 @davidtuller1 @julierehmeyer @NYMag We worked at length with my editor to get the most succinct, precise description of PEM. He asked do you want to put the name, too? I said we’ll get letters from people who will learn, for the first time, the baffling symptoms they’re experiencing has a name. Sure enough, we did.

2022-11-07 21:55:30 @AaronTeasdale @julierehmeyer @NYMag There’s some interesting unpublished details about the Incline and nearby outbreaks (there were three). I’m trying to chase a few down. It’s genuinely very interesting.

2022-11-07 21:50:55 RT @RamyYaacoub: As this is being tweeted, it has been almost 34 hours since British-Egyptian activist @alaa had his last drink of water, m…

2022-11-07 21:47:18 @shepherdreports @ManvBrain Especially since the patient community tries even potentially dangerous things, because they’re so desperate, and pretty much everyone I talked with tried GET. (I have talked to a very large number of people recruited through various methods over many months.)

2022-11-07 21:44:57 @AaronTeasdale The answer above was a response to them trying to troll. Nothing to do with genetics. (You would have to scroll up to see, if you want to waste time).

2022-11-07 21:43:16 @AaronTeasdale There’s a weird bunch of people who have been obsessed with me for years. Nonstop. Constantly lying. Anyway, I ignore them because they’re irrelevant though harmful to actual patients. I saw them trolling a real scientist &

2022-11-07 21:40:46 @AaronTeasdale Thanks. I’m not at all talking about genetics. What happened here is these folks are mad at the initial tweet because it exposes someone using jargon salad to fool people. So they started trolling the scientist and I have objected. That’s all. Now they’ll lie about me. The usual.

2022-11-07 21:37:49 @AaronTeasdale @julierehmeyer @NYMag I'm convinced that, among other things, there's been too little written about the whole topic, even before the pandemic, given its obvious importance and the needs of the patients, but also given how scientifically and medically *interesting* and eye-opening it is.

2022-11-07 21:35:02 @AaronTeasdale @julierehmeyer @NYMag I've literally read hundreds of papers by now, and have learned a great deal of history and I'm interviewing some people from the past few decades, too now. (Incline outbreak is especially interesting). But what you are suggesting is a different topic, could be useful to others.

2022-11-07 21:32:06 @AaronTeasdale @julierehmeyer @NYMag I learned a lot on all those things, especially the history and the research, etc. There's a whole other (less important) debate about prevalance, but Twitter obviously isn't a place to talk about statistical details. But I can maybe help edit patient-to-patient advice?

2022-11-07 21:29:09 @AaronTeasdale @julierehmeyer @NYMag The first draft of my initial piece was 20K words. With the help and sage advice of my editors (on what length will get read in such a broad outlet), we condense stuff to (pretty long) for NYT but much shorter than what I'd want to write. I'd be happy to try to help, though.

2022-11-07 20:46:23 @HerbertoDhanis @walidgellad A hypothesis may be plausible. The question, as always, is if *this* particular study design can show it either way, a question causal inference. Perhaps more details will be revealed through the peer review process. Fine. But as it stands, I don’t see how that can be concluded.

2022-11-07 20:41:43 RT @jakescottMD: What would many experts be saying if this study looked at hydroxychloroquine instead of Paxlovid? Or ivermectin?They’d s…

2022-11-07 20:28:34 RT @FreedomForAlaa: It’s unthinkable that Alaa’s mother has spent the whole day in front of a desert prison trying to get a basic proof of…

2022-11-07 20:28:19 @julierehmeyer @NYMag Totally agree.

2022-11-07 19:26:07 @winstoncb @awgaffney @ManvBrain Yeah. They try so many things. If anything, the problem is that, lacking trials, they try things in a less controlled manner than ideal. Many I have met are absolutely very very highly-motivated.

2022-11-07 16:27:42 Above, Alaa talks about how his family worries about his "baby sister." Sanaa was imprisoned for eighteen months—grabbed while waiting in front of Alaa's prison.She has just flown back to Egypt, at great risk, to try to campaign for her brother's life.https://t.co/bQDXG40otB

2022-11-07 16:20:34 RT @greggentry1: @zeynep @NYMag Compare the treatment, in the article, of Mady Hornig, to Jeremy Devine. She - a psychiatrist and profess…

2022-11-07 16:18:47 Thread with NYT essays—including from Alaa's mom, Dr. Laila Soueif.Below, a video I recorded: Alaa recounts how his mom responded to the risks protesters faced during the 2011 Tahrir uprising.She now waits to learn if Alaa will die in prison this week.https://t.co/tRj0M70FW5 https://t.co/7VRfJITpx6

2022-11-07 14:38:08 Rapid, huge effort on treatment trials—also informs basic science.Deep phenotyping—expensive but need for biomarkers.Integrate ME and LC research—stop reinventing wheels, follow up leads.Mass wearable data from 2020-2022—can it replace/augment CPET?https://t.co/vFLOZEFJR5

2022-11-07 14:10:42 Finally, it was implied mine is just patient advocacy.But some of the (Twitter) patient community really disagrees with some of my conclusions on prevalence studies' quality.It's not "repeat what patients say" without research, but that it's important to do that research.

2022-11-07 13:58:38 While substantive disagreements are one thing, I think above assertions were just wrong.ME is underfunded, many patients do try GET, are highly-motivated to try everything, many examples of athletes, mountaineers etc. who now can't walk for 10 minutes, clear virus before/after.

2022-11-07 13:54:26 Forget fearful of trying stuff, my experience researching ME/CFS and Long Covid, is that, lacking better options due to the chronic underfunding of treatment trials, some patients are *desparately* trying even dangerous things, a la early HIV communities that tried everything.

2022-11-07 13:51:04 Also, GED and CBT are just not what many, many experienced, evidence-based clinicians I interviewed ever said were "only" tools in their toolkit.There are many drugs/treatments to help relieve symptoms that are routinely used. Yes, they should be trialed! (See lack of funding).

2022-11-07 13:48:40 This was concerning to me.First, patients TRY everything. Even browsing the forums or interviewing a few would make that clear. They try so many things.They definitely try graded-exercise in large numbers, and stop often long after it makes them worse.https://t.co/lrn1FV4IxD

2022-11-07 13:45:30 If patients resist something harmful, it's not "oh they're irrationally afraid".Replies are full of people who did risky, dangerous things—till they got a virus.WHO, CDC, NHS now agree with them.LC and ME clinicians could easily have addressed this. https://t.co/zHEQ7O5DRg

2022-11-07 13:35:59 Currently, it's up to $17 million a year, recent uptick. Still very little, and again, a tiny fund compared to diseases with much lower prevalence.The idea that ME research hasn't been historically, deeply underfunded compared to disease burden or prevalance is simply not true.

2022-11-07 13:33:53 NIH, till recently, put $5-6 million a year to ME. Especially in the US research context, that'll do very little.I personally had *two* separate ~$500K grants to survey a small number of middle schools and to analyze the data. No expensive lab equipment. 20% of all ME funding.

2022-11-07 13:29:16 For example, ME research has been historically very, very underfunded. It was a few million per year till recently. I spent months tracking that billion. Most of it is in an observational study, trials will start *next year*, no deep phenotyping funding. https://t.co/AV4FTycMSb

2022-11-07 13:26:28 I hadn't tagged the @NYMag author to avoid personalizing, but he responded, and based on his statements, I now think, beyond the substantive disagreement, author was genuinly not up to date with either research or history on ME, post-exertional malaise and biomarkers/treatments.

2022-11-07 13:20:01 @did_40 I read all those papers. Those percentages are based on LC clinic samples or people screened for exercise tolerance already. Therefore they’re not at all representative. But yes, some portion on LC clearly qualifies as ME based on syndrome overlap. It’s clearly less than 46%.

2022-11-07 12:21:33 #COP27 is underway. Egypt’s government clearly understands the few statements made by world leaders are performative, without the pressure these leaders could easily apply.Unless something changes, Egypt’s most well-known political prisoner will die during their photo-op week. https://t.co/g44HpDysYX

2022-11-07 04:39:08 @ManvBrain Have you talked to patients? How many? I’m curious. They try so many things it’s almost hard to believe. Their lives desperately revolve around trying many, many things and they could tell you their GET stories. Because many tried that, too. You should update your piece.

2022-11-07 04:36:29 @ManvBrain You’re still wrong. The patients *do* try many things. GET doesn’t have demonstrated efficacy for those with PEM, but they almost all try it anyway but it worsens their condition. Your piece is at least a decade out of date—and that was wrong for those with PEM a decade ago, too.

2022-11-07 04:17:28 RT @helayoty: #FreeAll #FreeThemAll #COP27 https://t.co/as4Dpo29JN

2022-11-07 02:25:52 @loscharlos @Itisallacademic Where did you get that? See the article I sent above which also covers viral load and persistence as a key hypothesis. Again, I think you’re misreading the sentence.

2022-11-06 00:26:31 RT @amandakhurley: Pressure on Rishi Sunak and other leaders attending #COP27 is mounting to secure the release of pro-democracy activist A…

2022-11-06 00:20:25 RT @jayvanbavel: “The reliance on advertising by so much of our digital public sphere — Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Twitter —…

2022-11-06 00:15:56 @Peckiconis No contest https://t.co/FqxmadKaW7

2022-11-05 23:56:46 @tkpwaeub I do! So many 20k step or many miles of biking days lately!

2022-11-05 23:54:29 @EerkeBoiten

2022-11-05 22:48:00 @RadioFreeTom @dcherring Okay I finally read this. It’s a good piece! Dave is smart as usual. I don’t think it’s about the same topic I was writing about, though.

2022-11-05 19:17:00 @aburisotto https://t.co/FqxmadKaW7

2022-11-05 19:16:35 @JonMurray Nobody likes them, best I can tell. Actually everyone seems to hate them.

2022-11-05 19:06:03 I meant great weather for the spectators! Best of luck to the runners who prefer it cooler! I.. will cheer you on. https://t.co/QQ8zLDK9Bl

2022-11-05 18:58:37 @jerkob

2022-11-05 18:52:06 @j_g_allen They don’t know any of this is happening, more likely?

2022-11-05 18:25:01 @elisegarton I've seen them at mile 20+!!! They just smile and keep running! I feel like reporting real life deep fakes lol.

2022-11-05 17:54:29 Hard to imagine better weather for tomorrow’s NYC marathon that ends in Central Park. Here’s reflections on a theme—autumn water reflections.(Yes, yes I will go cheer on the runners tomorrow but they appear to be so comfy even after having run 20+ miles! All smiles and waves). https://t.co/O49lX8tChC

2022-11-05 16:12:53 RT @prosonf: Very interesting thread. Being facepalmed by Musk shouldn't make us defend ad financing of platforms

2022-11-05 16:08:29 There's a lot of reporting on how terrible it all is, so I guess people who aren't on it at all don't get why everyone doesn't just leave?Need more reporting and explaining of why and how they matter, why nostalgia isn't an answer, and why making it all better should be a goal.

2022-11-05 16:04:09 Every time I write about any platform, a lot of commentary is essentially "I don't use it, what's the big deal. Just quit".I understand why many think that, but we need better explanations of why and how they matter. This is not like saying "go buy a different brand of shoes".

2022-11-05 15:23:58 Are all the world leaders going to show up at #COP27, while political prisoners such as Alaa Abdel Fattah, imprisoned for years for a retweet of an article about torture, die in prison during their photo ops?Or will they ask for some gestures, at least?https://t.co/xRvxozZqcX https://t.co/jpSizmjjkI

2022-11-05 15:16:30 @jndlr I've been asking for this for years, kept getting promised it would happen!, and it is such a huge deal, and would do so much to help make so many journalists and dissidents around the world safer. Alas.

2022-11-05 14:57:06 We get detailed reporting on the latest emojis on the slack of Twitter, the company, (I read all that, too but here as a comparision to what's missing), ...but fairly little reporting on how extremely influential Twitter, the platform, is on journalism.https://t.co/ECFuVSmVvP

2022-11-05 14:43:36 @apsmunro Yep!

2022-11-05 14:27:14 I don't even say leave all platforms. Obviously, people use them for many reasons, some of which are great. I want them to be better for us.But it's fascinating how little ordinary people understand Twitter's role in shaping so much of journalism.Also Tiktok to teen culture.

2022-11-05 14:12:47 @supersetgreg You can ignore Facebook now, as a journalist, and for many communities. It wasn't always like that.I don't see how new journalists can ignore Twitter, when their whole field seems obsessed with it.

2022-11-05 14:03:47 Hoo boy, comments open on my NYT piece on Twitter and ad-financing.~Top comments:"Wait, what do you mean journalists are heavily-influenced by Twitter?""Why don't they just leave?""Twitter influences journalism??"Readers, do I have news for you.https://t.co/A9jWzlf9UB https://t.co/YkUZ5C92IV

2022-11-05 12:44:31 RT @piscosour: Un punto importante de @zeynep: el problema de las redes sociales que tenemos no es técnico. No es un problema de moderación…

2022-11-05 12:41:41 @stratosathens

2022-11-05 03:09:01 @zcutlip

2022-11-05 01:59:18 RT @siobhan_ogrady: When world leaders arrive in Egypt for COP27, they will have to dance around a subject the govt here would prefer not t…

2022-11-05 01:43:13 @angelvshannon @mackenzian @AFairch

2022-11-05 00:09:18 @marcararc @elonmusk @nytopinion

2022-11-05 00:07:48 RT @jerryiannelli: Fun to think about how much harsher the press would be on Gannett if Gannett itself did not own a large portion of the n…

2022-11-04 22:57:54 So if we’re asking for the moon. How about end-to-end encrypted DMs @elonmusk?I asked for this from Twitter leadership for years and kept getting told it was “on the roadmap”. This is crucial to safety of dissidents and journalists globally. Maybe Twitter can finally ship that?

2022-11-04 22:50:40 @alexgibneyfilm

2022-11-04 22:09:48 RT @jarango: "The idea that advertisers alone will save us from hate speech and the further degradation of digital social media is wishful…

2022-11-04 21:29:32 RT @linseymarr: Lots of influenza-like illness (ILI) going around. I've had a lot of students miss class with confirmed flu over the past f…

2022-11-04 21:11:43 @JamesGleick We have so little transparency from either YouTube, Tiktok, Facebook, too. He may well run this to the ground, who knows? But the business model is often in the driver seat more than the personalities, and I wanted to focus on that, not the "main character" dynamics that's on rn.

2022-11-04 20:57:37 @wheatonsimis

2022-11-04 20:05:45 @ImpactForward

2022-11-04 19:21:21 Also, let me put this great must-read here. This isn’t an easy transition. It never could be. https://t.co/0KGyh3CQ6x

2022-11-04 19:07:24 RT @y_sarfati: Western governments need to show the slightest backbone and pressure Egypt to #SaveAlaa #FreeAlaa

2022-11-04 19:00:30 Let me just put this here. All this is a direct result of the role ad-financing plays in financing major internet platforms and digital media.Whatever people think of Musk shouldn't make us forget this underlying reality. https://t.co/YugwBMtOMJ

2022-11-04 18:58:37 RT @NaomiAKlein: This is the key point right now. The rest is theatre. #FreeAlaa

2022-11-04 18:57:26 @codinghorror @Carnage4Life @elonmusk But they don't demand an end to the quite unethical surveillance infrastructure that helps their ads be better targeted, for example. They may, indeed, be concerned about some downstream excesses, but can we also focus on their upstream causal negative contribution to all this?

2022-11-04 18:54:07 Ad-financing helped fuel this avalanche — this massive surveillance infrastructure, the design and algorithms to increase "engagement", many who exploit all this — and then we beg advertisers to please maybe kindly help negate some of the worst excesses.Not a great model.

2022-11-04 18:50:07 @C_Lepkowski @elonmusk It's not the same as the predigital era, though, and even then, it wasn't harmless. The massive surveillance and demand for engagement at scale (since each ad is worth so little) is not great, and back then, those products were gatekept in different ways. Not so anymore.

2022-11-04 18:33:47 I'm not a fan here —his "pedo guy" tweet was him responding to me about my oped criticizing him about the cave rescue stuff, and that wasn't a fun week— but I think we should try to think beyond the person in these moments.Previous Twitter wasn't free. Ad-financing is not free.

2022-11-04 18:28:50 Also, I have Twitter Blue and I can't even search my bookmarks. Launched a year ago.Verification is good for the ecology, not always the user, so not best target for monetization, but would it be that bad if Twitter maybe kinda ever shipped something useful and charged for it?

2022-11-04 18:25:47 I get"main character" focus, especially with all his antics, but let's not miss the bigger dynamic? I've great respect for many people who were on the Twitter safety team, but their work was trying to stop an avalanche.That avalanche is very much tied to the ad-financing model.

2022-11-04 18:18:11 New from me, a plea: focusing so much on @elonmusk shouldn't lead us to defend advertiser-financing of platforms, which is neither free nor healthy.Can we remember what ad-financing helped fuel on the (pre-Musk) Twitter, Facebook, Tiktok or Youtube?https://t.co/PJsC5Xc0Vn https://t.co/R4QgeHUH8k

2022-11-04 14:57:30 RT @davidakaye: this is all the @StateDept has to say about @alaa? it's weak &

2022-11-04 11:43:37 RT @Monasosh: When it is put like that .. you see the full irony of Sisi's methods"British human rights defender Alaa Abdel Fattah is abou…

2022-11-03 23:45:57 (Yes, deleted and fixed typo.)

2022-11-03 23:43:36 So beyond regular margin of error, there are issues like correlations between responding and political views—a current problem weights cannot solve.So we already don’t know, also we don’t know how much more off the polls maybe beyond the expected statistical intervals.¯\_()_/¯ https://t.co/GGPxqTl28v

2022-11-03 21:47:35 https://t.co/OCfar8YL8j

2022-11-03 20:39:42 RT @techpolicypress: On Elon Musk’s Vision of Twitter as a Hive Mind @elonmusk says Twitter can be thought of as a “collective, cyberneti…

2022-11-03 20:15:17 “How often do the parent companies of Fox News and MSNBC team up?” https://t.co/Kc7O3vnrDh

2022-11-03 19:26:59 RT @GEsfandiari: Iranians are still protesting despite a brutal crackdown that has left more than 250 dead. This was earlier today in Kam…

2022-11-03 18:45:01 RT @carlheath: What an excellent and insightful thread, on the topic of network complexity and human collective action. And Elon. And Twitt…

2022-11-03 14:44:07 World leaders have enormous leverage in this situation, as Egypt depends on foreign aid, trade and tourism, and is about to host #COP27.Real pressure — more than tweeting — should be able to result in some minor gestures, including the release of Alaa. https://t.co/ODdP55JtJK

2022-11-03 13:01:21 @BenMazer Huh. According to the chart, vaccines were more important in areas of high poverty, likely because the *wealthier* unvaccinated had means of protecting themselves (work from home, order in, etc.) compared to the poor unvaccinated, for whom vaccines reduce such disparities more.

2022-11-03 12:37:54 Good to see media interest, but it's the world governments that must press Egypt to, at least, undertake some gestures for political prisoners before #COP27, including letting Alaa Abd El Fattah fly home to UK—he may well die during the summit otherwise.https://t.co/tNDoBJSkUA

2022-11-03 12:27:42 Yes.It's clear from how we found out about the Taiwan case that there is massive underreporting of lab accidents and/or lack of proper safety precautions that go unfixed until something that can't be denied occurs. Kudos to Taiwan for disclosing.https://t.co/nrYe5Blb7L

2022-11-03 12:24:11 The *only* reason we know of the Taiwan lab BSL-3 infection is it had zero Covid then, and we test for COVID, so they got suspicious of the outbreak, tested the sequence, confirmed and responsibly disclosed.If it wasn't something you didn't know to test for, you may never know. https://t.co/4pG1maAFFZ

2022-11-03 12:19:14 Correction! More than one SARS-CoV-2 lab-acquired infection.Taiwan had disclosed their BSL-3 leak (though it was detected *later* by testing, after person was out and about).Seems China had an undisclosed one, came out through FOIA emails. Missed that. https://t.co/mS6wY0GVcX

2022-11-03 12:08:04 A map of *known* laboratory-acquired-infections till 2016.For mundane pathogens, this may not matter.(Not so for pandemic potential ones.)The first CDC survey on this showed it was always the later *test* that found it. Nobody had reported an accident.https://t.co/oWBKOMZBQC

2022-11-03 11:18:52 RT @Beltrew: Latest news:

2022-11-02 22:25:03 RT @kemc: Two writers left at what was once a formidable statewide newspaper in Montana, one that had about 45 staff journalists at its pea…

2022-11-02 18:48:25 @GoelShilpa

2022-11-02 18:47:18 @nategadzhi @jilliancyork Heh

2022-11-02 17:33:33 Mara on lab safety.This below is with *known* accidents. Many accidental lab infections aren't recognized in real time, but long after-the-fact by testing—if it is something one tests for. Multiple such incidents with SARS, and with SARS-CoV-2 in Taiwan.https://t.co/vWUnqBVycY https://t.co/Z5qZK4xHUS

2022-11-02 16:04:25 @togelius I was an associate professor at UNC, and let's just say I wasn't in a hurry to apply for a promotion with all the paperwork! Columbia tenured me as full, whew, so I guess I won't be a perpetual associate prof, as might have seemed likely, lol.

2022-11-02 15:38:49 @andrew_croxford @dylanhmorris Much has been said on the (obviously there) harms of contrarianism in media, but clearly there's a huge premium in scientific publishing in "here's something unexpected" track. (I mean, the epi has already made it clear it is, at best, a marginal issue but go on). Humans like it.

2022-11-02 14:44:50 @JenniferNuzzo Yeah, we may never know is totally reasonable. It took decades for us to get confirmation that 1977 pandemic was, indeed, likely a well-meaning vaccine trial that went wrong—reporting is scientists at the time kept quiet, fearing flu cooperation with China/USSR would be damaged.

2022-11-02 14:35:20 Same, same with Singapore where "immune-evasive" in (meaning antibodies in the lab) XBB have been dominant. Cases still on the way down, very few severe cases, 99.7% is "asymptomatic/mild".Lab/in vitro studies alone are obviously not very informative in this immunity landscape. https://t.co/gtaOHaYPwQ

2022-11-02 13:29:06 15 Nobel laureates sent a letter urging world leaders not to show up at #COP27 without demanding at least a gesture on political prisoners—it would be very little, but at least something.Alaa may well die during the summit, photo ops notwithstanding.https://t.co/BeA1eQu0ue https://t.co/zumy9O3IgT

2022-11-02 05:35:05 RT @erenbali: This thread is worth $8

2022-11-02 05:06:34 “Women who were offered the vaccine at ages 12 to 13 had an 87% lower risk of cervical cancer than those who were not offered the vaccine at the same age. Their risk of an abnormal Pap smear, a screening test that detects signs of potential cervical cancer, was lower by 97%.”

2022-11-02 05:04:57 “It’s an incredible achievement to have, first of all, got [vaccination] rates that high among girls 12 to 13 years old. You can see the amazing results of that, almost eliminating a very common and invasive cancer”.Not happening the same rate in the US because of anti-vaxxers. https://t.co/rTKR7Nm11Q

2022-11-02 04:23:49 An outright lie to suggest HPV vaccine doesn’t prevent cancer, one that will get will people killed. https://t.co/gDK7Mp3GiH https://t.co/bSz82FFcEQ

2022-11-02 04:12:21 This is such a little things world leaders could push for. https://t.co/ge57ipbIHK

2022-11-02 03:21:10 RT @pogo15: This is important

2022-11-02 02:11:48 RT @walidgellad: When you study people who have a positive PCR in an electronic health record, you are selecting a specific group of Covid…

2022-11-02 01:56:14 @dylanhmorris @ENirenberg @notdred @md_wallach @jallepap

2022-11-02 00:21:31 RT @ccarter84: What's wild is how little coverage this is getting

2022-11-02 00:08:15 @GeneticsMike7 @mikeydoubled @chrislhayes @JeremyKonyndyk Also we didn’t get a totally random novel virus, we got one related to the one we have been poking around and experimenting on for the past decade, fearing it may launch a pandemic, in a city with such labs. That’s not proof! Could be a coincidence. But can’t calculate this imo. https://t.co/nla6bwIx4C

2022-11-01 23:59:24 @mikeydoubled @GeneticsMike7 @chrislhayes @JeremyKonyndyk We already had a research-associated pandemic, one of four in molecular biology era, and also having a novel pandemic come from a virus family that *almost* caused a pandemic and then we launched a large research program about, at a minimum, makes the question important.

2022-11-01 23:57:30 @GeneticsMike7 @mikeydoubled @chrislhayes @JeremyKonyndyk At best, SARS happened through spillover and then we went around with a large research program in SARS-like viruses, poking in caves and many experiments, and SARS itself escaped from labs many times (without us knowing) would change those odds. (Not saying it happened that way).

2022-11-01 23:52:32 @GeneticsMike7 @mikeydoubled @chrislhayes @JeremyKonyndyk That is not how you assess the likelihood of an event that’s already happened though. There’s a conditional probability here, especially since pandemic are rare events. Spillovers may be routine, but they don’t routinely turn into pandemics. Can’t calculate odds like that.

2022-11-01 23:38:39 @HL3133 Oh come on. China has gag orders on everything, not proof either way. Scientists may be touchy about regulations or questions about their field, that doesn’t suggest they are covering up something they know to be true. This stuff isn’t proof of leaning. We don’t know is honest.

2022-11-01 23:35:43 @dirtylib666 @chrislhayes @JeremyKonyndyk So even if China’s data was good-faith and full (and it is not), you can’t conclude from the first known outbreak where the origins a month or two ago were. The paper doesn’t claim to do so either, media should report better.

2022-11-01 23:34:49 @dirtylib666 @chrislhayes @JeremyKonyndyk It’s been long reported, including by the NYT, that China did not allow docs to report non-market cases, we aren’t sure how long. Also, even that paper clearly says it cannot establish where the epidemic started—likely October-November. The cases from then aren’t disclosed.

2022-11-01 23:32:35 @mikeydoubled @chrislhayes @JeremyKonyndyk Lab-acquired infections are also boringly routine (that’s not proof either). Ralph Baric, an actual eminent coronavirologist, says you can’t tell engineering unless you have lab records. And we don’t. Yeah, the other path also plausible. That’s what I mean. Can’t know for sure.

2022-11-01 23:30:40 Btw, my view on the Vanity Fair piece. Some have questioned it, the questions seem to have validity (I can’t assess, not a Mandarin speaker.). But even if it held up or got retracted, it wouldn’t be proof *either way*. We don’t know, and may never know unless China changes. https://t.co/vBn7fJQTtb

2022-11-01 23:27:57 @dirtylib666 @chrislhayes @JeremyKonyndyk Look up “not missing at random”. The cases aren’t just underascertained.

2022-11-01 23:27:28 @chrislhayes @JeremyKonyndyk We don’t know, we may never know unless something major changes in China, but since we are even asking the question, and since all of these paths are plausible, how about we focus on trying to prevent all future potential paths, seems both credible and smarter to me.

2022-11-01 23:26:31 @chrislhayes @JeremyKonyndyk That has been happening all around by proponents and opponents of all theories, imo. Even taken at face value, all you’d know is the lab was under pressure and maybe had some safety issues? Both are already well-documented to be true, but they are not proof by themselves.

2022-11-01 23:24:09 @chrislhayes @JeremyKonyndyk The error, and that is a big error in my view with long-term consequences, has been to try to assert we have any more certainty than can be supported at an evidence, in a situation where the party that would be investigated is clearly not cooperating with the investigation.

2022-11-01 23:23:11 @chrislhayes @JeremyKonyndyk By February 2020, we knew there was a mid-December outbreak at a market which likely sold wildlife but also the epidemic started earlier, and there were two labs in the city working on bat viruses, one a few hundred yards from that market. And we know China isn’t cooperating.

2022-11-01 23:17:54 @chrislhayes @JeremyKonyndyk Even if it held up, it wouldn’t move the needle towards any more certainty. All options remain on the table because nothing has been decisively shown, proven or ruled out. That’s where it’s been the whole time, likely won’t change unless China changes, and cooperates.

2022-11-01 23:10:44 @MckinneyRufous @nytimes @MEActNet @ThereseARus @hope4pwME

2022-11-01 21:51:26 So one of my favorite Central Park moments is how, at sunset, the East Side can look like it’s aflame from the sun’s rays.You can see the shimmer peaking through the leaves in first picture, and it can be a single building that glows in the last photo (from earlier). https://t.co/A4YlFH1up8

2022-11-01 21:39:37 @Hold2LLC @HumphreyPT As I said, easy for you to say as the victims are other people.

2022-11-01 21:07:02 RT @katestarbird: I agree. As a member of CISA’s advisory committee, we met over the last year &

2022-11-01 01:11:07 @peculiarstarr Someone also gave out books!

2022-11-01 00:57:24 @synopsi No! Actually house by house.

2022-11-01 00:49:05 @davidzombiehume Ikr

2022-11-01 00:41:08 Trading floor takes 10% right? Right?(AKA Manhattan Halloween rocks). https://t.co/GBHOA8aQrV

2022-10-31 20:00:47 RT @NaomiAKlein: This is shattering news. Alaa will either be free in the next days or he will die in prison during #COP27 as the world wat…

2022-10-31 18:32:07 RT @linseymarr: Yes, flu transmission can occur by aerosols, underappreciated. 1) 72% of passengers became ill on plane sitting on runway f…

2022-10-31 17:49:50 RT @lobna: It’s final. @alaa is either free or he dies while #COP27 is in session. #SaveAlaa

2022-10-31 17:45:30 RT @MEActNet: The @nytimes article by @zeynep about the aftermath of @MEActNet's DC protest is in print! Check out our thread for more info…

2022-10-31 17:23:49 aaaw https://t.co/7Qd4oQizcs

2022-10-31 17:22:53 @jbakcoleman @angie_rasmussen Makes sense to me, too. The estimates via various methods are September to November, but the second half of that range looks likelier. December looks implausible, and I'd be surprised with September (detections abroad alone) unless we learn something new. Seems straightforward.

2022-10-31 17:04:35 (perhaps more fun then a whole bunch of econ or evolutionary biology papers on signaling theory, amirite?)

2022-10-31 17:02:10 hang on, catching up on the new twitter business model https://t.co/q7AKonuPWk

2022-10-31 16:42:32 @DeryaTR_ That's the stuff I don't have an opinion on, tbh. I can evaluate the epi — especially since we know that the early disclosed cases were not just underascertained, as normal, but also "not missing at random", as we say in statistics, and a lot of censorship going on.

2022-10-31 16:25:44 @angie_rasmussen It is consistent with an outbreak starting in November, and multiple estimates via different methods put start in September to November. If you get 1.6% with no market connection with first week of January onset, it says disclosed cases are missing a lot. Seems straightforward.

2022-10-31 16:18:57 So we have an update.She's not dead or severely ill, either from COVID or the booster, as the conspiracies were alleging. Mild case, Paxlovid, rebound... https://t.co/eUotU0iXBd

2022-10-31 16:16:15 (Sorry, forgot to add link to the children's hospitals study: https://t.co/Hjr5sRB7Zo )

2022-10-31 16:00:18 Anyway, I'll keep saying: we don't need a definite answer, and we may never get one, but we can move forward. In my view, that is clearly justified, reasonable and forward-looking. And it will stand the test of time.(Trying to avoid the Twitter debate going well so far lol).

2022-10-31 15:56:56 By the way, the six cases in the children's hospital were found retrospectively—that's why they're so indicative of a bigger outbreak earlier.Where's the retrospective testing for Sept-December? Other hospitals? Other provinces? They also didn't test the animals at the market.

2022-10-31 15:51:04 There is a whole range of routine things in trying to establish origins of an epidemic. What we have, instead, has been stonewalling, censorship, limited and untrustworthy info. This applies to all scenarios, including the market.But, we don't need an answer to move forward.

2022-10-31 15:43:16 If you have *six* separate cases occuring in the first week of January 2020 leading to hospitalization, with no connection to the seafood market, there was a obviously much bigger outbreak in December compared to the cases they told us about.WHO SAGO recommendations are good. https://t.co/CT8btAKtZM

2022-10-31 04:10:44 RT @M_FerreiraDVM: Nuanced and informative opinion from @jbloom_lab. Would definitely recommend reading.

2022-10-31 02:47:32 @MarkELindsay I think you nailed this one.

2022-10-30 23:24:31 @kprather88 I hadn't seen this thread (if I had, I'd have replied directly). But there absolutely are weird conspiracies out there, including people claiming she might have died (from the booster or from COVID, pick your theory).

2022-10-30 21:55:04 @ValeBodi @wanderer_jasnah

2022-10-30 21:49:26 @ValeBodi @wanderer_jasnah @theNASEM Thank you! Definitely appreciate the help with the papers as well as the history. Only a tiny amount of the research I end up doing makes it to the final pieces, but I've been trying to learn a pretty large swath of history, and reading lots of papers. Just to be on solid ground.

2022-10-30 21:46:13 @ValeBodi @AaronTeasdale @wanderer_jasnah My (nice, helpful) editor wanted to avoid jargon, like PEM in the piece—for broader readers. That makes some sense but I said some people will hear of the name of the baffling symptom they're suffering from—and being gaslit about—from this. We kept the medical name. Sure enough..

2022-10-30 21:24:33 @ValeBodi @wanderer_jasnah I’m getting emails from people who just learned from my piece that the symptom they’re suffering from has a name, PEM. They didn’t have a name for it. It’s so infuriating. If I hadn’t heard so many stories like that, I would’ve thought somebody was pulling my leg.

2022-10-30 21:20:55 The city is busy enough but the park itself is also bustling. I took these today next to a jazz quartet (busking), an ice skating rink (blasting ABBA!), and the stands for the upcoming NYC marathon.Dense, walkable cities and giant urban parks are such a great combination. https://t.co/xdnblYlRId

2022-10-30 21:14:50 @ValeBodi @wanderer_jasnah Yeah. I think that’s obvious from the first tweet. I was adding.

2022-10-30 21:07:43 @AriSchulman @jbarro Also you can’t really do either well at scale, even if, in theory, you could try do one or the other in small versions. It’s the nature of bigger, faster.

2022-10-30 21:01:46 Indeed. By having the kind of discussion @jbloom_lab is framing in the piece upthread. It’s past time. https://t.co/gNY7qmJWS0

2022-10-30 20:49:47 @wanderer_jasnah This is genuinely sad.

2022-10-30 19:50:19 RT @Monasosh: AbdelRahman Tarik (Mokka), was released a few months ago after YEARS and years of artbitary detentionNews from #Egypt now th…

2022-10-30 17:51:55 Apparently, the latest conspiracy is "where is Walensky" if her illness is mild.Google news can be sorted by date, folks.She's been doing zoom presentations, promoting boosters.I criticize CDC policies all the time, but can we stick to basic facts?https://t.co/swp6G1k5W2 https://t.co/wy6Z5MlFPr

2022-10-30 17:32:45 @BaiYunchang You're very welcome!

2022-10-30 17:26:17 @LisaCositas1 I'm looking into the research/trials side for one of my next pieces (so much to cover in this area, will keep at it, for sure, as best I can).

2022-10-30 17:14:56 RT @CristinaAmpil: A must-read article and thread, IMHO. #virology #oversight “Wars must not be left to generals.”

2022-10-30 17:09:08 RT @FreedomForAlaa: It was deeply moving to have @GretaThunberg's solidarity at the #FreeAlaa sit-in today. A big thank you. For #COP27…

2022-10-30 17:09:01 RT @Monasosh: Our day started with @GretaThunberg visiting the sit in, which ofcourse tells you what an awesome day it has beenSo much l…

2022-10-30 16:40:21 @shasha55 I'm glad it worked out better for you, despite those limits.

2022-10-30 16:39:42 @iambenwis Agree!

2022-10-30 16:04:58 RT @BGrueskin: Musk today is tweeting out a story from the “Santa Monica Observer” … the same outlet that reported Hillary Clinton had died…

2022-10-30 16:04:37 @shasha55 Indeed!

2022-10-30 01:31:52 RT @utopiah: Kathleen Booth 'wrote all the software for the ARC2 and SEC machines, in the process inventing what she called "Contracted Not…

2022-10-29 17:27:13 RT @MassMECFS: The paper version of today's @nytimes. Thank you @zeynep for bringing attention to this way-too-long overlooked illness.

2022-10-29 17:26:36 This is what works. Other methods can and will get phished, with some effort. See rest of threads. https://t.co/hcnRBw7Ocd

2022-10-29 17:18:08 This is an actual crime, from what I understand, yet fake vaccine card spam is rampant on Twitter despite language being so consistent. (So let’s cc:@elonmusk, as this hits the trifecta of crime, spam and why isn’t the code catching all this better?) https://t.co/89hY8A2bu5 https://t.co/eqydgLk8mn

2022-10-29 16:15:30 In today’s @nytimes, my piece on ME (and Long Covid) patients risking their already fragile health to protest to advocate for research.One key part is the devastating world of post-exertional malaise: a poorly-understood symptom that sets them apart, and challenges assumptions. https://t.co/guQQq2f6Lm

2022-10-29 15:02:35 It was wrong to dismiss the looming pandemic threat against a novel virus in early 2020 with "worry about the flu instead" stuff (I railed against it) and it's also wrong to dismiss the obvious, ongoing burden of even seasonal influenza *now*—it's very real.

2022-10-29 14:58:12 @mehdirhasan Influenza has long been an underrated threat among the public, and all the "what about the flu" comparisons in early 2020 to dismiss the huge threat of the looming pandemic really didn't help—similar to "it's not the flu" comparisons made to COVID now, as if flu isn't a big deal!

2022-10-29 14:55:24 @mehdirhasan Absolutely, we should vaccinate our population against the flu much more widely, since it was obviously going to come back. It's possible the elderly might need two shots—just like with COVID, aging caused immunosenescence makes them more vulnerable.

2022-10-29 14:50:47 Also, pandemics clearly produce larger waves of post-viral ailments—this one or 1918 are the examples.But epidemic flu can, and does, absolutely trigger postviral ME in some people (numbers less clear) as well as lengthy, lingering symptoms in more people (well-documented).

2022-10-29 14:45:43 US flu update. After two years of very little activity, statistics indicate an early start to flu season—and a good deal of severe cases.This year's vaccines are a good match to the circulating strain. (They would still help even if they weren't, but even more so when they do). https://t.co/2rQZ2vZXt6 https://t.co/5cM98u1HbW

2022-10-29 14:35:02 @ShariBoxerBaker @brianvastag @MEActNet

2022-10-29 14:34:29 US Monkeypox update. Cases continue to decline. Still almost all men. Zero outside of introductions from elsewhere is quite plausible, if we keep up with testing, vaccinating and informing.So infuriating there's little effort to help people in endemic countries get vaccinated. https://t.co/wFoBVQeLGk

2022-10-29 14:20:30 @adamgurri Lol not at all my intention to suggest anyone else could easily deal with this transition. Recognizing the correct problem would be a good start, though.

2022-10-29 13:55:20 @MarkLevineNYC I have to say, that's been like that for a long, long time. I think there might be some concentrated efforts to troll, now as there's attention, but social media/Twitter has been full of a range of anti-vaccine stuff—from outright lies to nonsensical misframing—the whole time.

2022-10-29 13:38:20 Singapore XBB update. The decline in Covid cases continue.99.7% of cases "asymptomatic or mild".In the last four weeks, 70 people ever in ICU and 44 deceased—in a country of ~six million.Deaths were overwhelmingly from the small percent of people still not fully-vaccinated. https://t.co/hgwwT1z4gF

2022-10-29 13:11:39 RT @ahmed: Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed becomes Twitter’s second-largest investor after Elon Musk

2022-10-29 13:00:36 RT @paulmozur: There’s more. Here’s China’s gov’t asking contractors to build and keep up networks of sock puppet accounts. Because they’r…

2022-10-29 13:00:20 RT @paulmozur: There’s also the police who have detained thousands of domestic Chinese twitter users. Sometimes the police even reach out o…

2022-10-29 13:00:11 RT @paulmozur: For examples about how this works, last year we showed how Chinese state media and embassy accounts on twitter spread YouTub…

2022-10-29 13:00:00 RT @paulmozur: Exhibit two in the trend. Again China has been massively active on Twitter with bot nets boosting state media/diplomat disin…

2022-10-29 12:37:16 @book_learning Indeed. That's the part that makes the disease extra difficult for people to understand. The risk is not minor, as you say, some people have very long-term crashes.

2022-10-29 00:32:08 @vgr heh

2022-10-28 23:56:05 @bilalfarooqui You're gonna dig into that from the code printout? You've seen ML code, right? Have a sense of how/why it works, I assume? "Show me the code" is not in your first seventy steps or so to get at that question.

2022-10-28 23:46:10 @HoddyHarrington @CaseyNewton Yeah, me too.

2022-10-28 23:44:17 "Print the code" doesn't even make sense from the tech view, given machine learning.I mean, if the wish is to have a fun conversation about how linear algebra ended up playing a big societal role, sure. I like such chats! Invite me to them!Not really their challenge though.

2022-10-28 23:40:33 Also, speaking of printing the code, most of the crucial parts are probably machine learning, and best of luck figuring that out from only the code.That's also why "turn over the algorithm!" usually isn't the transparency we need. The real action isn't in the code alone.

2022-10-28 23:38:00 The "what about the code" part is a bit like "if the people only knew" feelings activists sometimes express. Informational flows are important, but in most societies, it's really not about singular information. There's rarely a magic piece of info that would change everything.

2022-10-28 23:34:55 @brianvastag @MEActNet

2022-10-28 23:34:15 So @CaseyNewton reports that Musk asked Twitter engineers to print their code, and be ready for "code pairings" with Musk.As my own quote tweet below, I guess Musk is the next in line to discover the obvious: he's now in a people business, not a tech one. https://t.co/eqQfLQlb8H https://t.co/E7Somg6oex

2022-10-28 21:41:07 RT @kaitlancollins: Pelosi’s office says her husband was attacked by an assailant who “threatened his life while demanding to see the Speak…

2022-10-28 21:22:23 RT @propublica: New: The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unear…

2022-10-28 19:04:24 @MEActNet Much gratitude to everyone who participated, despite all the challenges.

2022-10-28 19:00:07 RT @IFEX: #UK Foreign secretary @JamesCleverly urged to act over jailed British–Egyptian hunger striker. via: @guardian https://t.co/jETUV…

2022-10-28 18:54:47 Thread, with details on ME, relevant to Long Covid as well. https://t.co/mGAMk52wsV

2022-10-28 15:53:35 RT @dandrezner: Really glad I got vaccinated last month.

2022-10-28 12:22:53 Being ill is difficult

2022-10-28 12:03:47 Emily on Twitter! (Check out her insta above, too!)I have met many brave activists around the world, now Emily too. Best part of my job. I'm honored to have had the chance to try to convey Emily's strength, perseverance and joy in this piece. @hope4pwMEhttps://t.co/9rx7XRWS7t

2022-10-28 11:53:54 @AaronTeasdale @nytopinion Hoping things move much faster, Aaron, and wish you the best.

2022-10-28 11:45:35 RT @hope4pwME: I’m in the @nytimes talking about my experience with #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis thanks @zeynep for words and research and @kh…

2022-10-28 03:06:08 RT @VanessaFuchsArt: This is me- exactly. Except some days, walking upstairs and taking a shower has the same effect.

2022-10-28 00:41:56 @AMoore864 You’re very welcome. I hope things move faster, soon.

2022-10-28 00:28:06 RT @HollinBrav: I’m so proud of these protesters, risking all that they did for greater visibility for #MECFS and #LongCovid. #MEAction ht…

2022-10-27 23:19:43 RT @nytopinion: “Protests can grab the attention of the world, invoking awe through stunning acts of bravery,” @zeynep writes. But the brav…

2022-10-27 23:04:11 RT @cjmaddison: I have come to realize that those suffering with ME/CFS are some of the bravest people to have ever lived.

2022-10-27 22:44:41 RT @DetsNick: Amazing work by ⁦@zeynep⁩! Shows that our #MECFS advocacy is limited by our inherent physical limitation. ⁦I’d love to see pr…

2022-10-27 21:33:57 @julierehmeyer Exactly. Absolutely. We did this over multiple weeks trying to be as careful as possible. But completely aware of the difficult choices. So much strength and bravery there.

2022-10-27 21:01:04 RT @ClayCrosbyLMFT: Thank you to Zeynep Tufekci @zeynep for this @nytimes article. Attention must finally be paid.@MEActNOW #MECFS #Mil…

2022-10-27 20:59:20 @Amy14BV Indeed.

2022-10-27 20:25:43 Hence the need for this, at all levels of advocacy and protest. https://t.co/8EqLAaxeHl

2022-10-27 20:18:20 The topic of ACT UP and early AIDS protests came up a lot.That disease is horrific, but between infection and impairment, there was a period when patients could protest—chain themselves to the WH fence or follow politicians around. ME patients cannot do that. They're too ill.

2022-10-27 19:34:45 RT @butwait: Up &

2022-10-27 19:00:52 RT @karlitaliliana: This is the hardest part about Long Covid. Your body can actually do many things physically but the punishment for “ove…

2022-10-27 17:44:54 RT @shelleyjules: This is an important piece. Friends and family and HCWs most often do not understand what happens in the weeks after they…

2022-10-27 17:22:55 RT @TamraSpeakman: Great article on the recent ME protest &

2022-10-23 22:44:55 @mindstalk Lol. It’s such an obviously ridiculous example of “we have tons of varied, coherent and consistent evidence it works in practice from around the world but can we now have put our names on a study based on lousy data that implies it doesn’t work in theory” that one despairs.

2022-10-23 17:24:48 @drwilvancleve @BenMazer @19joho I find it implausible that a broad recommendation is causing older people not to get boosters. That makes no sense. On the other hand, unnecessary confusion about the benefits of boosters as a lot of high profile people bicker about marginal stuff looks a lot more contributory.

2022-10-23 16:58:36 RT @JonMurray: A good reminder to get up to date on your boosters. The US is behind countries like Singapore, which appears to be weatherin…

2022-10-23 16:54:34 (Subtweeting a public health agency of an, ahem, large country: vaccine efficacy cannot be calculated under conditions of widespread population seropositivity by ignoring that variable simply because your data sucks, especially if your hospitalization ascertainment *also* sucks).

2022-10-23 16:51:04 @drwilvancleve @BenMazer @19joho We went through this last year...

2022-10-23 16:50:29 @drwilvancleve @BenMazer @19joho More focus is fine but.. Diseases travel in populations, there is more to the science and data of immunology than lagging indicators like clinical outcomes (which will come, as they did last year), affinity maturation matters, and lower risk is better even if low to begin.

2022-10-23 16:47:20 Update on Singapore. Despite a wave of cases, very few people in the hospital, let alone the ICU.99.8% of known cases remain mild or asymptomatic (probably higher given underdetection).As we see from around the world, vaccine efficacy against severity upholds remarkably well. https://t.co/Q2p71dJSOw

2022-10-23 16:26:45 RT @GreenpeaceUK: The UK government cannot turn a blind eye to this.@JamesCleverly, will you come out and meet @sana2?https://t.co/EPPx…

2022-10-23 16:17:57 @BenMazer @19joho The study even notes it as a "limitation". It's not a "limitation" if you act like a variable that's so central to the question can be ignored just because you have no sensible data. Anyway, this is tragic for the US tbh, but other countries have actual data and studies.

2022-10-23 16:12:50 @BenMazer @19joho If VE against hospitalization fell as low as that paper claims, we'd have had to turn Central Park into a field hospital in Winter 2022 (See Hong Kong data). They don't have seropositivity data, so they ignore it. Meanwhile, we have real life and other countries with actual data.

2022-10-23 03:41:34 @codinghorror

2022-10-22 22:53:04 RT @khalidabdalla: This both breaks and lifts my heart.

2022-10-22 12:37:36 RT @shashj: In light of Hu's removal from the party congress, our piece from last week on Xi's effort to curb the power of party elders. ".…

2022-10-21 19:09:39 RT @NaomiAKlein: An honour to appear alongside the courageous @sana2 - now on Day 3 of her 24/7 sit-in to #FreeAll. #Cop27

2022-10-21 17:17:17 @WomenScienceRFS

2022-10-21 12:50:31 @gmarquez2014

2022-10-20 21:12:03 @NYTimesPR

2022-10-20 19:31:38 @OmicronData @chrischirp Hence my constant complaint, to no avail so far, that lumping of all sequelae (be it from severity or also just ordinary viral sequelae that resolve) under the single umbrella has done the most disservice to the younger, mild/moderate case ->

2022-10-20 19:29:51 @OmicronData @chrischirp Sequelae from severity down, obviously, if for no other reason that severity down dramatically with population immunity (again, age-adjusted as with any virus) but the ME-cluster people are different, not sure their risk of relapse/decline is as much lower, even if lower (unsure)

2022-10-20 19:26:39 @OmicronData @chrischirp Other option is risk keeps going down for almost everyone, on average, in an age-adjusted manner (which, I believe is increasingly clearly indicated by the data), but not necessarily for anyone who's every had the ME version of it—especially pre-vax—even if they had a remission.

2022-10-20 18:31:31 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Does all this goodwill only flow one way? Surely you’re in a position now to require #Egypt to do the UK the courtesy o…

2022-10-20 16:39:50 Monkeypox update for Europe and US: cases are way down. Zero outside of new external introductions looks plausible.US/Europe cases are still almost exclusively in men.Bad news: the world is going back to ignoring the problem in the endemic countries—wrong and shortsighted. https://t.co/yxmlnIzV1i

2022-10-20 15:52:31 @__Chimaera Thank you!

2022-10-20 15:52:13 @seema_econ @SioBhanBhan @voxdotcom @rglenner @mushfiq_econ @EvidenceAction Same!

2022-10-20 15:14:46 @voxdotcom

2022-10-20 14:17:34 @BenMazer @19joho That I mind less than the fact that people still cite the model (that clearly had the incorrect IFR based on what's happened in the actual world since) rather than... what actually happened. A paper that's a model with lots of assumptions should be superseded by real life data.

2022-10-20 14:15:15 A kind profile of my pandemic work, thank you! https://t.co/QAG9ZvDcdq https://t.co/M1gxEOi8d4

2022-10-20 14:11:34 @SioBhanBhan @voxdotcom @rglenner @mushfiq_econ @seema_econ @EvidenceAction Oh wow thank you!

2022-10-20 13:20:40 @emilybell Just learned about this.https://t.co/pXC5pPCa3m

2022-10-20 13:01:39 @TheNickFoy @apsmunro @walidgellad @phealthsean Astonishing to say US health care problems driven by lack of nuance about vaccine prioritization, compared to cradle-to-grave universal health care in UK that’s part of the national identity. I’ve great health insurance and I never know my bills will be or what might bankrupt me.

2022-10-20 12:44:14 @TheNickFoy @apsmunro @walidgellad @phealthsean It’s not messaging nuance or difference, it’s trusted national universal health care that’s primarily delivering the vaccine in the UK. Have you any experience in either country? I’ve family in both. This is astonishing to overlook as key dynamic.

2022-10-20 12:39:56 @apsmunro @walidgellad @phealthsean One can have quibbles or objections to policy. I do all the time. But the objections to targeting are talked about and centered excessively, imo, and the key message is drowned out and that’s actually hurting uptake. We’ve done this before. It didn’t go well. Benefits not heard.

2022-10-20 12:33:31 @apsmunro @walidgellad @phealthsean You guys have an NHS. That’s so different. UK doesn’t run on messaging nuances. Here, half the population didn’t know the booster was updated and getting one can range from easy to a hassle that’s hard to navigate.

2022-10-20 12:26:10 @RahulRajkumar11 @walidgellad @phealthsean Colleges don’t need mandates? I agree. I wrote that myself… after I wrote the key message. And the idea the way to increase the uptake is to have a more limited recommendation and constantly talk about that makes no sense. That’s not what’s holding uptake back.

2022-10-20 12:22:13 @RahulRajkumar11 @walidgellad @phealthsean “The critics” aren’t compelled by some force of nature to center their criticisms and focus on them so much at the expense of what’s actually important. It’s possible to talk more about the vaccines benefits so that’s what gets heard. We saw the tragic avoidable deaths last year.

2022-10-20 01:28:16 RT @CarlosCortes: "En el ecosistema mediático actual mentir atrozmente es lucrativo". @zeynep sobre la condena contra Alex Jones. https://t…

2022-10-19 21:48:28 @BenMazer @19joho That Manaus paper alleged seroprovelance is a model based on, imo, absolutely unrealistic IFR—maybe more understandable at the time, but we know better now, and I'm convinced that what people think happened never happened, and if you look at the epi since then, it's extra clear.

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2022-10-18 19:04:02 RT @jodieginsberg: Award winning journalist @mattoosanna stopped for a second time from leaving India. No reason given. This time Sanna was…

2022-10-18 15:02:36 RT @kenvogel: Important @washingtonpost investigation revealing how retired U.S. military personnel &

2022-10-18 14:05:12 @drbrake @amp6 @jvipondmd I think ONS is the best we have, though it also doesn't have a control group (though we have papers showing effect of control group, so can guesstimate), it asks one severity question, at least, and is more solid. (But sadly changed method so can't compare over time now, aargh).

2022-10-18 14:02:28 @drbrake @amp6 @jvipondmd Same issues with many surveys. No question a subset has Long Covid, some quite severe, but... these surveys only ask about lingering symptoms (every respiratory illness has some!), the questions are vague, don't ask severity, conflate everything, and there's no control group.

2022-10-18 13:45:39 RT @dabeard: He's 72. A U.S. citizen. Wrote a few tweets critical of Saudi Arabia after the nation murdered a @washingtonpost journalist.S…

2022-10-18 13:21:23 @jsm2334 @MaryanneDemasi So much numberwang in these weak papers would be avoided if the authors or reviewers took out an envelope and a pencil and wondered "well, what would it look like in real life if these claims were true". Astonished how obvious much of the stuff like this is! And gets through!

2022-10-18 13:19:10 @T_Brautigan No, that is daily cases (though will be an undercount) vs *total* in hospital over time—the hospitalization ratio has been much lower for a while. A trial for severity reduction recently had real difficulty getting statistical power—too few severe cases, thankfully, for stats.

2022-10-18 13:04:42 RT @ORHamilton: By far the most significant piece written on #COP27 and the moral crises that Egypt's hosting throws up has been by @NaomiA…

2022-10-18 13:04:29 RT @zoe_lafferty: Join today's protest demanding the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, technologist, writer &

2022-10-18 01:12:27 RT @GEsfandiari: Worrying BBC report suggesting that Elnaz Rekabi who competed without the compulsory hijab in Seoul has been missing. She…

2022-10-17 18:47:54 @meganranney @theNAMedicine @HelenBurstin @SaadOmer3 @JNkengasong @CamaraJones @LizFowler_ @DrMonicaPeek @GaviSeth Congratulations!!!

2022-10-17 17:56:09 @MichaelDaignau3 I strongly suspect ours would look worse, though. It's more like what it could be, if we had more of our act together...

2022-10-17 17:54:17 For clarity's sake: THE US IS NOT SINGAPORE. This wasn't a prediction about the US. Singapore is highly-vaccinated, is rapidly rolling out bivalent boosters, and added protections for the most vulnerable in hospitals and nursing homes with rapid tests, high-quality masks, etc.

2022-10-17 17:02:35 @pbleic There's also South Africa which tragically, has been undervaccinated and but went through Beta, Delta,and Omicron waves, and has good tracking and sequencing (the speed with which they nailed Omicron!). Their current trajectory is quite informative (but often ignored).

2022-10-17 16:55:10 @00Bohr Sure but that's from a while back. Again, I encourage you to check direct and updated sources... This is the situation with Singapore, which is what we are talking about. https://t.co/tvFO2AbgIc

2022-10-17 16:49:27 @noxrosa @kprather88 @mavisclare Yes, 100% but it's been a losing battle trying to get this misinterpratation corrected. By all means, people should avoid reinfection (why would anyone want to be infected with any virus?) but we have actual data on this question, which, anyway, is not studied by this preprint.

2022-10-17 16:47:33 @00Bohr This is exactly why I said to check *their own dashboard*, not pull from secondary data sources which are often lagging or incomplete (because they are pulling from many different countries). See Singapore MOH: https://t.co/1AtglcnNOc

2022-10-17 16:26:04 @Shoq Thank you! I'm not naive about the current realities. Also, along with other people, I was proposing stuff like this when the Democrats had majorities. It wasn't that long ago they had the veto-proof trifecta. Not sure when/what will be feasible but... we should try.

2022-10-17 16:22:01 @cfiesler Thank you! The pandemic has really highlighted even more big data and external and internal validity issues, but the Twitter/model organism stuff remains valid too! I am thrilled to hear the Drosophila point is still circulating. Cheers!

2022-10-17 16:19:26 RT @cfiesler: I've been putting this point from a @zeynep paper on a slide for about six years now. :)

2022-10-17 16:13:48 Singapore has really an exemplary dashboard, with accurate and timely information with detail.They are seeing more cases due to antibody evasion of new variants or antibody waning from vaccine/infection. They're responding, which is good. See dashboard.https://t.co/CwVP4Fjewo

2022-10-08 13:52:32 @peterjomalley @OCanadaKate I don’t think that’s true. You may need to show your vaccination card to verify last date.

2022-10-07 16:56:10 @literaryeric Seems easy enough? Card is mostly drawing by friend/guest, parent writes "donation made to doctors and nurses saving lives around the world in honor of your birthday", kid gains early memory of special day being part of something nice? Kids like being part of bigger things imo!

2022-10-07 16:46:15 @literaryeric Ask if they have a charity they prefer as a donation target, note it in handmade card (even less waste). (Our bday parties usually go to MSF). Small amount but it makes kids participate in something good, together.

2022-10-07 15:57:38 @CodedBias

2022-10-06 20:11:38 RT @LaurenPelley: A thread from a physician (and #Ebola survivor) on Uganda's growing outbreak, which could have "profound regional impacts…

2022-10-06 19:30:28 @BenMazer Hard to do a precise enough adjustment from a single comparison, but clearly that's the direction/rough magnitude of the method change effect. So much of NHS seems to be "let's not spend money" these days, which is unfortunate because they had historical data. Alas.

2022-10-06 19:06:46 @BenMazer I think the new numbers may be more reflective of those in the sample but maybe biasing who's in it? With a single comparison, it's hard to adjust precisely. But the one time comparison implies ~44.7% increase due to method change of shift to 100% remote. https://t.co/ujFFJy5HSi

2022-10-06 19:03:25 @BenMazer The method change sucks because it invalidates over time comparisons.Last month, only 38% from new (remote) method, but it was associated with a 17% increase compared with the contemporaneous old method group (face-to-face).Now it's 100% new method. https://t.co/ld4epEnEEg

2022-10-06 16:47:43 RT @NaomiAKlein: "He has become a skeleton with a lucid mind." It's unbearable. #SaveAlaa #FreeAlaa #Cop27

2022-10-06 16:47:25 RT @thefreedomi: TODAY: Listen to @sana2 and others discuss the ongoing crackdown on dissent in #Egypt and the relationship between climate…

2022-10-06 15:52:56 @chrischirp @OmicronData @origincanada @taipan168 I think the change to remote may elicit more honest responses (skews the numbers up, but correcting a bias) but also change the respondent composition (less affected may be more likely to hangup/quit compared to slamming the door, also skews numbers up but now introducing a bias)

2022-10-06 15:49:31 @chrischirp @OmicronData @origincanada @taipan168 It's so frustrating, though — this change mucks with the best time series source we had (lack of a control group being its one disadvantage) and now have to wait to be able to understand what it means trendwise. (And unlike you, many will share this without noting the issue).

2022-10-06 12:44:49 RT @mamossman: Absolutely.

2022-10-06 02:53:22 RT @hf1: A revolving door

2022-10-05 21:58:16 @Ayesha_Mattu Yeah it’s been so frustrating. I wrote about it before. Now the issue will be quick updating if it becomes necessary. https://t.co/50oT3YdSNw

2022-10-05 19:51:19 @cjmaddison @smithsj @HerbertoDhanis "Let them doubt, it doesn't matter" you might think, but look at the situation. So little progress on concrete things: little movement on treatment trials, no disability let alone ADL support, etc. I think the situation is dire. Anyway, back to writing about those topics.

2022-10-05 19:47:55 @cjmaddison @smithsj @HerbertoDhanis Classic media article: "CDC says one in five" and then case of someone tragically debilitated—but zero context for the CDC number, types, severity, etc. I spend so much time trying to convince skeptics who aren't pure deniers (like some on this site) but can't make sense of it.

2022-10-05 19:43:54 @cjmaddison @smithsj @HerbertoDhanis It's not obvious in the Twitter bubble, but one result of many many media articles that uncritically quote the (very limited, at best upper bound CDC EHR study) "one-in-five" claim has meant I keep having to convince IRL people LC is real even if CDC numbers don't fully add up.

2022-10-05 18:55:29 @smithsj @HerbertoDhanis There are at least four or five separate surveys that show that the pandemic is the top concern for less than one percent of the population! It was so much higher before. That should impact how to think about pushing for progress—more important than Twitter bubble accolades.

2022-10-05 18:52:35 @smithsj @HerbertoDhanis And this matters exactly because the problem is real, significant and urgent — and I constantly see people arguing and going viral (on here) that the numbers are/will be increasing so much that it will be unignorable. Meanwhile, NIH still has launched *zero* trials from RECOVER.

2022-10-05 18:50:34 @smithsj @HerbertoDhanis Indeed. Nobody (here) is arguing Long Covid isn't important or significant—I wrote that at length. But if it's in "one in five" and each infection is an equal risk (contradicting what immunologists like Iwasaki say), the post-Omicron numbers would have had a different trajectory.

2022-10-05 18:39:48 @OmicronData @origincanada @Marc_Veld @smdelic @gadboit Likely will need to wait a few months to establish new trendlines to interpret, which really is a huge shame and it's also a shame so few high-quality surveys are being done anywhere, and ONS latest victim. Should have had them for years, alas.

2022-10-05 18:37:20 @OmicronData @origincanada @Marc_Veld @smdelic @gadboit Increases reporting but also increases bias in who responds since it is easier to hang up on a non-person unless the topic is already important to you, compared to slamming the door—classic tensions in survey design. Sample likely biased bit more one way, responses the other.

2022-10-05 18:22:19 @OmicronData @origincanada @Marc_Veld @smdelic @gadboit Yes, unfortunate loss of attention to/funding from the best (even if imperfect) ongoing survey we had. And very few will bother to note the method change, or evaluate what this means for trend analyses—why bother being careful when going bad kind of viral is an easy option.

2022-10-05 18:20:12 @vplus @jljcolorado

2022-10-05 17:08:48 RT @j_g_allen: The failure to recognize airborne transmission right away was indeed a costly error. Led to things like wiping down ketchup…

2022-10-05 17:07:57 @rcr_pereira @kearnsneuro @Anto_Berto Right, that's not the question. It's about how measurement methods/ease/challenges and internal and external validity questions relate to inference, formation of knowledge and also public discourse. (Or why in vitro nAb studies are so much more common/go viral).

2022-10-05 15:08:54 @kearnsneuro @Anto_Berto Thank you so much! The intersection between measurement (ease, precision, internal/external validity) and knowledge — and then action — is always so interesting! I really appreciate examples across fields. (Comes up a lot in the big data era, but obviously isn't limited to that).

2022-09-30 22:52:38 Yes, the administration should be on this. Meanwhile, maybe getting the word out can be a bit higher priority, especially for people with high media/social media profiles, compared to debating the margins? My piece from earlier this month. https://t.co/t3MEGptuzk https://t.co/8MkACiCRfY

2022-09-30 22:50:10 What a disaster. Half of US adults have heard little to nothing about the updated boosters. Today I learned that ~75+ year-old, highly-educated, health and COVID conscious parents of a friend had zero idea that the boosters were updated, or that they should get them. https://t.co/w45oEvzK7L

2022-09-29 19:46:42 RT @GEsfandiari: Iran has arrested singer Shervin Hajipour who received millions of views for his song about the national sadness and anger…

2022-09-29 17:14:04 RT @larry_levitt: The requirement that Medicaid keep people continuously covered during the public health emergency has increased enrollmen…

2022-09-29 14:41:06 @ABrokenBattery Yeah. I keep wanting someone to do a documentary on the peptic ulcer discovery while patients and key players are still alive. It was much simpler compared to this, and yet it took too long exactly because of this attitude of aggresive, calculated incuriosity and patient-blaming.

2022-09-29 14:31:19 @MECFSNews @ABrokenBattery @caraallieray @exceedhergrasp1 @voxjohsu @Dakota_150 @MEActNet So, yes, MD do encounter patients who've looked something up on WebMD and are convinced of (likely incorrect) things blah blah but... this video is training for lack of curiosity and prejudging, not sorting through the possibilities of what's ailing a person in front of them.

2022-09-29 14:15:08 @ABrokenBattery Yeah wow. Also, I have a close friend who does suffer from major clinical depression. Some of the advice *incorrectly* aimed at ME folks would be appropriate for her — but if it were delivered like this, she’d probably feel terrible. And this is supposed to be training, ugh.

2022-09-29 14:09:41 @ABrokenBattery @MECFSNews @caraallieray @exceedhergrasp1 @voxjohsu @Dakota_150 @MEActNet Ugh thank you!!

2022-09-29 13:52:14 @ABrokenBattery @MECFSNews @caraallieray @exceedhergrasp1 @voxjohsu @Dakota_150 @MEActNet You happen to have the source?

2022-09-29 13:51:58 @MECFSNews @ABrokenBattery @caraallieray @exceedhergrasp1 @voxjohsu @Dakota_150 @MEActNet This guy is supposed to represent an ME patient??? Working at a pub late into the night, drinking many pints??

2022-09-29 13:45:19 @ABrokenBattery @MECFSNews @caraallieray @exceedhergrasp1 @voxjohsu @Dakota_150 @MEActNet This guy is supposed to be an ME patient?? What year is that from????

2022-09-29 13:40:41 @TheCrankyQueer I know, so many still. And I’m likely talking more to people on the milder end. Also I talked to people right before since I was there during the prep period too, so I know what their “baseline” felt like. The cognitive slog part of a PEM “crash” is clearly under-communicated.

2022-09-28 18:10:09 @Aelkus Yeah naming the folks is a bit like posting pictures of people swimming in the high hurricane surge with a "Don't Do This!" warning. Anyone who is doing it isn't going to stop with a warning, in fact wants exactly that attention, and no sane person needs a warning really.

2022-09-28 14:14:15 @BillHanage An extra twist here is the number of people with degrees, credentials etc. who are flat-out lying while making really personal, toxic attacks—usually a screenshot with 100% false claim attached to it. I've been kind of fascinated by it (as someone who studied stuff like that).

2022-09-28 14:10:46 @BillHanage Not identical but, during the Arab Spring, Twitter went from earnest and useful if a little confusing to navigate to, well, something not so useful. Ghonim's FB page had been the spark point for the 2011 Jan25/Tahrir wave. Hounded off the platform.(Excerpt from my book). https://t.co/FmemDkLIiG

2022-09-28 13:07:30 @KH_VMD @voxjohsu @MEActNet Seems to be an exceedingly common story, unfortunately. Even now, after all this, the so obvious overlap between a subset of Long Covid patients and ME is not officially recognized. ME researchers can’t apply to LC specific funds even though they’re sometimes further along.

2022-09-28 12:49:02 @nntaleb @aub

2022-09-28 02:53:45 @vijayiyer312 @zdotty @CT_Bergstrom Saw this with airborne transmission too — and some great papers on that have come out: certain things were assumed and then calcified into "we know this" when, in fact, if you dug up the primary documents/papers that were allegedly the basis of this knowledge, it wasn't there.

2022-09-28 02:52:23 @vijayiyer312 @zdotty @CT_Bergstrom Also note how the author describes others who seem "exhausted" by social interaction or exertion, and need lengthy rest afterwards, but don't seem to necessarily have any anhedonia, and declares them to be depressed? Have to look at primary documents. Maybe, maybe not.

2022-09-28 02:32:58 @vijayiyer312 @zdotty @CT_Bergstrom I don't know enough about Darwin's case (yet), but you have to go back to primary documents because people *assume* they know it's depression and then it becomes calcified knowledge. But, well, all this seems more like a description of pacing, not necessarily depression? https://t.co/FRkqScDxrk

2022-09-28 01:43:25 @kimisgubbed I haven’t found a study, yet, but yes have heard so many cases.

2022-09-27 22:07:53 @MECFSNews @exceedhergrasp1 @voxjohsu @Dakota_150 @MEActNet “The illusion of (false) knowledge”—they had made up their mind and then provided answers. There’s a really similar and strong example in the history of ulcers and bacteria. Marshall, who finally proved it by drinking bacteria-laden broth, used that phrase.

2022-09-27 20:00:55 @exceedhergrasp1 @voxjohsu @Dakota_150 @MEActNet (Also, the POTS and ME interaction, re:role of exercise and the group composition in the trials).

2022-09-27 19:51:37 @exceedhergrasp1 @voxjohsu @Dakota_150 @MEActNet Getting too complex for Twitter, but... my guess is that many trials had a range of people, and an interesting meta-review would be to go back to all the articles in the (infamous) Cochrane review etc. and connect the inclusion criteria to effect sizes/directions.

2022-09-27 19:08:24 @Amateur102 @WergildBlake @MECFSNews @ValeBodi @voxjohsu @vijayiyer312 So "melancholia" was what we now think of depression, there's a lot of evidence of benefitting from exercise/exertion, but if "melancholia" was something like ME, it should be quite different—hence would need to check ideally contemporaneous descriptions/letters etc...

2022-09-27 19:04:41 @exceedhergrasp1 @voxjohsu @Dakota_150 @MEActNet Only a few years ago that "exercise phobia" was how things were described — Lancet, major news outlets, etc. — (that I know you know about). The challenge here is that divergent clinical outcomes: if the definitions are muddled, trials will be muddled, metareviews more so.

2022-09-27 18:04:06 @voxjohsu @MECFSNews @WergildBlake @ValeBodi @vijayiyer312 (To be clear: "rest cure" was often also involuntary containment of women not at all seeking to rest, and as with all such things, neurosthenia is a combination of clear misdiagnosis and just plain nonsense, but still, I would want see patient narratives of disease course).

2022-09-27 18:01:16 @voxjohsu @MECFSNews @WergildBlake @ValeBodi @vijayiyer312 Yep, "neurasthenia" was a grab bag, so who knows what got included *but* a "rest cure" was often "prescribed" —"stay in bed even if you can get up"— and that is, of course, counterproductive to most illnesses to do so, except, well.. Individual accounts would need to be dug into.

2022-09-27 17:25:43 @WergildBlake @MECFSNews @ValeBodi @voxjohsu @vijayiyer312 See, for example, pretty clear description of post-viral sequela of influenza for cognitive impairment that lasted months, but resolved, but the same person relapsed decades later for another three months after another (this time mild acute) infection. https://t.co/qJrJe9raDq

2022-09-27 17:13:27 @WergildBlake @MECFSNews @ValeBodi @voxjohsu @vijayiyer312 Somewhat related to "criterion of embarrassment" — it would be very interesting for someone to dig through historical letters, memoirs as well as clinical descriptions from early on, with an eye towards noticing if PEM shows up?

2022-09-27 17:06:58 @WergildBlake @MECFSNews @ValeBodi @voxjohsu @vijayiyer312 Indeed, and historical descriptions are complicated to interpret as shown by medical historians. That said, somewhat unusual, hard-to-believe stuff that shows up in unrelated descriptive artifacts can sometimes be more reliable —less likely to be put in there for no reason.

2022-09-27 16:40:51 @MECFSNews @ValeBodi @voxjohsu @WergildBlake @vijayiyer312 The specific trajectory of PEM as we understand it now is quite distinct, though, and I'm wondering if looking at old histories/cases/documents would find descriptions of it (without naming/recognizing). This tends to be true for some illnesses: you can find it retrospectively.

2022-09-25 16:10:57 @notdred Ugh.

2022-09-25 16:09:20 @HerbertoDhanis Generally true but... many media reports end up completely glossing over these questions, and some of the issues raised are beyond that general framework, and ignoring it doesn't make them go away as others will always notice them — we need to call for more/better research.

2022-09-25 15:57:25 What's the EHR internal validity issue/ascertainment bias issue aside from generalizability? See BMJ response below.This is a known problem with *all* big data EHR studies. Suggesting chart review isn't an attack, it's a good response to a known issue.https://t.co/EIWaBNK1eB https://t.co/0VusnYN7Xr

2022-09-25 14:43:53 @ShaneyWright @LeylaDAsadi @walidgellad @bobepidemiology The problem with obviously implausible estimates is that, outside of Twitter, many smart, otherwise compassionate people silently tune out thinking it’s all hype. Meanwhile there’s great suffering that’s barely covered or is seen as exceptional since clearly it’s not one in five.

2022-09-25 14:41:03 @ShaneyWright @LeylaDAsadi @walidgellad @bobepidemiology I’ve been making suggestions on how to potentially move the needle on Long Covid but nobody in these Twitter bubbles seems to care enough to do much— they just want to type “minimizer” and feel smug? Anyway here’s a piece here from me, more on the way. https://t.co/KtqEDIUBBL

2022-09-24 22:42:49 RT @ORHamilton: Very good to see Alaa being awarded the Electronic Frontier Foundation @EFF's 2022 Award. Nominated by the public and selec…

2022-09-24 18:42:20 RT @katie_thomas: New Investigation: Nonprofit hospitals avoid billions of dollars in taxes. But are they living up to their charitable mis…

2022-09-24 17:58:53 “Prince Andrew” ad spotted from the Hudson bike path in Manhattan. (Photo taken while on a moving bike, sorry).Speaking of: I’d read a literary/academic piece about the “Meghan Markle Derangement Syndrome” in the UK media? Not my issue but was so blatant that even I noticed. https://t.co/4IV3QXeLjB

2022-09-24 16:06:13 RT @FridaGhitis: Iran, Shiraz, Saturday. Women are leading this uprising against repression. Forced hijab is the symbol. Removing it is th…

2022-09-24 15:12:18 @Sebastian_Hols @walidgellad @LeylaDAsadi @bobepidemiology I hate having to say all that, no win here. But the damage from all this isn’t the jerks on Twitter who deny Long Covid — they’re just jerks and often cruel. That CDC number keeps coming up as reason for doubt among otherwise compassionate people—who keep silent and tune out.

2022-09-24 15:10:08 @Sebastian_Hols @walidgellad @LeylaDAsadi @bobepidemiology It’s terrible — in that case, that was research with huge internal validity issues and, at most, established an upper bound, since obviously not every new IC10 code is indicative and there was big ascertainment bias. But got uncritically reported to much damage to the patients.

2022-09-24 13:52:54 @AntibioticDoc I think a lot of trust has been lost by MDs and others denying the clear evidence about airborne transmission and claiming more nuance necessary etc, so it all sounds false to many people — the call for nuance and context was used to deny clear empirical evidence. So here we are.

2022-09-24 13:42:36 @walidgellad @LeylaDAsadi @bobepidemiology Constant convo with otherwise smart, compassionate people: "I read your NYT piece on Long Covid and [some version of] that one-in-five number from CDC... Is all this really real?" Me: "Yes, it's very real, please don't tune it out because some numbers are badly off". On repeat.

2022-09-24 13:39:23 @walidgellad @LeylaDAsadi @bobepidemiology The Twitter bubble seems to think "well, what's a little generalizability misalignment and effect size exaggeration when the threat is real, and the public so unconcerned."What they don't see is the silent doubting and tuning out by people who don't otherwise dive into this.

2022-09-24 13:34:52 We teach internal and external validity limits in the first weeks of methods intro classes. No study is exempt from these two considerations. These are *mundane* points about generalizability and effect sizes.It does NOT mean this population is unimportant, or effects are zero. https://t.co/DcPB0WIU5e

2022-09-24 13:27:00 @bobepidemiology @KasperKepp @OmicronData @origincanada Yeah, high risk population already. (Pointing this out isn’t saying high risk populations are unimportant, just not generalizable for effects or effect sizes.)

2022-09-24 13:25:07 @walidgellad @bobepidemiology And straightforward and yet saying this is… controversial? We teach internal and external validity limitations literally the first few weeks of a methods into class. But a singular study must be treated like it’s exempt? No study is exempt from these two topics.

2022-09-23 23:44:30 @walidgellad They see the jerk/awful Long Covid deniers on Twitter (which exist and are terrible) but not the substantial number of otherwise smart, compassionate people who see some of this process and start doubting it all—but stay quiet. But they’re essential to making better progress.

2022-09-23 23:41:12 @walidgellad Yeah. Just spending time get better context would go a long way. People seem to think parroting an abstract is “science communication.” But that’s not how science works! For any study! Good or bad! Plus Twitter bubble is oblivious to harms of this speed/kerfuffle dynamic.

2022-09-23 23:12:21 @cerephic What happens is someone loses their flimsy paper card? This person has no record in the state (out-of-state) so… no options according to the pharmacy. Can’t get any vaccine.

2022-09-23 23:08:17 More below—see his whole thread— and crucially, as Walid says later, scrutinizing studies is… what academics routinely do, and should continue to do, especially because it’s important.It’s a normal and necessary part of how science works—regardless of the Twittering dynamics. https://t.co/AHBWQkru6a

2022-09-23 22:15:31 @cerephic The pharmacy flat out refused. I get what you’re saying but… yeah.

2022-09-23 21:42:32 https://t.co/l5qHViJakl

2022-09-23 20:32:31 @smh1489 Not me!

2022-09-23 20:29:09 @smh1489 Didn’t work apparently!

2022-09-23 19:30:25 So, I can confirm this and it makes no sense.If someone did not complete the initial two doses, they cannot get the bivalent booster—I'm not even sure what they're supposed to be doing? Seems to be the case as well if someone loses their vaccination card?Why not? Baffling. https://t.co/ZgqLC8FCJk

2022-09-23 18:41:06 @smdelic @Marc_Veld @origincanada @gadboit It's the truth, though. Within science disagreements (which happen all the time, and are fine) vs. pseudoscience is a very important distinction that I'm not about to let go.

2022-09-23 18:36:17 @Marc_Veld @smdelic @origincanada @gadboit Thanks Marc for taking the time to answer questions. Actual scientists are often chased off Twitter, and then the void gets filled with.. a mix of nonsense and factoids that can also be nonsense without context and deeper understanding.

2022-09-23 18:01:50 Speaking of progress, this is great.WHO Long Covid (and ME) clinical guidelines now explicitly (and correctly) define post-exertional malaise and warn about one-size-fits-all exercise, if it is present. (Will circle back to this—Twitter is insufficient) https://t.co/PxjUchk41u

2022-09-23 17:43:09 @Marc_Veld @smdelic @origincanada Also, did you see this from today? https://t.co/vwlT8lV6cB

2022-09-23 17:26:27 Almost forgot, let me put the gift link to my NYT article on Long Covid here. https://t.co/ekqUM0zLkJ

2022-09-23 16:35:41 Again, Twitter feathers get ruffled whenever some papers or its media coverage gets scrutinized, but...That's the job, especially for academics. It's... routine.Academics don't have and shouldn't play by Twitter and/or media (that I'm also part of, as a columnist) incentives.

2022-09-23 16:27:24 Also highly-recommend my colleague Andrew Gelman's blog on statistical modeling and causal inference, with many, many examples of why the topic (and how papers are covered by media) is so important. (Gelman's books are great, too) https://t.co/G5Cl10rIFB

2022-09-23 16:25:01 A book below for people wanting a deep dive into causal inference.For real: I'm trying to convince Guido Imbens (who won a Nobel for his contributions to causal inference/labor markets) to write a public-facing book, using pandemic papers. He says maybe.https://t.co/mWuCXOdNTG

2022-09-23 16:19:46 Second, for folks interested in causal inference, here's a *free* resource. (More coming in next tweet).Causal inference isn't an afterthought. Even if one agrees or disagrees with a study "but here's what it says in the abstract" is no way to cover it. https://t.co/GlkaEtYBFn

2022-09-23 16:17:42 Quick adds. Would be great to have studies with chart review (since EHR have well-known issues). I realize many people aren’t academics and don’t know that academics routinely scrutinize studies for their causal models or their media coverage … because that’s progress! https://t.co/GAs8OiL7d0

2022-09-23 16:05:45 RT @EJohnWherry: Important work @TheBcellArtist Nice paper

2022-09-23 01:03:23 @JDHaltigan @davidemccune @Saikmedi @DrLeanaWen Of course it does. We just have to be careful about the generalizing. I believe that we are doing a disservice to all the categories here, especially to people who are suffering.

2022-09-22 21:06:57 @OmicronData @wanderer_jasnah @origincanada I DO think we owe much more support to the people represented in this study, but four layers of reasons this isn't generalizable: 99% unvaccinated

2022-09-22 20:51:21 And here's the link.At a minimum, people should read all the supplements.See below the characteristics of 99% unvaccinated older cohort that was studied (still can't make sense of why the negative controls shift with each study? Will ask about that).https://t.co/AwQdS6zAwC https://t.co/PHJp4mfzxI

2022-09-22 20:11:04 @informema People are infected with the flu a lot more than that--we just don't test for it. One study that tested everyone found 17% of the population is refinfected twice a year with the flu. That said, Covid is obviously an ongoing real threat, we are only two years into the process.

2022-09-22 19:58:30 Anyone reporting on *any* of these studies, should read the study, read all the supplements, spend some time to ask people who understand statistics and causal inference about what can be generalized to whom and how...The alternative is the (ongoing) destruction of credibility.

2022-09-22 19:54:17 Anyway, this is the third VA study — ignoring EHR issues or the changing negative controls?? — they all show *unvaccinated* infections that led to hospitalizations were terrible for this older male cohort, and elevated few risks even among those not hospitalized. Straightforward.

2022-09-22 19:43:50 @cortneyharding It's definitely a real thing, but what this study is documenting is not the kind of patient we most often read about in newspapers — the young people whose lives are upended. They *certainly* exist, but are a different category than older people with post-hospitalization issues.

2022-09-22 19:35:10 @BenMazer It's not a lesser point tbh imo, but it's a bit baffling and too technical for Twitter but I haven't been able to come up with an explanation of why (third paper this happens now?). Will ask the authors for clarification, would help understand why they'd do this.

2022-09-22 19:16:21 Anyway, case study in how to burn the credibility of institutions, top journals and journalism so that nobody listens to any of it.A small % of the population is stuck on very worried (about 1% in polls but ~90% on Twitter), and most have tuned out—even when they shouldn't be.

2022-09-22 19:08:24 We've had reasonable studies on this, including from Denmark, that neurological sequelae is an issue, at equal levels to an influenza infection, especially for older people, and I think that deserves taking seriously, including understanding the protective role of vaccines.

2022-09-22 19:05:58 That this is an unvaccinated, older, frailer male cohort is before we even get into the issues with generalizing from electronic health records to general population. (Let alone a vaccinated general population).I really believe this kind of onslaught has destroyed credibility.

2022-09-22 19:01:27 If you aren't going to read the supplements and ask a few people before reporting, at least look at the figures? Even among this unvaccinated old, male VA cohort, it's the hospitalized and the ICU that bear almost the entirety of the risk — loss of smell is a standout though. https://t.co/WfuBlYtu9v

2022-09-22 18:58:05 Example of how to be misled.First, I absolutely believe COVID (and flu) has neurological sequelae.But this study is almost entirely pre-vaccine (99%), and the most affected are those hospitalized, not the mild cases, *and* it's an already old, frail male VA cohort. https://t.co/HVjEhB4KTo

2022-09-22 16:17:03 @allhailcomfey @BenMazer Right. But also the other kind exists: very prominent people with "Had an infection/breakthrough why bother with an updated vaccine at all, you probably won't die" as if affinity maturation isn't a thing, and as if vaccines don't do much more than keep you out of the hospital.

2022-09-22 16:08:49 @BenMazer And for the other end of the spectrum, also this https://t.co/7RFg7FwLzM

2022-09-22 16:08:03 @BenMazer I just saw a viral thread literally citing Forbes etc. *ignoring* all actual studies, the global epi curve, the field of immunology etc. to claim little/no immunity from Omicron, all reinfections more severe etc. 20K+ likes. Minaj's cousin's friend had better plausibility.

2022-09-22 15:56:26 RT @TimepDC: "The world observes @Alaa’s desperate hunger battle for freedom, but the state is not budging....Prisoners go on hunger stri…

2022-09-22 15:53:05 @wanderer_jasnah Oh wow, that's the perfect comment on all this.Did you see yet *another* study on those alleged reinfections every month? Every single study and the epi curve vs... "What About Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend??" mode on Twitter. https://t.co/ded4cM22Dz

2022-09-22 15:50:27 @BenMazer Fits all the good studies and my real life anectada, but parts of Twitter convinced themselves "Omicron induces no immunity—reinfection every month" (against all logic, data and science) and they now live by RT'ing "Nicki Minaj's cousin friend's anectodes" but for reinfections.

2022-09-22 14:53:48 RT @GEsfandiari: Journalist Niloufar Hamedi who reported from the hospital where Mahsa Amini died, has been reportedly arrested.The reason…

2022-09-19 01:29:39 There is a post-protest briefing as well at 4p PT. https://t.co/OVlRSopcjw

2022-09-19 01:23:28 Alerting journalists/others to this event tomorrow at 12p at the White House asking for better progress for Long Covid and ME/CFS. It’s not easy for these people to show up to protest, so especially important to take notice of it. https://t.co/h9RO5w25Wh

2022-09-18 19:15:59 @zack_subin @Walgreens

2022-09-18 15:24:04 @adam42smith More than two years in, there’s still too little primary reporting on substantive issues—but people on social media will confidently assert things and lots of really terrible media articles. Many on here no longer state even obvious things—everything greeted with confusion.

2022-09-18 02:53:00 @adam42smith CDC relies on local reporting the quality or rules around which greatly varies greatly by jurisdiction. See their struggles to report on vaccination rates—they ended up capping arbitrarily. The key question is chart review. I’ve been talking to doctors about this for a while.

2022-09-17 16:53:55 @bruuklin1 Yeah exactly, and you had used Venmo before, right? It just switched you over, or tried.

2022-09-17 16:31:43 @vcsjones @marcprecipice @itsjoekent @matthew_d_green Seriously? Yikes.

2022-09-17 16:11:04 @itsjoekent @marcprecipice @vcsjones @matthew_d_green Also they are pushing this on *already* verified accounts with absolutely zero hint there is an alternative way to keep using Venmo.

2022-09-17 16:00:59 @marcprecipice @itsjoekent @vcsjones @matthew_d_green I get the use case but we should have had better ways of doing this already and that court case is shocking enough — people don’t understand what they’re turning over, often with a very misleading ui, on little more than hope that the company will behave and have great security.

2022-09-17 15:44:38 @marcprecipice @itsjoekent @matthew_d_green Besides even if they have magic security so few companies seem to have, even “We don’t sell your personal information” is laughably narrow given US definitions of PII.

2022-09-17 15:42:14 @marcprecipice @itsjoekent @matthew_d_green If only there was a multi-decade history of divergence between what companies say will happen to your data and were it actually ends up, with or without their cooperation even—as per non-stop examples of hacks, breaches and leaks. (“We hash the passwords” version included).

2022-09-17 15:37:12 @matthew_d_green @cronokirby IIRC, you remove the bank account and re-add it de novo, the ACH verification option appears. For existing accounts, even if previously verified, it forces you to Plaid which wants you to turn over your bank account login info! That’s full access. How about no?

2022-09-17 15:34:30 @matthew_d_green @cronokirby Let me refind what I did. Yeah they don’t tell you.

2022-09-17 15:31:40 @matthew_d_green @cronokirby Option still exists but very, very well hidden. https://t.co/YQChJ2LmUF

2022-09-17 15:29:17 There is a buried-deep-option to verify Venmo without this third-party connection that will see your bank statements but this is the default now—and unless you look very hard and go out of your way, it appears to the user to be without alternative.Where does Plaid info end up? https://t.co/HrMEGzEXNL

2022-09-17 14:03:44 @clasticdetritus Thank you! So much time is spent on discussions of minor stuff. It’s here, it’s free and too few people seem to even know about it!

2022-09-17 06:16:25 RT @scott_squires: “I’ve never understood the second-guessing by public health authorities and doctors about how the public may or may not…

2022-09-17 05:17:23 RT @nytimes: In OpinionThe new, updated Covid boosters "are getting so little fanfare," writes columnist @zeynep, that "lots of people wh…

2022-09-17 00:34:59 @nataliexdean @LucyStats @nytimes @biosbenk Hah perfect

2022-09-16 23:35:23 RT @scalzi: As noted before, I'll be getting the new shot at the beginning of October, and I'm encouraging all my family and friends to get…

2022-09-16 23:34:14 @bluetsunami22 @GovHowardDean Only the bivalent is available as booster so you should be fine.

2022-09-16 19:09:14 @MREathome I personally am assuming, like before, protection from infection takes two weeks to get established and lasts for months at least, as long as there is no big variant change, and that, like before, the protection against severity is quite durable. Not overthinking more, for myself

2022-09-16 19:00:35 Concept 2 seems to have a lot of fans! Will go test some stuff out this weekend! Thank everyone!

2022-09-16 18:38:31 @tony_burnetti @tehlike I found a reference from *1385* about the neurological complications in the aftermath of the flu epidemic. The worst kept secret, hundreds of years of doctors with experience saying to the next generation "wait, don't y'all remember this happened the last time around as well?"

2022-09-12 20:01:04 @croman39 @DouthatNYT The actual fact is autoimmune diseases effect women more—any immunologist can explain to you immune differences by sex, likely related to unique immune requirements of pregnancy.The rest is because you might be a jerk? Lots of men and women from many races/classes are affected.

2022-09-12 19:53:03 @esoltas @ipogadog Yeah for sure. Will read paper properly on the computer. (Sorry also on my phone ).

2022-09-12 19:45:10 @esoltas @ipogadog Thank you! You covered about a 14 month period, right? ONS has nice data matching strain and employment effects, just looking at the comparison.

2022-09-12 19:15:55 @ipogadog @esoltas Question: your reference week is when? Sometime in summer 2021, looks like? (I think during the Delta wave?)

2022-09-12 18:27:26 RT @msrmichaelson: British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah is 164 days into a hunger strike &

2022-09-12 18:05:06 @DouthatNYT It's great to examine cultural characteristics, including dysfunctional ones and especially those that might be furthered along by online/social media dynamics, but where's the context? A pandemic piece shouldn't read like it was written in 1953 about hysterical housewives.

2022-09-12 18:00:22 @DouthatNYT Only if it didn't also describe POTS as "lightheadedness" and leave it there

2022-09-12 13:50:19 We need better diagnostic codes/names for the range of post-viral sequelae.Some report "brain fog" in the more ordinary sense—seen after flu, too, and often resolves.For others, it's a debilitating chronic cognitive condition, often with PEM.We unhelpfully lump it together.

2022-09-12 13:41:05 @OmicronData @edyong209 I genuinely don't know. I've been interviewing Long Covid / ME-CFS patients for a while and it took some time to better understand this aspect. I've not (yet) experienced anything similar, so I describe it as best I can — can't fully comment on what else it best compares with.

2022-09-12 13:19:03 @ValeBodi @edyong209 I'm really glad Ed wrote about it. I've more pieces on the way as well, and I don't think there can be too many articles. So much suffering, so much misunderstanding, and so little substantive, specific and in-depth coverage proportional to the problem.

2022-09-12 13:09:22 When we describe LC or ME/CFS patients as "bedbound" there's a misunderstanding, as if they are like someone with spinal cord injury—back to life/work in a wheelchair, adjusted for loss of mobility.It's not that. The cognitive dysfunction and PEM alone make it very different.

2022-09-12 13:04:19 A note to all writing about all Long Covid or ME/CFS (and more should!): Let patients know that you are fine stopping and/or rescheduling if they feel like they are about to cross their pacing limit.I've had people cry when I mentioned it because so few understand this barrier.

2022-09-12 13:00:45 As Ed explains, many patients have "post-exertional malaise" which also applies to cognitive effort — they can be fine briefly but then they "crash".They show up to interviews/doctors having rested so they do it, but it's not how they are 24/7 and they will pay a price after.

2022-09-12 12:54:35 Read @edyong209 on "brain fog". When many with Long Covid or ME/CFS etc. talk of "brain fog" they don't mean having an off day or a hangover. After listening to many, my mental model of this type of "brain fog" is that it is to thinking what running in quicksand would be. https://t.co/E6E88o860K

2022-09-11 17:51:16 @Jamesbl95088035 @ElleMandell @vlal42 @SnoozyWeiss If you go seek out patients first — rather than starting online and making unjustified generalizations from there — the patterns are very clear, and it’s just not possible to dismiss all this as pandemic stress exacerbates mental health issues or social contagion / subculture.

2022-09-10 18:25:20 RT @sherpaCato: That's the thing, the world is filled with cruel folly.

2022-09-10 18:13:08 Mood https://t.co/OSuVjRg3Tp

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2022-09-10 02:09:14 RT @usopen: NY sunsets >

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2022-09-09 05:34:46 @JDHaltigan @vlal42 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss Forget the media part. The scientific puzzle remains and much suffering can be addressed *and* it’s a genuinely big question. This started with POTS so let me end with interesting work on its physiology. They created a sham condition, as an experiment. https://t.co/h9Eq4NYKYM

2022-09-09 05:18:25 @JDHaltigan @vlal42 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss ..read past papers &

2022-09-09 05:15:36 @JDHaltigan @vlal42 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss Too long for Twitter, but don't dismiss what I keep saying about clinical histories. Listen to the nth person describe "healthy/active - virus - distinct/baffling cluster that completely puts their life on hold" coherent story, and then dig into history for many such examples...+

2022-09-09 05:07:53 @Saikmedi @vlal42 @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss (If anything, I wish more smart skeptics moved beyond weaknesses of whatever studies existed and looked at the question substantively — in my view, it’s genuinely screaming big breakthrough that might unite many open questions, and medical science has a history of such moments).

2022-09-09 05:01:46 @Saikmedi @vlal42 @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss I will read! I’m very interested in all the critiques of various studies but my own conviction that this is genuinely important and awaiting a major breakthrough, too deep for Twitter, and that, most sincerely, needs a lot good minds, isn’t based on a single or a few studies.

2022-09-09 04:57:37 @vlal42 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss Well I’ve been doing more of that since 2020. But either way this is a very important scientific puzzle, and if he wants to bring his skepticism and skills to dig into this, great. Causal inference is my thing, and I’m convinced. There’s something important to solve here.

2022-09-09 04:50:48 @vlal42 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss I wrote the article. It's short. I can send him the 20K version I wrote if he's actually interested? I'm pretty confident of my own research on the topic (which is far more than anything I can fit in an article) as far as my claims go.

2022-09-09 04:47:58 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss I'm going to circle back to it: forget the social media manifestation of all these arguments, and I'm right there that the umbrella term needs subcategories. Engage with the clinics, with all the skepticism because that's what I tried as well, and it's just.. so distinct. /3

2022-09-09 04:44:34 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss Skepticism is great, but so is the ability to notice something big and unsolved where we're impeded by "illusion of knowledge" — consensus/existing knowledge is almost always correct, except when it's not. It's a fine line. I think this case is one. Hence outside the stadium.2/3

2022-09-09 04:41:56 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss I can't fit it all in a tweet. I have a lot of thoughts on the topic. (I always thought it was an umbrella, by the way). A bunch of what I think about the subsets is here (in this very short article). (1/2) https://t.co/KtqEDJcd0l

2022-09-09 04:35:25 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss ..and that some will get Nobels if they crack it, because it will likely unite a bunch of "mysterious" conditions, and relieve suffering, and maybe break some of the mind/body duality? And no surprise that teeny tiny viruses and immune systems remain in this corner. 3/3

2022-09-09 04:32:19 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss Yes, I'm convinced (after much time with LC clinicians and patients and reading) that there *is* a distinct subset (perhaps subtypes within it, but related) that's post-viral, not ordinary sequelae, seems to greatly overlap with ME/CFS and is chronic and severe... 2/3

2022-09-09 04:29:00 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss Okay. I'm not a dualist for mind/body at all, so do stress/anxiety/depression interact with many other things? For sure. I'm not convinced that there's not at upstream causal dynamic (like inflammation), rather than the "head causes body" model in medicine but that aside.. 1/2

2022-09-09 04:23:26 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss And patient histories of people who end up at the clinics, or on their waitlists, are genuinly informative and do not fit anything but almost if not all of them being post-viral conditions of high severity — whatever else plays a role is not first order. Clinical history is data.

2022-09-09 04:20:38 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss But a priori describing it as "mental health" due to pandemic stress is also clearly wrong. Right now, it's an umbrella term for a range of post-viral conditions, some chronic and quite debilitating for which we have no treatment, others transient and/or more ordinary sequelae.

2022-09-09 04:12:33 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss (After talking to many clinicians and patients and reading past research, of this and other post-viral/chronic syndromes, my guess is what we now call "Long Covid" will eventually get subdivided under different headings, and each connected to historic examples of their versions).

2022-09-09 04:10:07 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss And that will best start at the clinics, because that's where they are concentrated (with long wait lists). Current vague definitions suck, but the people whose lives are on complete hold, but who had active, healthy lives till the infection are not vague. https://t.co/zOr2cV4nAx

2022-09-09 04:05:32 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss The histories *do not* fit that explanation, but very much fit... post-viral something to better understand, related to ME/CFS — EBV etc. activation, viral persistence, other plausible things to explore?This discussion can't float above distinct clinical histories of so many.

2022-09-09 04:00:30 @Saikmedi @tannahillglen @bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss Actually, no because one can distinguish that (which, no doubt is common) and the people who end up in the clinics. You could, too. My contention is that there is a distinct subset, and yes, it greatly resembles ME/CFS so it was a thing before, but now pandemic scale.

2022-09-07 15:22:46 @ilDottoreRobert @OmicronData @LizHighleyman "I'm going to put *myself* at greater risk because I don't like *someone else's* messaging?" That's... well, what can I say. Best of luck.

2022-09-07 13:51:32 @phealthsean @notdred @LizHighleyman After more than two years, I’m really not that sympathetic tbh. A bit of discussion in replies is fine. But there’s a large number of people who only focus on marginal stuff, and pretty much never on key issues. If they did that even occasionally, I’d have a lot more sympathy.

2022-09-07 13:48:18 @PhillyParent @apsmunro @OmicronData @LizHighleyman There's a difference there, it makes sense for young people and elderly/vulnerable populations to think of their booster timing differently—elderly populations don't have as robust immune memory and response, and more frequent boosters make sense for them.

2022-09-07 13:47:04 @davidzweig @apsmunro @OmicronData @LizHighleyman All this focus on Twitter and on media on marginal issues where there are a few simple points to make, while not at all focusing on the main message, has been tragic in its consequences the whole pandemic, and it's especially inexcusable coming from so many medical doctors.

2022-09-07 13:44:59 @davidzweig @apsmunro @OmicronData @LizHighleyman Point is marginal topics are dominating discussion.For colleges: "no mandate outside of dorms along with explaining why strain-matched boosters will benefit them and their community including against future strains, and they should space it from their last exposure." See, done.

2022-09-07 13:35:05 @orrkid1 @apsmunro @OmicronData @LizHighleyman There was an enormous wave of "Long Flu" after the 1918 pandemic as well, but anyway making my point. Sorry to hear you've been conned. Best of luck.

2022-09-07 13:24:52 @apsmunro @OmicronData @LizHighleyman People are busy discussing marginal issues. If we explained the benefits properly to the population, had aggressive outreach to the more vulnerable, and a good explanation and easy acccess for everyone else, yeah mandates for college is a fair topic... after all that.

2022-09-07 13:22:58 @macovid2021 @nalsenec @LizHighleyman You are making my point! What you said is a shadow of the truth: vaccinated people get infected less (even if not 100%), transmit less, severity is lower, odds of Long Covid is lower... "Vaccines do not stop people from catching Covid" as the main message is exactly our failing.

2022-09-07 13:20:15 @CBoy287 @LizHighleyman Look up affinity maturation and antigenic evolution for a few minutes, thanks.

2022-09-07 13:19:03 @apsmunro @OmicronData @LizHighleyman In the US media and on Twitter, there's a weird focus on marginal issues (like college mandates) which would be fine to discuss if the broader message was getting out, but what happens is it all gets lost in these marginal discussions with few making the actual case on benefits.

2022-09-07 13:17:58 @apsmunro @OmicronData @LizHighleyman That's one good message, but why the only one? There are many kids/youth in the UK who are suffering from Long Covid who got infected after pediatric vaccines became available, and some of them would have been spared if vaccinated.

2022-09-07 13:14:56 @eliowa @LizHighleyman I think booster *mandate* for this population is a fair discussion but key point should be what they *reliably* do are highly beneficial. For many young ones, this would be an Omicron "booster" (as they got infected) aka affinity maturation aka protection against future strains.

2022-09-07 13:10:27 @OmicronData @LizHighleyman That's what's happening! There is a contingent of medical doctors who almost solely talk about marginal stuff and shortcomings (which would be fine to discuss if they ever bothered making the main points, too).They did this the whole pandemic, and the results are tragic.

2022-09-07 13:05:28 @OmicronData @LizHighleyman If we messaged about other vaccines the way so many highly visible people talk about these vaccines ("Here's how they're not perfect over and over and over and over") without any kind of corresponding effort to explain their obvious many benefits, few would get any vaccine.

2022-09-07 13:03:27 @OmicronData @LizHighleyman Discussing mandates makes sense AS LONG AS THE MAIN MESSAGE was on the benefits of vaccines, and especially strain-matched ones. I'm sorry to be yelling, but people have managed to convince a population that "imperfect" somehow means not worth it, and the results are tragic.

2022-09-07 13:01:59 @nalsenec @LizHighleyman This is the exact example of what people conned by these irresponsible people say. I'm sorry. The entire field of immunology, the actual experts, rather than this kind of irresponsible messaging, should have been centered by the media. It's been tragic.

2022-09-07 13:00:05 @KelleyKga @LizHighleyman If anything, they understated the benefits for the general population. I agree that they should have done more to encourage spacing, and Pfizer rather than Moderna, for boys and young adult men — BUT AGAIN, IF THAT'S ALL ONE TALKS ABOUT, THAT'S NOT RESPONSIBLE given the benefits.

2022-09-07 12:44:03 @GarciaMD @seeminglyrob Thanks! It's much easier to tell such psychological stories rather than more difficult sociological ones, but that's all we get, and I think it also shapes how we understand the actual world, to our detriment.

2022-09-07 12:42:36 @LizHighleyman I don't get why the main message is "don't reliably" when, in fact, vaccines help with severity, reduce transmission and Long Covid odds, and now are strain-matched! Can you imagine if we railed against flu vaccine shortcomings all the time like that, rather than the main point?

2022-09-07 12:39:21 @LizHighleyman There's a very large contingent of medical doctors who spend so much energy tweeting only about marginal questions, almost none on explaining the benefits of vaccines, while also saying they're against restrictions despite the obvious fact vaccines would greatly help. So bizarre.

2022-09-05 18:01:33 So it's absolutely not the case that the "with/of" people earlier eras were correct — they were not, and it was horrific, by all accounts. The fact that things changed is true, it doesn't make people who made false and damaging claims retroactively correct.

2022-09-05 17:59:51 Fast forward to 2022. In this case, same doctor who did chart reviews in 2020 says now maybe 10% of the people who test positive in the screenining have any symptoms — thus they don't even know it before the test and that's not why they're in the hospital.https://t.co/UsOMpSF3FO

2022-09-05 17:54:31 For example, see this about Winter of 2020. You can talk to people in any large US hospital and hear similar stories... It was horrific by all accounts and IT WAS BECAUSE OF COVID.Lack of better, more precise data allowed a lot of misleading claims. https://t.co/gznqyIQZPx

2022-09-05 17:51:40 See replies to thread on how lack of proper data can fuel confusion.US hospitals test everyone for Covid, and death get reported as Covid deaths, without chart review.Early on, that was used to *falsely* claim many were not dying of Covid. Most were. Now, it's the opposite. https://t.co/4zauHmMKUb https://t.co/kFXM6vlj5h

2022-09-05 14:34:21 @qkslvrwolf Hah. That piece has gotten so much traction, and I actually thought about all this because of how it applies to how we understand the world (though, similarly, it affects what kind of fiction I like!).

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2022-09-05 03:41:01 Plot armor comes out when the story itself is weak sauce—for me, no great cinematics, casting, acting, CGI, whatever can make up for weak storytelling.Plot armor is necessary when the story is too weak to generate narrative tension besides "will my fave character survive".

2022-09-05 03:36:20 Agree. As I wrote in the piece linked upthread, that's the link between shows like The Wire and OG GoT before the showrunners got their hands on it—the storytelling is sociological.No plot armor, and it's possible to understand many characters at once. https://t.co/7eCtEhfDxR

2022-09-05 03:31:58 Not much of a spoiler, but I lose all interest when someone in a fictional story walks into a situation they clearly should not be able to survive — say a hundred people shooting arrows at them in an open field — and walks away with barely a scratch. Yawn, yawn. Meh. No story.

2022-09-05 03:27:48 I'd written that Game of Thrones abandoned sociological storytelling at end—showrunners turning it into Hollywood fluff.Finally watched #HouseofDragons and yep, this episode had the telltale sign of fluff storytelling: plot armor.My piece on the OG GoT:https://t.co/gxX5hsdH6I https://t.co/t2OL861EzJ

2022-09-04 21:22:17 RT @JenniferUhrlaub: PSA: if you’ve donated blood to a COVID research study, and are willing to again, check in with your study team before…

2022-09-04 21:20:09 RT @aflordecamp: "Bright-sided" needs to be remembered as well, indeed

2022-09-04 14:32:13 @DahliaRemler It wasn’t properly coordinated. Some large hospital had very little, some irrelevant even cosmetic medical clinics had too much—I found so many examples while writing the piece.

2022-09-04 14:23:29 @marcelsalathe https://t.co/GGOHEaAaxD

2022-09-04 01:29:08 @notdred @byelin Before it even becomes an event tbh.

2022-09-04 01:04:42 @notdred There you go

2022-09-03 21:33:50 RT @JuliaAngwin: Thank you @john_d_beatty for putting together a Wikipedia page for Peter Eckersley, who passed away suddenly last night. I…

2022-09-03 18:50:12 @DahliaRemler I’m sorry to hear it took so long. We have had abundant Evusheld supply for many, many months now. It’s still severely underused despite providing a clear benefit to a very vulnerable population. I still regularly hear from people who first heard it from my oped in the NYT.

2022-09-03 17:45:04 @n_hold @ballerina9999 @BillHanage @s_j_prins @wsbgnl Again, not personally offended or victimized — but I’m used to this. I wrote about Facebook as a misinformation problem in 2012 and the White House got involved to cal it malarkey. Saying masks work got called misinfo. Etc. Anyway, reality is reality. That’s all. Have a nice day.

2022-09-03 17:39:52 @n_hold @ballerina9999 @BillHanage @s_j_prins @wsbgnl I was—in a polite reply conversation, trying talk about something I think is similar but it got taken out of context—and you can see the replies here! Trying to provide correct info is “minimizing”. I’m not personally offended or victimized. But, again, few care about the issue.

2022-09-03 17:36:57 @n_hold @ballerina9999 @BillHanage @s_j_prins @wsbgnl I have a multi-decade record of trying to oppose widely-held but imo incorrect beliefs. “A pandemic is coming, must prepare.” “Masks are useful, stop denigrating them.” “It’s airborne.” “We need to take variants seriously”. That’s all me from 2020. Doesn’t mean I’m always right.

2022-09-03 17:32:31 @n_hold @ballerina9999 @BillHanage @s_j_prins @wsbgnl I’m not personally offended, but obviously no point in trying to keep explaining the problem. The people who will pay the price of making it difficult to discuss *actual statistics and data* isn’t any high-profile academic. But few seem interested in that point. So carry on?

2022-09-03 15:40:58 RT @Tuliodna: Argentina health department confirmed the ‘unknown pathogen’ of the pneumonia cases as Legionela pneumonia bacteria today. Fa…

2022-09-03 15:39:48 RT @ghadfield: Very sad to hear about the sudden loss of Peter Eckersley--fitting that this was his last tweet. A beautiful mind, committ…

2022-09-03 14:43:47 @ballerina9999 @BillHanage @s_j_prins @wsbgnl If accurate facts get labeled as “downplaying”, like you just did, people suffer. But yeah, I can’t convince you obviously. The problem is that there are a large number of people — not me — who pay the collective price of all this. Have a nice day.

2022-09-03 14:41:12 @ballerina9999 @BillHanage @s_j_prins @wsbgnl You realize it’s not about me at all? Your first tweet is the best example. We needed to warn very loudly about Delta (and I did my best, very early, in high profile outlets) but also emphasize accurate facts about vaccination for that variant — you labeled that a “downplaying”.

2022-09-03 14:17:51 @ballerina9999 @BillHanage @s_j_prins @wsbgnl Just maybe the issue isn't elite closure as it is "making a discussion about key statistical issues toxic isn't in the benefit of n abandoned community of sufferers" — even if it is easier to nod along with the numberwang at the expense of realism about the strategic landscape.

2022-09-03 14:07:54 @ballerina9999 @BillHanage @s_j_prins @wsbgnl Indeed, there are weirdly some people obsessed with me, lying non-stop about what I actually say, though it is all easily confirmable.On this issue, yes, I kept objecting to screenshots out-of-context, and I had it especially in the context of badly-abandoned Long-Haulers.

2022-09-03 14:01:23 @ballerina9999 @BillHanage @s_j_prins @wsbgnl Speaking of, this is what I just wrote in the NYT, on Long Covid, calling for a National Institute on Post-Viral Conditions. It's not a subtle piece either.Also more: don't believe the Twitter liars.https://t.co/KtqEDJcd0l

2022-09-03 14:00:14 @ballerina9999 @BillHanage @s_j_prins @wsbgnl Good morning! This is what I *actually* wrote about Delta in May of 2021 in the New York Times — one of the earliest warnings, and it's not subtle.Vaccines *were* very protective against Delta

2022-09-03 04:40:21 RT @jsrailton: The utter unfairness when the good die much, much too young.Talented people who choose to use their gifts &

2022-09-03 04:19:17 RT @jsrailton: There's a good chance that you're safer because of Peter Eckersley or things he got started.He had a vision of how to make…

2022-09-02 23:10:33 @richardpointer I really liked that book.

2022-09-02 23:10:11 @AaronTeasdale It’s a treat.

2022-09-02 23:09:28 @kumailn Here you go. https://t.co/mG6XY9Okdm

2022-09-02 21:53:15 RT @pen_int: 100,000+ people have signed a petition calling for the immediate release of British-Egyptian writer/activist, @alaa, currently…

2022-09-02 19:08:25 Many will know of Ehrenreich's very succesful book, "Nickel and Dimed", but I was also very fond "Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America, her excellent book excoriating the shallow "just think-positive!" industrial-complex.Her voice will be missed. https://t.co/ChNCo4pN8Q

2022-09-02 18:02:58 @MClendaniel It’s been fascinating because while it’s possible to find a few anecdotes maybe — with strain changes or rare situations — we have sooo much actual data and basically an entire field of immunologists that make it clear that’s just not true at large scale. And yet.. it persists.

2022-09-01 01:07:33 @Jamesbl95088035 @TheEliKlein @JamesSurowiecki It’s really terrible how underfunded the research into all this has been. (I could easily write pieces requiring little to no research.)

2022-09-01 00:45:27 RT @michaelzlin: Other good news about the bivalent booster approved today:#JnJers are fully qualified, since the booster is for anyone p…

2022-09-01 00:41:41 RT @RicharLisa: The life expectancy of Native Americans and Alaska Natives has declined from 71 to 65 in just 3 years, and is now at the le…

2022-08-31 23:27:27 @molly_knight It really is.

2022-08-31 23:15:21 Americans had access to vaccines earlier than almost anyone else, and in greater supply. We have more resources at every level than most countries. We spend more per capita on healthcare than any wealthy nation.And yet, the dysfunction and the inequality, combined, chews it up.

2022-08-31 23:13:05 Sharp decline in US life expectancy—horrific especially for a country that spends so much on healthcare without getting as much health in return.The decline in life expectancy started before the pandemic and badly worsened with pandemic deaths added.https://t.co/P8l06FrHnf https://t.co/X8sdzPNHNO

2022-08-31 22:42:16 @KashPrime @BenMazer (I’m obviously not referring to the life expectancy numbers as those are horrifying, and unfortunately pretty solid. What a tragedy).

2022-08-31 22:41:24 @KashPrime @BenMazer A stronger and more precise estimate, if we’re going to go by estimates rather than surveillance and surveys, would help make the effort clearer and politically more feasible. Long Covid sufferers need immediate and strong help, and numberwang doesn’t help that at all, imo.

2022-08-31 22:38:29 @KashPrime @BenMazer One reason is that those numbers are pretty obviously implausible. But let’s skip that. The number of people who need immediate help in terms of disability payments is smaller, but exaggerating it this much, like this, will probably make politicians stay away from the effort.

2022-08-31 22:36:48 @KashPrime @BenMazer I absolutely agree on the stakes. There is more than enough people to be concerned about. However, I share the concern that these *obviously* implausible numbers being taken seriously without scrutiny will hurt the efforts to help Long Covid sufferers for a variety of reasons.+

2022-08-31 22:24:45 RT @nytimesworld: In a long-awaited report, the United Nations’ human rights office accused China of actions that “may constitute internati…

2022-08-31 21:58:14 An immunologist comments, echoing immunologists @profshanecrotty and @PepperMarion.Some months between exposures (vaccine or infection, though latter not the recommended path) is good because you already have the immune system learning from the last one.https://t.co/zxiLkeSaMX

2022-08-31 19:42:29 @grubreport https://t.co/8u1Hzhc3Nm

2022-08-31 19:08:58 Common question on timing. As noted above, I've heard the same from many immunologists, who say to wait three to six months after the last infection or booster because your immune level is *already* high, though people should check with their doctor for individual factors. https://t.co/ZkRhZ8Ymx8

2022-08-31 18:29:26 In the weeks since, UK has acknowledged their citizen, but.. no other progress.Alaa's family reports that even getting clean clothes into the Egyptian prison has been an issue—and that's for a high-profile British citizen. Many others suffering, too. https://t.co/88v023w0qJ

2022-08-31 15:03:31 @dr_larryi @looking_finding I disagree, though I would agree that they are the highest priority for the categories you mention. Vaccine with an updated strain will broaden and deepen the antibody response, further along affinity maturation. Recommending isn't the same as mandating—that's a different issue.

2022-08-31 14:34:39 @looking_finding @dr_larryi Hard to tell, honestly, but everything we know suggests there would be some level of reduction everywhere. Unlike in prisons, though, people interact with a large number of folks of different immunity levels etc., so what you can measure depends on what percent vaccinated.

2022-08-31 14:31:25 @AsparksPolSci I can't tell you what to do, but if it were me, I would get this one as soon as I could under those circumstances. Waiting for a future one based on very little reason to wait as far as I'm concerned, while remaining less protected doesn't make any sense to me.

2022-08-31 14:22:41 @dr_larryi Here's one. Hard to study systematically except in setting like this (a prison).Somewhat unsurprising, vaccination reduces but does not completely eliminate transmission, which matches what the epi curve implies in many countries. https://t.co/WtircwAhK4

2022-08-31 14:18:44 Protection against severe disease after vaccines or infection — not the recommended path as it comes with risks — seem fairly durable in studies, but as people age, a process called immunosenescence means immunity becomes less robust.Boosters are most important for high-risk.

2022-08-31 14:14:00 Looks like they may authorize it for two months past the last booster.Talking to immunologists, I usually heard them recommend between three to six months after the last booster or infection, depending on one's risk levels — obviously to discuss with one's medical provider.

2022-08-31 14:11:17 One more step (CDC has to sign off) and there will be updated boosters available for everyone 12 and older in the US.Despite claims otherwise, even non-updated vaccine boosters were shown to reduce infection and transmission — these should easily improve on their levels. https://t.co/suG1Loscjo

2022-08-31 00:59:29 @jgbarzyk I think every step in the chain has convinced themselves they’re doing the right thing. But the net result is overall lots of credibility in every direction.

2022-08-31 00:56:26 @BenMazer Let’s not be too hasty to bring verifiable, large-scale facts into the conversation. The audience might shrink.

2022-08-30 18:55:43 To some degree, everyone can look at large-scale real life epi data and also maybe cultivate lists of people whose claims survived contact with real-life large-scale data.Unfortunately, doesn't work with every issue, but I don't have a better solution. https://t.co/DETrH6yFMF

2022-08-30 18:45:08 People doing substantive debunking end up being vilified and then other people show up with baseless objections to strong findings claiming they're also debunking.If one can already tell the categories apart, no need for the intermediaries. Otherwise, hard to tell them apart.

2022-08-30 18:41:38 Many used to debunk the worst offenders in real time, but even that seems futile. Twitter isn't good for that. But it just adds to the confusion. Unless you're already in a position to evaluate, i.e. you don't depend on intermediaries, how to choose between intermediaries?

2022-08-30 18:40:00 "But how can we tell which one is which?" Overselling vs. important finding?The academic community does usually filter a good deal of it out, *over time* as more data and papers appear.I don't think it's possible in this environment for normal folks.https://t.co/1CL7PcTZF8

2022-08-30 18:37:22 Overselling one's research—to get published or funded — isn't new. But now, there's a rapid assemby line from that to gullible journalists who'll package it for an eager echo chamber, but when the results don't live up to contact with real-life data, it sinks credibility for all.

2022-08-30 17:05:56 Nature review on the *very recently* confirmed link between Epstein-Barr and multiple sclerosis: "Despite years of controversy, the role of EBV.. may now be settled."Given likely key role of the first infection, a childhood vaccine for EBV is needed.https://t.co/QnQaZF02y5 https://t.co/iRwlxBvLxK

2022-08-30 03:50:01 RT @Single_Shot: Super interesting article on the health fallout of viruses. I had no idea people suffered from "long flu" after the 1918 i…

2022-08-30 03:18:36 @gracenoteME @chriseraphim @coco_chatel @OpenMedF Indeed. It seems clear that a subset of Long Covid and some ME/CFS patients have largely overlapping symptoms, perhaps sharing mechanisms, and a solid well-funded research program looking into post-viral conditions could help a large number of people, beyond LC, too.

2022-08-28 18:52:13 @awgaffney …because once the medical profession applies that label, there’s not much but blaming and gaslighting patients *and* also squashing and denying evidence about treatments that’d help many of these patients outside of therapy. That’s the upstream issue here. Rest flows from that./

2022-08-28 18:50:13 @awgaffney I think you’re overlooking how deep the institutionalized gaslighting of patients with not-yet-understood conditions goes—address that and we can more easily get out of the “in your head or not” dualism. It’s coming from the medical profession &

2022-08-28 18:47:08 @awgaffney They found some relief in medications, some even OTC, that are still not trialed, despite pretty consistent narratives from a subset of patients about their benefit and despite the fact many advanced clinicians I talked with also use them, and there are plausible mechanisms. +

2022-08-28 18:45:21 @awgaffney They managed to recover some quality of life by ignoring medical advice, listening to other patients, doing their own research and finding medical partners they could, well, browbeat into helping manage their prescriptions and strict pacing and other oft dismissed interventions.+

2022-08-28 18:43:09 @awgaffney I have academic friends I’ve known for more than a decade, who were badly and persistently gaslit about their Long Covid by medical doctors—despite even having a positive test when few could. This happened , despite their PhD and the privileges of class, race and insurance. +

2022-08-28 18:01:00 @awgaffney Is the mind-body dualism also a problem? Yes, it is. That’s why patients too get so focused on it because that’s often the only way to get the medical establishment to stop gaslighting them. Solve that, it becomes easier to make practical and intellectual progress on the dualism.

2022-08-28 17:58:38 @awgaffney There’s a fundamental problem, in that when faced with a condition it doesn’t understand, medicine has a long history of psychologizing (as a means to externalize) and dismissing it, to the point of trashing or ignoring researchers chasing evidence-based leads to the physiology.+

2022-08-28 17:39:04 @awgaffney On PEM, probably too complicated for Twitter but as I said, I am convinced not just that it's real for a subset of LC patients, as with ME/CFS, it's baffling nature makes it a very important target for research and understanding, as it may well unlock a lot of causal issues./n

2022-08-28 17:36:14 @awgaffney Primary docs on the history of ulcer are horrifying.Thus I find my emphasis in this piece appropriate, as it is a widespread, pervasive and current problem with a lot of history behind it, and yeah can later also discuss the mind/body duality problem that we seem to agree on.+

2022-08-28 17:33:42 @awgaffney So while medicine does need to break the mind/body duality, deal better with psychosocial...A deep reading of history makes it pretty clear that patients persistently getting gaslit, dismissed and multiple lines of evidence being ignored by medical establishment isn't uncommon.

2022-08-28 17:31:06 @awgaffney Does stress contribute to worsening ulcers, and does the mind/body duality in medicine impede understanding? For sure. But the history shows decades dismissal of multiple lines of evidence under a framework that disobedient patients were the problem. Could've saved millions.+

2022-08-28 17:27:57 @awgaffney I read a lot, including primary docs from the time for both ulcers and MS and other similar histories. Forget history, I've testimonies of MS patients being dismissed *for years* from the 21st century, until they finally get someone who listens and believes them, orders imaging.

2022-08-28 16:46:36 @awgaffney So on PEM, we've a genuine disagreement. (Though I'd also probably say that for *this subset* pacing isn't a path to recovery necessarily, but a way to avoid further detoriation or long periods of lower capacity, and a way to maintain higher-capacity functioning over time). /n

2022-08-28 16:43:59 @awgaffney Of course, someone who experiences it can also becamoe very anxious about exertion, etc., similar to somatic hypervigilance dynamics.But, In fact, to go further, PEM is so baffling that I think it's going to be one of the key research avenues that will unlock a bunch of things.

2022-08-28 16:41:27 @awgaffney Also I'm both aware of, and fairly sympathetic to social contagion as an explanation for certain phenomenon, but for PEM, I got convinced by multiple lines of strong evidence that it was experienced independently by a subset of LC patients—its baffling nature itself a clue there.

2022-08-28 16:38:28 @awgaffney Thus I think it's simultaneously true that for most people, and many conditions, get out and exercise more is absolutely correct while for a subset with this baffling, often viral-onset, condition, PEM is very real, and pacing is warranted. The key question is figuring out who.

2022-08-28 16:36:40 @awgaffney I talked to a large number of scientists but the fact that PEM was documented for so long in ME/CFS, and then after the pandemic, a large number of the (ME/CFS-like subset of) Long Covid patients who had never heard of it independently experienced it.. That alone is very telling.

2022-08-28 16:33:49 @awgaffney I came into this as a lifelong exerciser, with a dear friend with major depression who benefits greatly from cardio more than anything else, and as someone whose knee-jerk answer to many things is "exercise more". But for this subset, imo, there's sufficient evidence for PEM.

2022-08-28 16:31:21 @awgaffney On pacing — I am convinced that for a subset of Long Covid patients, and also some ME/CFS who clearly experience PEM, an there's significant (and yet insufficient) physicological evidence, and also that graded increase in exercise is great for *other* subsets— deconditioning etc.

2022-08-28 16:29:04 @awgaffney On MS, it's a very short paragraph, what it's asserting is that many patients *did* get diagnosed with conversion disorder—similar to ulcer patients getting told they were disobedient, type-a men—rather than the bacteria causing the peptic ulcers. It's not a sequential history.

2022-08-26 15:52:07 A gift link to my NYT essay on the state of Long Covid research, and why we should do a lot more to support current sufferers and to accelerate research, including on all post-viral conditions.Once we look, they're everywhere. https://t.co/XGSe1QPbCF https://t.co/CBK3AXgFAF

2022-08-26 15:47:19 @kathrynsbach Thank you!

2022-08-26 15:23:09 See review!@VirusesImmunity also told me pandemics may differ as "the way we interact with a virus in different ages is certainly different" and unlike "exposure early in life", it's now a novel virus "you've never seen it until you're in your thirties".https://t.co/f9mqLZs9n5

2022-08-26 15:05:38 An excellent recent piece in the Atlantic on "Long Influenza" and Epstein-Barr Virus (cannot wait for that vaccine) complications—including Long EBV and a variety of other chronic conditions.A National Institute for Post-Viral Conditions is warranted.https://t.co/oKyf0J4jiE https://t.co/NY36AkybaK

2022-08-26 14:54:51 @AdrianoAguzzi I don't think anyone is talking about bundling the two without any consideration or criteria. The research streams not talking to each other seems obviously counterproductive.

2022-08-26 14:37:22 @Theresatweeting Yeah, I'm sorry. Too many stories like that.

2022-08-26 14:31:44 @AdrianoAguzzi There's been a whole bunch of tiny trials with ME/CFS, also without sufficient differentiation to phenotyping the categories. That loses signals... Similar problem will plague LC unless subtype definitions (which everyone I talked with kinda has in their head) are introduced.

2022-08-26 14:30:03 @AdrianoAguzzi Not just money, but a reorganization. For example, right now, ME/CFS researchers cannot apply for Long Covid grants even though a subset of patients are clearly fairly similar. Some maybe dead-end research is kinda necessary, but that clashes with academic incentives...

2022-08-26 12:02:44 RT @DocJeffD: “Long Covid sufferers who caught the virus early have entered their third year with the condition. Many told me they have los…

2022-08-26 10:31:40 RT @natalieben: “Medicine doesn’t like what it can’t understand, so it often ignores it,” Ravindra Ganesh, a physician scientist who direct…

2022-08-26 04:29:35 RT @BerrakBiz: From day one, @zeynep has been diligent and intentional in her research and approach to talking about COVID. This is no exce…

2022-08-26 03:06:44 RT @lilspartansamu1: Establish a National Institute of Post Viral Syndromes!!!

2022-08-26 02:54:27 @AlexBerenson I do. And it was an honest reply. Humility is a good approach here. You do you. But life isn’t just about quote tweets and dunking. I’ll leave it here.

2022-08-26 02:52:06 @WesElyMD

2022-08-26 02:49:15 @Steve_Sailer If you look at this history with some open eyes, you will find many similar examples.

2022-08-26 02:45:01 RT @lsaguirre: Other chronic diseases are triggered by viral infections, which means that, as @zeynep writes, “solving this puzzle could be…

2022-08-26 00:45:06 RT @HarvardChanDean: We need more research to better understand and treat the long Covid symptoms that are affecting millions right now. Co…

2022-08-26 00:44:43 @AlexBerenson You’re a wave of contempt riding a wave of “there but for grace of God I go.” I don’t know how you sleep at night but I can’t wish on you the kind of awakening that would come if one of your children got unlucky enough with a complex chronic condition. Because it’s that horrible.

2022-08-25 22:33:13 @Steve_Sailer (They also used jargon like you just did to deny ulcers were caused by bacteria).

2022-08-25 22:27:37 @Steve_Sailer Yep! The guy defied the conventional wisdom and proved bacteria caused ulcers — after about a century of medical denial — did. Doctors back then insisted it was in the patient’s heads — especially the career men. Saved so many lives as stomach cancer also disappeared.

2022-08-19 16:34:40 @Dakota_150 @elizabethics @EthicsElizabeth @Twitter @TheLancet Yeah, it's wait and see and if you do get banned because of sharing mundane articles from regular sources, usually someone needs to manage to find a Twitter person to get them to fix it. All this really sucks as a process and happens to people across the viewpoint spectrum.

2022-08-19 16:26:43 @Dakota_150 @elizabethics @EthicsElizabeth @Twitter @TheLancet Ugh, I'm sorry. It seems to be happening to a bunch of people, with really different points of view, too, from what I can tell. Did you appeal? I hate to say this, but things like this go wrong all the time, and usually get solved via a personal outreach to someone in Twitter.

2022-08-19 14:49:20 @natematias Yep! The blackbox nature of platform data is a huge problem. In this case, a cursory check over a few minutes showed the problem affecting people across a very, very wide range of viewpoints so I'm going with the usual moderation clunkiness unless anything else emerges.

2022-08-19 14:47:34 If you ask only your friends about a topic, you can see coherence where there is none.Keeping an open mind and examining the issue is good!Unfortunately, platform data is blackbox to researchers.But using appropriate research methods and a substantive understanding matter.

2022-08-19 14:43:56 After seeing a lot of such complaints, I spent a few minutes looking for people making such complaints. I've seen it from people ranging from Covid deniers to mitigation maximalists. So, sure let's look into it but.. looks like so many previous times to me, so far.

2022-08-19 14:39:12 What does happen is a content source favored by a group might get downrated... So everyone sharing from BestFakeNewsDOTCOM might suddenly see an uptick in labeling.But if the sources being mislabeled are mundane and high-profile, usually a glitch. It sucks! But not the same.

2022-08-19 14:36:31 That's the thing. I've been looking into such claims for more than a decade, and they usually don't, really.People who haven't studied tech platforms might think they do, because they already think alike and they send each other their own examples.https://t.co/R47hwqYt6w

2022-08-19 14:33:13 Yep. Such stuff cropping up is not sign of anything good, but usually not what people think it is.Platform moderation is a very imprecise, clunky process, done at the scale of billions. They have little capacity to target with any precision at scale.https://t.co/SQvhAOhqVG

2022-08-19 14:28:06 For example: after some tweak or update to the algo or workflow, lots of random, mundane stuff gets mislabeled. Then people look in their own homogeneous network, and start thinking it's targeted.Usually it's that social media moderation is low-quality, imprecise and sucky.

2022-08-19 14:21:56 Plus, platforms depend on user reporting, and whatever you think about what's true, there are many people who vehemently think the opposite, and people constantly get mass reported—even minor people. Some DM group becomes obsessed with them, "let's report" blah blah So it goes.

2022-08-19 14:19:32 Social media platform moderation is very, very imprecise. They constantly overshoot and undershoot compared to what they think they are doing—think algorithms with false positives and false negatives, and very, very rushed underpaid contractors in poor countries around the world.

2022-08-19 14:17:29 So if you ask your friends, and don't know how moderation works, you're could talk yourself into the idea it's targeted, because your friends will be saying similar things to each other so their examples will look coherent.To actually understand the scope, need to look widely.

2022-08-19 14:15:31 If targeted, the mislabeling should be somewhat coherent. I've looked around and... it seems exactly like before, bunch of random posts *across different view points* getting mislabeled.Why do people think it's targeted? Well, you see people who agree with you on your network.

2022-08-19 14:12:16 First, anyone at all familiar with how social platorms do moderation would know things exactly like this happen again and again without any particular targeting. Well-known issue.Could this one be targeted? Well, anything is possible but key question is what would be the signs?

2022-08-19 14:08:42 Seeing complaints that Twitter is labeling otherwise mundane COVID tweets (quoting studies/articles) as misinformation. Claims of censorship!Having observed this many times for over a decade, it's almost certainly a "false positive/algo" glitch, rather than anything targeted.

2022-08-19 13:33:01 RT @zeynep: Highly recommend that people update their Apple devices as soon as possible—as in, right now especially if you think you may be…

2022-08-19 03:31:09 RT @TheJesseSands: Setting->

2022-08-19 01:20:48 No. I wouldn’t wait. (Actually, I didn’t.) I recommend going to settings and updating manually especially for anyone at risk of being targeted.Time between the news of an exploit breaking and the update is a highly vulnerable period. https://t.co/SY7auXHFDy

2022-08-19 00:53:48 Highly recommend that people update their Apple devices as soon as possible—as in, right now especially if you think you may be targeted. https://t.co/REVn6lqDZb

2022-08-18 23:26:30 A heartbreaking update from his sister on one of Egypt’s many suffering political prisoners, now on day 139 of a hunger strike. https://t.co/YlI0OJpixJ

2022-08-18 06:45:00 RT @MicrobiomDigest: Here’s how a scrappy team of scientists, public health experts and plumbers is embracing wastewater surveillance as th…

2022-08-18 00:10:25 RT @jsrailton: PSA: Do you use Signal? Turn on registration lock today. Here's why... 1/https://t.co/7Q37PdnrCV https://t.co/JGeM9A4kl5

2022-08-17 18:41:17 @JenniferNuzzo They can't magically overcome the fragmented, messy data landscape so hopefully that's targeted as well. That said, absolutely agree on the importance of improving MMWR rigor. Some recent papers have been far below what one would hope for, caused much (understandable) confusion.

2022-08-17 18:32:23 @k_stephensonMD And maybe also use high-quality data from elsewhere rather than their own (sometimes inferior) MMWR study? We kept looking at work from UK, Denmark, Qatar, Singapore, South Korea, etc. and wondering why.. we weren't acting.

2022-08-17 18:26:47 @jbakcoleman That's... quite a thread! All the rest sounds quite exciting, too!

2022-08-17 13:02:31 There is also the amazing Corsi-Rosenthal box, a cheap DIY option confirmed to deliver excellent results.Essentially, tape the right filters to a box fan. It works, CADR around 420.They can be noisier, but they work for many environments and are cheap.https://t.co/bXpxxHcb5b

2022-08-17 12:59:09 Here's a rule of thumb and detailed calculator for picking CADR for HEPA filers from @j_g_allen and @ShellyMBoulder. It was prepared for schools, but works for everywhere. Click on the second tab on the spreadsheet: it's really easy to use. https://t.co/JcM6TQDG4g

2022-08-17 12:53:26 CADR is the rate at which air is filtered: one powerful enough for the space gets better results. (See next tweet for calculation).CADR is listed at highest setting, also noisiest. If budget allows, higher CADR allows running at lower setting, less noise.https://t.co/Wt6udbxalf

2022-08-17 12:48:15 Another study confirming: HEPA works to filter viruses from the air, gimmicks unnecessary (and some even harmful).Which one to get for your space? It's straightforward: look only for HEPA, with a good CADR/noise ratio for one's budget. See next tweet for comparison chart. https://t.co/Rm2qwwMqyS

2022-08-16 21:07:46 @EthanZ I find it somewhat implausible that South Africa, which happens to have better record keeping, has high death rates and somehow has profound biological/immunological differences with neighboring countries that don't report as high death rates, but have weaker record keeping?

2022-08-16 21:03:25 @EthanZ The other obvious calculation is age-adjustment—maybe someone has the paper? Obviously, younger age structure will have a different mortality pattern. After age-adjustment to excess deaths, there should be a clearer picture to whether there is a big enough mystery or not.

2022-08-16 21:01:10 @EthanZ A couple of things. We know that many countries in Africa did have excess death waves, but not necessarily well-ascertained to cause. South Africa is an exception that it has relatively solid reporting of deaths. + https://t.co/nwrY2zycWP

2022-08-16 20:21:17 @EthanZ Though I'd say South Africa wasn't less affected... They had a tremendous death toll, one of the worst globally especially from Delta and Beta that hit the largely unvaccinated population. Population immunity against later waves, but at great cost. https://t.co/1QkolyaQMZ

2022-08-16 19:31:41 @BrendanNyhan That said, as someone originally from Turkey, I would like to disavow the crudité effort in strongest terms. If he were representative of the region, we'd be looking at ingredients for a proper meze selection, not large bags of carrots matched with pre-made guac. #notinmyname

2022-08-16 19:21:12 @BrendanNyhan Oz's already successful parents emigrated from Turkey in the 1950s, his dad was a surgeon, was born in the US, and is clearly secular in his life/outlook with Christian wife/kids.I'd say not really what creates the kind of backlash people from Turkey would need to worry about.

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2022-08-14 17:06:56 Also good reminder from @PepperMarion that expected Omicron boosters (with a new antigen) will improve the immune response. https://t.co/l5Lz5h9ahe

2022-08-14 17:03:25 Immunologists @VirusesImmunity and @PepperMarion answer questions. https://t.co/kFTcVRszWX https://t.co/A09IdUc1sY

2022-08-14 13:22:58 RT @donmoyn: As I note here, the inability of the public to see their policy preferences on the most pressing issue of the day - abortion a…

2022-08-13 13:25:03 RT @nytimesworld: Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of “The Satanic Verses,” a novel by Salman Rushdie, was stabbed to death in 199…

2022-08-13 12:58:12 @zittrain It's a lot of people. You can easily look. They have histories, engage in detailed conversations, and tons of people reply to them with more praise, others raise points. It's very clearly people, and lots of them.

2022-08-13 12:48:40 There are a large number of accounts on Twitter openly praising the cowardly, craven attack on Salman Rushdie, even to thousands of retweets/likes. I bet it's similar on Facebook. Very easy to find, even in English.Many might be seeing the "we're appalled" posts. It's a bubble.

2022-08-13 12:38:07 @RebeccaSolnit @Science_Party Thanks! There is a free (and legal) Creative Commons copy of my book (which details all this, in light of social media) is at the bottom of this page. (A Paradise Built in Hell is referenced in the book, especially with regards to protest occupations!). https://t.co/7GlSlpt7LF

2022-08-12 18:39:34 RT @Moran_Lab: All FEMALE interviewees, and 2 of my favorite immunologists and people! @VirusesImmunity @PepperMarion Must read piece.Whe…

2022-08-11 21:04:31 @SuzannahDelo @DoctorMcKeever @JessMyrick

2022-08-11 17:00:55 So many families are suffering so much. US/UK/EU have a lot of leverage in this situation to push for relief for Egypt's political (and other) prisoners, especially before the world shows up there for a climate conference in November. https://t.co/xRsENS2gvO https://t.co/36reKdapsu

2022-08-11 16:10:24 “As we assess whether to issue rules &

2022-08-10 17:39:51 @DarthPetus @JodyShenn @wsbgnl @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey Not my issue if he took it up with actual immunologists—posting screenshots of other's papers that happen to use a term he also used to claim "I told you" may work on regular people who miss it's not use of (common) terms but citations/recognition that validate specific claims.

2022-08-10 16:51:07 Key new Long Covid study from @virusesimmunity and collaborators.tl

2022-08-10 15:59:37 (FWIW, I'm not evaluating the research: it's a modeling study with a very, very wide range of estimates, and thus huge uncertainty. We'd need high-quality serology studies for an empirical sense. Point is that *if* accepted as such, it implies population density is a key factor).

2022-08-10 15:50:04 @kallmemeg Best wishes to him, and to your family!

2022-08-10 15:25:17 @BuzzJohnG MERS is thought to have originated from bats, and then got established in camels. Intermediary species are not necessarily the same as the origin. https://t.co/QiEVC4NOic

2022-08-10 15:03:12 @CarlingTries Didn't become a pandemic.

2022-08-10 15:02:54 Another corollary (confirmed by other research) is that rural populations where spillovers that die out are common tend to have antibodies—hinders the virus.That's why a dense population center full of immunonaive people is such dangerous kindling.https://t.co/xSTE8xdj0q

2022-08-10 14:58:44 @LawlessKahlil Yeah, I actually talked to a lot of them! Seems clear that such spillovers are so common that they are necessary but nowhere near sufficient to spark pandemics—it's when the virus gets out in an immunonaive, dense and large population center that things become quickly dangerous.

2022-08-10 14:55:00 I wrote about this before. I think we were *due* for a bat coronavirus pandemic. Both the narrowly-avoided SARS one in 2003, MERS, and later research really suggested it was a matter of time but we didn't take it seriously enough. How to avoid another one remains a key issue.

2022-08-10 14:47:59 If bat coronavirus spillovers are this common, but new pandemics obviously not (we don't have one every year), it highlights the important role of cities and population density in sparking pandemics.The corollary of this research is rural spillovers are common but they die out. https://t.co/nJ85uDjrLO

2022-08-10 14:41:25 @AntibioticDoc Justified suspicion that public health authorities may drag their foot for a long time and deny things well-established by epidemiology and other evidence makes such jumpy reporting (which is the opposite problem: overclaiming from too little evidence) appear more credible, imo.

2022-08-10 14:39:30 @AntibioticDoc Yeah, unfortunately we saw a lot of public health authorities deny stuff even long, long after actual, widespread and global epidemiology pretty much made it obvious—see denial of centrality of airborne transmission as well as presymptomatic transmission. So a credibility issue.

2022-08-10 14:36:38 There's a wide range of "possible". I think it's better to *prepare* for possible scenarios than to make singular predictions. Yes, some scenarios are likelier than others, but why bet everything on it? We have many tools now, better to use them. https://t.co/nemepA193V

2022-08-10 14:29:10 The issue with sensationalized media/viral claims based on limited/prelim lab work is lack of follow-up or correction when actual data arrives.Makes people tune it all out.Even if there was solid data to warn with, who'd believe it after so many "overclaimsilence" cycles?

2022-08-10 14:18:32 If Omicron infection worsened immunity, we should have had cascading waves of higher severity. The empirical trend is the opposite.If Omicron provided none or very short-lived immunity, every country should have had equally big waves with Omicron versions. Opposite happened.

2022-08-10 14:12:35 Add Hong Kong to global, steady data: Omicron waves result in significant population immunity against future ones.It's better to avoid infection waves! But the idea Omicron infection wouldn't confer immunity, or even lower it, found no empirical legs.https://t.co/a2FR31diyx

2022-08-09 22:30:16 Based on private chats Facebook turned over, the police seized teen daugther and mom's laptops and phones, to prosecute them based on (pre-Roe) abortion laws.Now, post-Roe, this can happen to women just four weeks past-conception. Police can ask the tech companies for the data. https://t.co/UErHjkdjF6

2022-08-09 22:23:11 Before Roe was struck down, Facebook gave the police private messages between a mom and her teen daughter about abortion pills. They're now being prosecuted for abortion >

2022-08-09 20:23:14 NYT on the "slow death" in Egypt's prisons:"Many are held in filthy cells, subjected to routine torture and denied lifesaving medications".Thousands jailed without even a sham conviction. Why bother? Despite US/UK/EU leverage, there's little pressure.https://t.co/BXpy7wK09O https://t.co/9Qn6sdHrLI

2022-08-09 16:21:51 RT @jonathan_c_ong: We at @UMassAmherst #Communication are hiring in two super exciting areas: 1) Associate or Full Professor of Race, Medi…

2022-07-27 02:01:37 RT @roby_bhatt: I started med school 24 years ago

2022-07-27 00:36:47 @MarkLevineNYC I was just staring at the sky myself! Amazing

2022-07-26 23:11:41 RT @EricTopol: "Hundreds of thousands of [Evusheld] doses sit on shelves in hospitals and infusion centers across the country" while the va…

2022-07-26 17:05:11 RT @accessnow: Today is the 3rd day in a row that Egyptian authorities 'claim' that activist @alaa is refusing a family's visit.No letter…

2022-07-26 14:39:59 @eric_weinberger Things matter if those with power decide they matter...

2022-07-26 14:25:56 @ggatin Bad-faith whataboutism—carried out by every dictatorship and murderous regime as well as insincere individuals globally―can very easily be ignored because there is no global classroom teacher enforcing "must have perfect record before enforcing leverage for something good".

2022-07-26 14:13:31 I know too few care about wrongly-imprisoned democracy activists. And saving one person isn't saving everyone.But one person is one person.Alaa—well-known in the West— has been made into an example. They're torturing him to show that they can. US/UK/EU can choose to stop it.

2022-07-26 13:58:05 Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, imprisoned for a retweet for years under horrid conditions, denied consular visits despite UK citizenship, and on a hunger-strike for 115 days, is now incommunicado.UK, US and EU have much leverage here they're choosing not to exercise. https://t.co/Kruuf3PNSQ

2022-07-26 13:50:01 Stop me if you heard this one before.Wait-and-see attitude even to deploying vaccines that already exist.Getting tested subject to onerous bureaucracy.Vaccination slots fill within minutes of opening up.Cases then grow past point of containment.https://t.co/PvYQVajg3X https://t.co/9gZ6EJvdxq

2022-07-26 13:07:36 RT @Monasosh: Ok, Egyptian authorities claim @alaa is refusing our family visit, can the @UKinEgypt @GarethBayleyUK go visit him please an…

2022-07-26 03:44:42 RT @ddiamond: “The available vaccination slots were taken within seven minutes of being posted online.” @JoeKGoldstein @sharonNYT on the…

2022-07-25 21:40:09 RT @EricTopol: Every moderately to severely immunocompromised person should know about Evusheld, a preventive Rx. It's uncommonly prescribe…

2022-07-25 16:01:26 @origincanada @notdred @eliowa Yes they do. Very few of the affected kids were PCR positive for SCoV2, unlike other suspects present in all. You can’t rule out it as a secondary role in those few but even that wouldn’t make it the main driver. Also SCoV2 as main culprit would be better—we have vaccines for it.

2022-07-25 15:36:29 RT @Monasosh: The @FCDOGovUK ignoring all our communication since they met with @MfaEgypt@trussliz doesn't care about a British national,…

2022-07-25 14:37:58 A great summary from an expert: an adeno-associated virus (AAV2) plus adenovirus/herpesvirus *and* genetic susceptibility interacting.One only wishes this much effort went into solving more medical mysteries. Such mysteries aren't that rare.https://t.co/nQq4Kx8JSS

2022-07-25 14:28:28 @notdred @eliowa There's now two papers, not just one. https://t.co/eOcGMzI0Wr

2022-07-25 14:19:19 @jdkc816 I hope not! If someone remains a "true believer" of a hypothesis not looking empirically weaker, that's.. well, not science. We already know COVID can potentially have bad outcomes for children, no need to assume all other viruses are innocent. Epicycles are pretty, though. https://t.co/wFBJ931mGa

2022-07-25 14:11:21 Ah, there's a second paper, similar finding. Also AAV2 in liver and blood of almost all the affected children, but much rarer in controls. (Here, too, adenovirus and Herpesvirus are showing as as "helpers"—AAV2 needs "helpers" to replicate).https://t.co/Mf5wDlHLWN https://t.co/I4oEnM0vme

2022-07-25 14:01:51 We know viruses other than SARS-CoV-2 do cause a health burden, including occasional long-term or serious damage.We just confirmed that an earlier EBV infection is the likely cause of multiple sclerosis—decades later.HPV causes cancer.Eagerly a waiting RSV and EBV vaccines!

2022-07-25 13:57:08 Development in mystery pediatric hepatitis. So 9/9 kids PCR positive for adeno-associated AAV2, (zero in controls), plus genetic susceptibility. Herpesvirus as "helper".(Only 2/9 ve+ for SARS-CoV-2, 6/9 have prior exposure, matching population).https://t.co/mnnAKT9qZD https://t.co/XK4IvsNw46

2022-07-22 15:22:26 @MarkELindsay Interestingly, though, as you note, the fraud of this type is usually a single person/last minute because the culture against it is still very, very strong. People will blow that whistle, it's very hard to organize a conspiracy around it and keep it together. That's our line.

2022-07-22 15:21:10 @MarkELindsay Example: expanded academia. Many countries want "peer-review" of any kind for promotion: explosion in pay-to-publish borderline/real predatory journals.Nature/Cell/Science or bust in many fields, *and* high-trust protocol for review, assumes no fraud, no checks. Eventually...

2022-07-22 15:18:51 @MarkELindsay Academia fraud issue is a bit like security / early internet. A lot of stuff wasn't built in because TCP/IP is designed for a network with high internal trust (academics, military). But things have changed, the protocols have not. Pretty striking how well it still holds tbh.

2022-07-22 15:16:08 @MarkELindsay My recreational reading atm: it's great for this too. Fraud is *always* about structure.(In the Before Times, my "recreational" reading had a lot of pandemic and outbreak lit, now my "recreational" reading is books on sociology of interesting stuff.)https://t.co/tSvKt25xmL

2022-07-22 15:11:35 @MarkELindsay *puts on structural hat*We've seen this before! Peer review has weak defenses against outright, deliberate fraud. It works to the degree that it does because of academic incentives/cultures, and because fraud is assumed to be rare enough compared to cost of increasing friction.

2022-07-22 14:59:13 @isaac32767 I wish I had a better answer. Makes no sense to me.

2022-07-22 14:30:04 RT @IDEpiPhD: In year 3 of this pandemic and globally only 28% of older people &

2022-07-22 14:20:23 RT @peterstaley: As a longtime activist, I agree — @zeynep nails it here. The Internet has been a protest accelerant, but also allowed move…

2022-07-22 14:06:27 Seems clear closer match to strain provides more protection—we knew of Omicron in Nov 2021.Non-updated boosters surprisingly good, too.OTOH, chasing future strains may be futile.I think *all* of those argue for releasing updates as early as possible.https://t.co/QBkvUlLNn1

2022-07-22 14:01:15 @atlantictriangl At large scale, the "every two weeks" stuff appears clearly to be nowhere near reality whatsoever by any stretch.It's *possible* for a few to have a re-infection within a month especially when the variant changes (Delta to Omicron BA.1/2, for example).But there's also this. https://t.co/zpJjMOwLvM

2022-07-22 13:36:41 Epi and well-done studies converge:Vaccine protection against severity is high, durable. Variants can evolve to infect, but boosters add protection.Infection also induces immunity but comes with risks, varying with health and age.Argues for less circulation, more vaccines.

2022-07-22 13:15:11 @peterstaley Thank you so much! ACT UP remains a shining example during a period of great moral failure.And I have for real questions relating to some of that, concerning something current... Will ping. :-D

2022-07-22 13:13:08 Too few unvaccinated adults in Denmark to analyze. They also have good booster update, and targeted a second booster to those at-risk.Meanwhile, US lacks in outreach to people with two doses to get their third, and our tracking is so bad that much of our data is useless.

2022-07-22 13:05:38 Denmark BA.5 hospitalizations remained very low. BA.2 and BA.5 had the same rates, but when age-adjusted, BA.5 looks worse than BA.2 (similar, they note, as Delta was in their analyses).So few were hospitalized with BA.5 the confidence interval is large, but worth watching. https://t.co/nREjssjDiG

2022-07-22 12:52:58 Lancet preprint: Large Denmark BA.5 study. Results very similar to Qatar.Any prior Omicron infection among the vaccinated was highly protective against *any* BA.5 infection (93.6% VE).Previous Delta/Alpha protective, but less so (46.9% &

2022-07-22 12:30:37 RT @AlexSteffen: Not surprisingly, this @zeynep piece on why big protest movements don't work the way they used to is smart.https://t.co/…

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2022-07-22 01:32:38 @wanderer_jasnah Current life lessons on trying to figure stuff out still: "Always check the epi curve

2022-07-18 12:46:14 RT @sana2: Germany is rolling out the red carpet for Egyptian President al-Sisi, while my brother and tens of thousands others rot in jail.…

2022-07-18 12:44:16 RT @MazMHussain: This is really insane. It seems like the UAE kidnapped Khashoggi’s American lawyer while transiting through the country an…

2022-07-18 02:20:23 @Kosikutioner Yep, as your thread explains.

2022-07-17 17:51:14 @AbraarKaran Testing for clinical purposes versus testing/screening for public health—you'd think we hadn't just had the experience of a pandemic. Easier, wider mass testing is essential to public health, even if an individual clinician may of course need and appropriately use other tests.

2022-07-17 17:43:35 RT @DrJayVarma: Concur - This is another example of @US_FDA @CDCgov focusing on what we already know vs what we need to know &

2022-07-17 17:04:25 @DavidStaplesYEG My guesstimate (from many studies trying to get at this) is that Delta was worst at individual level severity, Omicron likely around or somewhat worse than the original variant, but much more infectious so an added dimension to its threat. Immunity+treatments blunted it in 2022.

2022-07-17 17:01:50 @DavidStaplesYEG It's a bit hard to compare intrinsic virulence ("all else equal severity") across variants across time—vaccines, treatments, population immunity change. Plus, if something is more transmissible, it can sicken more people=small percent of very very large number is a large number.

2022-07-17 16:58:27 @DavidStaplesYEG Ah, yes, great question! Pretty bad! So if we had gotten hit with Omicron in Spring 2020, it would have made that tragedy so much more catastrophic. See this thread for some useful distinctions on what impacts disease course. https://t.co/rzGPaDLD5a

2022-07-17 16:56:12 @carl_jurassic Those deaths are almost all the unvaccinated (overwhelmingly but not just) elderly, so indeed, yes, but tragically.

2022-07-17 16:50:06 @DavidStaplesYEG Some of the unvaccinated in Hong Kong without "any comorbidities" got very sick and some of them died, and some of them are left with lifelong complications—something they easily could have avoided.

2022-07-17 16:41:29 So at this stage, I think we either look at studies from tragic cases like Hong Kong, or the epi curve for indications.I'm wary of estimates from places with terrible record keeping like the US, especially when they are so obviously incompatible with large scale real life data.

2022-07-17 16:36:45 Why Hong Kong study important? Because the best way to isolate the impact of vaccines is to compare it to a group with no prior immunity. Otherwise those with prior infections in the comparison group make it very hard to estimate—especially true in the US with terrible tracking.

2022-07-17 15:18:55 @eric_weinberger Here's a useful table on that (linking to the end, scroll up for details). https://t.co/zGUtyL3ukc

2022-07-17 15:14:29 We have a pandemic. A novel virus to our immune system. We haven't even updated the vaccines yet, but they still produce very good results. They are available for free. They aren't the only tools we have, but among the easiest to deploy at scale.Why are we complaining?

2022-07-17 15:09:22 Many got their third shot sometime in 2021. A virus our immune system had never seen.For a healthy fifty-year old with three doses, yes, absolute risk of severe disease is already low, but fourth dose will improve *relative* outcomes. Seems fine to me. https://t.co/xYZYRt8HXo

2022-07-17 15:02:12 There's always more to learn, but there's also been so much research. Recent comprehensive review by two top immunologists:"Immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 is now a benchmark in human immunology for understanding antigen-specific T cell and B cell memory."https://t.co/UOyIQhbnrK https://t.co/XqrxwtIEpX

2022-07-17 14:55:12 What happens after the primary series of three? We need updates for multiple reasons, like for the flu. One reason is variants—antigenic evolution. The elderly have less robust immune systems—more in need of boosters. Plus, it's brand new to us, and added consideration.

2022-07-17 14:49:40 See this chart for childhood vaccines. Many vaccines are three doses in their primary series. Not unusual.I think that's the case for this one as well. The third dose isn't a "booster" per se, it's part of the primary series. US lagged terribly in this.https://t.co/CrcA6HnCPh

2022-07-17 14:46:19 Important Hong Kong study—they can measure true vaccine efficacy since no prior outbreak, hence no population immunity to confound the analyses like everywhere else."Three doses.. offered very high levels of protection against severe or fatal outcomes (97·9% [97·3–98·4])." https://t.co/qpHPaTgoAh https://t.co/q9hlALGEY6

2022-07-17 13:45:30 RT @ScottGottliebMD: Good @profshanecrotty review of immune memory following infection, vaccination, or both for SARS-CoV-2. Even after neu…

2022-07-16 05:13:14 RT @rishirajgoel: Wonderful summary of anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunity by @profshanecrotty @SetteLab

2022-07-16 04:53:07 RT @bkoo: This is great work by Bethany and the Dispatch but also makes you think how this could have played out if she had been part of ma…

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2022-07-15 23:42:33 @wanderer_jasnah Welcome to algorithmic misinformation mishap—get in a long line.

2022-07-15 16:33:18 @dickens432 @delong They may need to take a short break from perusing yacht catalogs.

2022-07-15 12:58:43 RT @nytimesworld: Xi Jinping’s visit was met with criticism by overseas Uyghurs. “Photo ops with smiling Uyghurs hardly change the evidence…

2022-07-15 12:55:33 RT @Marc_Veld: Effectiveness of a fourth dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine against all-cause mortality in long-term care facility residents and…

2022-07-15 12:45:47 RT @andrew_croxford: Lots of lives, particularly the most elderly and those in care homes, can be saved with a fourth dose. https://t.co/5…

2022-07-15 04:06:12 @About_to_Rock @RidleyDM Are you a parody? It says so in the article. But anyway, a few more seconds on Google will bring up many more articles. Anyway, I conclude you are a parody. https://t.co/t4knWLTDQV

2022-07-15 03:48:47 @About_to_Rock @RidleyDM Amazing how much stuff people make up with such confidence. Here's an article from 2016 on Japan's mask culture noting also worn *to protect others* —10 seconds on Google. (I was doing research in East Asia pre-pandemic so I didn't even need Google). https://t.co/lsdRUDe0Iw

2022-07-15 03:44:44 @BallouxFrancois In general, yes, rules should turn on and of with accepted, transparent benchmarks.But non-Twitter humans don't think "oh, a worker in a country with little sick leave and crappy health-care is concerned enough to wear that sign, sooo lemme dust of my lecture about niqab."

2022-07-15 03:40:58 @BallouxFrancois In this case, I think it's more like some number of people have turned into talking points human bots on Twitter.My post wasn't about restrictions and I muted the thread right about when more than a few regular Americans decided I needed to learn about masks, hijab and niqab?

2022-07-15 02:23:12 @Brennan_Doherty Yes. But I’m constantly contacted by patients whose doctors don’t know of the option.

2022-07-15 01:07:36 RT @PatWitt2432: @zeynep @CovidSafe_fyi now has an Evusheld Guide online to help people figure out whether they qualify for Evusheld and ho…

2022-07-14 19:40:57 RT @MarkLevineNYC: NEW: Big expansion in mobile sites in NYC where you can get a covid test and, if needed, receive paxlovid pills *on the…

2022-07-14 18:27:50 RT @nycHealthy: UPDATE: We will release over 8,000 first dose monkeypox vaccine appointments over the next two weeks. https://t.co/QNLjIY…

2022-07-14 17:57:24 RT @Neurofourier: @zeynep It’s exhausting but I’ve been reminding everyone of the resources available along drawing up infographics. We are…

2022-07-14 17:46:16 Reminder that the immunocompromised in the United States have access to Evusheld. There's still a lot of supply, and many doctors/patients don't know about it. It's protective, to get ahead of time, for helping people whose immune systems don't otherwise make enough antibodies. https://t.co/PH3kjKJX4r

2022-07-14 17:12:09 Folks in replies acting like a request to consider wearing a mask voluntarily while shopping during high circulation in a country with little sick leave: no need to act like you've been asked to storm the beaches at Normandy.Many better ways to feel tough. Volunteer somewhere?

2022-07-14 16:43:52 @Brian_Orak @RidleyDM Thanks for letting me know Turkey, among others, is also in Asia and noticing that "many" doesn't mean "all".

2022-07-14 16:30:21 RT @jodieginsberg: 2. Call for the immediate release of the dozens of journalists in Egypt and in Saudi Arabia, including @AlaaAbdelfattah…

2022-07-14 15:25:27 @RidleyDM What on earth kind of misanthropic logic is that? It was already fairly normalized in many Asian countries to voluntarily wear a mask in public transportation during flu season, or if one was ill. Why on earth not? What's the upside of normalizing being a jerk?

2022-07-14 15:08:14 What did we do before? You know what Emergency Rooms did before?They had infrastructure that aggressively cleaned and exchanged the air. The ultimate way forward is to build more infrastructure, to get away from the culture wars and personal asks. But we are where we are.

2022-07-14 15:05:54 Not that complicated.I *do* believe high-quality masks dampen transmission odds, but would easily concede newer variants are harder to contain, hence Evusheld, vaccines, antivirals, HEPA/ventilation..But wearing one indoors while shopping is so simple.https://t.co/HV1SN5CDvR

2022-07-14 06:52:01 RT @limlouisa: Eight months in prison for attending two illegal gatherings and “offensive words”

2022-07-14 03:58:52 @BrianRWasik Infuriating tbh.

2022-07-14 03:57:59 RT @grouchybagels: And that's just the ones that were reported to police

2022-07-14 03:04:16 RT @MarkLevineNYC: Monkeypox cases so far in NYC:* 336 (32% of nat'l total)Vax the feds are sending NYC later this week:* 14,500 doses…

2022-07-14 02:54:41 RT @paimadhu: The visa hurdle: Why conference applicants from the global south can't always clear itImportant story by @mesoplodon @NPRGo…

2022-07-14 01:37:23 @Dr_D_Man @Ruby It’s not. What do you need to understand? See the thread referenced and more.

2022-07-13 20:05:58 RT @thefreedomi: Alaa Abd El-Fattah has spent most of the last decade behind bars for daring to fight for a better #Egypt. He's on his 102n…

2022-07-13 19:56:58 @StoneColdPillar Agree complacency is never good. Do you have a source for that data in that chart? This is what NYC is looking like from last December on (thus Omicron wave). Everyone incoming is tested, so ICU numbers are especially important to watch. ICU numbers in yellow. https://t.co/hJOhlRnUtW

2022-07-13 18:06:44 RT @ChrisMegerian: A lot of national pundits questioning whether this case was made up.But only a local reporter showed up to find out fo…

2022-07-13 18:00:13 @SMDelRay Here’s one thread with a useful table. https://t.co/q56UP8jf7z

2022-07-13 17:53:17 Caveats as above in the thread—note likely few immunocompromised in sample. Also, uses SGTF.One takeaway though is that a BA.1 or BA.2 vaccine would likely do really well against this current wave, especially, compared to the non-updated one.Paper:https://t.co/Pyuh61HHuW

2022-07-13 17:48:50 Another large-scale study from Qatar (mass PCR-tests so less bias.)They find previous Omicron infections provide significant cross-protection against BA.4/5 reinfections: ~79%.As usual, real life big epi data is the way to test questions raised from small-n prelim lab work. https://t.co/wJ9ftOdWC3

2022-07-13 16:28:50 @kearnsneuro @halvorz @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 An update with age distribution https://t.co/ou1warzIiB

2022-07-13 15:42:04 @BhadeliaMD @WHCOVIDResponse Congratulations, thank you for doing this, and best of luck!

2022-07-13 14:16:43 RT @kk_levine: And another example of Uber basically doing “access research” which I guess is the academic version of “access journalism”.

2022-07-13 14:10:33 @edschenck @notdred That would be great. Also I wish we had labs reporting the CTs, too. It exists as data, not sure why it's not collected and analyzed.

2022-07-13 13:40:28 RT @Redistrict: NEW: the entire decline in competitive House seats from redistricting is attributable to GOP gerrymanders (esp. TX and GA),…

2022-07-13 13:39:29 @AaronRichterman I can’t remember an exception to this. https://t.co/S79XkKQaxx

2022-07-13 13:13:24 RT @AaronRichterman: Hmmm cross protection How about that https://t.co/9cR59WRVda

2022-07-13 02:00:42 @Jusrangers

2022-07-13 01:43:41 @notdred Pandemic lesson: Large scale real-life epi data >

2022-07-13 00:06:06 RT @AaronRichterman: Hmmm cross protection How about that https://t.co/9cR59WRVda

2022-07-12 22:04:14 RT @Laith_AbuRaddad: Protection of a prior infection against BA.4/BA.5 was modest when the previous infection involved a pre-Omicron varian…

2022-07-12 20:47:47 @LibertyRPF @jasoncrawford

2022-07-12 18:21:47 More on this from @edyong209. https://t.co/GzbGsJLfpY

2022-07-12 17:32:24 @LarsSanderGreen @AshishKJha46 Lack of money likely an issue. (Same as dearth of air filtration infrastructure updates: needs funds).

2022-07-12 17:31:34 I don’t know the details for this particular question but…. Congress not authorizing funds is likely a huge factor in all that is feasible on paper but we’re not doing. It’s not even cost effective because prevention is cheaper than addressing effects later. https://t.co/nsCfVfjXIQ

2022-07-12 15:39:49 RT @natematias: New leaks reveal Uber paid academics for reports to relieve heat from French &

2022-07-12 14:48:24 @_ppmv Here's what I *am* blocking you for: 1-Screenshots from that rando weirdo that obsessively lies about me

2022-07-12 14:36:14 @AaronRichterman "100 days to update". And bivalent ones seem to be doing so well!

2022-07-12 14:22:05 Of course it’s also possible none have been manufactured. I genuinely don’t know. The broader question is the speed of updates. It’s a pandemic! A faster schedule, at least at first, seems… warranted.

2022-07-12 14:13:56 @DFisman There’s also a lot of data about the dangers of viral infections during pregnancy from before. It’s an issue that we really failed on, imo. (Even some pregnant women in my broader social network were wary of the vaccine! Even as they risked the infection every day!)

2022-07-12 14:10:42 The one updated for BA.1 does better against BA.4/5 than the non-updated one. Which is exactly what we would expect, but there’s data as well.Why not let willing people have this one as a booster *if* there’s already manufactured doses of it? https://t.co/3nVJ0IwHvO

2022-07-12 14:06:34 Why not release the BA.1 bivalent vaccines that Moderna seems to have already made *now*, in addition to what @AshishKJha46 says below about high-quality masks and testing? Am I misunderstanding that they already manufactured some? The data looks great. Why let it go unused? https://t.co/SuMAl7aZqs

2022-07-12 13:57:30 RT @AndrewBuncombe: Relatives urge Biden to raise cases of political prisoners when he travels to Middle East @Independent @sana2 @alaa @PO…

2022-07-12 13:42:07 @NKinNewEng That one is but a recent example but see above. The conceptual framework above is clearly not about a single thing. A single piece that went viral wouldn’t warrant all that. It’s much more than a few anon accounts.

2022-07-12 13:34:48 @jeremychrysler @AudacityOfHoops @BillHanage @michaelmina_lab Upgrading our infrastructure and modifying habits would be a good outcome. Alas…

2022-07-12 13:32:04 @NKinNewEng It’s not about a single piece. And these are my conclusions from trying to systematically study how dissent and collect the action works in the digital era. Take it as such. (Of course, I respect objections and especially examples to the contrary if you’d like to provide some).

2022-07-12 03:21:23 @wanderer_jasnah

2022-07-11 16:58:18 @kearnsneuro @michaelmina_lab @jeremychrysler @BillHanage Essentially a very frustrating career. I've so much respect for the few who tried anyway. Same story with chronic post-viral stuff. A promising PhD choosing this path is going to hit a lot of roadblocks, and not as many Nature/Science/Cell pubs. Much respect to those who tried.

2022-07-11 16:55:52 @kearnsneuro @michaelmina_lab @jeremychrysler @BillHanage It somewhat resembles stories scientists studying airborne transmission of viruses. Desk rejections of good studies—allegedly we already know the answer. Those studies are small but can’t get funded for bigger—asked where’s prior pubs? Well, desk-rejected without consideration.

2022-07-11 16:49:16 @ValeBodi @kearnsneuro @michaelmina_lab @jeremychrysler @BillHanage @nathavindra @NIH @IRPatNIH @MEActNet Indeed.

2022-07-11 16:28:52 @ValeBodi @kearnsneuro @michaelmina_lab @jeremychrysler @BillHanage @nathavindra @NIH @IRPatNIH @MEActNet Yes, I've been talking to scientists in that team (and others) who are clearly brilliant and dedicated, and yet... So much work is necessary, so few people and little resources. I'm sorry things have been so frustratingly slow.

2022-07-11 16:24:41 @LongCovidKris I’m so sorry.

2022-07-11 16:23:25 @gregggonsalves

2022-07-11 16:15:15 "This time, we have a chance to get things right and do right for ourselves and others. I hope we rise to the challenge. There is no time to lose." Read @gregggonsalves on Monkeypox and responding now and responding globally. https://t.co/y9o2WrkvYf

2022-07-11 16:07:09 Why much of Twitter and even media feels like policy-based-evidence driving it?This combination:1-Still lacking good estimates of key indicators

2022-07-11 16:02:19 @KT_So_It_Goes If you see the thread, the R0 of Omicron is likely less than Delta, but yes that particular measure not that relevant in the current moment because there's population immunity *and* it is spreading mostly by evading antibodies, and clearly is pretty transmissible as things stand.

2022-07-11 15:44:12 @KT_So_It_Goes My day scanning scientific papers, media, Twitter:1-Wait, *still* no good estimate for this *basic, important number*?2-Wait, paper in (top outlet/CDC) claims what? If true, where's the action? If false, where's the correction?3-Wait, why are we making up numbers?

2022-07-11 15:38:54 @KT_So_It_Goes Yeah, R0 is barely relevant now. (Rt looks ~1.2 atm). We have made-up numbers going viral. We also have high-prestige preprints/pubs with extraordinary numbers with little action to suggest anyone believes them?*And* *yet* we also still lack some basic surveillance numbers.

2022-07-11 15:27:59 @dianaarcher_14 @Dr_D_Man @Ruby All Omicrons evade antibodies and cause symptomatic infections. I don’t know what you mean by it acts like Delta.

2022-07-11 14:56:45 @CureCFS It's frustrating that long-term patients like you don't have these basic answers, but hoping the attention to Long Covid can (maybe) get us to look at the causal pathway for this as well—maybe apple-watch type data or even a true RCT (pay! people! to! rest!) might provide clues.

2022-07-11 14:54:42 @CureCFS I don't know, and haven't seen data that alllows figuring out if potential signs of PEM in (not yet Long Covid) people is a predictor, symptom or trigger. Still, the sensible thing seems to learn to recognize it if it does happen, and see if pacing helps lower odds of chronicity.

2022-07-11 14:51:51 @Dr_D_Man @Ruby That number isn't true. Yes, Guardian published it, and some credentialed people used but it's not anywhere near true. First version killed many with less spread because we had no vaccines. Omicron spreads more, can be a threat without making up numbers. https://t.co/N5nKFmeiOu

2022-07-11 14:42:28 @kearnsneuro @michaelmina_lab @jeremychrysler @BillHanage Yeah, and the data is there but in bits and pieces... I'm talking to a lot nowadays to scientists for whom this was clear even before COVID now and they have many tales of "can't get funded" and "nobody seems to care." Delayed effects are always a harder sell.

2022-07-11 12:21:18 @DKThomp Answer obvious, no?

2022-07-11 05:21:19 Also the current r(effective) looks to be around ~1.2 according to various estimates? That means it’s spreading! Not good. But hard to square real life epi data with R0 of Omicron even in double digits, let alone claims of 18. Read more for why not. https://t.co/JC2OHH1lxD

2022-07-11 04:52:56 @MJaiclin Concussions are terrible!

2022-07-11 04:52:20 @MarkDSimmons Current R(effective) is about 1.2-1.5. It’s likely not that low an R0 either. We’re not 100% immunonaive or back to 2020 either.

2022-07-09 17:11:36 RT @AmnestyBrighton: Our @AmnestyBrighton action to help #FreeAlaa today.One ribbon for each day of his hunger strike in prison in #Egypt…

2022-07-09 15:30:25 @Justin_Ling Yep.

2022-07-09 15:15:32 @BellaRudd1 No, no, yours is awesome. Thank you!

2022-07-09 14:57:36 Also had enough of "screenshot/tweet from from many months ago says something about then" gotcha games.Accountability is good, but shitposting games aren't accountability.So I'm blocking people with so much time to waste so they do that here all day to *anyone*. Suggest same.

2022-07-09 14:49:52 Finally, in an effort to stop contributing to things I believe are unhelpful, I'm now liberally blocking snarky quote-tweets. (Say something critical but substantive, okay... Snark that misrepresents: block. Twitter should kill the quote-*single*-tweet but muh engagement).

2022-07-09 14:47:01 3-For the many experts on or not on social media? Longform coheherent analyses of *basic* stuff that floats around on social media would be great. Threads get lost via quote-tweeting, screenshot dunking etc.It's not Nature/Science/Cell, but it's crucial public service.

2022-07-09 14:41:52 2-There's too little reporting on the workplace issues. There's a lot of arguing/fighting about things that coalesce around lifestyle issues, but not that much about the lives and conditions of people who go to work with little protections. I wish there was more just documenting.

2022-07-09 14:39:49 1-A blog interviewing a Long Covid patient per day would be useful.There's confusion on definition, prevalence, etc. That's hard.But the truth of those suffering is concrete and should be in no doubt. We should lift their voices in longform, and in a steady, organized manner.

2022-07-09 14:36:39 Here you might say, "what action"? We're all tweeting here. Yep, that's true. Do I have any concrete suggestions? A few, writing long form.But I do have a few concrete suggestions for those similarly frustrated in next few tweets, my two cents on what anyone can do.

2022-07-09 14:34:34 So this is my answer to why there should be attention to misinformation that may call for mitigations/actions one agrees with—not because it's the same as authorities not being forthright or active but *exactly* because that disporportionately hurts trying to coalesce for action.

2022-07-09 14:33:09 Also a NYT interview I did last month, on how the pandemic has become a tragic "choose-your-own-adventure", as everything seems so muddled and confusing to so many.Those in power are responsible. No doubt.The question here is how best to make progress.https://t.co/85rNRHYvIk https://t.co/tAl6L1TVW5

2022-07-09 14:29:03 So to sum up, when public health authorities say something I believe to be incorrect, not recommending N95s as higher protection, dissing on rapid tests, etc., of course I try to write an article about it.A recent NYT piece of mine, from the Omicron era.https://t.co/lYbXrEKVT8 https://t.co/AyiMOroDQ4

2022-07-09 14:25:19 So of course I don't spend most of my time trying to correct this or that article (even if it is full of outright nonsense) that is calling for mitigations that I may agree with—but I do believe the confusing information environment contributes to inaction, which I do care about.

2022-07-09 14:23:23 In combination, I believe this has created an additional layer to "are you telling me this to get me to something"—because people feel like that's what happened from authorities.I think that makes pandemic "dissident" credibility *extra potent*—if it can be maintained, though.

2022-07-09 14:21:33 Plus, long, sordid history of authorities and corporations sowing fear to sell products or crackdowns.(Exaggerations or lies about looting to crack down on people altruistically trying to organize mutual aid, many examples including Hurricane Katrina. Drug marketing, etc.).

2022-07-09 14:18:38 A few pandemic specific points.People are very justifiably miffed that public health authorities may have been tweaking info to guide behavior. ("Masks don't work", because we don't have them, "rapid tests not necessary to end isolation", well also because we don't have them.)

2022-07-09 14:14:54 I hope it's clear this is not "Oh, no someone is wrong on the internet" eggheadedness (can happen) or academic nitpicking (ditto).Gatekeepers can no longer smother information, but *someone* has to vet information. Without knowing what to believe, collective action is harder.

2022-07-09 14:12:08 So pandemic. I spend most of my time criticizing lack of action and trying to establish credibility for actions. Masks, airborne protections, antivirals, etc.So why care about misinformation *in favor* of those? Because it feeds into the same confusion that benefits inaction.

2022-07-09 14:07:38 In the past, correct information was smothered. Thus, dissidents tried to get the information out.Now, information is out there but action is lagging partly people can't figure out what's credible—that's why it's asymmetrically important for dissidents to preserve credibility.

2022-07-09 14:04:51 It's such an effective tactic Russian authorities do it on purpose: spread confusing misinformation in the dissident sphere with the goal of *paralyzing* the population via hitting the *credibility* of dissidents. It works, unfortunately.It can also just happen organically.

2022-07-09 04:01:55 @bijans Not the useful kind of doctor, but how do you not go to the ER immediately with that 180/120 BP? Isn't that the hypertensive crisis cutoff? 911 territory? Best of luck.

2022-07-08 22:29:30 RT @ftrain: The Met has an exhibition of painted reconstructions of ancient statues and it's absolutely bananacakes. I love it very much an…

2022-07-08 21:57:05 @bXLpedestrian Not sure the issue with your UK data? If had lower viral load, yeah that's what you'd expect? Same as unvaccinated? UK doesn't vaccinate the young as well?

2022-07-08 21:54:31 @bXLpedestrian EHRs (billing codes) and VA have a lot more issues than selection bias, and the VA studies haven't been that great in terms of presenting what they are actually doing in my view. But can deep dive into their supplements to figure some of the bad presentation part—can't fix rest.

2022-07-08 21:34:08 @MikeIsaac Extra bonus points for "it's five o'clock on the Acela Corridor" release timing.

2022-07-08 21:25:20 @dave_crispin What on earth have you read and where?

2022-07-08 21:23:34 @sciencefirstok @mr_raiderMD I think the lack of immunocompromised people is probably the biggest caveat—that population is vulnerable regardless of age effects and probably not represented here much.

2022-07-08 21:22:24 @sciencefirstok @mr_raiderMD The first is the point of the study—we already have many studies with vaccinated cohorts.The demographics does lean young (as noted in thread—agree there) but it's what bulk of population in most countries are, and they've looked at their older smaller cohort (similar results).

2022-07-08 20:52:20 Another essay by immunologist @sigallab on the same topic in Nature. Both this one and the one above do an excellent job of covering the conceptual ground for the multiple dynamics on this variants/severity/reinfection debate. (Non-debate, really.)https://t.co/RLvagsJMor

2022-07-08 20:47:26 Re-upping an essay that I tweet out a lot, that does a great job unpacking inherent virulence, variants and immunity. There are multiple, separate dynamics at play when discussing how a person experiences an illness from an infection. https://t.co/rzGPaDLD5a

2022-07-08 20:43:07 Adding: No, don't have data yet on BA.4/5—too soon.Note variants can have different intrinsic severity—much evidence Delta more severe than Omicron—and that this is *NOT* selected for: can go up or down.Separately, it's immunity lowering average acute severity—all else equal.

2022-07-08 20:10:22 @treylorswift People should go get vaccinated.

2022-07-08 20:09:19 @bXLpedestrian Definitions are too broad and we're trying to repurpose unsuitable data, EHR from VA are very skewed in multiple ways, and the studies I've seen are running away from explaining what they are actually doing, instead of explaining. Better data/definitions would be welcome.

2022-07-08 20:07:56 @bXLpedestrian The non-hospitalized in the VA study aren't generalizable either, though. It's EHR (with well-understood biases towards sicker patients/more detection upon interaction) *and* VA—really a double whammy for generalizable causal inference. Maybe can be treated as worst case limit?

2022-07-08 18:09:46 @marick @obiquody

2022-07-08 17:36:05 @APazyryk That’s not this paper.

2022-07-08 17:09:33 @mr_raiderMD The VA studies are useful if conditional probability/selection is taken into account: this is what happens to not just people who are older, but who are older *and* frail and get more sick so they have hospital interactions. It's not generalizable at all, but is useful for that.

2022-07-08 17:08:11 @mr_raiderMD Yeah. For VE: tragedy in Hong Kong of unvaccinated elderly. For transmissibility, small-scale longitudinal controlled work like NBA was useful. Qatar gives us the actual picture on reinfections, with mass-PCR, with caveat results for older will be in same direction but weaker.+

2022-07-08 17:05:57 @colbycosh It's Twitter so I'm not going to summarize Popper either, but I've obviously read Popper, and am quoting Lakatos here rather than Popper for a reason.

2022-07-08 17:00:39 @colbycosh I am saying both that Lakatos isn't warmed over Popper, and even the text I presented really isn't that Popperian. (Which would have been "oh, wait this is falsified let's jump ship" which nobody does, and wouldn't even be that workable as presented by Popper).

2022-07-07 03:20:36 @LongDesertTrain @BenMazer @jbakcoleman On the other hand agree, we should clearly update as soon as we can because there is room to improve, but even non-updated boosters help with infections. It doesn’t make sense for them to help that much was infections but not against severity.

2022-07-07 03:18:57 @LongDesertTrain @BenMazer @jbakcoleman US severity estimates are clearly undercounting the seropositivity though. If protection against severe disease was that low, we would’ve had bodies in the streets this winter in NYC. About half the city got infected, that’s about 4 million people. Epi data >

2022-07-07 03:16:02 @LongDesertTrain @BenMazer @jbakcoleman On the one hand yes the severe disease has big confidence intervals, as noted, because of the population structure but the infection numbers will hold. The age group is a very important one, especially for transmission. There’s also a lot of congregate living among the workers. https://t.co/AYng12QXNx

2022-07-07 02:37:44 @DGBassani @svscarpino Most variants suspected to have evolved from chronic infection, a single individual? At least Omicron, very strongly. Alpha etc., too. They do spread quite easily when people go back to more regular life but they don’t seem to evolve because of vaccine/non-vaccine population mix?

2022-07-07 00:22:46 @badger_dave_ @CorsIAQ @m_scribe Yeay

2022-07-07 00:11:09 I don't know if it will be an annual update like flu, but, fine!If it's twice a year, fine!If we need to also build infrastructure to clean the air and lessen COVID, RSV and flu! Also more than fine!Infectious diseases have stalked humanity forever. Let's use tools we have.

2022-07-07 00:07:20 New variant or antibody waning means more breakthroughs. Severity holds better. But we haven't updated even once yet! There's work on pan-, nasal- and mixed boosting, too.But, if we need frequent vaxxes and mitigating airborne transmission? Sign me up.https://t.co/201sEtrGxi

2022-07-06 23:27:47 RT @CorsIAQ: Really nice article on ways to reduce inhalation dose of virus-laden respiratory aerosol particles to lower risk of COVID-19 i…

2022-07-06 23:25:41 @avacado_pits Yes, Fall.

2022-07-06 23:24:59 I know none of this will surprise the immunologists, but there's a lot of confusion between "vaccine efficacy against symptomatic infection is lower", falsely interpreting that to mean vaccines aren't working, or that boosters won't help. Plus, booster helped even with infection!

2022-07-06 23:22:42 Note that severity was low (population with good vaccine coverage, some prior infections) so the confidence intervals are large for severe/fatal, but even there, the direction of effect of boosters is clear.But just less infection is great! Boosters help with that.

2022-07-06 23:20:05 Especially note a booster dose produced *additional* benefit even in people previously infected.I encounter people who believe they don't need a booster if they had an infection.This study adds to the evidence that, even then, a booster is beneficial.https://t.co/ylBGrmezIk https://t.co/fTNQKGzwbs

2022-07-06 23:16:19 NEJM study from Qatar that does mass-PCR testing—less bias.Three doses of vaccines conferred strong protection even against infection. Plus: "Previous infection, vaccination, and hybrid immunity all showed strong effectiveness (>

2022-07-06 23:03:34 @TinctureOfMuse @MuseumofLondon I think you meant @ZeyArkeoloji? I’m glad it was great, whatever it was.

2022-07-06 19:40:16 @Laurie_Garrett @trishgreenhalgh It’s a bit similar to the way people would falsely claim that the fact that the virus was very small meant masks wouldn’t work. (Viruses don’t travel alone so their size isn’t what determines filtration—and there’s other biophysical processes involved). Thanks!

2022-07-06 19:38:32 @Laurie_Garrett @trishgreenhalgh I think it’s important to be correct about this because I keep hearing people saying they’re not useful—confusing efficacy against symptomatic infection with everything else the vaccines help with—and no need for boosters etc. It has become a key anti-vaccination talking point.

2022-07-06 19:36:50 @Laurie_Garrett @trishgreenhalgh I agree the situation in China could get dire but it’s not true that the Chinese vaccines are “near-zero activity”. They aren’t good at preventing breakthroughs caused by antibody evasion, but still do a substantial job for preventing severity, as per high-quality HK research. https://t.co/GZzeWy765B

2022-07-06 19:30:13 RT @paulmasonnews: Egypt's Foreign Minister will meet @trussliz this week. There can be only one outcome: British citizen and political pri…

2022-07-06 19:29:59 RT @MarshadeCordova: I wrote to the Egyptian Foreign Minister, who visted London this week, to urge him to release British citizen Alaa Abd…

2022-07-06 17:19:01 @AaronRichterman @notdred @GYamey @wsbgnl But let's add the other version: the nonsstop "don't panic" lecturing. I've tried to push hard against that too, has been a consistent part of my writings about this. Absolutely not one-sided issue for many (in my corner of the world) concerned about #2. https://t.co/u5EC3sA8pP

2022-07-05 23:48:49 @dianaberrent That team at NIH is a national treasure. Fund them. Do some research on how to clone them.

2022-07-05 23:32:08 RT @Debunk_the_Funk: Yep. @GVDBossche is still wrong. Vaccines have drastically reduced COVID hospitalizations and deaths despite the highe…

2022-07-05 23:27:02 RT @awgaffney: So what will happen when up to 15 million people lose Medicaid coverage? What will happen to the 30 million uninsured? The…

2022-07-05 20:54:45 RT @dodgerman: Two of the victims of the Highland Park shooting: Kevin and Irina McCarthy. Their little Aiden has lost both parents. The tw…

2022-07-05 20:41:42 RT @xu_xiuzhong: A pdf of today's article in the @Australian TLDR: Last year, after writing articles on China for @aspi_icpc @nytimes and…

2022-07-05 20:27:47 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Asked on @CNN today to describe @alaa Cambridge Professor @khaledfahmy11 said:“I think he’s one of the most original th…

2022-07-05 20:14:17 @michael_mcleary https://t.co/kDmV9Dn2M4

2022-07-05 20:13:08 RT @GYamey: “Early vaccination is great”

2022-07-05 19:58:45 @ArisKatzourakis @kallmemeg It will again be Ukrai—, oh wait you said don’t?

2022-07-05 19:41:55 @SonnyCrockett04 @michael_mcleary This isn’t true. Of course antibodies matter. Severity is low in this age, but not zero. Making it lower makes sense. Viral infections can have long term effects. Also every pediatrician and every immunologist I know—and I know many—have rushed to vaccinate their under 5 children

2022-07-05 19:28:48 @RobertS83007261 I was talking with an MD friend. He keeps to vaccination schedule even if the baby/toddler has, say, acute pneumonia etc. He knows some haunting examples of a kid getting infected in that one month “let’s wait” period with something horrific. Rare maybe but real to that family.

2022-07-05 19:22:32 RT @JenniferNuzzo: It would be helpful to understand what is limiting this. I'd be surprised if it were testing capacity at lab. Transport…

2022-07-05 19:22:22 @JenniferNuzzo It’s maddening.

2022-07-05 19:18:39 Let me add this here. Makes sense to vaccinate children as early as possible, even if it’s possible to shield them for now. If they can’t be shielded? Also an argument for vaccinating them as soon as possible.There is a reason we do so many childhood vaccinations so early. https://t.co/5Ou0zU5tn5

2022-07-05 19:13:30 @michael_mcleary @SonnyCrockett04 So I think one should vaccinate children at first opportunity even if it’s possible to shield them, in case they later get exposed, and also if it’s not possible to shield them now because of high circulation or life circumstances. Same outcome.

2022-07-05 19:11:47 @michael_mcleary @SonnyCrockett04 I don’t know what percent, but given how much exposure there is, it’s a strong reason to vaccinate the children. If we get our act together and reduce exposure now, it’s a strong reason to vaccinate the children so they don’t get an unvaccinated infection later if it comes back.

2022-07-05 19:10:15 @MarkELindsay (The worst part is I can think of a dozen things to truly worry about, and many reasons to recommend avoiding infections *and* pushing for much more mitigations, without making claims that make no sense in light of clear, large-scale empirical evidence across the whole planet.)

2022-07-05 19:05:58 @MarkELindsay What would *real life* *large scale* data that does exist look like if this claim were true? Underrated super powerful one trick pony for causal inference across fields. https://t.co/R72SBzPmck

2022-07-05 19:02:03 @MarkELindsay “Not much airborne transmission” “If so, actual epi data wouldn’t look like this”“Vaccines no longer protect much against severity”“If so, actual epi data wouldn’t look like this”“Past infection dampens future immunity”“If so, actual epi data wouldn’t look like this”

2022-07-05 18:49:19 @streever Personally I think of it as the first shot being the most useful, if it comes before an infection. A delay risks an unvaccinated infection. There is a wave now.

2022-07-05 18:30:11 @streever I can’t tell you what to do but if it were me, I would get the first available vaccine. Timing matters, too.

2022-07-05 17:53:58 @AltMiddlePeds @michaelmina_lab There was intense pushback against our mild piece for quick adaptive trials for dose-sparing. People with credentials went on a scorched earth campaign against it—and me. We didn’t try, and people who could’ve been saved got sick or died—post-pandemic paper to calculate numbers.

2022-07-05 16:22:02 @michaelmina_lab And there was a scorched earth campaign against the idea and that oped by a lot of people. Poisoned the well. So, the US didn’t do it. Canada and many other countries did dose-sparing, and demonstrably saved many lives.

2022-07-05 16:14:44 @dylanhmorris It’s now policy-based evidence across the spectrum. Public health authorities do it. Factions with policy preferences do it.Maybe some justify it with a distorted,“scientific choices are political”? True but not for, say, “germ theory is fake and illness is punishment for sin.”

2022-07-05 14:25:51 @notdred https://t.co/pRs1xP1uBH

2022-07-05 12:32:25 An excellent thread from a UNC epidemiologist on why she vaccinated her toddler.I’d also add that risks (for many viral infections) go up with age. If a kid is unvaccinated and avoids it, but then gets infected later in life, risks are much higher.Early vaccination is great! https://t.co/IZwqCojzWB

2022-07-05 12:17:03 RT @rachel_cheung1: 3 people I spoke to confirmed the police reports leaked this week, as a sample of a massive Chinese police database bei…

2022-07-05 05:24:10 RT @ScottGottliebMD: Elegant scientific work providing more support for view that chronic SARS-CoV-2 infection of immunocompromised individ…

2022-07-05 01:17:31 Indeed.Seeking infamy is a well-documented path to how some unhinged individual picks up a gun to murder. Social media amplification plays an increasing role.I wrote a lot about this over the years. Below is another.Don’t amplify them on their terms.https://t.co/O5Gy81JudA https://t.co/D6So5Jkyax

2022-07-05 00:33:33 @MyLifeAsABook @RonFilipkowski

2022-07-04 23:10:56 @ABuermeyer @alt37486 @WryWryWry3 @jbakcoleman @lisa_iannattone @JodyShenn @wsbgnl @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @kallmemeg Thank you for the kind words!

2022-07-04 21:29:42 @AndresFreundPol @AndrewJacobsNYT @kprather88? @linseymarr?

2022-07-04 21:25:33 Also a great article on N95 alternatives that are reusable and, as the article notes, many medical personnel find more comfortable, by @AndrewJacobsNYT https://t.co/Lq3VxZpREW https://t.co/fH1OjtSfzQ

2022-07-04 21:22:13 A *really* solid piece on the whys and the whens of the vaccine update, by @benjmueller. The summary: an update is necessary, we need a clear process to do it faster, and earlier availability is better than strain chasing though faster would help *both*. https://t.co/I2nXEklhzH

2022-07-04 21:05:43 RT @DavidLammy: Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen and brave voice for democracy, is in prison in Egypt for sharing a Facebook post.He…

2022-07-04 19:00:27 @alt37486 @jbakcoleman @WryWryWry3 @lisa_iannattone @JodyShenn @wsbgnl @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi @kallmemeg I just want to keep ignoring the liars, and will occasionally reply to people they conned! That’s all. I have work to do that’s hopefully of actual help! Thanks, though.

2022-07-04 18:58:53 @alt37486 @jbakcoleman @WryWryWry3 @lisa_iannattone @JodyShenn @wsbgnl @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi @kallmemeg Nah, I’m good. Lisa’s crew is just lying shitposters, not people lashing out in grief. My inbox is full of people telling me they masked up early, used N95s &

2022-07-04 18:44:54 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Egypt’s Foreign Minister is in London, Alaa’s life hangs in the balance. Join @alaa’s sisters at @FCDOGovUK Mon 4th Jul…

2022-07-04 18:41:31 @alt37486 @jbakcoleman @WryWryWry3 @lisa_iannattone @JodyShenn @wsbgnl @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi @kallmemeg I am again asking you to read anything I have written, for more than two years, in very high profile outlets, without a PHD in most relevant fields which made it harder for me. Constant scathing criticisms of those institutions. I really can’t keep answering lies about me. Ok?

2022-07-04 18:24:19 @alt37486 @WryWryWry3 @jbakcoleman @lisa_iannattone @JodyShenn @wsbgnl @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi @kallmemeg My point on credentials was always: fine, then stop obsessively tweeting lies about *me*, and go engage the many *immunologists* on Twitter to try to convince them about your theories and COVID papers that they are not citing or backing up.The rest isn't my problem. I'm *done.*

2022-07-04 18:22:01 @alt37486 @WryWryWry3 @jbakcoleman @lisa_iannattone @JodyShenn @wsbgnl @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi @kallmemeg True, I'm short on credentials.See Lisa's crew mocking me for saying *in a reply few would see* I took career risks without credentials, to say whining about rudeness when no immunologist will substantively cite him was, meh.Next, NYT on what happened then.What did they do? https://t.co/BVsJGpE5es

2022-07-04 17:09:19 @tia_loret @wsbgnl @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi Last month. Harlem north. Please do note I’m not dismissing the reality of the ongoing issues at all or what the future will bring. I think we should also check on nursing homes (I try). Official statistics are usually delayed, we need proactive monitoring too of early signs.

2022-07-04 16:27:14 @kallmemeg @JHowardBrainMD @LabMuffin Thank you. Indeed I’d say wording could be a little better, but I think we should just ask people before assuming. It’s hard to constantly defensively tweet and think about how things might sound out of context. We all have a tweet that’s easy to misread!

2022-07-04 14:52:41 @kallmemeg @LabMuffin @JHowardBrainMD I am very pro child vaccination and never encountered of her as against that—no need to go about it like this even in disagreements.

2022-07-04 14:51:30 @kallmemeg @LabMuffin @JHowardBrainMD I agree this is not only unhelpful, constant bad faith reading isn’t good for clear thinking. @JHowardBrainMD, remember the Jay/Deepta confusion that had you condemning basic, true immunology because you mixed up the source? You can reply to her, if you think wording wasn’t good.

2022-07-04 14:31:58 @micah_arsham @teavangelize @wsbgnl @kallmemeg @wanderer_jasnah @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi So that's a Twitter type response to the question, and I think much of this is better longform (and I'm working on all of that as fast as I can, honestly).

2022-07-04 14:31:08 @micah_arsham @teavangelize @wsbgnl @kallmemeg @wanderer_jasnah @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi OTOH, nonsensical scientific claims on Twitter *and* sometimes bad science coming from CDC and/or high-prestige outlets *that does deserve criticism* because it obviously doesn't match reality are an obstacle because people have lives and experiences. They can see. They tune out.

2022-07-04 14:28:24 @micah_arsham @teavangelize @wsbgnl @kallmemeg @wanderer_jasnah @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi So if I had a wish-list of what would help? People here *could* report. Start a blog, interview a Long Covid patient per day. Document how they are not getting insurance rejections. Workplace interviews on lack of protections. Campaign for paid sick leave... Stuff like that.

2022-07-04 14:26:07 @micah_arsham @teavangelize @wsbgnl @kallmemeg @wanderer_jasnah @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi I'm working on long form versions of some of these. They take so much time to write partly because when I want to write about some of these, I find *so little* deep reporting on the topic. So the "column" turns into me doing primary research/outreach. Lots of effort.

2022-07-04 14:24:23 @micah_arsham @teavangelize @wsbgnl @kallmemeg @wanderer_jasnah @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi From there, you might get a means to formulate and push for asks.All Twitter talks about is masks, it seems. I've written so much about that! But I don't talk about masks as much now since seems *everyone else* talks about nothing but—there's more to talk about that's neglected.

2022-07-04 14:21:39 @micah_arsham @teavangelize @wsbgnl @kallmemeg @wanderer_jasnah @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi So I would want: a proper documentation of ongoing risks/harms and their distribution *and* a way to match the concerned people with top-notch immunologists/epis in the field who are far, far from minimizers but won't make nonsensical claims that sometimes get popular on Twitter.

2022-07-04 14:19:46 @micah_arsham @teavangelize @wsbgnl @kallmemeg @wanderer_jasnah @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi For ex, case severity rates have clearly gone way down, the way actual immunologists always said they would with population immunity (from vax and infection) but the ones I talk with a lot *never* said that would mean everything was fine—both points get misinterpreted a lot.

2022-07-04 14:18:02 @micah_arsham @teavangelize @wsbgnl @kallmemeg @wanderer_jasnah @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi Meanwhile, and I'll say this to consternation, there's a lot of really "out there" scientific claims about COVID on Twitter. Some are just incorrect/weak papers, some are papers interpreted with spin on purpose or by people without the background, and some just seem made up.

2022-07-04 14:15:37 @micah_arsham @teavangelize @wsbgnl @kallmemeg @wanderer_jasnah @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi Also, COVID risks are very unequally distributed. "Let's order take out to help out!". Meanwhile, line cooks were among the most likely to die of COVID.Workplace protections, infrastructure investment, insurance/care issues for people with Long COVID, etc. all neglected.

2022-07-04 14:13:52 @micah_arsham @teavangelize @wsbgnl @kallmemeg @wanderer_jasnah @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi On the other hand, there is a tradition of (baseless) alarmism or inciting exaggerated fears (you see this in commercial ads a lot) of trying to scare people to adjust their behavior. Public health does this, too, at times. They message for behavior, rather than inform/empower.

2022-07-04 14:12:37 @micah_arsham @teavangelize @wsbgnl @kallmemeg @wanderer_jasnah @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi I think we've seen this the whole pandemic, and they still do it. "Don't panic about Monkeypox." Fine, tell us what you're doing? We don't even have proper surveillance or testing, and we're already getting lectured about our emotions? Yeah, standard response, unfortunately.

2022-07-04 14:11:28 @micah_arsham @teavangelize @wsbgnl @kallmemeg @wanderer_jasnah @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi Soo yeah "don't panic" and "don't be alarmed" are standard repertoires from the elites/authorities to diasters and very often, they make things *worse* because they baselessly fear looting when there is none, when in fact people are altruistically helping each other out. +

2022-07-04 14:06:40 @lisa_iannattone @JodyShenn @wsbgnl @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi @kallmemeg Now, I'll go back to ignoring?A two-sided feud of same scale would be me posting about him every day.A two-sided feud with his tactis would be me posting the below everyday to claim he was for mass infection and HCQ.Really, *we* want to ignore the shitposters. We have work. https://t.co/PRYmO5TrIq

2022-07-04 13:57:20 @lisa_iannattone @JodyShenn @wsbgnl @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi @kallmemeg Even the worst interpretation doesn't justify harassing women for months in hopes of making them address an otherwise minor reply that annoyed you. No, no. Someone concerned about his scientific reputation can, instead, engage immunologists. Get cited! Then boast about it.

2022-07-04 13:53:54 @lisa_iannattone @JodyShenn @wsbgnl @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi @kallmemeg I agree/disagree in replies with many people with whom I disagree with on many things.I am not going to re-litigate what I said (he posts it every week, it's actually pretty clear) for a simple reason: this is not a "feud" but a one-sided multi-month harrassment/lie campaign.

2022-07-04 13:47:45 @lisa_iannattone @JodyShenn @wsbgnl @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi @kallmemeg So I'd like to go back to ignoring this. I may chat in replies to the few similarly targeted (though I'm the fave! Nonstop! Who knew, I run immunology and block immunologists from citing his COVID papers!).Seriously, *we* *want* *to* *ignore*. Feel free to hang with that crew.

2022-07-03 17:26:42 @APazyryk @jbakcoleman @JodyShenn @wsbgnl @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi Not only do I agree that Long Covid is badly neglected, I think the weak studies based on a too-vague definition that undermine people's belief in its reality *combined* with lack of effort to properly measure and address the sizable population affected has been a double whammy.

2022-07-03 17:14:28 @klausenhauser @jbakcoleman @rjmendoza444 @wsbgnl (Actually, my social movement/social media interaction studying side of mine is very interested in the dynamic—but probably a fascinating eventual case study for another sociologist/journalist—not me as I have other work now, and kind of studied many examples like this already).

2022-07-03 17:09:31 @klausenhauser @jbakcoleman @rjmendoza444 @wsbgnl Whatever it is, it's clearly not about wanting better/stronger mitigations for the pandemic. It's just immature shitposting, hence ignoring is fine except for the damage it does to people I probably agree with in some aspects. Made a bit of the case here. https://t.co/sNA6HeqIew https://t.co/5fTudDZMKh

2022-07-03 17:04:37 @GYamey @jacksonkaganNO @notdred Yes, that's how to assess sincerity over ego issues. Pro-vaccines, and fair to even the ones you don't have an ego stake in? That's sincere. Want less restrictions, sooner? One should then be very pro-vaccine, also pro infrastructure on airborne mitigation. That would be sincere.

2022-07-03 16:57:27 @GYamey @klausenhauser @jbakcoleman @wsbgnl I honestly don't think those people care about the pandemic now. Not just insane lies, but a lot of tagging of employers.It's like a bunch of middle schoolers who chew paper and spit out of pens, and then whine to the teacher someone else isn't playing. https://t.co/sNA6HeqIew https://t.co/dv7hN7RRyb

2022-07-03 16:50:50 @jacksonkaganNO @GYamey @notdred GBD fighting the wrong war with an incorrect analysis of reality while advocating unworkable policies ("shield the vulnerable" how?) and then turning into "why vaccinate at all" people—which, if they were sincere, is compatible with their stated beliefs—is devastating to watch.

2022-07-03 16:48:47 @jacksonkaganNO @GYamey @notdred An influenza playbook—which was our pre-2000 pandemic plan—was not *at all* appropriate to a SARS(2) pandemic, and the countries that did much better via different paths—Japan, South Korea, Taiwan—all had an updated SARS/MERS pandemic playbook. So yeah good point.

2022-07-03 16:47:05 @JodyShenn @wsbgnl @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi I would be fine with "less than ideal" to "wait, actually contributing to further losing the war".As I said, nobody has to take my assessment of this. However, studying social media dynamics undermine movements is something I've done for 10+ years. And that's how I see it.

2022-07-03 16:36:28 @bijans @LoboGerda

2022-07-03 16:34:49 @rjmendoza444 @klausenhauser @jbakcoleman @wsbgnl I don't think there's a coherent theory of change or how the world works—or any real care about the pandemic tbh—because truly *caring* would force that kind of thinking in those circles beyond "I'm having fun shitposting with my new friends" hahalolwhatever.Ok, whatever then.

2022-07-03 16:32:21 @rjmendoza444 @klausenhauser @jbakcoleman @wsbgnl The last time I experienced this much tagging of employers by the very people who consider those employers to be evil beyond any reformation was Wikileaks/Julian trying to get me fired. Say what? All is hopelessly, unreformably corrupt *and* you're gonna call the teacher on me?

2022-07-03 16:30:13 @rjmendoza444 @klausenhauser @jbakcoleman @wsbgnl The fascinating bit is constant tagging of employers—mine, Joe's etc. So, in their telling I'm simultaneously a suck-up to authorities (lolwhat) *and* coddled by those authorities (which they consider genocidal) *and* they're gonna.. what, fire us because of screenshot lies?

2022-07-03 16:27:30 @rjmendoza444 @klausenhauser @jbakcoleman @wsbgnl Yes—and also lot of obsessives and outright liars in that corner, and I don't understand how other people—some of whom I probably agree on many things—don't understand what they've backed themselves into, via association and also losing any sense of advancing (their own) goals.

2022-07-03 16:23:20 @wsbgnl @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi Not holding you responsible for what anyone else does

2022-07-03 16:20:30 @wsbgnl @jbakcoleman @jfeldman_epi @GYamey @statsepi Not discussing persuading Joe—whatever you think he needs persuading. The quote-tweet dunk method—especially, as in this case, imo, the substantive point was misplaced—doesn't lead to "public conversations" that move things in any useful direction, but in fact does the opposite.

2022-07-03 15:49:31 RT @Beltrew: We don’t know if Alaa is alive or not as the Egyptians are refusing to give his family any letters. If @trussliz does nothing…

2022-07-03 15:30:12 @tomgara "This." "Do better."Felt like that moment in horror movie—teen girl about to go down the basement steps. Or someone not used to being challenged agreeing to a @IChotiner interview.Did anyone *think* before inviting that good a reporter to their "public intellectual" dinner?

2022-07-03 15:04:05 @tomgara It was almost too cruel, imo, but really interesting as an expose. I really hadn't gotten that impression from the Twitter pile-on. (The other topic: what should universities do/campus climate etc. didn't seem touched upon much, and that's what I think people are reading it as).

2022-07-03 14:46:41 @tomgara I actually read it as a devastating deadpan. I read it because there was so much criticism of it and I was ready to feel the same way but when I read it, I came away thinking that was so harsh and illuminating—in the other direction of the criticisms I saw.

2022-07-03 14:36:15 @startstop_reset @PuddleJumper358 @GYamey @notdred That got published in The Lancet—that's a proof that discussion *is happening*. I do disagree with the main thrust of that piece, but I agree those are points worth addressing. I think Lancet should also publish piece with the counter evidence/argument. https://t.co/UZKfZCh3mo

2022-07-01 23:02:40 @MichaelDaignau3 @StephFarrel My preference would be whatever is available soonest and most widely—and a global coordinated update system. Immunologists I talk with aren’t arguing strongly that either gets us more broadening, and who knows what’s the next one? Any update will get breadth and depth, no?

2022-07-01 20:56:50 RT @dansaltzstein: Subway musicians are one of the magical elements of NYC

2022-07-01 20:55:25 @Don_Milton @dylanhmorris @equibotanica

2022-07-01 20:47:31 @DarthPetus For a journalist or a social scientist to later write about the Twitter personalities story. Not my focus.If the science side of the topic interests you Moshe Arditi and Petter Brodin have been publishing research/testable hypotheses on superantigens, with more coming out soon.

2022-07-01 20:44:29 @yoncabulutmd @BrodinPetter Yes, been learning a lot about this lately, because of the topic or my article, and it sounds dismal. But it's such essential work—EHR, genomics, big data, observational studies etc. cannot fill the void left behind. Did you see this article? https://t.co/gOF7LVAZRM

2022-07-01 20:35:47 @DeryaTR_

2022-07-01 20:28:37 @dcurtisj Something like that

2022-07-01 19:48:23 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Thankyou @MariaArenaEU MEP for your support of @alaa 91 days into hungerstrike &

2022-07-01 19:39:13 @Solarpowermoon @gradamthoughts @MarkLevineNYC Not that I know of, and haven’t seen any indication.

2022-07-01 19:38:37 @BrodinPetter I’ve been talking to many clinical research scientists for an article lately and the situation is dire—from their telling. Little to no pipeline after them. Too long, too expensive and too many obstacles with few rewards compared to many alternatives people of their caliber have.

2022-07-01 19:16:17 RT @random_walker: There’s a reproducibility crisis brewing in almost every scientific field that has adopted machine learning. On July 28,…

2022-07-01 19:15:25 @DarthPetus Maybe a journalist or social scientist can chase it down and write about the interesting social phenomenon. I’m ignoring until immunologists cite or affirm the claims in these papers, or there’s any epi signal. So far, neither. (Hamdy is a thriller fiction writer, nice person).

2022-07-01 19:05:03 RT @nytimes: New York City is creating the first mobile testing units in the U.S. that will allow people who test positive for the coronavi…

2022-07-01 17:59:05 @gradamthoughts @MarkLevineNYC I can’t tell you what to do, medically. But if it were me, and I was in the category for which the second booster was recommended, I’d personally get that now, and the updated Fall vaccine later when it came out.

2022-07-01 17:34:26 @jpanzer Sigh.

2022-07-01 17:29:20 @CasualLaw Yeah.

2022-07-01 17:28:47 @jot_au @MarkLevineNYC Can you link to tweet so I can report it for misinformation? Breakthroughs may happen isn’t the same as vaccines won’t work.

2022-07-01 17:27:32 This. Of course it will spread out of the initial network. https://t.co/lsIOoLHz2C

2022-07-01 17:26:38 RT @MarkLevineNYC: Most NYers never got around to getting their booster. Then covid fell out of the news.Now a new, more transmissible va…

2022-07-01 17:25:57 @ProfCharlesHaas @linseymarr @petervikesland @AEESP2022_WashU Congratulations to all!

2022-06-28 16:58:01 @DavidLKeating @DeryaTR_ @Em_Lickspittle @TakeThatOG @alt37486 @Itisallacademic @jbakcoleman I have a recommendation for top scientists who’ve been publishing research papers about that question, to follow on that topic. See thread. https://t.co/Of2NINdvJa

2022-06-28 15:57:51 @bijans @notdred @deeptabhattacha @jwgain01 Thanks! Multiple challenges. Need workable production/update schedules. Then they need to explain affinity maturation/antigenic shifts to the population.I think a big part of the issue is "effectiveness" has been conflated with "efficacy against symptomatic infection".

2022-06-28 15:30:34 @DeryaTR_ @ArditiMd EBV / MS bağlantısını kanıtlayan makalenin yazarlarından Michael Mina ile uzun zamandır konuşuyorum, bu göreli "standard" bir virüs (mesala HIV değil) ama bu "masum" anlamına gelmiyor diye anlatmaya çalışıyor. Ama küresel immunonaive nüfus olunca tehlike ayrı, doğal olarak.

2022-06-28 15:28:49 @DeryaTR_ @ArditiMd Tam da konuda bir kaç neurovirologist ile yakın zamanda konuştum (makale hazırlıyorum) ve izlenimim gerçekten hem önemli, hem de yeterince entegre edilmemiş büyük bir alan var. İnsanlar bu virüsü diğerlerinden çok ayrı gibi görüyorlar, ama doğrusu sanki bir çoğu potansiyel sorun.

2022-06-28 15:08:02 @DeryaTR_ @Em_Lickspittle @TakeThatOG @alt37486 @Itisallacademic @jbakcoleman

2022-06-28 15:06:35 @DeryaTR_ Bunu görmüş müydünüz? Randomized trial. Grip aşısı sonrası kalp hastalarında hem "all cause" hem de kardiyovasküler ölüm oranları en az üçte bir kadar azalıyor. Umarım önümüzdeki yıllarda post-viral sendromlar konusunda daha çok dikkatli olunacak.https://t.co/aaFMludnr7

2022-06-28 14:34:26 @random_walker That bio

2022-06-28 14:33:10 RT @rachel_cheung1: Just this afternoon, Hong Kong authorities stressed how much they value press freedom in a presser. By evening, accredi…

2022-06-28 14:31:46 @FifthCritic @Itisallacademic @jbakcoleman If that were me, and if I were to spend so much time on Twitter, I'd be more focused on tagging actual immunologists—hundreds of them are on Twitter—and debating them, trying to change the fact that none of them are citing my Covid papers, rather than obsess over a sociologist.

2022-06-28 14:28:48 @FifthCritic @Itisallacademic @jbakcoleman Tagging people on a tweet isn't writing with them!Check via Google Scholar. Sort by latest date, and you'll see that while he continues to obsessively tweet about me, his COVID papers have not been substantively cited *at all* by immunologists. Not sure why I'm the obsession.

2022-06-28 13:56:35 @deeptabhattacha @notdred @jwgain01 Well, so we do have the outlines of a process? They will not ask for votes on specific strain, just yes/no to update on the umbrella Pango/WHO lineage name? https://t.co/aHopB5SJJa

2022-06-28 04:59:46 RT @BillHanage: This is a really thoughtful thread about how rushes to judgement on the back of preprints that are incomplete, early, misle…

2022-06-28 03:50:44 @ronhekier @scotthmurray

2022-06-28 03:50:25 @dandrezner I.. Uh. Well.I’ve seen examples of people inventing being victimized by others for sympathy from their own corner but.. There’s video! The anchor played the video!

2022-06-28 03:41:38 @dandrezner Wait what happened

2022-06-28 02:52:38 @mattblaze Indeed. Same.

2022-06-28 02:47:00 @mattblaze Sorry to hear, Matt.

2022-06-28 02:13:07 @notdred @bijans @deeptabhattacha @jwgain01 Some clarity would be great.

2022-06-28 02:11:36 @bijans @notdred @deeptabhattacha @jwgain01 Yeah very mixed messages.

2022-06-28 02:02:46 @deeptabhattacha @notdred @jwgain01 And crucially, what can be manufactured in time? Earlier >

2022-06-25 02:48:40 RT @hellbox: This is not a new phenomenon. @zeynep has been covering it for quite a while. But with vigilante laws and state bans that spec…

2022-06-24 23:28:00 RT @hubertguillaud: Dans le @nytimes @zeynep enfonce le clou ! La vigilance individuelle consistant à faire attention à ses données, ne suf…

2022-06-24 21:39:56 And, in fact, Roe v. Wade was based on earlier cases where the court ruled privacy implications made banning intimate practices like contraception anathema to basic rights to dignity and autonomy.So how will they find out? Digital surveillance and tech will provide many ways. https://t.co/TBZM12PMmG

2022-06-24 20:46:52 RT @matthew_d_green: I wish there was something useful to say about technology and privacy in the wake of today’s news, but @zeynep has sai…

2022-06-24 20:15:32 RT @tdietterich: From @zeynep. "I am not a technophobe. [...] I’m often an early adopter of tech, and get enthusiastic for its many potenti…

2022-06-24 19:20:26 I think the first time I mentioned digital surveillance being used to target women seeking abortions in NYT was 2014? 2012?“Serious” people literally mocked us for raising the possibility. Privacy advocates were mocked as alarmist luddites for a long time.Well, here we are. https://t.co/llbmJgivRw

2022-06-24 19:14:45 Let me reemphasize that there’s fairly little an individual can do to effectively protect themselves from being hunted down by law-enforcement or antiabortion vigilantes using the many tools of digital surveillance.Period apps are very minor in the scheme of what’s possible. https://t.co/ZtkzPkPqCY

2022-06-24 18:30:45 RT @ElissaNadworny: Worth reading this essay from @zeynep about technology surveillance in a post-roe world. TLDR: Deleting an app (or 10…

2022-06-24 17:25:04 RT @timrequarth: Worth re-reading this @zeynep essay as we enter the post-Roe surveillance era. No, not even a burner phone will help.Thi…

2022-06-24 16:51:40 RT @alexqgb: An interesting thing about e.g. Google knowing your every move—which can be super helpful and useful—is that the system *deman…

2022-06-24 15:12:01 RT @AzFlagBestFlag: Number one reason why privacy is important, you never know when information previously innocuous will become valuable t…

2022-06-24 14:40:19 @zittrain For years, us: "This level of digital surveillance is the infrastructure of authoritarianism."Shruggers: "It's just used to deliver ads. Who cares? We're not China! It's just for ads! This is fearmongering by Luddites! What could it be used for?"So we find out the hard way.

2022-06-24 14:33:44 RT @zittrain: Worth reading today.

2022-06-24 14:27:00 RT @sarahdwire: Thomas says in his concurring opinion that SCOTUS has "a duty to 'correct the error' established" in landmark cases on the…

2022-06-24 14:15:52 RT @eob: Anti-abortion vigilantes and law enforcement will be able to find women who are pregnant and make sure they give birth.In a post…

2022-06-24 12:58:54 @random_walker Yes, exactly. For ME/CFS you see years of good, interesting findings that don't get follow through. Partly lack of funding interest, but also not incentivized the same way as something new/novel (even if not necessarily as useful as following through existing stuff would be!).

2022-06-24 12:27:17 @benadida Heh

2022-06-24 12:27:03 RT @benadida: Lol, thanks Twitter for the fun juxtaposition. I don't think that's what @zeynep had in mind but it gave me a good morning ch…

2022-06-24 12:21:53 @__philipn__ I think that paper says the opposite, but first time I've seen it. (Maybe an immunologist can look? @michaelmina_lab or @deeptabhattacha could tell us—abstract seems to say Abs low/gone after a year, so memory response kicks in but after a few days?)

2022-06-24 12:18:53 @random_walker It's actually a problem for a lot of research, too! For complex but important conditions (Long Covid/CFS-ME, for example), we need a lof of incremental, confirmatory/negating type of small research over time. But academic incentives are completely the opposite of that.

2022-06-23 19:22:05 @lisa_iannattone @DFisman @MoriartyLab @AndrewFromKW @LabradorIce That’s not what the study, or the totality of the evidence, shows. I think this has been best explained in this nuanced essay from last May, before Delta and Omicron. https://t.co/UXWhg6X0mI https://t.co/xuBE1OeIVJ

2022-06-23 19:13:19 @lisa_iannattone @DFisman @MoriartyLab @AndrewFromKW @LabradorIce They included acute period in comparison, that's why? Study shows people who had reinfections (detected by the VA—well-known problems with using EHRs) have more health issues compared to non-reinfected. What virus would this not be true for? We have better sequlae studies imo.

2022-06-23 18:40:12 @AndrewFromKW @lisa_iannattone @DFisman @MoriartyLab @LabradorIce Severity/death curves are what immunologists said would be seems true, well-recognized antigenic shift dynamics matter also true, and both compatible with viruses can have sequelae—in Long-X form or as above especially in elderly/frail—also true (as they also consistently said).

2022-06-23 18:32:34 @AndrewFromKW @lisa_iannattone @DFisman @MoriartyLab @LabradorIce Well, viral infections suck, with long-term effects largely underappreciated, imo. How about an atonishing about one-third reduction in all-cause mortality in an RCT for people with heart disease who got the flu vaccine, compared to placebo? https://t.co/aaFMludnr7

2022-06-23 18:28:17 @lisa_iannattone @DFisman @MoriartyLab @AndrewFromKW @LabradorIce Not enough of the kind of studies we need is true, but it doesn't make this study answer questions it isn't designed to, or even trying to, answer. The abstract/conclusion should be rewritten imo, tbh. Not clear enough.Confusion like this makes many people tune it all out.

2022-06-23 18:24:01 @lisa_iannattone @DFisman @MoriartyLab @AndrewFromKW @LabradorIce All for more studies. This study, however, is comparing the health status of a person not reinfected to a person reinfected (and detected) *including* during the acute phase of reinfection.That's... a very different question than cumulative effects and burden of reinfection. https://t.co/J19cSpBTwg

2022-06-23 18:05:09 RT @henryfarrell: “Dr. Atlas estimated that the coronavirus “would cause about 10,000 deaths”—a number heclaimed “would be unnoticed” in a…

2022-06-23 17:59:28 @JudahWorldChamp (I think Delta sucked, and was horrific in its toll, not at all making light of it, but there is that aspect of it that matters for interpreting the ascertainment bias in this study).

2022-06-23 17:58:15 @JudahWorldChamp VE against breakthrough infection is very low with Omicron, close to zero in some studies. It was actually fairly high (~90% depending on study) with Delta. That also meant those sick enough to get reinfected *and* detected would be a more frail population—matters to this study.

2022-06-23 17:54:21 @JudahWorldChamp (FWIW I immediately wrote a piece at that time that I didn't think we should unmask just yet, and about 10 days later wrote a piece about Delta, and soon after another the CDC finally acknowledged Delta challenge... Delta sucked. But breakthrough/rate was a different type).

2022-06-23 17:49:26 @JudahWorldChamp Omicron breakthroughs, including symptomatic breakthroughs, are absolutely common now. Delta breakthroughs were possible, but relatively rare. They are different especially in who would get picked up by the VA—reinfected and got sick enough to interact with VA.

2022-06-23 17:47:25 @JudahWorldChamp Yeah, I wrote pieces about the reality of breakthroughs in Delta era—we got data from Singapore etc., early on. But compared to Omicron, they were certainly rare (in fact, that's the big problem with Omicron, antibody evasion), and, yes, more detected in constant testing places.

2022-06-23 14:20:45 Also reinfections in the preprint are pre-Omicron: an additional conditional probability. Pre-Omicron reinfections were rare and likely to be in more frail people, hence little surprise in findings.STILL, THESE PEOPLE MATTER! Let's not forget that part. https://t.co/lsltuCETCo

2022-06-23 14:09:19 Also an ascertainment bias obviously—inevitable working with electronic health records.It's reinfected *and* detected by the VA system, which implies worse outcome—otherwise, less likely to interact with the VA.Still, that doesn't make the below moot! https://t.co/FI2uSTVieD

2022-06-23 14:03:21 Study design of that reinfection preprint below.Day one: Alice and Bob are infected.Day, say, 45: Bob is reinfected. Alice is never reinfected. Six months later, Alice is in better health than Bob. That's *all* the study measures.Not comparing first vs further infections. https://t.co/dF2kK93hM5

2022-06-23 13:58:01 @wanderer_jasnah @roby_bhatt @DFisman Yes. A Delta breakthrough doesn't imply the same consequences or selection bias as an Omicron breakthrough. The study ended April 4, 2022 and followed everyone for six months so 100% infections and re-infections seem to be pre-Omicron.

2022-06-23 13:55:30 @hbraum @uno_zed @zgrammyz They probably should consider lowering the age, tbh

2022-06-23 13:34:22 @ArkieMiasma I actually agree with you that what you say is the core problem, and have written multiple articles making this case. This isn't the good alternative to it, though. People are confused because of the conflicting claims and information they can't evaluate, and many tune out.

2022-06-23 01:59:42 RT @ddiamond: SCOOP: Biden admin is moving to expand monkeypox testing as record outbreak grows.Five lab companies — Quest, Sonic, Labcor…

2022-06-23 01:58:56 @DFisman (I think the abstract would benefit from being rewritten, tbh).

2022-06-21 19:35:56 @OmicronData @bXLpedestrian @chrischirp I personally believe there were, and still are, sufficient evidence for a lot more action, but this kind of overclaim/virality/headlines/"oh wait"/deflation/confusion cycle has led to a lot of people completely tuning out.

2022-06-21 19:33:02 @OmicronData @bXLpedestrian @chrischirp I think the temptation to frame something like this as typical may come from the (false) belief it will get us more action. What instead happens is that the "typical" people look around, and since it's kind of clear, they discount the whole thing, and we get *no* action.

2022-06-21 19:31:14 @OmicronData @bXLpedestrian @chrischirp I believe, and previous studies found, that there is a (indeed fairly small but they count!) subset of people who experience repeat infections and deteriorate. What doesn't work is to claim that this is typical based on this data, especially given other strong evidence already.

2022-06-21 19:25:09 @jeremychrysler @chrischirp @OmicronData As someone in favor of much more action, I find too rapid blasting to headlines of claims that, as initally framed, have a high chance of not standing the test-of-time or closer examination, and contradict existing strong evidence to be a major obstacle, tbh. Confusion=inaction.

2022-06-21 18:55:34 @chrischirp @OmicronData "Getting reinfected is worse than not getting reinfected, especially for those who are already older/more frail, and this seems to be a threat especially to the immunocompromised

2022-06-21 18:52:36 @chrischirp @OmicronData In my observations of this happening again and again is that what we end up with even the useful parts getting tuned out. More precise, carefully-contextualized claims are more useful exactly because they stand the test of time, rather than the initial blasts that may not.

2022-06-21 18:50:05 @chrischirp @OmicronData The part I worry about is the preprint to virality to headline speed makes it hard to distinguish what we actually learn from the various claims that... if people allowed a few days would be better contextualized. And be more credible. And thus more useful!

2022-06-21 18:48:13 @chrischirp @OmicronData This would be important enough, especially with older higher-risk VA cohort. Plus, those who get repeatedly infected and/or detected are obviously more frail than the undetected because milder/asymptomatic case. 8.3% of third infections are immunocompromised vs. 1.1% of first. https://t.co/tS9w802htq

2022-06-21 17:41:06 @kearnsneuro @halvorz @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 Well, two crossed-in-the-ether independent references to Sherlock Holmes in a single thread about causal inference, the day's work is done. https://t.co/AIvpzDxj4k

2022-06-21 17:31:25 @kearnsneuro @halvorz @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 For stuff that's as thorny, and that one can be rightly skeptical a la @halvorz due to two-way causality possibilities, trying to go from vaccine and/or treatment trials back to cause may well be more productive a la "why didn't the dog bark" method, imo. https://t.co/xTexlZ3ksF

2022-06-21 17:27:11 @kearnsneuro @halvorz @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 https://t.co/gKVJCOB8OQ Click on demography then age https://t.co/XomXX7bf4E

2022-06-21 17:22:07 @edyong209 Yeay!

2022-06-21 17:11:00 @halvorz @kearnsneuro @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 For example, take mystery kid hepitatis. Current median age is 3, but there are some over five. If over time, in the US, where over 5 vaccines were available, the 5+ hep cases overwhelmingly or completely show up among the unvaccinated? Causal signal for SARS-CoV-2 involvement.

2022-06-21 17:09:14 @halvorz @kearnsneuro @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 Or it could be the good old "necessary but not sufficient." Given my current awe of long-term fuckery the tiny little bad news wrapped in protein anti-entropy machinery can do, I'm for developing vaccines against the whole lot. Then, epi would give you a causal signal, too.

2022-06-21 17:03:02 @halvorz @kearnsneuro @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 But also, going back to causality, the null-hypothesis mindset not well-suited to two-way interaction, multi-pathyway causality, and, well, what I'm kinda thinking of as stochastic causality—trying to find a better word for it. Some of the interractions are probably irreducible.

2022-06-21 16:58:17 @halvorz @kearnsneuro @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 Natural experiments can sometimes help. But there's also the clinical deep-dive (that I don't think we do enough of) in a few people that can uncover a way to poke the question. See this review of POTS, for example including how they did "sham" LBNP. https://t.co/zCrT1miAwB

2022-06-21 16:51:29 @kearnsneuro @halvorz @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 Yeah fascinating. It resembles something that plagues historical technology research. "How do you know social media does x"—it's an ecology shift with uneven consequences, a bit like "well so many have had EBV, how can you know it causes MS?" (Thank you VA longitudunal data!)

2022-06-21 15:13:43 RT @RiddhiKaul: “We don’t owe a fair fight to viruses”

2022-06-21 14:44:45 RT @paulmozur: China is building a new modern marvel. It's not a dam or a high speed rail, it's the most sophisticated domestic surveillanc…

2022-06-21 13:59:15 @dblandford Thank you!

2022-06-21 02:48:17 @jackclarkSF Wishing you rest and recovery!

2022-06-21 02:13:03 Anyway in case people wonder. I’m most frustrated by this when it’s about stuff that I think is actually important. It’s a losing battle at this point. Headlines can’t wait but the effect is the opposite.

2022-06-21 02:05:53 @HoffProf I try to write long form about the good ones. But yeah that’s another issue.

2022-06-21 02:04:04 I stopped doing one-at-a-time analyses of the statistical issues on Twitter but wait two days and you’ll see others will. It doesn’t undo the damage though.Most of the issues are obvious, well-understood and done again and again. Selection issues. Conditional probability. Etc. https://t.co/eZLSsyOiYY

2022-06-21 01:58:37 Here’s the problem. This undermines *your* preferred policy to have one after another come out, because people then tune out all of it—not just the obviously not-going-to-stand-test-of-time-stuff, but all of it–even the important parts.It’s win a news cycle, lose a war dynamic.

2022-06-21 01:52:30 Some of the weaknesses are so evident that people who think about causal inference and have been following pandemic papers spot them immediately.Two days later, enough threads pick it into pieces in substantive ways.But anyway, the news/virality cycle is done by then.

2022-06-21 01:48:12 Badly-framed, weak or preliminary studies Twitter virality newspaper headline superhighway does work, but maybe people turning those wheels will eventually notice it isn’t resulting in their preferred policy response?It ends up with even more people tuning it all out.

2022-06-21 01:40:25 RT @Boghuma: Nice article on the challenges of deriving accurate estimates on the true burden of #longCOVID. Heterogenous definition, confo…

2022-06-21 00:27:18 @patio11 Someone keeping a “code is law until it isn’t” file, pretty please? https://t.co/ccq4Uz0UyL

2022-06-20 23:58:38 @MarkLevineNYC

2022-06-20 19:08:23 An excellent guideline from @VirusesImmunity on effective, sensible use of social media for communicating about scientific findings.Of course, one obstacle is the paywalls, which may limit access to the papers being discussed, ironically, including this one. So here you go. https://t.co/uYmh20lhBa https://t.co/TDtnC97l9U

2022-06-20 18:21:50 RT @yannotyam: Wondering where to get your <

2022-06-20 18:21:37 @tomgara @JamesFallows @mikenizza Everything government/regulation/infrastructure succeeds in preventing gets forgotten, every failure is burnt into memory—till the amnesia tilts something from category one to category two, I guess, and then we remember why we, say, ahem, regulate finance to avoid bank runs.

2022-06-20 18:17:11 @lukewtodd @sethhahne "Healthy kids are almost always fine with acute COVID, but not always, so good to lower their risks further. Plus vaccines dampen chances of MIS-C, lower severity of illness, and help avoid unpleasant complications. Plus viruses can have long-term unknowns, so let's vaccinate."

2022-06-20 18:14:18 @lukewtodd @sethhahne Indeed. It's true that for regular, healthy children complication rates are low but.. not zero. You don't know ahead of time which kid is which. Plus, vaccines do more than completely prevent infection. Why not help avoid a croup episode? Plus, viruses can have long-term effects.

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2022-06-20 16:11:31 @UnabashedMisfit Thank you.

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2022-06-20 12:57:34 RT @faeriedevilish: Moved me to tears when I first read it and moved me again now in reprint. As @zeynep says, the past few years we have s…

2022-06-20 03:02:24 @shpandha You’re welcome!

2022-06-20 02:26:08 @Boghuma @EmoryInfectDis @VarunPhadke2 @Armstrws @vmarconi2 Congratulations!

2022-06-20 02:22:04 @LizMair Thank you.

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2022-06-19 16:35:01 This case for vaccinating children is so clear. Rare isn’t never, and “rare” is no consolation when it’s your kid.Vaccines do more than prevent breakthroughs infections in a binary fashion. It gives their immune system an advantage.We don’t owe a fair fight to viruses. https://t.co/AjsryKzPR1

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2022-06-19 14:14:01 @ImageSnippets Thank you!

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2022-06-19 13:34:40 @j_g_allen Beautiful.

2022-06-19 12:45:38 ^ fixed typo in the URL above, apologies.

2022-06-19 12:42:53 This reminded me of an essay I wrote in 2016, and made public in 2019 when my grandmother passed away.It's about her remarkable life, and also the Republic of Turkey—the same age as her. She lived to her mid-nineties, and I'm grateful we had that time. https://t.co/aAv7VW55ba

2022-06-19 12:09:07 Noting vaccines, especially with boosters, do protect the elderly, but aging has realities isn't saying: "too bad, that's fate."My grandmother lived to her mid-nineties, and her last decade was full of life. We have ways in addition to vaccines to better protect the vulnerable.

2022-06-19 11:58:39 @ava414 Small n. But I'm sure it's better.

2022-06-19 11:58:13 So take it all as ballpark, though Hong Kong has better estimates for vaccine efficacy against severity/death for Omicron since their elderly unvaccinated were also immunonaive. The fatality rate was tragically very, very high among their unvaccinated elderly.

2022-06-19 11:51:04 Also, note that epi numbers are no longer comparable to "vaccine efficacy" numbers we saw in trials—there is a lot of seropositivity via infection, so these estimates for vaccine efficacy are going to be lower compared to what vaccine trials were measuring against immunonaive.

2022-06-19 11:48:50 Finally, note the 1.7% CFR among even the boosted 80+ year-olds. Part of this is immunosenescence—immune system is less robust with age. Common colds can cause fatal outbreaks in nursing homes. But that's a reason to protect the vulnerable *better*, not complacency.

2022-06-19 01:03:06 I'm not sure how this isn't clear but.. There's no issue with anyone defending DeSantis, a powerful politician, or Prof. Hotez saying he has antiscience advisors, or anyone strongly criticizing Prof. Hotez.Urging people to understand this.https://t.co/367aPlPntp

2022-06-19 00:57:11 @GuloGulo77 @astannard6 @PeterHotez I’m all for a proper analysis of what went wrong, what went right. To learn from. That’s different than singing out individuals *now* for pre-judged “public trials”. I do not advocate that rhetoric for anyone including people I thought were very wrong.

2022-06-19 00:17:06 Twitter needs different reporting and oversight to recognize persistent incitement of this kind as a different issue than an errant tweet that's insulting or may break the rules by itself.Some unhinged person getting pushed over to act offline will happen through the former.

2022-06-19 00:14:35 There really is a very clear line between saying "I think this person has said something stupid that I strongly disagree with" and the "public trials", "intentional destruction of a generation" or the from the other versions, "wanted/promoted mass deaths to get a position" etc.

2022-06-19 00:11:15 I've also seen random, fairly minor players who just happen to be Twitter high-profile or maybe on media, and maybe annoy a number of people, be incessantly singled out as responsible for policy or deaths etc. despite their having fairly little power over policy. Dangerous games.

2022-06-19 00:08:13 Large numbers of people on this platform are playing dangerous games and it's terrible that @Twittersafety lets it go on.There is persistent and insistent targeting of a few people and this is how you get to next stage—when someone unhinged decides to take it offline violently.

2022-06-19 00:05:30 I've criticized @PeterHotez in specific, strong terms when I thought something he said wasn't right, but this is absolute vile, dangerous stuff, "public trials", "intentional destruction of youth"..Unblocking long enough to report the tweet, not that I think it will do much. https://t.co/Qo0bNtCrN9

2022-06-18 23:37:27 @dylanhmorris That.. was something.

2022-06-18 23:35:37 @mocoband @jbakcoleman @michaelmina_lab If people call me wrong or stupid, whatever. Lying to a big number of people by obsessively tweeting about me and outright lying that I'm pro mass-infection, while never engaging actual immunologists about his-never cited COVID stuff? You have the answer if you want to ponder it.

2022-06-18 23:33:27 @mocoband @jbakcoleman @michaelmina_lab He must know it's a lie unless he can't read and also because two minutes on Google would show otherwise, and thus it is... a lie. And if you can't tell me being pro mass infection is an outright lie? Even in a screenshot of a single tweet taken out of context, it is clear.

2022-06-18 23:31:57 @mocoband @jbakcoleman @michaelmina_lab With the full screenshot, which is, correctly, warning that higher transmissibility is a huge threat that mass infection will happen fast, begging to urgently address this, and imagine spending every day tweeting that this is proof the person who wrote it is.. pro mass infection.

2022-06-18 23:29:28 @mocoband @jbakcoleman @michaelmina_lab Forget I wrote first NYT oped warning about Delta. Read that sentence: let's *urgently* ensure everyone encounters the virus via vaccines, not infection, and higher transmissibility cuts down how much time we have to do so. This is his "proof" I'm pro mass infection. Outright lie

2022-06-18 22:43:50 @mocoband @jbakcoleman @michaelmina_lab So I'm not going to respond to the same stuff. Ask the immunologists! They can answer your questions, that I am sure of.

2022-06-18 22:43:16 @mocoband @jbakcoleman @michaelmina_lab Please consult immunologists on *what* the theories actually are, before you start deciding whose theories they are. (And again, note why are no immunologists are tagged, attacked, screenshotted, responded? Isn't that the field?). I think I said the same thing many times now!

2022-06-18 22:40:07 @mocoband @jbakcoleman @michaelmina_lab Hah. If I felt insulted by something someone said in a reply in a thread not just about me, I wouldn't spend many months obsessively tweeting about them, even chopping off their sentences to falsely claim they were pro mass-infection, because *my* work isn't about a fragile ego.

2022-06-18 21:29:44 @Kaelberviridae @halvorz @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 Speaking of radiation... My other threat/reward after I get done with what I'm working on is stuff on NTE. WTF?

2022-06-18 21:20:06 @Kaelberviridae @halvorz @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 I've a friend threatening to send me papers on virus/bacterium lateral transfer of genetic material. Well promising. (Promising, actually, as reward for this thorny article I'm working on, something a bit related to this conversation).

2022-06-18 21:16:21 @Kaelberviridae @halvorz @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 I don't think that it must be causing disease, I just want to know... why?

2022-06-18 21:15:41 @mocoband @jbakcoleman @michaelmina_lab I could spend all day saying "I told you so" by pointing to other people's papers and using jargon on Twitter. But I'd rather do actual work.Kindly ask immunologists, not me, and a question for you to wonder is why real immunologists aren't who he argues with on Twitter. Cheers.

2022-06-18 21:11:30 @mocoband @jbakcoleman @michaelmina_lab You seem to be genuinely misled. Sort Google Scholar by date, also look up "predatory" pay-to-publish journals. Using jargon on Twitter doesn't confer ownership, since there is an actual theory by *two other people* who published a real scientific research paper, *before.*

2022-06-18 11:45:38 @ToddKBailey Yeah, people are on all that and more. I'm amplifying known current info, and if there is any update, I will also update.

2022-06-18 11:42:39 @tony_burnetti @halvorz @Onychomys2 With tiny tiny tiny little spiky extensions pushing all the tiny tiny tiny little buttons around them to see what keeps them from disintegrating for another day. Anti-entropy.Computer science analogy: you hack at the machine code level, not Python, for maximum power and fuckery.

2022-06-18 10:56:21 @edu_frias @tomaskenn @Carlos_Frias @MiamiHerald

2022-06-18 10:42:45 Please note that Jen Brea’s eyes are blue. One poster inadvertently got incorrect color. A few more pics of her and a corrected poster below. Very much appreciate signal boosting especially for Miami area people or media (please ping any you know). Heartbroken. #FindJenBrea https://t.co/LOZmJ6rim3

2022-06-18 10:17:37 RT @jentrification: Miami peeps, please amplify

2022-06-18 04:24:37 RT @sharifkouddous: If you're in New York on Saturday head to Tompkins Square Park for a day-long event in solidarity with Alaa #SaveAlaa #…

2022-06-18 04:11:03 And here’s a poster. #FindJenBrea https://t.co/FDXiDTAq4x

2022-06-18 03:35:00 @JoyHenningsenMD @SamBrockNBC @NBCNews

2022-06-18 02:54:41 @HJ4Indie Yeah. That’s her.

2022-06-18 02:49:58 Time is of the essence in finding missing persons. People are, of course, trying to work with all local authorities. Anyone has a way to help speed this up, please do. https://t.co/fKfWK6GDLw

2022-06-18 02:47:17 If you are media especially in Florida and want to cover her story, I’d be more than happy to give you an interview about her contributions to getting Long Covid recognized and her tireless advocacy before, or point you to others to talk with. DMs open. #JenniferBrea https://t.co/iNuII2MYC3

2022-06-18 02:39:25 Very worried to learn that Jen Brea is missing—last seen in Miami Airport on Wednesday. Anyone especially in Florida/Miami, or media there, please signal boost.She’s a wonderful person and a friend who’s done so much for drawing attention to post-viral conditions. https://t.co/FLMVU3aiKk

2022-06-18 02:29:15 @tony_burnetti @halvorz @Onychomys2 “bad news wrapped in protein”You know the “more is different” saying in complex systems? It seems that in biology there’s also “very, very, very small is different”.

2022-06-18 02:11:14 @halvorz @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 In VA longitudinal data, we trust. Also wait for UK PHE, I guess?

2022-06-18 02:07:33 @halvorz @tony_burnetti @Onychomys2 I increasingly wonder how many mystery x conditions are, in fact, post-viral sequelae.

2022-06-18 00:18:58 @KevinWNg @GuthmillerJenna A woman *and* an actual immunologist employing logic and science, a potential triple bingo for his harassment and incitement campaigns on Twitter (since he seems to have nothing better to do with his time).

2022-06-17 20:03:57 @RBC_PICU @epibuff @itosettiMD_MBA @ChrisCarrollMD @DrKenRemy1 @ColinRogerson5 @vPICU We are absolutely on the same page there. I am just seeing this particular misunderstanding elsewhere, since not everyone is as familiar with the threat of flu to children as a pediatrician/researcher like you would be.

2022-06-17 19:30:33 Pandemic vs. seasonal viruses will, of course, have different patterns—spread, volume, etc. In the end, both can cause severe disease in kids and we have tools to lower the burden for both.Urging especially journalists to note the co-author's careful, thoughtful comments above.

2022-06-17 19:24:29 Having been lectured on "worry about the flu" so much in early 2020 when trying to warn about COVID, I totally understand where the flu comparisons are coming from. But not to lose sight: influenza has a terrible burden, too, and COVID and influenza mitigations can overlap.

2022-06-17 19:22:41 So when they say "it's not just the flu", they don't mean COVID is worse than flu on average per kid (their findings suggest otherwise) but that our society needlessly accepts preventable flu deaths in children.Absolutely agree and same goes for COVID. https://t.co/UH0OkwZOe2

2022-06-17 15:56:30 @alhkim @MarinaC_Dyb @notdred @LCalabreseDO @Dorry_Segev (EUA means cannot legally market... Only allowed after full approval).

2022-06-17 15:55:30 @alhkim @MarinaC_Dyb @notdred @LCalabreseDO @Dorry_Segev One issue is that because it's an EUA, the company cannot do marketing. It turns out, we've essentially outsourced physican continuing education to pharmaceutical companies, which is bad and distorting enough on its own, but in this situation it means... no real campaign.

2022-06-17 14:55:31 @Alexmenter @DLeonhardt @MarinaC_Dyb @notdred @LCalabreseDO @alhkim @Dorry_Segev This is exactly what should happen!

2022-06-17 14:39:33 @balajis Speaking of, one key thing we learned during the Great Depression was how dangerous bank runs were. In addition, 2008 showed the dangers of underregulated correlated assets—especially if highly leveraged. As I said then, I agree with you on lessons of history being forgotten.

2022-06-17 04:16:24 What about long-term unknown effects? Yes, great question.Here's a recent paper painstakingly showing a viral infection leading to multiple sclerosis *decades* later. "What about long-term unknowns" worries should mare one even more pro-vaccination. https://t.co/xQ3eliAyvE

2022-06-17 04:10:15 Here's the current US childhood immunization chart. Some of these illnesses used to cause a few hundred pediatric deaths, others had much greater tolls. But if it is your child, it's your child—the denominator isn't what one thinks about. https://t.co/CrcA6HnCPh

2022-06-17 04:01:21 "Wait, you think kids globally should have a chance not to die from vaccine-preventable diseases?" Yes.We vaccinate against diseases that cause a few hundred pediatric deaths in the US. One reason is kids not dying is good. Other reason is vaccines do more than prevent deaths.

2022-06-17 03:58:56 I'm getting these "corrections", but unfortunately thousands of kids died during the Omicron wave—but not all of them were in the United States. US has about ~400 pediatric deaths for Omicron, but US isn't the world. Many of these were vaccine-preventable. https://t.co/DoWiTX3GjI

2022-06-17 00:10:05 @saeedwkhan @michaelmina_lab I fought hard against the "worry about the flu instead" lecturing in early 2020—a novel coronavirus pandemic was obviously a huge danger and the dismissal was stupid. But look at the history of pandemic influenza, and papers on seasonal influenza. Viral infections are bad news!

2022-06-17 00:07:44 @saeedwkhan @michaelmina_lab Also look at this, incredible randomized trial. https://t.co/aaFMludVgF

2022-06-17 00:07:17 @saeedwkhan @michaelmina_lab One very striking to look up is the post-1918 "Long flu"—though not always called that. It's pretty mind-blowing. Also here's a paper Mina is a co-author on. https://t.co/xQ3eliB6lc

2022-06-17 00:00:16 @michaelmina_lab As we've chatted, understanding the "textbook" part would have made people more alert to both acute and downstream consequences *and* give more tools about some things to expect, since we saw them in the past, too. Alas. "Never before" goes more viral than "wait, we can do more".

2022-06-16 23:57:42 @michaelmina_lab I think a lot of people not as familiar with the "bad news wrapped in protein" part hear "not that different" or "textbook" and assume it means no big deal! A few history books would cure one of that misconception, even before digging into Nature/Science/Cell papers.

2022-06-16 19:43:20 @heloah__ @nothasanabi @willmenaker @stavvybaby Well what it the “it”?

2022-06-16 19:42:30 RT @holden: This is a good example of why I think the veracity of average beliefs of a population is less determinative on the whole than t…

2022-06-16 19:36:49 RT @jbakcoleman: This is an interesting case study on the incentives that drive messaging around scientific studies. The author frames this…

2022-06-16 19:27:52 @newordermarket @_j_thompson I would urge you to look up disease burden of flu and RSV for children.

2022-06-16 19:17:35 @danieljkelley @CaseyNewton

2022-06-16 16:30:06 @LuceBoone I'm not a medical doctor, so can't give medical advice. I can tell you what I'd do. I'd personally vaccinate at first chance—worry about booster/etc. later.

2022-06-16 16:29:03 Kids have lower risk of acute issues, not zero. Thousands died and many hospitalized over Omicron. And infections can have later consequences.I've made many immunologist friends this pandemic—every last one with kids is immunizing theirs at first chance.https://t.co/viVAipyg1o

2022-06-16 16:22:57 An example of non-textbook virus is HIV: we still don't have a vaccine for it. Fortunately, we have treatments. Unfortunately, global equity is still lacking).Here, we have a vaccine, we should use it *and* improve it. "Bad news wrapped in protein": no need for a fair fight.

2022-06-16 16:17:25 I have a friend, too, who had polio as a kid (vaccine schedule screw-up), and now post-polio.When people like @michaelmina_lab say this is a textbook virus, he's not saying it's no big deal. He's saying all viruses can be bad news—some, decades later.https://t.co/fCSEhzBJvF

2022-06-16 16:13:44 Two moments I'll never forget. I volunteered at a vaccination clinic early on—I was unvaccinated, but I couldn't think of anything better to take that risk for.The second was the day my own kid got vaccinated. Personally, for me, that was the biggest turning point of relief.

2022-06-16 16:10:31 @fjordsfjords Thousands of kids have died just during the Omicron wave, let alone hospitalizations. It's not "no risk"

2022-06-16 16:09:28 If it were my child, I'd vaccinate. The immune system strengthens and broadens response with repeat and/or different exposure—affinity maturation. Vaccines are Wuhan strain, we had an Omicron wave. I'd see vaccine as boosting immunity in the safest way. https://t.co/psYS4TBKCl

2022-06-16 16:05:08 Yes, the known complications of COVID are less frequent for children compared to adults.But it's not zero! I don't think "rare" is a good argument when there is a sensible, available and proven-safe method to improve the odds for one's own child? https://t.co/mmVsb2Z7u9

2022-06-16 16:02:25 I hear "but vaccines don't prevent symptomatic breakthroughs well". That's true, also for adults. However, vaccines do *a lot more* besides just that, and tilt the balance in favor of the child in almost everything we measure—plus the unknowns. https://t.co/jOWF5RmpPB

2022-06-16 15:59:12 Now that *finally* we have an authorization for an under five vaccine (which I think we should have had in December, before the Omicron wave, based on the data available then), I'll re-up few old threads.Vaccinating children is an important step forward, wish it was earlier. https://t.co/qlNBzTaDJy

2022-06-16 15:46:38 @ChrisCarrollMD @RBC_PICU @DrKenRemy1 @ColinRogerson5 @vPICU I think the way COVID was dismissed early on—so many people lectured me to worry about the flu instead in early 2020 when I was trying to call for action on COVID—has some people think flu is no big deal, which is false. Even better: mitigations for both overlap.

2022-06-16 15:45:21 @ChrisCarrollMD @RBC_PICU @DrKenRemy1 @ColinRogerson5 @vPICU If I may suggest: using this study to *also* highlight "just the flu" was always misleading as a way to minimize COVID—as your study shows, influenza, too, has notable burden for children, and protecting them better from *both* would be great, and would overlap in methods.

2022-06-16 15:38:43 @wanderer_jasnah hah! "persistently infected immunocompetent host"

2022-06-16 13:27:29 @danieljkelley @CaseyNewton Yes! I've an academic paper on all this, from 2014—on representativeness and validity on social media/big data studies.When I teach research methods, I always say: method are substance. Understanding methods is how you understand the question.https://t.co/G9d0xrEgta

2022-06-16 13:21:28 @CaseyNewton (That said, I agree Slack's design and functions are part of the dynamic, causally, since it's a company-wide "water cooler" without the limitations of water coolers from physics—ephemerality, visibility, participation size, etc.—are gone, and companies haven't adopted).

2022-06-15 18:58:04 RT @JamesEKHildreth: FDA VRBPAC has voted unanimously to approve EUA for Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for children age 6 months through 5 years…

2022-06-15 18:33:58 @macroliter @fabionakaa @wanderer_jasnah No it’s not meant like that. I’m used to the meaning in my own circles so a reminder to maybe avoid the term or define it better (already had some feedback to that effect hence the addition to the thread). It’s about the (mis)applications of unintended consequences frameworks.

2022-06-15 16:01:32 @macroliter @fabionakaa @wanderer_jasnah The term has another meaning for sociology/political science, and that's the meaning I'm using. (It applies to more than OAS-related topics). https://t.co/KcWH3zZfnX

2022-06-15 15:10:04 @wanderer_jasnah The greatest causal inference tools: 1-Epi curves, especially to assess likelihood small and/or lab studies will hold

2022-06-15 14:56:17 RT @BriChronister: Great presentation from @zeynep at #SER2022 discussing how during the pandemic and beyond, public health professionals a…

2022-06-15 14:55:55 RT @MelissaKariWard: Great talk from @zeynep during the #SER2022 opening plenary. Trust the public! Don’t hold back pub health interventio…

2022-06-15 13:42:59 @littmath for real https://t.co/R7SjyJJlDE

2022-06-15 13:38:57 @dglewis517 I took it to mean they express it like that like that's their lingo

2022-06-15 13:36:47 @littmath Huge, imo, but more so if also "perversity" claim—"what if better is worse" is irresistible.Currently viral headline/articles from a small lab study that, in the form its being presented, I'd take bets against to charity. But the update will be... boring, so few will notice it.

2022-06-15 13:23:42 P.S. Perversity" is a term from Hirschman—a general category of "what if better is worse" approaches.Can "better" be occasionally worse? Maybe. But the idea holds an attraction disproportionate to any actual empirical proof so needs a second, third look.https://t.co/823otXqRdn

2022-06-15 13:10:15 Well, ok. I didn’t grow up in a baseball country. https://t.co/bE3EjlZevU

2022-06-15 13:05:46 I obviously don't have opinions on most of those—people in the actual field dissect them over time, though the "abstract to newspaper headline in the same day" pipeline doesn't allow that.But that's what I always wonder immediately. Useful to assess and also what to look for.

2022-06-15 13:01:54 For a lab study with a sensational claim— especially one of perversity which seems irresistible to a certain category of smart—a solid, grounding causal inference approach is to ask: "what would the epi curve look like if this were true."Epi curve bats 100%, but studies cannot.

2022-06-15 12:55:34 RT @linseymarr: "Improving air quality has the potential to reduce not only infections with SARS-CoV-2 but also infections with other respi…

2022-06-15 12:36:31 @patio11 This reminds me of figuring out Trump's blood oxygen saturation numbers when he was hospitalized. (It was correct, later revealed). Kremlinology is underestimated in its utility for these categories of people/institutions. https://t.co/4ijWqdeBho

2022-06-15 12:26:41 @HelenBranswell @UKHSA Not even after a pandemic, so not sure what else could happen to get us to adopt the obviously smart, wise and moral "ounce of prevention" position.

2022-06-15 12:23:12 @PaulSaxMD I don't think it's really possible to be well-informed at this point, to be honest, unless one is *really* digging into everything. Most everyone is so confused partly because the information flow *from including gatekeeper sources* is so confusing.

2022-06-15 12:21:10 @PaulSaxMD Add:4-Small sample/meh studies ->

2022-06-15 12:18:22 @PaulSaxMD Other questions remain open—and this came at tragic cost—but the epi data from many countries couldn't be clearer on this. Confusion remains, imo: 1-Gets incorrectly folded into "intrinsic virulence"

2022-06-15 03:03:16 RT @alexrkonrad: when my editor asks if my draft is ready at deadline

2022-06-15 02:30:55 @bijans Same for many in Turkey. As usual, those are the people who will never be made whole—or anybody will care about.

2022-06-15 02:01:41 RT @mdc: "If we got our act together, we could do for indoor air sanitation something similar to what we did to water after discovering wat…

2022-06-15 00:59:42 RT @manalipatelmd: This

2022-06-14 22:25:53 @JamesGleick Heh

2022-06-14 21:36:29 @JamesGleick Impressive, actually. (And hey it changed very fast!)

2022-06-14 21:14:24 @JamesGleick Cut… and paste!

2022-06-14 20:44:48 @BesteFYuksel @craignewmark @WiT_USF @usfcs @usfca Congratulations!

2022-06-14 19:02:48 @ArditiMd @mocoband @DropletDiaries @Lujan588 @BrodinPetter

2022-06-14 19:02:39 @mocoband @DropletDiaries @Lujan588 For the rest of it, as I keep saying, I have nothing to do with whatever beef he has with the field of immunology and I don’t understand why *I* am constantly invoked. Random woman academic is ranted about every week because none of them will cite him? It’s absurd. Not my issue.

2022-06-14 19:00:35 @mocoband @DropletDiaries @Lujan588 I will leave it here because not a single other corner has interpreted that piece as anything but an argument *against* mass infection and also very pro vaccination. Why would I say the exact opposite 2+ years if that were my idea? I opposed every authority if necessary.

2022-06-14 18:38:24 @mocoband @DropletDiaries @Lujan588 (There are GBD folks for example who do. My record couldn't be further apart from them. Literally couldn't be further apart. Two clear years).On the other stuff? Ask the immunologists why they aren't citing him at all. Not my issue whatsoever, and have said nothing of the sort.

2022-06-14 18:37:01 @mocoband @DropletDiaries @Lujan588 Nobody read that article and said "argument for mass infection"—quite the opposite. I've used it to convince on need for mitigations and childhood+ vaccination. It explains a specific danger.I have two+ years of clear, public track record. Absolute lie to suggest otherwise.

2022-06-14 18:12:32 @mocoband @DropletDiaries @Lujan588 That article does nothing of the sort (and nobody else interprets it that way). I can't keep saying please read it.On the SAg motif, I recommend following @BrodinPetter and @ArditiMd for original research on this hypothesis. Nothing to do with me—check with actual immunologists.

2022-06-14 17:59:18 @mocoband @DropletDiaries @Lujan588 As for the rest, as I said, I have *nothing* to do with why only predatory, pay-to-publish journals will publish his COVID work, and why immunologists don't cite it. The way to resolve such questions is to argue with other scientists, not obsess over irrelevant people. Cheers.

2022-06-14 17:57:43 @mocoband @DropletDiaries @Lujan588 Similarly, look for my tweets on virus evolution/mildness—always correcting the "viruses evolve to be milder" stuff. Look at my tweets from yesterday or last year. Read every one of my articles.That's why this weird thinking is only from that minor corner. It's an obsessive lie.

2022-06-14 17:55:18 @mocoband @DropletDiaries @Lujan588 Exactly, you are being lied to. That is NOT herd immunity via mass infection theory, and I have not once, advocated, for that—quite the opposite. Please read the actual article. It's an effective, strong warning against the dangers of mass infection. https://t.co/UXWhg6X0mI

2022-06-14 15:50:36 @DropletDiaries @mocoband @Lujan588 Anyway, obsessively tweeting about irrelevant people is a sign, for those who know how science works. You can find accurate articles about all this, including immunity/virulence distinctions, from my feed just yesterday! I'll personally get back to real work! Have a nice day.

2022-06-14 15:48:08 @DropletDiaries @mocoband @Lujan588 As for the rest of it, I have *nothing* to do with the fact that his COVID articles could only be published in predatory, pay-to-play journals and aren't cited at all by immunologists. Whatever his beef with them, an actual scientists would take it up with other scientists.

2022-06-14 15:46:36 @DropletDiaries @mocoband @Lujan588 What theory of *mine* becoming "less severe"? That's what I mean, you've been lied to. I've hosted articles explaining immunity versus virulence—articles immunologists find accurate—and tweeted zillion times about it. Promoted actual immunologists explaining this, some yesterday.

2022-06-14 05:07:37 RT @whet: this was really good, there’s a lot that needed saying in here

2022-06-14 01:13:25 @whet

2022-06-14 00:20:38 RT @WriterNancyJane: “at this moment, navigating the pandemic is kind of like a build-your-own-adventure game.” She nails both how I feel a…

2022-06-14 00:00:15 @Boghuma @sdbaral @Canada

2022-06-13 23:58:20 RT @LawrenceGostin: CDC has been weak in health communication. The science is simply unclear &

2022-06-13 23:55:42 @Boghuma @sdbaral @Canada Yeah. I’ve a lot of experience on that front. I’ve a few stories that… well, I couldn’t tell them publicly.

2022-06-13 23:48:37 @Boghuma @sdbaral @Canada It’s terrible. Always the case. Even when one can get a visa, it is such an incredible hassle and expense to do so.

2022-06-13 23:03:30 I spoke with the New York Times coronavirus newsletter. I think the intense polarization is partly driven by how muddled the response has been. What’s happening for Fall? Where’s the proper attention to Long Covid? Some are angry, some tune out. https://t.co/RHjfAazQ9x https://t.co/yhMUrsr2Bt

2022-06-13 22:37:42 RT @adamgurri: Good point from @zeynep https://t.co/20OllVKXDX https://t.co/4VNSPRi5xR

2022-06-13 22:18:02 Also, currently, some people fairly irrelevant to policy decisions are being targeted, personally, in very dangerous ways by people who disagree with them—mildly, tbh, compared to the average American.If nothing else, can we try to stop that? Please, DM your friends who join.

2022-06-13 22:09:41 When I wrote that oped for masks in March 2020—when we had no tools—I thought I was ending my public career. Instead, some senior people in public health/medicine said "thank you for writing this".Well, ok, but why didn't you? Or speak out? Much better standing.Same dynamic.

2022-06-13 21:37:34 Yes, this is a giant subtweet of a lot of senior men (or tenured in the academy) whose keyboard courage seemingly revs up when it's easy to do so against a mostly irrelevant targets.From just observing things and from research, we know that *their* interventions matter more.

2022-06-13 21:34:38 Again, not surprising, but similar patterns of silence from people who are in a position to speak up and have an effect, and do so whenever the fancy strikes them if it's directed at one of their in-crowd, against pretty outrageous and dangerous forms of targeting and pileons.

2022-06-13 21:29:13 No, not surprised, but so many people with secure jobs and loud Twitter acounts spend so much time dunking on easiest targets (to little real effect except retweets) but stay silent when it would matter if it's slightly inconvenient.I know, I know. Still, not fun to observe.

2022-06-13 18:25:18 @saratu @Nanjala1

2022-06-13 16:05:00 @ZoeMcLaren @andrewpekosz Yeah, the piece is crystal clear.

2022-06-13 15:57:36 It's not that SARS-CoV-2 is necessarily evolving to become like the other common coronaviruses in some intrinsic virulence sense, but that our response to other coronaviruses is shaped by lifelong exposure.Omicron in March 2020 would be *much worse* than Omicron in March 2022.

2022-06-13 15:53:01 Adding great earlier piece by @andrewpekosz, on a misinterpretation that I tweet about a lot.Viruses do not necessarily evolve to become "milder"—selection pressure is on transmission—but we acquire immunity which changes how we experience infections.https://t.co/B4ylBhH8Qa

2022-06-13 14:56:10 Nonsense easily proliferates on social media, but public health guidance has not been detailed, timely and, frankly, credible enough.Given how it works, and given how busy working scientists are, it's hard to explain and counter nonsense on Twitter! But longform works well!

2022-06-13 14:41:38 Serious public service, and I know real work to make it this accessible.I know that immunologists like @deeptabhattacha have been super busy with the science. They can't spend their days on Twitter battles. That said, I urge scientists to write more long-form for the public.

2022-06-12 15:11:49 RT @jayrosen_nyu: "There is no plan. The plan is to leave a smoldering crater where our institutions once were."Those are the best senten…

2022-06-12 15:02:54 @PeterHotez So many needless deaths, globally. Very grateful for everyone working to expand vaccine equity and fighting vaccine misinformation here and abroad. Nobody deserves any less.

2022-06-12 14:00:06 @gefgest There are so many stories like this. It’s really unfortunate. I’m glad your mom got it, finally.

2022-06-12 13:45:04 @0xKruzr @RadCentrism @murrrayyyy @WryWryWry3 @notdred Feel free to untag me! (If you sort Google scholar by date, you already see there are no citations to the COVID stuff—in pay-to-play journals anyway. None. No idea why he’s so obsessed with me rather than the *actual* field of immunology which has thus responded so far.) Thanks

2022-06-11 23:18:18 @benryanwriter Oh wow. There’s about 10,000+ unused does in New York right now. I hope you were able to get it, and best of luck with the treatment.

2022-06-11 21:54:24 @LarsSanderGreen @dgurdasani1 @ahandvanish Someone posted this upthread for influenza. Amazing results. I think there is a significant underestimation of excess mortality a year down the line from having had viral infections, *especially* severe ones like in the mortality study in this thread. https://t.co/aaFMludnr7

2022-06-11 21:50:28 @LarsSanderGreen @dgurdasani1 @ahandvanish I find it quite plausible that severe COVID in such an unvaccinated cohort caused real excess mortality down the line *and* that this may be masked by less excess mortality from other respiratory illnesses—influenza also causes real jump in acute *and* later excess mortality.

2022-06-11 21:46:59 @APazyryk @wanderer_jasnah @BrodinPetter @ArditiMd (I don't have an opinion on that, besides being bemused by the deployment of jargon on the bird app, and defer to the immunologists working on the topic, like the two above, and the broader scientific community, since the hypothesis is testable).Other two Q were answered, above.

2022-06-11 21:43:07 @APazyryk @wanderer_jasnah There are scientists on Twitter, @BrodinPetter and @ArditiMd, who've done real work on the superantigen hypothesis, publishing papers and developing theories, you could follow to get informed on this topic. Please feel free to ask them if any other virus may have the Sag motif.

2022-06-11 18:57:38 @ahandvanish I do think the study is informative for unvaccinated mortality as long as the conditional probability aspect is understood, but also most of the mortality came fairly quickly so less clear if it should be noted as acute. I don’t think mortality studies capture Long Covid well.

2022-06-11 18:56:02 @ahandvanish This one isn’t even about Long Covid per se, as mortality doesn’t capture that well. But yeah obviously, as I noted right up top, since people might conflate the two. https://t.co/hWxfGgCP3H

2022-06-11 17:38:19 RT @accessnow: @alaa @sana2 If you are in the UK, please write to your MP to call on @FCDOGovUK and @trussliz to intervene now on Alaa’s be…

2022-06-11 17:26:58 @ValoisDuBins Just putting the rest of our discussion here. https://t.co/hDSEeR8Zke

2022-06-11 15:10:55 @notdred Yeah. Also, the study is fine in its context.I don't think many who follow them realize this, but I think the science by ctrl-f and screenshot a sentence from the abstract without context crowd have actually substantively contributed to many completely tuning out.

2022-06-11 14:48:31 @smithsj Do those countries seem polarized and confused to you? I have a friend in Taiwan who tells me that the entire population seems to be, still, both masking and also what I'd consider excessive surface sanitizing—but I don't see polarized tuning out there.

2022-06-11 14:45:18 @smithsj Not only do I agree with the importance of Long Covid, see below, I'll note that this study is another bucket of post-infection sequelae than LC.I think there's the LC/CFS-ME bucket and then there's the morbidity/mortality like the above, two subgroups.https://t.co/k4JW53EtPR

2022-06-11 14:41:33 @smithsj Actually, that's a fair point. Long Covid needs a lot more attention, and much more than a few tweets—from me and from everyone else. Don't take my tweeting about conditional probability as anything negating that.

2022-06-11 14:36:40 @ValoisDuBins Yeah, though this is also an unvaccinated cohort. I have no doubt that in an immunonaive adult population, there will be people without expected traditional comorbidities who'll have long term complications. The thread is sandwiched in statements noting that.

2022-06-11 14:33:59 (In fairness to me haha, I spend a lot of time also writing *this effect/dynamic is big, why are we ignoring it* pieces/threads, too).Confusion, in my view, leads to paralysis, polarization and, for many, inaction. I do wish someone did a weekly sensible round up. I'd pay!

2022-06-11 14:30:57 Why? I think many people look at confusing claims and some overreact, but others decide to ignore it all. If you have implausible numbers floating around, and people look and realize the numbers aren't making sense, they end up completely tuning out. https://t.co/TwkXx5AB9L

2022-06-10 21:15:02 RT @davidakaye: #Egypt's isolation, detention &

2022-06-10 17:59:43 @drkiki By all means, he has a right to being proud of his own vaccine, and I would absolutely support funding for trials for it. Reporters can interview him about it, where he'd be free to advocate for it. But that divergence in evidentiary standards and benchmarks really is not subtle.

2022-06-10 17:52:44 @drkiki There is an easily-verifiable multi-year pattern of what he states as the necessary evidentiary standard for the vaccine he co-created versus what he says about other vaccines he comments on. I wish the best for his vaccine, but it's not subtle and observable with minimal effort.

2022-06-10 16:25:45 @offhandmanor1 @halvorz That, but from a causal inference perspective, the thing that seems to have *really* tripped them up is the incubation period (which, also they guessed! But got it wrong!). It's really interesting to read through the thought process though. A lot of smart stuff.

2022-06-10 16:18:39 @iTarjei @Martyupnorth_2 I mean, I should go make a list. There's more. Big chunks of my career is going against non-trivial consensus, but the reason, in my view, that it ends up the way it does for me is that I don't decide this arbitrarily. It's built on my analyses, but real work of others as well.

2022-06-10 16:13:13 @iTarjei @Martyupnorth_2 Argued for airborne transmission from summer 2020 on, when it was being labeled "misinformation" etc., argued why Trump's antics about election results were big threat before January 6 happened, oh yeah March 2016 started begging people to understand Trump was a viable candidate+

2022-06-10 16:11:22 @iTarjei @Martyupnorth_2 Let's see. Argued social media had downsides for democracy starting in 2012 at height of "big data will save democracy" craze (literally got blacklisted for it), wrote pro-mask article in NYT in March 2020 (thought would end my career), article credited for changing CDC stance..+

2022-06-10 14:32:57 @halvorz Fix typo: Primary accounts from the day are fascinating. People were not stupid, and many got close...My favorite is "why aren't inmates in the filthy, crowded prison NOT getting sick while city is dying?" (Answer they did not know: prison wall too high for mosquitos).

2022-06-10 14:32:01 @asymmetricinfo Yikes, fixing for typo.

2022-06-10 14:26:08 @halvorz Yeah, the wall kept away the mosquitos. Imagine the scenario: the filthy crowded prison has outbreaks of *everything else* given the conditions but spared yellow fever even while the city crumbles. The primary documents from the era are amazing reads.

2022-06-10 14:20:24 @Martyupnorth_2 One person against the whole field can ask a question, but if there is any empirical support, it will soon be more people collectively joining the challenge. In the 21st century especially, the Hollywood version of the lone crusaders describes cranks, not scientific challengers.

2022-06-10 14:18:55 @Martyupnorth_2 Challenge consensus of the day=absolutely. I just would like to emphasize it doesn't happen like Goodwill Hunting, the Hollywood version. It's not one man against everyone. Scientific challengers, especially in this day and age, work together and build on other people's work.

2022-06-10 14:17:30 @Martyupnorth_2 I'm all for questioning things, no doubt. It's that the example with Walter Reed is yellow fever, not malaria, and for both diseases it really wasn't just two people—just like the large number of scientists that successfully challenged incorrect theories of airborne transmission.

2022-06-10 14:15:29 @jonfavs I think, throughout the pandemic, we didn't focus enough on the consequences of higher transmissibility, in addition to individual odds. Any respiratory illness that infected about half the country (!) in just a few months would be a major issue, even without anything else added.

2022-06-10 14:13:11 @jonfavs On the other hand, is it less intrinsically virulent than Delta? Probably. But, given how infectious it was, and more able to evade antibodies to spread, it got to a very, very large number of people. Small percent of a very, very big number=still a big number.

2022-06-10 14:11:16 @jonfavs How can we tell the latter? Hong Kong, where there was no prior outbreak, hence no infection immunity. It hit the unvaccinated elderly very, very hard. I think if we had gotten hit with Omicron in 2020, it would be catastrophic. Vaccines (and prior infection) immunity blunted it.

2022-06-10 14:09:57 @jonfavs "Mild" includes multiple processes, hence confusion, imo. Milder disease course on average due to immunity (from vax or infection) is different than "intrinsic virulence, all else equal, compared to other variants". For the latter, I don't think it's "milder" than OG 2020 strain.

2022-06-10 13:55:18 @Martyupnorth_2 Well whoever said that mixed up the diseases and also the process. That's not how it happened for either malaria or yellow fever (which is the one maybe you're thinking of?). In both cases there were many people who got close, but took time to prove with limited tools of the day.

2022-06-10 13:53:11 @halvorz This... doesn't even have the right disease. And the Yellow Fever discovery is a *fascinating* story... Lots of people kind of figured it out, but were stymied but very thorny issues of causal inference because of things like incubation period messing up their experiments.

2022-06-10 12:18:33 RT @alisonannyoung: Coverage by @APNews notes "sharp reversal of the U.N. health agency’s initial assessment of the pandemic’s origins. WHO…

2022-06-09 18:38:13 @marymcnamara @DLeonhardt @MarinaC_Dyb @notdred @LCalabreseDO @alhkim @Dorry_Segev

2022-06-09 17:59:11 @MarinaC_Dyb @notdred @LCalabreseDO @alhkim @Dorry_Segev My friends who clearly qualify and have otherwise top-notch doctors are telling me that their doctors have not heard of Evusheld, and thus they cannot get a prescription. It's absurd, but reality... Looking to find an informed doctor now, but how?

2022-06-09 17:46:11 Those of you in a position to understand the issue (and there are so many of you), please, please do tell me why and how I'm wrong, if you think so. *Say something.* Some things are too important.I'm again noting two years of public record on this. I didn't wake up and tweet.

2022-06-09 17:38:33 Putting Professor Hotez's response here for the record.Note again to those in global public health there is two years of public record on this issue, and to media that this is a conflict-of-interest.I fully support trials for Professor Hotez's vaccine. https://t.co/DLlfLbBXEp

2022-06-09 17:32:02 @MarinaC_Dyb @notdred They have. The doctors who are otherwise top-notch have never heard of it. Looking for doctors who know about it.

2022-06-09 16:46:28 @PatWitt2432 @rrelyea Thank you! The problem my friend has is... the doctors have no idea, and there's no guide to how to find a doctor who has. (The doctors are otherwise great! But they literally have never heard of Evusheld, won't perscribe). So need to find a doctor, now. What a situation.

2022-06-09 16:43:51 @bethlinas I am so deeply disappointed about the silence from so many who do know exactly what the issue is, are in a position to speak up, but instead spend their days attacking various easy targets in ways that don't really matter, while ignoring a genuine dynamic in vaccine hesistancy.

2022-06-09 16:34:51 RT @bethlinas: I have been frustrated by this and wasn't sure if I had rational feelings about it, glad I am not alone!

2022-06-09 16:25:42 @MattChambers13 @jbakcoleman It is fine to interview him as someone with a competing vaccine, to comment on his own vaccine as its co-creator. That’s fine.

2022-06-09 16:19:14 It's June 9th, 2022. My immunocompromised friends in NYC tell me their (otherwise top-notch) doctors *have not heard of* Evusheld, and despite about 10K doses sitting unused in the state, my friends have no idea how to get it despite clearly qualifying. https://t.co/TTXaCDpXaZ

2022-06-09 15:42:21 *fund, lol can't spell (actually need new battery for keyboard).But seriously, all the people who have long known exactly what the issue is, what will it take? Most of you aren't shy in your opinions, but your silence on this is part of the public record.https://t.co/d3D6JqXSjl

2022-06-09 15:32:53 FWIW, I have tried for months privately to get people in the global public health community to try to encourage a clearer position. I will say this again, publicly.Undermining competing vaccines is not without cost, and everyone sitting on their hands needs to think about that.

2022-06-09 15:27:27 *supportive https://t.co/bs5yDK7GLd

2022-06-09 15:26:40 He says he's been nominated for a Nobel because of it, and he tweets about that constantly. Of course that's a strong conflict-of-interest.There are other experts on vaccines, too. It's been two years of this pattern.I *do* wish the best to his vaccine! https://t.co/PVHhozgQ4O

2022-06-09 15:23:18 He clearly thinks his vaccine should be in the mix. Fine! Please let's fund a trial.But that really is a giant conflict-of-interest for commenting on why the updated competing vaccine *with excellent results* may not be good—as he does in this interview.https://t.co/ewJiHIxWFH https://t.co/me3YQ2mrqd

2022-06-09 15:20:16 For two years, a key go-to person in most media for *other* vaccines has been someone who has a competing vaccine (The more the merrier! Honestly wish he had gotten funding for it!), and the interviews really make the issue clear. It is literally teach-in-class kind clear.

2022-06-09 15:18:06 I'm supportive of the vaccine co-created by Professor Hotez, and would find proper trials for it in a minute.We already bungled the key need for the third shot through terrible messaging and undermining. Let's please not do that with the updated vaccines. Results are excellent.

2022-06-09 15:16:19 Why does media continue to interview Professor Hotez on *other* vaccines, which he often says aren't good enough, without noting he is the co-creator of a competing vaccine that he says he belives would be better.I'm support funding trials of his vaccine! But this COI is real. https://t.co/wXVZn04WlF

2022-06-08 14:22:27 @TRyanGregory Yeah. I get why the flu comparisons have started, but my experience is that it hasn't been helpful for the most part. We could have taken the impending pandemic seriously, regardless of seasonal flu, and we can take Covid sequelae seriously now, regardless of current/past flu.

2022-06-08 14:15:17 @HL3133 @jbloom_lab And my current concern is simple: whatever people think about any other the evidentiary aspects of this, dragging in Chinese scientists still there as face of any side of the argument is going to bring the government hammer *on those very people*. We've seen this.

2022-06-08 02:52:33 @mediocrefaith @michaelmina_lab Yeah. It’s called viruses suck. Vaccines made us forget some of this. A novel pandemic virus is a reminder but many viruses do all sorts of terrible, even still mysterious, things.

2022-06-07 23:10:25 @amyhoy I’m sorry to hear that.

2022-06-07 23:02:12 Pandemics have long been horrible, with significant suffering during and long-term impacts. Plus, many other viruses cause huge issues, long-term. (See recent paper by @michaelmina_lab et al. on E-B virus leading to multiple sclerosis years later).

2022-06-07 22:53:25 I keep seeing "but does influenza ever do X" <

2022-06-07 22:43:48 The pandemic started with "worry about the scary, scary flu, instead" and now I see people saying "this is serious, not benign like the flu".Influenza is a serious disease! Plus, pandemic influenza has historically wreaked havoc—big death toll, long-term disease, what-have-you.

2022-06-06 23:22:12 @PaulSaxMD Yeah. Infinite scream.

2022-06-06 19:02:24 RT @Tuliodna: The madness that Global Health is run in Geneva,Berlin, Seattle, DC. Very expensive cities, that requires a visa for attendee…

2022-06-06 14:26:14 RT @JenniferNuzzo: Once again income is an important determinement of who is able to protect him herself.

2022-06-06 13:36:39 @pbleic @michaelmina_lab Anyway, over time, I came to rely on people who kept linking what we know from other viruses and past examples to what we were observing now—and now, in retrospect, I do see that group had a pretty good track record. (I did not know at the time, obviously, how it would turn out).

2022-06-06 13:31:45 @pbleic My other exposure to this @michaelmina_lab keep repeating "did everyone forget what's in the textbooks" on issues related to coronaviruses—seasonality, reinfections, waning, etc. In fairness, though, evolution at this scale had never been observed temporally. Scale does matter.

2022-06-06 13:24:44 RT @pbleic: Exactly right. And the Bloom paper in the second tweet is a gem.

2022-06-06 03:29:03 RT @AlexanderMcCoy4: This is the same guy who invested a bunch of his nation’s reserves in Bitcoin.

2022-06-06 03:28:14 @natematias

2022-06-06 02:58:42 RT @JamesGleick: About bearing witness

2022-06-06 02:54:42 RT @pkcapitol: This entire thread is amazing. For all the different versions of this historic pic. I've never seen this photo from this van…

2022-06-05 14:27:43 @TimWilkins12 @ppolsinelli @hannahnicklin Thank you!

2022-06-05 14:27:10 If they did, it would be to their credit! Monkeypox was already in poorer countries (hence: little research money!) and identified as a global threat. Should have been even more money allocated to combat it!https://t.co/X4xZ9FrCwp

2022-06-05 14:12:20 @kmthurman @ppolsinelli @hannahnicklin Well, you do it right, you have brilliant, lively and full characters but you don't make them unrealistic so that they can carry the story because you don't have much else to carry it.

2022-06-05 14:11:23 Instead of me retweeting the whole thread, just go read it. https://t.co/qTAUduI0xw

2022-06-05 14:08:38 Put her in charge of communications! The opposite of stigmatizing isn't ignoring empirical facts of the current outbreak or to split definitional hairs on what's an STI, but to treat what we know and don't know as a matter of fact—and talk about action. https://t.co/JjGfe4hSNl

2022-06-05 14:03:52 Excellent thread.Current outbreak seems to have spread primarily through sexual contact—need to warn the network this is spreading in ("men who have sex with men", in public health lingo) while also making it clear it can spread beyond those—and not just through sexual contact. https://t.co/VfJMnzerxn

2022-06-05 13:59:28 @hannahnicklin @ppolsinelli @gutefabrik Oh wow! I’d love to hear more.

2022-06-05 13:47:47 @ppolsinelli @hannahnicklin Thank you! It's one of those pieces I wrote people keep emailing me about!

2022-06-05 03:12:59 RT @majian53: #33 https://t.co/VZ9FXowQ9V

2022-06-05 01:03:56 @DavidSteadson @MackayIM It’s a very specific subgroup and results need to be interpreted in light of conditional probability imo. The supplements are quite informative. We have a much younger, different long covid issue that’s not represented here (population) and sequelae in elderly ill men isn’t same.

2022-06-05 00:55:38 @itosettiMD_MBA @MackayIM There are, indeed, many younger people suffering from long covid but that’s not the impression you’d get from this study. Which is exactly my point. People aren’t reading the studies or thinking through what they imply.

2022-06-05 00:31:21 @enenbee @RedLittleladyin @MackayIM Yes I read it, including the supplements. The difference between the elderly hospitalized and everyone else is very striking and I don’t understand how that’s not the big news. But definitely agree we need more and better studies, too.

2022-06-05 00:00:56 @MackayIM Nobody is reading the study. Its almost solely older, already much sicker men who got hospitalized that had significant sequelae even post vaccination.

2022-06-04 16:43:02 RT @antd: A t-shirt is unlawful assembly? That’s a new one.

2022-06-04 16:03:56 @jeffjarvis @leighbeadon @tomgara You’re trying to disagree with me by providing anecdotes that are very strong, relevant and current examples of my point? Okay, I guess.

2022-06-04 15:50:29 @jeffjarvis @leighbeadon @tomgara Me: Distorted caricatures do well on social media. You: Let's get outraged at this article, distorted in viral tweets as minimizing gun deaths when it is *actually* about their horror becoming routinized.Meanwhile, Supreme Court: poised to overturn what gun control remains.

2022-06-04 15:34:38 RT @geoffreyyork: Today is the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, in which Chinese troops killed hundreds (possibly thousan…

2022-06-04 14:44:06 RT @niubi: “1989: the people will not forget”. The Party has worked hard and effectively to prove this sign wrong https://t.co/WPGSe8yg93

2022-06-04 14:11:04 @jeffjarvis @leighbeadon @tomgara You’re actually making my point, you realize, right?

2022-06-03 23:17:25 @BuzzJohnG @BrownSociology @BrownUniversity @ASAnews Wow! Thanks again!

2022-06-03 21:10:11 Heh, I actually follow in lists, and do most of my reading there, and not always public ones. (It's partially because this is something I research).But tracking quote-tweets/screenshots back to source is my go-to method to evaluate quality of other info.https://t.co/DgJNlOqaQI

2022-06-03 20:59:29 RT @abuaardvark: Almost 30 human rights advocacy groups signed this call to #freealaa and I couldn’t agree more https://t.co/2wEJMeLiu2

2022-06-03 20:58:18 I get a lot out of social media, but I've been studying it for a long time, been through multiple big events. It is super easy for an entire class of people to gaslight themselves, in my view.Everyone is vulnerable to this, and being on guard is good. That's my own lesson.

2022-06-03 20:55:50 Heuristic for finding valuable Twitter accounts. Follow their screenshots and quote tweets to source, see if they're represented accurately—even if criticized harshly.Make lists of ones that do well, mute/unfollow those who distort. Many big accounts drop, but quality improves.

2022-06-03 19:25:57 @jeffjarvis @tomgara You're making this too easy.That social media is swamped by caricatures served to coalesce in-group/out-group anger, and that the design and engagement algorithms amplify such content is mundane and easily observable (just switch chronological vs algo TL and look).

2022-06-03 19:20:49 @jeffjarvis @tomgara Well, here you go. You today. And much of Twitter, using a screenshot to portray this as minimizing gun horrors, when it is, in fact, piece on how horrific they are, and yet routine *only* in America. Much social media is "disagreeing" with caricatures.https://t.co/nbBzcGJ9MK

2022-06-03 18:49:09 @jeffjarvis @tomgara There is literally a parody account of you with tens of thousands of followers. I guess if you think what happens on social media is more akin to "exposure to a range of views" in the deliberative democracy sense, I'd say we have very different views of deliberative democracy.

2022-06-03 18:40:44 @tomgara You can look at what trends, what gets shared and notice the obvious.That said, I, too, would love a broader empirical documentation, if only these platforms would allow access to independent researchers. (Can be done in privacy-preserving ways). Alas, they deny us that.

2022-06-03 18:32:35 @tomgara Except that makes it sound like deliberate democracy.Should replace exposed to "range of views" with "caricatures and worst versions of views of others" and add "wildly amplified by design choices and algorithms of engagement-dependent business models".I once described it as: https://t.co/JW33EprSTW

2022-06-03 18:11:44 RT @holmeschan_: As of 23:20, Hong Kong police have cleared Victoria Park -- the site where the annual Tiananmen candlelight vigil is tradi…

2022-06-03 15:50:42 @cwarzel In contrast, I think this narrow framing is exactly how so much of the media missed *why* and how Trump was a viable candidate until he got elected. It's missing how the political moment interacts with all this and the ongoing realignments—and then leads to losing elections, too.

2022-06-03 15:27:55 @BuzzJohnG @BrownSociology @BrownUniversity @ASAnews Aaaw! Thank you!

2022-06-03 11:43:46 @BrownSociology @BrownUniversity @ASAnews

2022-06-03 11:39:34 RT @joshtpm: Report: China-linked Twitter harassment targets female Asian journalists outside China https://t.co/EgXMqWyUGx

2022-06-02 21:35:20 Fiction: AI-generated praise to swamp trolls.I once suggested this—as a joke!—for "anti-extremism" programs tweeting at potential recruits from *government* handles.Though, I see folks tweet all day about how great they are. Maybe AI for narcissists with frail egos is ok. https://t.co/HtGhRS2nrX

2022-06-02 20:11:09 RT @nytimes: Breaking News: The gunman who killed four people at a Tulsa medical building underwent back surgery last month and the doctor…

2022-06-02 17:04:13 RT @skinclasshero: like this https://t.co/vdZaTWxeTw

2022-06-02 14:44:11 @huwigs It's why we should, indeed, very carefully track potential complications. In this particular case, we have millions of doses given to kids over five, among other data. This has not been held back on safety concerns or balance.

2022-06-02 13:44:44 @jaryoung01 Yeah! If public health is the concern, work to convince an actual immunologist or two, instead of lashing out against a random assortment of people on the birdsite. I can't believe how many fall for the con, though—imo worsened by institutional failures that leave people confused

2022-06-02 13:39:20 "Most kids are fine!", people say. Yes. But a few aren't. During this time, we had thousands of kids under five face severe disease, hospitalization. Some died. Vaccines also reduce MIS-C. "Rare" is no consolation when it's your kid. We correctly vaccinate for many rare risks.

2022-06-02 13:31:19 FDA didn't approve <

2022-06-02 12:57:46 @jaryoung01 Want to use money to try to shut up women advocating for public health. Obsess over scapegoats. No idea why this Twitter personality doesn’t get mad at the actual field instead. Convince immunologists to cite your COVID stuff. They’re not citing at all. I’m irrelevant.

2022-06-02 12:50:23 @jaryoung01 On serious note, as legal scholars have been pointing out, one potential consequence of this trial might be be encouraging toxic masculinity with money to try to use the courts to shut up women. The fact that this ludicrous idea was taken to a lawyer is indicative.

2022-06-02 12:47:38 @jaryoung01 Brilliant. Waste, I guess, parents’ money to be told off by a lawyer. (Better: find a bad faith one willing to take the money to go after my 20-year-old Honda?)Ignore the fact that immunologists aren’t citing the pay-to-play journal papers, get mad at irrelevant people.

2022-06-02 03:25:29 RT @nytopinion: “The history of PEPFAR offers an example of what an ambitious and strategic global health initiative can achieve,” writes a…

2022-06-01 19:39:22 @rikeijames @halvorz That really sounds like some legacy code tbh “Yeah John did something with that to make it do something else” fast forward, turns out nobody has a clue except two people who realize something something *insert magic* now the pseudorandom number has 0.3% predictability… profit.

2022-06-01 19:12:34 @jonst0kes That’s not the difference, come on. UK colonized Hong Kong and legally gave it over to China without asking the people. That’s the international law right now. You really can’t be arguing small arms in the hands of the populace would make the difference here, ceteris paribus.

2022-06-01 18:54:40 @halvorz Need someone to write a book with examples

2022-06-01 18:54:18 @halvorz The border between the material substrate and the very first level of abstraction=Archimedes’ fulcrum and lever for magic, aka doing things that shouldn’t be possible in either universe alone—almost everyone lives in one or the other universe alone, as far as they are concerned.

2022-06-01 18:46:50 @halvorz Want watermarks? Sure, "alter disk write function at bios level to allow it to put stuff down in materially-existing places nonetheless invisible to the OS abstractly-addressed read function, but you can go look for it yourself" kinda stuff.

2022-06-01 18:45:23 @halvorz I had not read that!I'd pay for stories of going *teeny tiny bit below the abstraction* to do cool stuff using knowledge of the material substrate.

2022-06-01 18:36:29 @MLTellado Thank you! And yes, thank you for your work on this!

2022-06-01 18:29:33 @halvorz Would you rather debug assembly or python? (Especially when person writing the code in the former, long gone can’t ask, used a quirk of how bios routines interact with microcode to get something done).

2022-06-01 16:10:34 Very often, the article is much better than the headline, but still, most people will only see the headline. It's good to fight stigma by correctly pointing out that sexual activity among men—the network that the outbreak happened—doesn't mean it's the *only* transmission path.

2022-06-01 16:08:03 I need to start a file. Maybe ~20% of "fact checks" I've recently seen promoted are either outright false, at least the headline, and/or outside the domain of fact-checking—open scientific questions being subjected to tortured fact-checks.Less is more, and *watch* the headline.

2022-06-01 16:03:57 Could Reuters fix the headline, and could Twitter stop promoting such "fact-checks" via headline?If we mean not *just*, that's fine. That's the headline."Monkeypox may well be sexually-transmitted, something being investigated, but all sorts of close contact can transmit it." https://t.co/v8hPCfClW2

2022-06-01 15:44:33 RT @jbakcoleman: I've posted about lefty covid misinfo, but this clip with @DrPatSoonShiong takes the cake. My jaw is on the floor. A

2022-06-01 15:43:36 RT @RonDeibert: As long as there are no meaningful checks on the mercenary surveillance industry, CEOs will always "sell to risky clients"…

2022-06-01 13:45:24 @EsotericCD Looks like Twitter fodder poll tbh

2022-06-01 04:35:32 @FozzyBearPDX @denise_dewald @nytimes You should see a doctor, or go to an ER and tell them. Best of luck.

2022-06-01 04:27:04 RT @denise_dewald: The @nytimes "DNA virus is heavier than an RNA virus so its not airborne" article has ANOTHER big mistake in it.People…

2022-06-01 03:38:28 RT @profwschiller: Days you don't forget in life. Standing with Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, @SpeakerPelosi, @meganranney and @zeynep prepar…

2022-06-01 02:41:17 It does. It remains the best, accessible essay I know of that *explains* the basics without sacrificing complexity and remains explanatory and consistent with existing, large-scale real life data. I constantly get feedback on how useful it is. Read here: https://t.co/UXWhg6X0mI https://t.co/DIENvUBpkd

2022-05-31 23:46:08 RT @JenniferNuzzo: Congress' failure to act is exacerbating COVID19 inequities and eroding our surveillance in our highest at-risk groups.

2022-05-31 22:21:01 RT @UREssien: 1/ NEW in @statnews.Spoke with @ushamcfarling about a new @JAMAInternalMed study showing how differential pulse oximetry…

2022-05-31 21:10:21 @DipierroAnthony Dramatically more so for the latest, see John's thread.

2022-05-31 20:59:41 Also, vaccines help even the immunocompromised, plus there are now preventative treatments, like Evusheld, that can increase their protection six months at a time. Spreading awareness of them and global, equitable distribution of treatments is crucial. https://t.co/0J43YFwAFs

2022-05-31 20:55:29 Not among working scientists, but on this site, I occasionally encounter theories that do not fit the existing, large-scale real-life data at all.Must-ask question for any theory: "What would the world look like, if this were true."To be science, it has to connect to reality.

2022-05-31 20:51:46 I'll again recommend this great essay from a year ago on waning, evolution (variants), individual immunity (and how/why some can remain more vulnerable).Remains a great explainer of last year *and* fits well-done studies and overwhelming real-life data. https://t.co/UXWhg6X0mI https://t.co/FTomwLe7oc

2022-05-31 20:46:52 As usual, the epicurve is very informative.Note that in the below chart for South Africa, the cases for the last wave are certainly undercounted—much less testing.That immunity is coming from prior infections, sadly, as vax rates remain low there.https://t.co/A2iWe8025N

2022-05-31 20:44:24 CDC updates page on reinfections, correctly noting that they're possible, and the evidence that reinfections tend to be less severe on average, but reminds that some individuals can have different experience—(research: especially if already frail). https://t.co/ghvljU7eFy https://t.co/IwX7uu9lRY

2022-05-31 19:58:38 RT @BrianRWasik: Thank you. Exactly.Inform. Trust people to know how to process their own emotions.

2022-05-31 16:12:40 Plus, this latest incident is really a good demonstration how much of incorrect, faulty assumptions can persist even among scientists without a campaign to update them, and how important it is to find the right experts and keep up with science when reporting. https://t.co/Jk9FfPNGvP

2022-05-31 15:33:43 "Given institutional failures, how does one find experts to trust on complex topics that we can't fully judge?" ->

2022-05-31 15:27:24 Adding this very useful thread. (Reactions to this study—uncritical sharing it vs reading it and raising the appropriate eyebrows—are a very good litmus test, in my opinion, on willingness and ability to think through research and causal questions).https://t.co/Hou3ST9Fa1

2022-05-31 14:00:04 Note her careful statement here, as well.It's a bit worrying that two years into a pandemic where this was a major topic and obstacle, the mode of transmission question of a new epidemic can start off with an obvious scientific misunderstanding. https://t.co/GZDrdiQ6IF

2022-05-31 13:53:33 Always listen to @linseymarr—correct expertise on this topic is aerosol scientists.This is the opposite of the fallacy that masks can't work because the virus is so small. The virus is, indeed, tiny but it doesn't travel in the air by itself. It's carried by aerosols/droplets. https://t.co/sRGVAYBJsD

2022-05-31 13:34:39 @profwschiller @SpeakerPelosi @meganranney @BrownUniversity It was great meeting you! Thanks for the picture!

2022-05-31 04:21:49 @marcelsalathe Yes! Clearly we can bring flu deaths down, too, especially with better indoor air infrastructure and more of what we learned with the pandemic!

2022-05-31 03:10:27 … People who do media: please mention Evusheld as one more tool in the arsenal for the immuncompromised. https://t.co/0Pndlr0AH7

2022-05-31 02:56:51 @PatWitt2432

2022-05-31 02:55:50 @AlexandraHo19 @KelseyTuoc I’m not begrudging anyone their anger. It’s still not me, and I’m glad you figured out the mistaken identity. (Also, there are some people on social media who misdirect such anger to random targets because they are trying to get more followers). Have a good day.

2022-05-31 02:50:33 @PatWitt2432 It’s so frustrating. The immunocompromised are extra vulnerable and this is a tool in the arsenal.

2022-05-31 02:08:21 @LongDesertTrain @AlexandraHo19 @KelseyTuoc No clue. Or this person has been around some of the persistent liars? There’s a particular case—a Twitter personality busy only with incessant lying to scared people all day, every day. Targets me, too. Anyway no big deal but I do find such cons sociologically interesting.

2022-05-31 02:02:04 @KelseyTuoc @AlexandraHo19 Thanks. It was March of 2020. Also I made that sociological argument about the mandates even back then. It was literally a potentially career-ending effort as everyone was against masks, partly because they didn’t understand the sociological aspect. Anyway, social media is weird!

2022-05-31 01:57:20 @AlexandraHo19 @KelseyTuoc Honestly, you’re either confusing me with somebody else, or maybe you’re the victim of some of the con artists on social media—the Twitter personalities that get followers by lying about everyone else, also about papers they misrepresent. I’ve seen such cons a lot.

2022-05-31 01:55:10 @AlexandraHo19 @KelseyTuoc Huh? Last I wrote about masks for the Atlantic, I argued everyone should wear masks indoors in public places, exactly because of the sociology of it—peer pressure. I made that exact argument for years, to explain mandates, including when everybody was against masks in early 2020.

2022-05-31 01:23:33 @LongDesertTrain @KelseyTuoc Yeah he’s great. We’ve corresponded on that point and did a joint interview, even once. He’s a national treasure.

2022-05-31 01:06:29 @AlexandraHo19 @KelseyTuoc Yes I’ve been making this point repeatedly for more than two years in many high profile outlets. But really there’s a limit to my small influence, obviously. Especially in the current social media environment where people lie, shamelessly and con gullible frustrated people. https://t.co/9OZKk4ylgG

2022-05-31 01:04:10 @3PSboyd

2022-05-30 23:45:07 @FinchTH I don’t know. I spent more than two years writing countless articles making this point again and again. Still see it in response to the monkeypox outbreak. Plus, obviously, just writing only does so much: people just “interpret” what one says based on preexisting tribal filters.

2022-05-30 21:58:05 Studies are coming in confirming how helpful Evusheld, a preventative drug for the immunocompromised, can be.Still, though, awareness is sorely lacking.The US has unused supplies. There should be efforts to distribute more of this globally, as well.https://t.co/YFZPYQ5ZYR

2022-05-30 21:44:51 What are good streets for Manhattanhedge besides the usual recs? (Meaning something besides 14th, 34th, 42nd, 57th, 79th streets—preferrably something north of 79th?)Asking for someone willing to join social spectacles, but wouldn't mind trading a lesser view for less crowds. https://t.co/04GuxW34yP

2022-05-30 18:16:49 RT @GoberLass: ‘The obsession with managing public opinion gets in the way of managing public health.’

2022-05-30 16:22:46 @phealthsean @rkhamsi Indeed. But not only do they forget that, they often act in ways focused on, in their imagination, minimizing panic even if it counterproductive to minimizing the actual threat.

2022-05-30 16:20:58 @RiaRex2 Oh my. Wow. I thought I’d seen it all.

2022-05-30 16:14:17 @RiaRex2 You… have a link to that?

2022-05-30 16:12:28 Yep. “You don’t need to worry about this”, isn’t great messaging under most circumstances but after the last two years, it’s particularly counterproductive.Tell us what’s being done to get things under control and how, show competence—and leave how people should feel out of it. https://t.co/B8X8N1B9OV

2022-05-30 16:06:39 @RiaRex2 Eating them?? That’s a new one?

2022-05-30 15:55:06 @elkmovie @KelseyTuoc I agree that’s a problem but you get in front of that by gaining credibility and messaging appropriately based on that. Confusion just leads to worse.

2022-05-30 15:53:12 The job is to make the objective conditions better to lessen the need for worry and panic. Focus on what people *should* feel doesn’t work, backfires, and it leads to decisions that worsen the objective conditions.Inform, empower, improve and gain credibility. Rest will follow.

2022-05-30 15:51:00 This isn’t just for epidemics: there’s a rich sociological study of many disasters and other crises.The authorities come in to the situation with excessive worries about panic among the public, and they often make everything worse because of that mindset.

2022-05-30 15:48:23 Absolutely this, by @KelseyTuoc. Let’s stop telling people how to feel about the Monkeypox outbreak. Saying“no need to panic” isn’t informative or reassuring on its own.Focus should be on what’s known, what’s being done and what should be done. https://t.co/cWXLRMoz0v https://t.co/rU1Pkp9Ti6

2022-05-30 15:22:02 @HaktanHukuk @prudencelcarter @BrownUniversity @BrownSociology @ASAnews

2022-05-30 14:43:41 @PeterASinger @prudencelcarter @BrownUniversity @BrownSociology @ASAnews Thank you!

2022-05-30 14:33:55 @asociologist @prudencelcarter @BrownUniversity @BrownSociology @ASAnews Thank you!

2022-05-30 13:47:15 @MaraEinstein @prudencelcarter @BrownUniversity @BrownSociology @ASAnews Thank you!

2022-05-30 13:33:30 @JulietSchor Thank you!

2022-05-30 03:01:22 @skadooshle Thank you!!!

2022-05-30 02:16:17 RT @TheTNHoller: Today’s @nytimes.#HowManyMore https://t.co/F7xo6iwxnC

2022-05-30 01:14:16 RT @MarkLevineNYC: The #Manhattanhenge pics are coming in!

2022-05-30 01:12:59 @tgeveci @prudencelcarter @BrownUniversity @BrownSociology @ASAnews

2022-05-29 23:37:56 @beenwrekt @awgaffney @phealthsean Haven’t yet read that last one yet as noted, but 30-50% in the winter wave in NYC is not implausible. The issue at hand for this thread is that the number is so large that claims about after effects and their rates will be observable in basic statistics.

2022-05-29 23:17:12 @awgaffney @phealthsean One-in-five last month! One-in-two over winter! Numbers are really very large.Yeah, severity ratios dropped really dramatically. But at this scale, even with very low ratios, it can add up, since small % of a very, very large number is big! And that seems to have confused many.

2022-05-29 23:08:04 RT @LawrenceGostin: WHO saying #monkeypox could become established in human rings true. Many diseases of global concern originated in anima…

2022-05-29 22:39:30 @phealthsean @awgaffney Here’s another recent one. Am reading soon but plausible/in line with other studies. Because the severity has been relatively so much less as a proportion of cases in last wave, hospitalized/ICU numbers are no longer a good direct estimate of (pretty large recently) case counts. https://t.co/ZtsJSK01fe

2022-05-29 22:28:02 It was indeed an honor, to be in this amazing company of people receiving honorary degrees from Brown. https://t.co/bp57wojFio

2022-05-29 21:12:22 @JoshuaPCohen1 @prudencelcarter @BrownUniversity @BrownSociology @ASAnews @nytimes @TheAtlantic

2022-05-29 20:48:19 @callous25027023 Thank you!

2022-05-29 19:54:46 @prudencelcarter @BrownUniversity @BrownSociology @ASAnews An honor and a pleasure to meet with both of you!

2022-05-29 18:44:17 https://t.co/MuYr50ynOk

2022-05-29 18:43:29 @farhanmemon @BrownUniversity Thank you!

2022-05-29 15:15:40 Excellent weather in Providence, and grateful for an amazing day at Brown University. https://t.co/YcHwVZSnZl

2022-05-29 11:20:37 RT @Monasosh: Alaa's story in the Sunday Times printed issue today "British British blogger’s jail nightmare reveals the grim reality of E…

2022-05-28 19:21:24 RT @fordm: I’d wondered how an 18-year-old could afford the two rifles he bought. Turns out the manufacturers have financing plans. https:/…

2022-05-28 18:50:16 @phealthsean @awgaffney Well, we can look at a variety of data sources. United Kingdom has much better data. New York itself is very telling. Whatever the variation, the claims are so large that it would be fairly impossible to miss them if they were to come true. Which is why it requires urgent action.

2022-05-28 18:37:36 @awgaffney Also if anyone at those institutions believe the numbers they’re publishing, they should interrupt the President to say he needs to address the nation, today. It’s one or the other—pick one folks. Not even saying which, but one. The alternative is even more loss of credibility.

2022-05-28 15:28:06 RT @CameronWEF: Peng Shuai is resting at home.

2022-05-28 15:12:30 Also, the epicurve is the ultimate reality review.Whatever numbers are being claimed eventually have to show up somewhere— and the bigger the claim, the less likely that bias or lack of surveillance is hiding *all of it.*More numbersense less numberwang would help greatly.

2022-05-28 15:06:23 RT @Brown_SPH: TODAY! Amazing opportunities at @BrownUniversity to learn from distinguished faculty and guests at #Brown2022 Commencement F…

2022-05-28 02:45:30 Flags half-mast.And the reason was not any kind of *well-regulated* militia. https://t.co/NxjgQxRh0e

2022-05-28 00:15:16 RT @amandataub: So if I'm clear on their timeline here, when it was not legal for him to buy guns, he didn't get them. And then when it was…

2022-05-27 23:08:42 RT @charlie_savage: The shooter in Uvalde locked the classroom door from the inside so he could murder kids at his leisure while the police…

2022-05-27 23:06:37 RT @EdwardGLuce: Should have added that 2004 was when assault weapon ban ended. This isn't rocket science.

2022-05-27 22:59:48 @random_walker https://t.co/yQIVRdmxlA

2022-05-27 21:31:24 RT @brianschatz: The door thing is a trap so we spend two days talking about doors with door experts debunking it or whatever. Stay focused…

2022-05-27 20:00:54 RT @megreenwell: The agony of these pediatricians waiting for a mass casualty event that never arrived because an AR-15 doesn’t leave survi…

2022-05-27 19:09:22 RT @SheilaCoronel: Scholarships available for a 3-week investigative reporting course @columbiajourn fors reporters &

2022-05-27 18:25:40 RT @BenjySarlin: The specifics of this police failure are horrifying, but many of the *best* case scenarios implied for school shootings in…

2022-05-27 18:25:19 RT @KarenGrepin: I would argue it shows that we have have failed. Monkeypox is endemic in the DRC and recent large-scale outbreaks - over…

2022-05-27 17:51:49 RT @Mike_Hixenbaugh: Across the street from the NRA convention: “Am I next?” https://t.co/bEl9vLY6gG

2022-05-27 15:00:56 RT @random_walker: A recurring pattern in AI that judges people:–The vendor markets it as a one-stop solution to win clients.–But the fin…

2022-05-27 14:31:39 @random_walker @JessicaHullman @sayashk @priyakalot This looks like a great paper!

2022-05-27 14:31:03 RT @random_walker: Excited to have played a small part in this paper led by @JessicaHullman and co-authored by @sayashk, @priyakalot, and A…

2022-05-27 14:12:36 Always read @kashhill.Many institutions use automated surveillance to decide if a student is cheating on tests as part of remote learning.Often, this means a clunky, unaccountable algorithm barely overseen by low-paid workers abroad has great power.https://t.co/oK90UqdkmW

2022-05-27 01:01:17 @MarkLevineNYC That’s good they’re ring vaccinating.

2022-05-27 00:08:25 @BenMazer @AaronRichterman *That* one sounds like it was by this guy. https://t.co/6xdwKLWegB

2022-05-27 00:04:19 @AaronRichterman @BenMazer Yeah. It's terrible, though, two years in, to have this kind of muddle between message and policy. It's confusing to everyone, and yes, the speed of dissemination is a challenge but they should anticipate that, too. (Nobody listens to wait, read and think for a minute pleas).

2022-05-26 19:19:19 @BenMazer Obviously, people can't be expected to read these papers and spot the problems themselves. And forget my judgment of any of it... Not relevant.If this were their sincere belief, as an institution, there would need to be a presidential address same day, along with publication.

2022-05-26 19:14:28 @BenMazer I get that. Problem is this makes a mockery of public health messaging.Option one, we believe this but ignoring implications. Option two, we don't believe it (because we certainly aren't acting like we do).Option three, we never think about what our findings imply, as policy.

2022-05-26 17:42:03 @sturdyAlex When Uğur Şahin switched BioNTech to vaccines—end of January 2020, because he read those public papers that anyone else could read and realize the pandemic was coming our way—he divided employees into two, isolated teams so if one got taken down, the vaccine work could continue.

2022-05-26 17:15:16 RT @BogochIsaac: "Quebec to start vaccinating against monkeypox as cases climb to 25."Watch for other regions to soon offer vaccination t…

2022-05-26 15:51:44 @n_l_v_t @fjordsfjords @jonst0kes @jwhite88 @opensrcdefense Including stuff from the seventies is the obvious clue of the usefulness of that framing.

2022-05-26 15:43:51 @linseymarr Best wishes to your household!

2022-05-26 15:41:32 @WndlB That is exactly what made that fraud possible, I think, even though you literally had to look at the tables for a minute and think wait, what? It was a disappointing moment, for sure, to see how it played out, and how little reflection there was after it became openly known.

2022-05-26 15:15:07 I've seen a lot of reluctance to speak up by senior people who absolutely notice the issues—careers, grants, etc. but also peers and a real fear of being tarred as a minimizer.I think lack of that kind of coherent, senior voices has torpedoed credibility, and our response.

2022-05-26 15:10:00 @jonst0kes @jwhite88 @opensrcdefense Look at what they almost all use, and how it actually plays out... Forget the counterfactual if it were people you know—most everyone is well aware of the grim range of alternative possibles. We have a type of event, type of person and timelines.

2022-05-26 15:06:19 Wait a bit and let the post-peer review happen and ask around widely is a good idea for anyone not in a position to themselves look at the methods, specifications, statistics, etc., deeply and haven't also read many other papers on the topic. (Not that anyone will listen).

2022-05-26 15:04:22 There's now a fairly robust post-peer review process, but takes a bit longer when the paper/study is coming from public health authorities and/or is in prestige journals.Running with papers quickly without diving into that process isn't a good idea. Not that anyone will listen.

2022-05-26 15:01:36 @jonst0kes @jwhite88 @opensrcdefense Again, the counterfactual isn't what a smart, sane, cool-headed person might be able to do nonetheless. I disagree with the "at leisure" assessment, factually. I don't think that's how it's been playing out recently.

2022-05-26 14:59:51 I remember the initial buzz around the fraudalent Surgisphere HCQ papers that made it into The Lancet and NEJM (eventually retracted).Many with data/number/scientific sense *immediately* raised eyebrows, despite also thinking HCQ hype was false and misguided. Others rushed.

2022-05-26 14:56:36 Key point. Multiple examples of misspecified, misrepresented or misframed papers—even in prestige journals.In my experience, issues are quickly noticed by many but there's an initial reluctance. But less careful people run with them quickly.Need to give it a bit of time. https://t.co/mqdGxAXC3a

2022-05-26 14:46:54 @jonst0kes @jwhite88 The script for their ritual makes the body count higher too. The counterfactual isn't hold everything else constant and smartly optimize around one difference. Everyone who thinks about grim stuff knows much worse options are available, were these not the kind of people they are.

2022-05-26 14:38:42 @jwhite88 @jonst0kes When they put fences in bridges known for suicides, rates go down permanently and people don't go to nearby, just as high, bridges instead. Many such examples like that. You guys have absolutely the wrong mental model of these shooters. They're not playing your game.

2022-05-26 14:27:38 @jonst0kes Your details are counterfactuals of "what are the options available to a smart, knowledgable, calculating and cool-headed person similar to people I know" to assess whether a ban would hinder that person. That's not the person. The details that matter are what actually happens.

2022-05-26 14:18:04 @jonst0kes Also need to look at the past few years, about a decade, not lump in stuff from before where there was less clear a pattern/coherence to the script.

2022-05-26 14:14:49 @jonst0kes You're analyzing the wrong question. These are chess questions. The mass shooters, especially school shooters aren't playing chess. Just a table of the past decade of gun type/toll/location is clear. This is classic overthinking 5D chess by people who know a lot of details.

2022-05-26 13:53:50 @jonst0kes There's a difference between "the police did not go in guns blazing" and "he was free to move around." As you note, they establish "perimeter" and wait. You really think he could just walk out unopposed, for forty minutes? Hasn't happened a single time in many many years.

2022-05-26 13:50:33 @jonst0kes He wasn't free to move around. Most of the deaths come almost immediately in these shootings. These are well-documented. Whatever counterfactuals one may propose, there are actual cases—many of them.

2022-05-26 13:48:57 @jonst0kes There is obviously a reason armies care about rate of fire and capacity, and it's not all of a sudden not-a-thing when it becomes to these shootings. (Also, of course the psychology of the type of weapon matters: these people are playing out a culturally widespread script).

2022-05-26 13:46:30 @jonst0kes He wasn't free to move around. In any case, in most of these cases in the past many years, most of the killing is done in the first few minutes, and intervention attempts (tackling or police show up) are quick, and the size of the toll is coming from the rate of fire.

2022-05-26 12:36:12 RT @LeMonde_EN: In Egypt, Alaa Abdel Fattah's hunger strike challenges President Sissi https://t.co/RlcjNR8Eie

2022-05-25 12:30:15 @jason41taylor United Kingdom had a school shooting. Cracked down on guns. Not another one in 26 years. Knives can’t kill as many as quickly.

2022-05-25 12:21:40 Exactly. Surveillance, early warning, AI, etc. work for certain kinds of aims. Marketing, political targeting, identifying likely members or routine, structural dynamics.Not this. To put it in research terms, there is no method that would work here with reasonable reliability. https://t.co/Q3OXtAhTTX

2022-05-25 12:18:23 @AdamLoebSmall Yeah

2022-05-25 12:16:08 @warisill Not approvingly!

2022-05-25 12:15:45 We’ve read a zillion profiles.Almost all troubled young men. Indistinguishable. There are many, many people who are troubled or go through a tough time.There is no science, surveillance, early warning, AI magic that will reliably identify who’ll pick up the gun to kill. None.

2022-05-25 12:11:31 I do not want to read a single profile of the shooter. Enough. Nothing will allow us to predict which of the many, many troubled young man will turn to a mass shooter. Zero public interest in the individual details.It’s the access to the deadly gun that’s the key. That’s it.

2022-05-25 12:05:15 RT @MarkLevineNYC: And the Supreme Court is poised to make this horrific situation even worse, by nullifying NY's law that requires a permi…

2022-05-25 04:46:57 RT @brookejarvis: And if you look at gun deaths among children in high-income countries, the enormous majority of those kids die here in th…

2022-05-25 04:37:23 RT @brookejarvis: If you're a child in America, you're more likely to die from a gun than any other cause https://t.co/xGorZxzG2S

2022-05-25 02:40:48 RT @AaronRichterman: May 19, 2022 - NEJM"Firearm-related injuries were second only to motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of death…

2022-05-25 02:36:22 RT @dremilyportermd: In plain English: Because the children were blown to smithereens and they can’t identify the victims.

2022-05-25 02:34:33 RT @pwhickey: “Of note, this is strictly a US problem. The authors cite a sobering statistic: 90% of all firearm deaths for children 0-14 y…

2022-05-25 01:12:50 RT @biannagolodryga: He was engaged by school district law enforcement, while wearing body armor. A similar scenario played out in Buffalo…

2022-05-25 00:56:41 RT @allinwithchris: .@ChrisMurphyCT: “The difference between America and these other nations is not that there aren’t people with homicidal…

2022-05-25 00:54:08 RT @nyt_diff: Change in Abstract https://t.co/699R75prmJ

2022-05-25 00:24:02 Can't buy a can of light beer for three more years, can't rent a car for seven more. https://t.co/zjh8kpEdSJ

2022-05-24 22:53:30 RT @chrislhayes: This really was a fulcrum.

2022-05-24 21:43:37 RT @YAppelbaum: Few things I’ve ever edited haunt me the way this one does. I cannot forget the descriptions of what high-velocity bullets…

2022-05-24 20:57:58 RT @williamadler78: This could have been my kids. Your kids. Anyone.

2022-05-24 18:52:58 RT @BenMazer: New study on vaccine effectiveness in cancer patients confirms high levels of severe disease protection: 75-85% protection ag…

2022-05-20 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX

2022-10-29 17:27:13 RT @MassMECFS: The paper version of today's @nytimes. Thank you @zeynep for bringing attention to this way-too-long overlooked illness.

2022-10-29 17:26:36 This is what works. Other methods can and will get phished, with some effort. See rest of threads. https://t.co/hcnRBw7Ocd

2022-10-29 17:18:08 This is an actual crime, from what I understand, yet fake vaccine card spam is rampant on Twitter despite language being so consistent. (So let’s cc:@elonmusk, as this hits the trifecta of crime, spam and why isn’t the code catching all this better?) https://t.co/89hY8A2bu5 https://t.co/eqydgLk8mn

2022-10-29 16:15:30 In today’s @nytimes, my piece on ME (and Long Covid) patients risking their already fragile health to protest to advocate for research.One key part is the devastating world of post-exertional malaise: a poorly-understood symptom that sets them apart, and challenges assumptions. https://t.co/guQQq2f6Lm

2022-10-29 15:02:35 It was wrong to dismiss the looming pandemic threat against a novel virus in early 2020 with "worry about the flu instead" stuff (I railed against it) and it's also wrong to dismiss the obvious, ongoing burden of even seasonal influenza *now*—it's very real.

2022-10-29 14:58:12 @mehdirhasan Influenza has long been an underrated threat among the public, and all the "what about the flu" comparisons in early 2020 to dismiss the huge threat of the looming pandemic really didn't help—similar to "it's not the flu" comparisons made to COVID now, as if flu isn't a big deal!

2022-10-29 14:55:24 @mehdirhasan Absolutely, we should vaccinate our population against the flu much more widely, since it was obviously going to come back. It's possible the elderly might need two shots—just like with COVID, aging caused immunosenescence makes them more vulnerable.

2022-10-29 14:50:47 Also, pandemics clearly produce larger waves of post-viral ailments—this one or 1918 are the examples.But epidemic flu can, and does, absolutely trigger postviral ME in some people (numbers less clear) as well as lengthy, lingering symptoms in more people (well-documented).

2022-10-29 14:45:43 US flu update. After two years of very little activity, statistics indicate an early start to flu season—and a good deal of severe cases.This year's vaccines are a good match to the circulating strain. (They would still help even if they weren't, but even more so when they do). https://t.co/2rQZ2vZXt6 https://t.co/5cM98u1HbW

2022-10-29 14:35:02 @ShariBoxerBaker @brianvastag @MEActNet

2022-10-29 14:34:29 US Monkeypox update. Cases continue to decline. Still almost all men. Zero outside of introductions from elsewhere is quite plausible, if we keep up with testing, vaccinating and informing.So infuriating there's little effort to help people in endemic countries get vaccinated. https://t.co/wFoBVQeLGk

2022-10-29 14:20:30 @adamgurri Lol not at all my intention to suggest anyone else could easily deal with this transition. Recognizing the correct problem would be a good start, though.

2022-10-29 13:55:20 @MarkLevineNYC I have to say, that's been like that for a long, long time. I think there might be some concentrated efforts to troll, now as there's attention, but social media/Twitter has been full of a range of anti-vaccine stuff—from outright lies to nonsensical misframing—the whole time.

2022-10-29 13:38:20 Singapore XBB update. The decline in Covid cases continue.99.7% of cases "asymptomatic or mild".In the last four weeks, 70 people ever in ICU and 44 deceased—in a country of ~six million.Deaths were overwhelmingly from the small percent of people still not fully-vaccinated. https://t.co/hgwwT1z4gF

2022-10-29 13:11:39 RT @ahmed: Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed becomes Twitter’s second-largest investor after Elon Musk

2022-10-29 13:00:36 RT @paulmozur: There’s more. Here’s China’s gov’t asking contractors to build and keep up networks of sock puppet accounts. Because they’r…

2022-10-29 13:00:20 RT @paulmozur: There’s also the police who have detained thousands of domestic Chinese twitter users. Sometimes the police even reach out o…

2022-10-29 13:00:11 RT @paulmozur: For examples about how this works, last year we showed how Chinese state media and embassy accounts on twitter spread YouTub…

2022-10-29 13:00:00 RT @paulmozur: Exhibit two in the trend. Again China has been massively active on Twitter with bot nets boosting state media/diplomat disin…

2022-10-29 12:37:16 @book_learning Indeed. That's the part that makes the disease extra difficult for people to understand. The risk is not minor, as you say, some people have very long-term crashes.

2022-10-29 00:32:08 @vgr heh

2022-10-28 23:56:05 @bilalfarooqui You're gonna dig into that from the code printout? You've seen ML code, right? Have a sense of how/why it works, I assume? "Show me the code" is not in your first seventy steps or so to get at that question.

2022-10-28 23:46:10 @HoddyHarrington @CaseyNewton Yeah, me too.

2022-10-28 23:44:17 "Print the code" doesn't even make sense from the tech view, given machine learning.I mean, if the wish is to have a fun conversation about how linear algebra ended up playing a big societal role, sure. I like such chats! Invite me to them!Not really their challenge though.

2022-10-28 23:40:33 Also, speaking of printing the code, most of the crucial parts are probably machine learning, and best of luck figuring that out from only the code.That's also why "turn over the algorithm!" usually isn't the transparency we need. The real action isn't in the code alone.

2022-10-28 23:38:00 The "what about the code" part is a bit like "if the people only knew" feelings activists sometimes express. Informational flows are important, but in most societies, it's really not about singular information. There's rarely a magic piece of info that would change everything.

2022-10-28 23:34:55 @brianvastag @MEActNet

2022-10-28 23:34:15 So @CaseyNewton reports that Musk asked Twitter engineers to print their code, and be ready for "code pairings" with Musk.As my own quote tweet below, I guess Musk is the next in line to discover the obvious: he's now in a people business, not a tech one. https://t.co/eqQfLQlb8H https://t.co/E7Somg6oex

2022-10-28 21:41:07 RT @kaitlancollins: Pelosi’s office says her husband was attacked by an assailant who “threatened his life while demanding to see the Speak…

2022-10-28 21:22:23 RT @propublica: New: The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unear…

2022-10-28 19:04:24 @MEActNet Much gratitude to everyone who participated, despite all the challenges.

2022-10-28 19:00:07 RT @IFEX: #UK Foreign secretary @JamesCleverly urged to act over jailed British–Egyptian hunger striker. via: @guardian https://t.co/jETUV…

2022-10-28 18:54:47 Thread, with details on ME, relevant to Long Covid as well. https://t.co/mGAMk52wsV

2022-10-28 15:53:35 RT @dandrezner: Really glad I got vaccinated last month.

2022-10-28 12:22:53 Being ill is difficult

2022-10-28 12:03:47 Emily on Twitter! (Check out her insta above, too!)I have met many brave activists around the world, now Emily too. Best part of my job. I'm honored to have had the chance to try to convey Emily's strength, perseverance and joy in this piece. @hope4pwMEhttps://t.co/9rx7XRWS7t

2022-10-28 11:53:54 @AaronTeasdale @nytopinion Hoping things move much faster, Aaron, and wish you the best.

2022-10-28 11:45:35 RT @hope4pwME: I’m in the @nytimes talking about my experience with #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis thanks @zeynep for words and research and @kh…

2022-10-28 03:06:08 RT @VanessaFuchsArt: This is me- exactly. Except some days, walking upstairs and taking a shower has the same effect.

2022-10-28 00:41:56 @AMoore864 You’re very welcome. I hope things move faster, soon.

2022-10-28 00:28:06 RT @HollinBrav: I’m so proud of these protesters, risking all that they did for greater visibility for #MECFS and #LongCovid. #MEAction ht…

2022-10-27 23:19:43 RT @nytopinion: “Protests can grab the attention of the world, invoking awe through stunning acts of bravery,” @zeynep writes. But the brav…

2022-10-27 23:04:11 RT @cjmaddison: I have come to realize that those suffering with ME/CFS are some of the bravest people to have ever lived.

2022-10-27 22:44:41 RT @DetsNick: Amazing work by ⁦@zeynep⁩! Shows that our #MECFS advocacy is limited by our inherent physical limitation. ⁦I’d love to see pr…

2022-10-27 21:33:57 @julierehmeyer Exactly. Absolutely. We did this over multiple weeks trying to be as careful as possible. But completely aware of the difficult choices. So much strength and bravery there.

2022-10-27 21:01:04 RT @ClayCrosbyLMFT: Thank you to Zeynep Tufekci @zeynep for this @nytimes article. Attention must finally be paid.@MEActNOW #MECFS #Mil…

2022-10-27 20:59:20 @Amy14BV Indeed.

2022-10-27 20:25:43 Hence the need for this, at all levels of advocacy and protest. https://t.co/8EqLAaxeHl

2022-10-27 20:18:20 The topic of ACT UP and early AIDS protests came up a lot.That disease is horrific, but between infection and impairment, there was a period when patients could protest—chain themselves to the WH fence or follow politicians around. ME patients cannot do that. They're too ill.

2022-10-27 19:34:45 RT @butwait: Up &

2022-10-27 19:00:52 RT @karlitaliliana: This is the hardest part about Long Covid. Your body can actually do many things physically but the punishment for “ove…

2022-10-27 17:44:54 RT @shelleyjules: This is an important piece. Friends and family and HCWs most often do not understand what happens in the weeks after they…

2022-10-27 17:22:55 RT @TamraSpeakman: Great article on the recent ME protest &

2022-10-23 22:44:55 @mindstalk Lol. It’s such an obviously ridiculous example of “we have tons of varied, coherent and consistent evidence it works in practice from around the world but can we now have put our names on a study based on lousy data that implies it doesn’t work in theory” that one despairs.

2022-10-23 17:24:48 @drwilvancleve @BenMazer @19joho I find it implausible that a broad recommendation is causing older people not to get boosters. That makes no sense. On the other hand, unnecessary confusion about the benefits of boosters as a lot of high profile people bicker about marginal stuff looks a lot more contributory.

2022-10-23 16:58:36 RT @JonMurray: A good reminder to get up to date on your boosters. The US is behind countries like Singapore, which appears to be weatherin…

2022-10-23 16:54:34 (Subtweeting a public health agency of an, ahem, large country: vaccine efficacy cannot be calculated under conditions of widespread population seropositivity by ignoring that variable simply because your data sucks, especially if your hospitalization ascertainment *also* sucks).

2022-10-23 16:51:04 @drwilvancleve @BenMazer @19joho We went through this last year...

2022-10-23 16:50:29 @drwilvancleve @BenMazer @19joho More focus is fine but.. Diseases travel in populations, there is more to the science and data of immunology than lagging indicators like clinical outcomes (which will come, as they did last year), affinity maturation matters, and lower risk is better even if low to begin.

2022-10-23 16:47:20 Update on Singapore. Despite a wave of cases, very few people in the hospital, let alone the ICU.99.8% of known cases remain mild or asymptomatic (probably higher given underdetection).As we see from around the world, vaccine efficacy against severity upholds remarkably well. https://t.co/Q2p71dJSOw

2022-10-23 16:26:45 RT @GreenpeaceUK: The UK government cannot turn a blind eye to this.@JamesCleverly, will you come out and meet @sana2?https://t.co/EPPx…

2022-10-23 16:17:57 @BenMazer @19joho The study even notes it as a "limitation". It's not a "limitation" if you act like a variable that's so central to the question can be ignored just because you have no sensible data. Anyway, this is tragic for the US tbh, but other countries have actual data and studies.

2022-10-23 16:12:50 @BenMazer @19joho If VE against hospitalization fell as low as that paper claims, we'd have had to turn Central Park into a field hospital in Winter 2022 (See Hong Kong data). They don't have seropositivity data, so they ignore it. Meanwhile, we have real life and other countries with actual data.

2022-10-23 03:41:34 @codinghorror

2022-10-22 22:53:04 RT @khalidabdalla: This both breaks and lifts my heart.

2022-10-22 12:37:36 RT @shashj: In light of Hu's removal from the party congress, our piece from last week on Xi's effort to curb the power of party elders. ".…

2022-10-21 19:09:39 RT @NaomiAKlein: An honour to appear alongside the courageous @sana2 - now on Day 3 of her 24/7 sit-in to #FreeAll. #Cop27

2022-10-21 17:17:17 @WomenScienceRFS

2022-10-21 12:50:31 @gmarquez2014

2022-10-30 01:31:52 RT @utopiah: Kathleen Booth 'wrote all the software for the ARC2 and SEC machines, in the process inventing what she called "Contracted Not…

2022-10-29 17:27:13 RT @MassMECFS: The paper version of today's @nytimes. Thank you @zeynep for bringing attention to this way-too-long overlooked illness.

2022-10-29 17:26:36 This is what works. Other methods can and will get phished, with some effort. See rest of threads. https://t.co/hcnRBw7Ocd

2022-10-29 17:18:08 This is an actual crime, from what I understand, yet fake vaccine card spam is rampant on Twitter despite language being so consistent. (So let’s cc:@elonmusk, as this hits the trifecta of crime, spam and why isn’t the code catching all this better?) https://t.co/89hY8A2bu5 https://t.co/eqydgLk8mn

2022-10-29 16:15:30 In today’s @nytimes, my piece on ME (and Long Covid) patients risking their already fragile health to protest to advocate for research.One key part is the devastating world of post-exertional malaise: a poorly-understood symptom that sets them apart, and challenges assumptions. https://t.co/guQQq2f6Lm

2022-10-29 15:02:35 It was wrong to dismiss the looming pandemic threat against a novel virus in early 2020 with "worry about the flu instead" stuff (I railed against it) and it's also wrong to dismiss the obvious, ongoing burden of even seasonal influenza *now*—it's very real.

2022-10-29 14:58:12 @mehdirhasan Influenza has long been an underrated threat among the public, and all the "what about the flu" comparisons in early 2020 to dismiss the huge threat of the looming pandemic really didn't help—similar to "it's not the flu" comparisons made to COVID now, as if flu isn't a big deal!

2022-10-29 14:55:24 @mehdirhasan Absolutely, we should vaccinate our population against the flu much more widely, since it was obviously going to come back. It's possible the elderly might need two shots—just like with COVID, aging caused immunosenescence makes them more vulnerable.

2022-10-29 14:50:47 Also, pandemics clearly produce larger waves of post-viral ailments—this one or 1918 are the examples.But epidemic flu can, and does, absolutely trigger postviral ME in some people (numbers less clear) as well as lengthy, lingering symptoms in more people (well-documented).

2022-10-29 14:45:43 US flu update. After two years of very little activity, statistics indicate an early start to flu season—and a good deal of severe cases.This year's vaccines are a good match to the circulating strain. (They would still help even if they weren't, but even more so when they do). https://t.co/2rQZ2vZXt6 https://t.co/5cM98u1HbW

2022-10-29 14:35:02 @ShariBoxerBaker @brianvastag @MEActNet

2022-10-29 14:34:29 US Monkeypox update. Cases continue to decline. Still almost all men. Zero outside of introductions from elsewhere is quite plausible, if we keep up with testing, vaccinating and informing.So infuriating there's little effort to help people in endemic countries get vaccinated. https://t.co/wFoBVQeLGk

2022-10-29 14:20:30 @adamgurri Lol not at all my intention to suggest anyone else could easily deal with this transition. Recognizing the correct problem would be a good start, though.

2022-10-29 13:55:20 @MarkLevineNYC I have to say, that's been like that for a long, long time. I think there might be some concentrated efforts to troll, now as there's attention, but social media/Twitter has been full of a range of anti-vaccine stuff—from outright lies to nonsensical misframing—the whole time.

2022-10-29 13:38:20 Singapore XBB update. The decline in Covid cases continue.99.7% of cases "asymptomatic or mild".In the last four weeks, 70 people ever in ICU and 44 deceased—in a country of ~six million.Deaths were overwhelmingly from the small percent of people still not fully-vaccinated. https://t.co/hgwwT1z4gF

2022-10-29 13:11:39 RT @ahmed: Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed becomes Twitter’s second-largest investor after Elon Musk

2022-10-29 13:00:36 RT @paulmozur: There’s more. Here’s China’s gov’t asking contractors to build and keep up networks of sock puppet accounts. Because they’r…

2022-10-29 13:00:20 RT @paulmozur: There’s also the police who have detained thousands of domestic Chinese twitter users. Sometimes the police even reach out o…

2022-10-29 13:00:11 RT @paulmozur: For examples about how this works, last year we showed how Chinese state media and embassy accounts on twitter spread YouTub…

2022-10-29 13:00:00 RT @paulmozur: Exhibit two in the trend. Again China has been massively active on Twitter with bot nets boosting state media/diplomat disin…

2022-10-29 12:37:16 @book_learning Indeed. That's the part that makes the disease extra difficult for people to understand. The risk is not minor, as you say, some people have very long-term crashes.

2022-10-29 00:32:08 @vgr heh

2022-10-28 23:56:05 @bilalfarooqui You're gonna dig into that from the code printout? You've seen ML code, right? Have a sense of how/why it works, I assume? "Show me the code" is not in your first seventy steps or so to get at that question.

2022-10-28 23:46:10 @HoddyHarrington @CaseyNewton Yeah, me too.

2022-10-28 23:44:17 "Print the code" doesn't even make sense from the tech view, given machine learning.I mean, if the wish is to have a fun conversation about how linear algebra ended up playing a big societal role, sure. I like such chats! Invite me to them!Not really their challenge though.

2022-10-28 23:40:33 Also, speaking of printing the code, most of the crucial parts are probably machine learning, and best of luck figuring that out from only the code.That's also why "turn over the algorithm!" usually isn't the transparency we need. The real action isn't in the code alone.

2022-10-28 23:38:00 The "what about the code" part is a bit like "if the people only knew" feelings activists sometimes express. Informational flows are important, but in most societies, it's really not about singular information. There's rarely a magic piece of info that would change everything.

2022-10-28 23:34:55 @brianvastag @MEActNet

2022-10-28 23:34:15 So @CaseyNewton reports that Musk asked Twitter engineers to print their code, and be ready for "code pairings" with Musk.As my own quote tweet below, I guess Musk is the next in line to discover the obvious: he's now in a people business, not a tech one. https://t.co/eqQfLQlb8H https://t.co/E7Somg6oex

2022-10-28 21:41:07 RT @kaitlancollins: Pelosi’s office says her husband was attacked by an assailant who “threatened his life while demanding to see the Speak…

2022-10-28 21:22:23 RT @propublica: New: The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unear…

2022-10-28 19:04:24 @MEActNet Much gratitude to everyone who participated, despite all the challenges.

2022-10-28 19:00:07 RT @IFEX: #UK Foreign secretary @JamesCleverly urged to act over jailed British–Egyptian hunger striker. via: @guardian https://t.co/jETUV…

2022-10-28 18:54:47 Thread, with details on ME, relevant to Long Covid as well. https://t.co/mGAMk52wsV

2022-10-28 15:53:35 RT @dandrezner: Really glad I got vaccinated last month.

2022-10-28 12:22:53 Being ill is difficult

2022-10-28 12:03:47 Emily on Twitter! (Check out her insta above, too!)I have met many brave activists around the world, now Emily too. Best part of my job. I'm honored to have had the chance to try to convey Emily's strength, perseverance and joy in this piece. @hope4pwMEhttps://t.co/9rx7XRWS7t

2022-10-28 11:53:54 @AaronTeasdale @nytopinion Hoping things move much faster, Aaron, and wish you the best.

2022-10-28 11:45:35 RT @hope4pwME: I’m in the @nytimes talking about my experience with #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis thanks @zeynep for words and research and @kh…

2022-10-28 03:06:08 RT @VanessaFuchsArt: This is me- exactly. Except some days, walking upstairs and taking a shower has the same effect.

2022-10-28 00:41:56 @AMoore864 You’re very welcome. I hope things move faster, soon.

2022-10-28 00:28:06 RT @HollinBrav: I’m so proud of these protesters, risking all that they did for greater visibility for #MECFS and #LongCovid. #MEAction ht…

2022-10-27 23:19:43 RT @nytopinion: “Protests can grab the attention of the world, invoking awe through stunning acts of bravery,” @zeynep writes. But the brav…

2022-10-27 23:04:11 RT @cjmaddison: I have come to realize that those suffering with ME/CFS are some of the bravest people to have ever lived.

2022-10-27 22:44:41 RT @DetsNick: Amazing work by ⁦@zeynep⁩! Shows that our #MECFS advocacy is limited by our inherent physical limitation. ⁦I’d love to see pr…

2022-10-27 21:33:57 @julierehmeyer Exactly. Absolutely. We did this over multiple weeks trying to be as careful as possible. But completely aware of the difficult choices. So much strength and bravery there.

2022-10-27 21:01:04 RT @ClayCrosbyLMFT: Thank you to Zeynep Tufekci @zeynep for this @nytimes article. Attention must finally be paid.@MEActNOW #MECFS #Mil…

2022-10-27 20:59:20 @Amy14BV Indeed.

2022-10-27 20:25:43 Hence the need for this, at all levels of advocacy and protest. https://t.co/8EqLAaxeHl

2022-10-27 20:18:20 The topic of ACT UP and early AIDS protests came up a lot.That disease is horrific, but between infection and impairment, there was a period when patients could protest—chain themselves to the WH fence or follow politicians around. ME patients cannot do that. They're too ill.

2022-10-27 19:34:45 RT @butwait: Up &

2022-10-27 19:00:52 RT @karlitaliliana: This is the hardest part about Long Covid. Your body can actually do many things physically but the punishment for “ove…

2022-10-27 17:44:54 RT @shelleyjules: This is an important piece. Friends and family and HCWs most often do not understand what happens in the weeks after they…

2022-10-27 17:22:55 RT @TamraSpeakman: Great article on the recent ME protest &

2022-10-23 22:44:55 @mindstalk Lol. It’s such an obviously ridiculous example of “we have tons of varied, coherent and consistent evidence it works in practice from around the world but can we now have put our names on a study based on lousy data that implies it doesn’t work in theory” that one despairs.

2022-10-23 17:24:48 @drwilvancleve @BenMazer @19joho I find it implausible that a broad recommendation is causing older people not to get boosters. That makes no sense. On the other hand, unnecessary confusion about the benefits of boosters as a lot of high profile people bicker about marginal stuff looks a lot more contributory.

2022-10-23 16:58:36 RT @JonMurray: A good reminder to get up to date on your boosters. The US is behind countries like Singapore, which appears to be weatherin…

2022-10-23 16:54:34 (Subtweeting a public health agency of an, ahem, large country: vaccine efficacy cannot be calculated under conditions of widespread population seropositivity by ignoring that variable simply because your data sucks, especially if your hospitalization ascertainment *also* sucks).

2022-10-23 16:51:04 @drwilvancleve @BenMazer @19joho We went through this last year...

2022-10-23 16:50:29 @drwilvancleve @BenMazer @19joho More focus is fine but.. Diseases travel in populations, there is more to the science and data of immunology than lagging indicators like clinical outcomes (which will come, as they did last year), affinity maturation matters, and lower risk is better even if low to begin.

2022-10-23 16:47:20 Update on Singapore. Despite a wave of cases, very few people in the hospital, let alone the ICU.99.8% of known cases remain mild or asymptomatic (probably higher given underdetection).As we see from around the world, vaccine efficacy against severity upholds remarkably well. https://t.co/Q2p71dJSOw

2022-10-23 16:26:45 RT @GreenpeaceUK: The UK government cannot turn a blind eye to this.@JamesCleverly, will you come out and meet @sana2?https://t.co/EPPx…

2022-10-23 16:17:57 @BenMazer @19joho The study even notes it as a "limitation". It's not a "limitation" if you act like a variable that's so central to the question can be ignored just because you have no sensible data. Anyway, this is tragic for the US tbh, but other countries have actual data and studies.

2022-10-23 16:12:50 @BenMazer @19joho If VE against hospitalization fell as low as that paper claims, we'd have had to turn Central Park into a field hospital in Winter 2022 (See Hong Kong data). They don't have seropositivity data, so they ignore it. Meanwhile, we have real life and other countries with actual data.

2022-10-23 03:41:34 @codinghorror

2022-10-22 22:53:04 RT @khalidabdalla: This both breaks and lifts my heart.

2022-10-22 12:37:36 RT @shashj: In light of Hu's removal from the party congress, our piece from last week on Xi's effort to curb the power of party elders. ".…

2022-10-21 19:09:39 RT @NaomiAKlein: An honour to appear alongside the courageous @sana2 - now on Day 3 of her 24/7 sit-in to #FreeAll. #Cop27

2022-10-21 17:17:17 @WomenScienceRFS

2022-10-21 12:50:31 @gmarquez2014

2022-11-17 23:16:05 RT @ElizabethHaighx: Very worrying update from @FreedomForAlaa today as family reveals his health has 'severely deteriorated' after seven m…

2022-11-17 23:15:36 RT @nariology: This is so painful &

2022-11-17 22:53:38 @billwasik

2022-11-17 21:10:04 RT @sharifkouddous: Chants of “Free Alaa, free them all” close out the COP27 People’s Plenary #FreeAlaa #Wish4Alaa https://t.co/70yqoEVNHm

2022-11-17 20:08:17 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I ignore them 99% of the time (they tweet about me pretty much every day, often multiple times, will soon be two years) but I highlighted the doctored tweet because now their lies are targeting Long Covid patients. Despicable, frankly. I just wanted to show an example. But onward

2022-11-17 20:05:38 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. But it's a campaign of lies against me, more than a year, nonstop. Doctored tweets, blatant lying that a first-grader could see through. They don't care about the patients

2022-11-17 19:49:38 RT @paulmasonnews: This is an account of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a British citizen. Not that it should matter - because this is…

2022-11-17 19:49:29 RT @ORHamilton: Like so many of you, I had allowed myself to feel some optimism. But while Sisi and Shoukry were giving world leaders and…

2022-11-17 19:44:21 Adding this here since I broke the thread. This is gut wrenching. https://t.co/DdWE5qEioV

2022-11-17 19:42:01 Horrifying. @RishiSunak and @JoeBiden can, and should, end this torture with murderous intent. They have the leverage. If they don’t, even if Alaa Abdel Fattah doesn’t die during #COP27, he will have been killed during it. This British citizen needs to be on a plane to the UK. https://t.co/mGiHhHYJlS

2022-11-17 19:17:21 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @mocoband @calirunnerdoc They’re so far gone that it’s impossible. Also both my NYT pieces mention or profile how healthy people became ill, and you can find so many tweets from me explaining it, and nowhere do I ever say healthy people can’t get Long Covid. But they’ll never stop, it seems.

2022-11-17 19:09:11 This was great fun, thanks to my fellow panelists and the @ObamaFoundation for the invitation. (Thanks to the audience for their support even when I was critical of, ahem, previous administrations. ) https://t.co/TzLZUCpQs9

2022-11-17 19:06:31 https://t.co/oS1A5tFuml

2022-11-17 17:47:04 RT @ObamaFoundation: https://t.co/HaUvH8zToT

2022-11-17 17:25:15 RT @hackneylad: At #COP27 in #Egypt, I watched @sana2 risk everything to save her brother's life - and show the world that climate justice…

2022-11-17 17:14:44 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I was ignoring them, as I’ve done for years while they go on and on and on about me, but enough with lying to Long Covid patients. That’s a line that, when crossed, deserves a response. Harming patients in their obsession about me is unacceptable.

2022-11-17 17:13:19 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. I published two full page pieces in the New York Times explaining how many previously healthy people got Long Covid. Not exactly obscure. It’s been a multiyear nonstop campaign of lies about me, rando trolls but also, sadly, a few people who should know better join. Nuts.

2022-11-17 16:02:34 The cruelty never ends. The family members haven’t been able to touch or hug Alaa Abdel Fattah for years. https://t.co/SSuewIt5XP

2022-11-17 16:00:49 @jljcolorado @ClarivateAG @JgrpBoulder @CIRESnews @CUBoulderCHEM @CUBoulder Congratulations!

2022-11-17 15:20:30 What a tragedy, the whole thing. https://t.co/IpbKW2j7OL

2022-11-17 03:22:00 RT @victorsojo: I saw this tweet and thought surely it’s related to accounts Alex had interacted with too. Nope. This is quite the gang! #a…

2022-11-17 01:02:40 The classic playbook of many industries. https://t.co/lKOOKJ7RXL

2022-11-17 00:35:57 https://t.co/fqB8MmeO8r

2022-11-17 00:34:45 @notdred Keep them off Twitter.

2022-11-16 23:35:58 @excellent__s Well, thanks but… I will keep writing and (stay tuned) I may be getting involved soon on the research side

2022-11-16 23:14:23 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today @TheTimes was very clear on the increasing seriousness of Alaa's case for British citizens everywhere, &

2022-11-16 23:13:17 RT @khalidabdalla: Exactly right from @JohnCassonUK. The longer this goes on the more serious it must become. Rights &

2022-11-16 22:15:07 @GidMK See Michael’s chart here, and rest of the thread. The study does not compare first and subsequent infections at all. https://t.co/MLigTTihJD

2022-11-16 21:39:30 @JamesStein18 Yeah

2022-11-16 19:42:09 @AlexGaggio @origincanada @calirunnerdoc Yeah, look at this thread breaking down the temporal pattern in the ONS data, and that heartbreaking red line of the more than 12 months folks. Really, really terrible. (You can see the more transient sequelae as well.) https://t.co/GpY0JAfs6z

2022-11-16 19:37:59 @calirunnerdoc It's become distracting, imo, to try to discuss granularity and stas on Twitter, but happy to have a lengthier conversation. Statistics/surveys is one of my core academic specialties, but Twitter isn't great. But none of that convo takes away from the reality of the illness.

2022-11-16 19:36:00 @calirunnerdoc On the other subsets, I think the ONS is the best long-term data we have, even without a control group and latest method change, but there are new studies with control groups. And I think the reduction of the risk is visible, but the data is far from the granularity we'd want.

2022-11-16 19:32:41 @calirunnerdoc So that discussion is very hard on Twitter, and gets misinterpreted, especially since there are subsets. On the "from severity" version, which dominates the stats, there's a clear reduction since severity is reduced (this is post-ICU, post-hospitalization syndromes).

2022-11-16 19:28:48 For sociological fun, search Twitter for mentions of the Nature study on immunological dysfunction that professor Dore is a co-author on and note how it's represented to ordinary people. Then see what he actually says about it: "Exhausted by misrepresentation" is how he put it.

2022-11-16 19:15:13 By the way, please note professor Greg Dore is the coauthor of that Nature study on immunological dysfunction that, he says in another thread, is also being misrepresented. https://t.co/Oe5Gjrp8FO

2022-11-16 18:19:15 @alexandrosM Correct, multi-decade longitudinal study found multiple sclerosis follows, decades later, from EBV. HPV to cancer, similar. Yeay vaccines. See: https://t.co/bnnldDdihd and https://t.co/xQ3eliB6lc You've literally turned into this, I can't argue with that. https://t.co/zKqfNLBAvH

2022-11-16 18:13:38 @localnotable See this thread. I read the full study. The Reuters headline is absolutely wrong. The study does not measure severity of reinfections compared to first ones at all. It's better not to get informed via Twitter or media, unfortunately. https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-16 17:54:29 @localnotable That headline is hundred percent wrong. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t inject falsehoods into this. Yes, media gets many things wrong. It sucks.

2022-11-16 17:33:53 @alexandrosM Post-viral sequelae, documented throughout history, especially after pandemics are a different matter. I'm sure you were as excited as I was by the recent paper in Science showing multiple sclerosis follows, decades after, an EBV infection. Can't wait for the soon EBV vaccine!

2022-11-16 17:32:35 @alexandrosM No, different! The reason all the immunologists I know have eagerly, and enthusiastically, vaccinated their children is that they understand that primary infections can be higher risk for the youngest, and training the immune system via vaccines is the safest route. Same as this: https://t.co/8jAm3owcgf

2022-11-16 00:34:59 @jgprogress @mykola @andrew_croxford Why are you lying about me? I wrote multiple pieces in the NYT explaining how healthy, active people got ill. See thread below for links. This multiyear campaign of lies is not acceptable. Why do you hate the patients who need help and research? https://t.co/fNS2OiXs9g

2022-11-15 23:32:17 @mykola You're telling me that me quoting Long Covid book co-author immunologist Danny Altmann—with the entire transcript so that it's not misunderstood—is somehow a problem for LC patients, because..? Yeah, I'll leave it here, too. It's a problem you have with Altmann. I can't fix that.

2022-11-15 23:26:56 @mykola And perhaps you should consider what it means that Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid Handbook *and* another immunologist from the very pro-mitigation Indie Sage *both* saying something straightforward is somehow seen by you as... an attack on Long Covid patients? Why?

2022-11-15 23:20:16 @mykola I put the entire transcript, too. He is saying exactly what he said.

2022-11-15 23:18:01 @mykola Long Covid is real, important, people are suffering and there is (still too little) but real research into the immunopathology. Altmann making straightforward scientific statement should not be seen as being insensitive.

2022-11-15 23:16:30 @mykola Once again, maybe reconsider what it means when even Indie Sage immunologist Altmann causes a problems for you, apparently, by making straightforward statements? It’s not being “sensitive” to let scientific terms become cudgels in Twitter wars. Altmann is a researcher. https://t.co/IkjSSMm6EP

2022-11-15 23:07:07 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe that should be an indicator for you? They are very concerned about the patients, but clearly also keeping the science, correct.

2022-11-15 23:06:01 @mykola @andrew_croxford *That* immunologist is Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid handbook, that Akiko wrote foreword for, part of very pro-mitigation Indie Sage. Watch the video, the second immunologist in the same group says the same thing. They’re referring to the incorrect, broad claims.

2022-11-15 22:58:29 @mykola @andrew_croxford Oh come on. Nobody is saying T cell exhaustion is pseudoscience. The person top of the thread is an immunologist! There are people making bizarre, Twitter-only claims. Antivaxxers use similar techniques. Real terminology, baseless assertion. That’s different. That’s all.

2022-11-15 22:55:50 @mykola @andrew_croxford 1-The current crude surveys includes too many subsets of post-viral sequelae lumped together. That’s not a secret. 2- I cite the UK ONS in my piece. Best we have despite lacking control group. 3- This is obviously false.

2022-11-15 22:41:40 @mykola @andrew_croxford What part?

2022-11-15 22:30:35 @healthyrespect1 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford I’ve written some of the earliest &

2022-11-15 22:27:19 @mykola @andrew_croxford You’re being lied to. There isn’t a single place I say or imply Long Covid patients are to be discarded, and in fact every single word has been the opposite. The people who lie about me also lie about the research and also don’t care about the patients.

2022-11-15 22:24:22 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe I should have written a lengthy NYT article about the history of post-viral illness after pandemics. You know the latest is because of their new lie? I said LC and ME patients are at *higher risk* from reinfections and they screenshotted and presented as “she doesn’t care”. https://t.co/B7fv2ynnLC

2022-11-15 21:29:43 @Naughty__Rabbit Or, stop being misled the seemingly unemployed guy (no research affiliation!) whose Covid papers remain uncited (sort Google Scholar by date!), but who tweets about me nonstop for years? (Fan of Dr. Iwasaki, I talk to her and quote her in my NYT pieces). https://t.co/LtgaElztsw

2022-11-15 20:53:16 @BenMazer Wait screenshots of abstracts of studies from a complex field and typing “I was right” repeatedly into the bird app input box isn’t enough?

2022-11-17 23:16:05 RT @ElizabethHaighx: Very worrying update from @FreedomForAlaa today as family reveals his health has 'severely deteriorated' after seven m…

2022-11-17 23:15:36 RT @nariology: This is so painful &

2022-11-17 22:53:38 @billwasik

2022-11-17 21:10:04 RT @sharifkouddous: Chants of “Free Alaa, free them all” close out the COP27 People’s Plenary #FreeAlaa #Wish4Alaa https://t.co/70yqoEVNHm

2022-11-17 20:08:17 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I ignore them 99% of the time (they tweet about me pretty much every day, often multiple times, will soon be two years) but I highlighted the doctored tweet because now their lies are targeting Long Covid patients. Despicable, frankly. I just wanted to show an example. But onward

2022-11-17 20:05:38 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. But it's a campaign of lies against me, more than a year, nonstop. Doctored tweets, blatant lying that a first-grader could see through. They don't care about the patients

2022-11-17 19:49:38 RT @paulmasonnews: This is an account of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a British citizen. Not that it should matter - because this is…

2022-11-17 19:49:29 RT @ORHamilton: Like so many of you, I had allowed myself to feel some optimism. But while Sisi and Shoukry were giving world leaders and…

2022-11-17 19:44:21 Adding this here since I broke the thread. This is gut wrenching. https://t.co/DdWE5qEioV

2022-11-17 19:42:01 Horrifying. @RishiSunak and @JoeBiden can, and should, end this torture with murderous intent. They have the leverage. If they don’t, even if Alaa Abdel Fattah doesn’t die during #COP27, he will have been killed during it. This British citizen needs to be on a plane to the UK. https://t.co/mGiHhHYJlS

2022-11-17 19:17:21 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @mocoband @calirunnerdoc They’re so far gone that it’s impossible. Also both my NYT pieces mention or profile how healthy people became ill, and you can find so many tweets from me explaining it, and nowhere do I ever say healthy people can’t get Long Covid. But they’ll never stop, it seems.

2022-11-17 19:09:11 This was great fun, thanks to my fellow panelists and the @ObamaFoundation for the invitation. (Thanks to the audience for their support even when I was critical of, ahem, previous administrations. ) https://t.co/TzLZUCpQs9

2022-11-17 19:06:31 https://t.co/oS1A5tFuml

2022-11-17 17:47:04 RT @ObamaFoundation: https://t.co/HaUvH8zToT

2022-11-17 17:25:15 RT @hackneylad: At #COP27 in #Egypt, I watched @sana2 risk everything to save her brother's life - and show the world that climate justice…

2022-11-17 17:14:44 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I was ignoring them, as I’ve done for years while they go on and on and on about me, but enough with lying to Long Covid patients. That’s a line that, when crossed, deserves a response. Harming patients in their obsession about me is unacceptable.

2022-11-17 17:13:19 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. I published two full page pieces in the New York Times explaining how many previously healthy people got Long Covid. Not exactly obscure. It’s been a multiyear nonstop campaign of lies about me, rando trolls but also, sadly, a few people who should know better join. Nuts.

2022-11-17 16:02:34 The cruelty never ends. The family members haven’t been able to touch or hug Alaa Abdel Fattah for years. https://t.co/SSuewIt5XP

2022-11-17 16:00:49 @jljcolorado @ClarivateAG @JgrpBoulder @CIRESnews @CUBoulderCHEM @CUBoulder Congratulations!

2022-11-17 15:20:30 What a tragedy, the whole thing. https://t.co/IpbKW2j7OL

2022-11-17 03:22:00 RT @victorsojo: I saw this tweet and thought surely it’s related to accounts Alex had interacted with too. Nope. This is quite the gang! #a…

2022-11-17 01:02:40 The classic playbook of many industries. https://t.co/lKOOKJ7RXL

2022-11-17 00:35:57 https://t.co/fqB8MmeO8r

2022-11-17 00:34:45 @notdred Keep them off Twitter.

2022-11-16 23:35:58 @excellent__s Well, thanks but… I will keep writing and (stay tuned) I may be getting involved soon on the research side

2022-11-16 23:14:23 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today @TheTimes was very clear on the increasing seriousness of Alaa's case for British citizens everywhere, &

2022-11-16 23:13:17 RT @khalidabdalla: Exactly right from @JohnCassonUK. The longer this goes on the more serious it must become. Rights &

2022-11-16 22:15:07 @GidMK See Michael’s chart here, and rest of the thread. The study does not compare first and subsequent infections at all. https://t.co/MLigTTihJD

2022-11-16 21:39:30 @JamesStein18 Yeah

2022-11-16 19:42:09 @AlexGaggio @origincanada @calirunnerdoc Yeah, look at this thread breaking down the temporal pattern in the ONS data, and that heartbreaking red line of the more than 12 months folks. Really, really terrible. (You can see the more transient sequelae as well.) https://t.co/GpY0JAfs6z

2022-11-16 19:37:59 @calirunnerdoc It's become distracting, imo, to try to discuss granularity and stas on Twitter, but happy to have a lengthier conversation. Statistics/surveys is one of my core academic specialties, but Twitter isn't great. But none of that convo takes away from the reality of the illness.

2022-11-16 19:36:00 @calirunnerdoc On the other subsets, I think the ONS is the best long-term data we have, even without a control group and latest method change, but there are new studies with control groups. And I think the reduction of the risk is visible, but the data is far from the granularity we'd want.

2022-11-16 19:32:41 @calirunnerdoc So that discussion is very hard on Twitter, and gets misinterpreted, especially since there are subsets. On the "from severity" version, which dominates the stats, there's a clear reduction since severity is reduced (this is post-ICU, post-hospitalization syndromes).

2022-11-16 19:28:48 For sociological fun, search Twitter for mentions of the Nature study on immunological dysfunction that professor Dore is a co-author on and note how it's represented to ordinary people. Then see what he actually says about it: "Exhausted by misrepresentation" is how he put it.

2022-11-16 19:15:13 By the way, please note professor Greg Dore is the coauthor of that Nature study on immunological dysfunction that, he says in another thread, is also being misrepresented. https://t.co/Oe5Gjrp8FO

2022-11-16 18:19:15 @alexandrosM Correct, multi-decade longitudinal study found multiple sclerosis follows, decades later, from EBV. HPV to cancer, similar. Yeay vaccines. See: https://t.co/bnnldDdihd and https://t.co/xQ3eliB6lc You've literally turned into this, I can't argue with that. https://t.co/zKqfNLBAvH

2022-11-16 18:13:38 @localnotable See this thread. I read the full study. The Reuters headline is absolutely wrong. The study does not measure severity of reinfections compared to first ones at all. It's better not to get informed via Twitter or media, unfortunately. https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-16 17:54:29 @localnotable That headline is hundred percent wrong. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t inject falsehoods into this. Yes, media gets many things wrong. It sucks.

2022-11-16 17:33:53 @alexandrosM Post-viral sequelae, documented throughout history, especially after pandemics are a different matter. I'm sure you were as excited as I was by the recent paper in Science showing multiple sclerosis follows, decades after, an EBV infection. Can't wait for the soon EBV vaccine!

2022-11-16 17:32:35 @alexandrosM No, different! The reason all the immunologists I know have eagerly, and enthusiastically, vaccinated their children is that they understand that primary infections can be higher risk for the youngest, and training the immune system via vaccines is the safest route. Same as this: https://t.co/8jAm3owcgf

2022-11-16 00:34:59 @jgprogress @mykola @andrew_croxford Why are you lying about me? I wrote multiple pieces in the NYT explaining how healthy, active people got ill. See thread below for links. This multiyear campaign of lies is not acceptable. Why do you hate the patients who need help and research? https://t.co/fNS2OiXs9g

2022-11-15 23:32:17 @mykola You're telling me that me quoting Long Covid book co-author immunologist Danny Altmann—with the entire transcript so that it's not misunderstood—is somehow a problem for LC patients, because..? Yeah, I'll leave it here, too. It's a problem you have with Altmann. I can't fix that.

2022-11-15 23:26:56 @mykola And perhaps you should consider what it means that Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid Handbook *and* another immunologist from the very pro-mitigation Indie Sage *both* saying something straightforward is somehow seen by you as... an attack on Long Covid patients? Why?

2022-11-15 23:20:16 @mykola I put the entire transcript, too. He is saying exactly what he said.

2022-11-15 23:18:01 @mykola Long Covid is real, important, people are suffering and there is (still too little) but real research into the immunopathology. Altmann making straightforward scientific statement should not be seen as being insensitive.

2022-11-15 23:16:30 @mykola Once again, maybe reconsider what it means when even Indie Sage immunologist Altmann causes a problems for you, apparently, by making straightforward statements? It’s not being “sensitive” to let scientific terms become cudgels in Twitter wars. Altmann is a researcher. https://t.co/IkjSSMm6EP

2022-11-15 23:07:07 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe that should be an indicator for you? They are very concerned about the patients, but clearly also keeping the science, correct.

2022-11-15 23:06:01 @mykola @andrew_croxford *That* immunologist is Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid handbook, that Akiko wrote foreword for, part of very pro-mitigation Indie Sage. Watch the video, the second immunologist in the same group says the same thing. They’re referring to the incorrect, broad claims.

2022-11-15 22:58:29 @mykola @andrew_croxford Oh come on. Nobody is saying T cell exhaustion is pseudoscience. The person top of the thread is an immunologist! There are people making bizarre, Twitter-only claims. Antivaxxers use similar techniques. Real terminology, baseless assertion. That’s different. That’s all.

2022-11-15 22:55:50 @mykola @andrew_croxford 1-The current crude surveys includes too many subsets of post-viral sequelae lumped together. That’s not a secret. 2- I cite the UK ONS in my piece. Best we have despite lacking control group. 3- This is obviously false.

2022-11-15 22:41:40 @mykola @andrew_croxford What part?

2022-11-15 22:30:35 @healthyrespect1 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford I’ve written some of the earliest &

2022-11-15 22:27:19 @mykola @andrew_croxford You’re being lied to. There isn’t a single place I say or imply Long Covid patients are to be discarded, and in fact every single word has been the opposite. The people who lie about me also lie about the research and also don’t care about the patients.

2022-11-15 22:24:22 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe I should have written a lengthy NYT article about the history of post-viral illness after pandemics. You know the latest is because of their new lie? I said LC and ME patients are at *higher risk* from reinfections and they screenshotted and presented as “she doesn’t care”. https://t.co/B7fv2ynnLC

2022-11-15 21:29:43 @Naughty__Rabbit Or, stop being misled the seemingly unemployed guy (no research affiliation!) whose Covid papers remain uncited (sort Google Scholar by date!), but who tweets about me nonstop for years? (Fan of Dr. Iwasaki, I talk to her and quote her in my NYT pieces). https://t.co/LtgaElztsw

2022-11-15 20:53:16 @BenMazer Wait screenshots of abstracts of studies from a complex field and typing “I was right” repeatedly into the bird app input box isn’t enough?

2022-11-18 21:43:46 Climate justice was never going to stand in isolation from the world. https://t.co/w9FKGNGK0J

2022-11-18 21:39:51 RT @TarletonG: Very much agree with @zeynep here: "The idea that advertisers alone will save us from hate speech and the further degradatio…

2022-11-18 17:47:16 @mitchpberg

2022-11-18 17:47:02 @ugurZp @nickgenes I look forward to the next opportunity!

2022-11-18 17:46:05 RT @peterstaley: So, before this site crashes, please use my DMs to suggest candidates to fill Tony Fauci’s shoes as NIAID Director. I’m on…

2022-11-18 17:31:11 @nickgenes @ugurZp Grateful for the opportunity to have retweeted it.

2022-11-18 17:14:11 RT @ugurZp: I don’t know about mastodon. My alternative platform for academics would be named Thriller where we can continue to be thrilled…

2022-11-18 16:40:52 RT @AbraarKaran: Recruiting participants for this study of #LongCovid &

2022-11-18 16:00:13 RT @fredbenenson: @mwseibel @ezraklein interviewed @zeynep about this 4 years ago and it’s a must listen - our brains are hard wired for hi…

2022-11-18 15:30:56 RT @EthanZ: Facebook just reminded me that it's @alaa's birthday. He remains imprisoned in Egypt, his hunger strike apparently broken, perh…

2022-11-18 15:08:35 Automating turning (downloaded) JSON into Substack (or any editor) friendly text would likely help many people. (Maybe already exists?). https://t.co/XzRKWmUEyp

2022-11-18 13:26:12 Alaa Abdel Fattah turned 41 today, in a prison cell. He almost died this week, and may not survive long given the cruel, murderous conditions of his imprisonment for most of the past decade. Moving #Cop27 recognition of the plight of the political prisoners. World leaders shrug. https://t.co/LKY7Ktf9du

2022-11-18 12:55:48 @mitchpberg Thank you. I tried, honestly.

2022-11-18 12:54:08 While parts of the world struggle with RSV and flu (always especially dangerous to infants and the elderly!), XBB update. Cases in Singapore continue to plummet. See France for BQ.1.1. More than two years in, nAbs labs do not reflect population immunity and are not predictive. https://t.co/faHW4TqkEj

2022-11-18 12:46:16 UK Monkeypox cases detected are down to 6 for all of last week. US is in low teens, daily. US/UK/EU potentially headed to zero, except for the new introductions. Imagine if we did the right thing, and made sure people in endemic countries were vaccinated as well. https://t.co/ign6CiuQMu

2022-11-18 12:31:04 For journalists/dissidents: This is why one should not post screenshots or PDFs from sources/whistleblowers, or send original documents back to wherever they came from to ask for comment/confirmation. Type it up and/or paraphrase. (See also the Reality Winner case). https://t.co/MwTPTumtGx

2022-11-18 11:34:23 @MBRodamilans @Andres4NY

2022-11-18 03:32:34 @EvolvedTech Yikes

2022-11-18 03:31:34 @AkiPeritz Boo

2022-11-18 03:18:01 “Tiktok and Tactical Nukes” Okay, let’s not. https://t.co/wIIUg0ZiB3

2022-11-17 23:16:05 RT @ElizabethHaighx: Very worrying update from @FreedomForAlaa today as family reveals his health has 'severely deteriorated' after seven m…

2022-11-17 23:15:36 RT @nariology: This is so painful &

2022-11-17 22:53:38 @billwasik

2022-11-17 21:10:04 RT @sharifkouddous: Chants of “Free Alaa, free them all” close out the COP27 People’s Plenary #FreeAlaa #Wish4Alaa https://t.co/70yqoEVNHm

2022-11-17 20:08:17 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I ignore them 99% of the time (they tweet about me pretty much every day, often multiple times, will soon be two years) but I highlighted the doctored tweet because now their lies are targeting Long Covid patients. Despicable, frankly. I just wanted to show an example. But onward

2022-11-17 20:05:38 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. But it's a campaign of lies against me, more than a year, nonstop. Doctored tweets, blatant lying that a first-grader could see through. They don't care about the patients

2022-11-17 19:49:38 RT @paulmasonnews: This is an account of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a British citizen. Not that it should matter - because this is…

2022-11-17 19:49:29 RT @ORHamilton: Like so many of you, I had allowed myself to feel some optimism. But while Sisi and Shoukry were giving world leaders and…

2022-11-17 19:44:21 Adding this here since I broke the thread. This is gut wrenching. https://t.co/DdWE5qEioV

2022-11-17 19:42:01 Horrifying. @RishiSunak and @JoeBiden can, and should, end this torture with murderous intent. They have the leverage. If they don’t, even if Alaa Abdel Fattah doesn’t die during #COP27, he will have been killed during it. This British citizen needs to be on a plane to the UK. https://t.co/mGiHhHYJlS

2022-11-17 19:17:21 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @mocoband @calirunnerdoc They’re so far gone that it’s impossible. Also both my NYT pieces mention or profile how healthy people became ill, and you can find so many tweets from me explaining it, and nowhere do I ever say healthy people can’t get Long Covid. But they’ll never stop, it seems.

2022-11-17 19:09:11 This was great fun, thanks to my fellow panelists and the @ObamaFoundation for the invitation. (Thanks to the audience for their support even when I was critical of, ahem, previous administrations. ) https://t.co/TzLZUCpQs9

2022-11-17 19:06:31 https://t.co/oS1A5tFuml

2022-11-17 17:47:04 RT @ObamaFoundation: https://t.co/HaUvH8zToT

2022-11-17 17:25:15 RT @hackneylad: At #COP27 in #Egypt, I watched @sana2 risk everything to save her brother's life - and show the world that climate justice…

2022-11-17 17:14:44 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I was ignoring them, as I’ve done for years while they go on and on and on about me, but enough with lying to Long Covid patients. That’s a line that, when crossed, deserves a response. Harming patients in their obsession about me is unacceptable.

2022-11-17 17:13:19 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. I published two full page pieces in the New York Times explaining how many previously healthy people got Long Covid. Not exactly obscure. It’s been a multiyear nonstop campaign of lies about me, rando trolls but also, sadly, a few people who should know better join. Nuts.

2022-11-17 16:02:34 The cruelty never ends. The family members haven’t been able to touch or hug Alaa Abdel Fattah for years. https://t.co/SSuewIt5XP

2022-11-17 16:00:49 @jljcolorado @ClarivateAG @JgrpBoulder @CIRESnews @CUBoulderCHEM @CUBoulder Congratulations!

2022-11-17 15:20:30 What a tragedy, the whole thing. https://t.co/IpbKW2j7OL

2022-11-17 03:22:00 RT @victorsojo: I saw this tweet and thought surely it’s related to accounts Alex had interacted with too. Nope. This is quite the gang! #a…

2022-11-17 01:02:40 The classic playbook of many industries. https://t.co/lKOOKJ7RXL

2022-11-17 00:35:57 https://t.co/fqB8MmeO8r

2022-11-17 00:34:45 @notdred Keep them off Twitter.

2022-11-16 23:35:58 @excellent__s Well, thanks but… I will keep writing and (stay tuned) I may be getting involved soon on the research side

2022-11-16 23:14:23 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today @TheTimes was very clear on the increasing seriousness of Alaa's case for British citizens everywhere, &

2022-11-16 23:13:17 RT @khalidabdalla: Exactly right from @JohnCassonUK. The longer this goes on the more serious it must become. Rights &

2022-11-16 22:15:07 @GidMK See Michael’s chart here, and rest of the thread. The study does not compare first and subsequent infections at all. https://t.co/MLigTTihJD

2022-11-16 21:39:30 @JamesStein18 Yeah

2022-11-16 19:42:09 @AlexGaggio @origincanada @calirunnerdoc Yeah, look at this thread breaking down the temporal pattern in the ONS data, and that heartbreaking red line of the more than 12 months folks. Really, really terrible. (You can see the more transient sequelae as well.) https://t.co/GpY0JAfs6z

2022-11-16 19:37:59 @calirunnerdoc It's become distracting, imo, to try to discuss granularity and stas on Twitter, but happy to have a lengthier conversation. Statistics/surveys is one of my core academic specialties, but Twitter isn't great. But none of that convo takes away from the reality of the illness.

2022-11-16 19:36:00 @calirunnerdoc On the other subsets, I think the ONS is the best long-term data we have, even without a control group and latest method change, but there are new studies with control groups. And I think the reduction of the risk is visible, but the data is far from the granularity we'd want.

2022-11-16 19:32:41 @calirunnerdoc So that discussion is very hard on Twitter, and gets misinterpreted, especially since there are subsets. On the "from severity" version, which dominates the stats, there's a clear reduction since severity is reduced (this is post-ICU, post-hospitalization syndromes).

2022-11-16 19:28:48 For sociological fun, search Twitter for mentions of the Nature study on immunological dysfunction that professor Dore is a co-author on and note how it's represented to ordinary people. Then see what he actually says about it: "Exhausted by misrepresentation" is how he put it.

2022-11-16 19:15:13 By the way, please note professor Greg Dore is the coauthor of that Nature study on immunological dysfunction that, he says in another thread, is also being misrepresented. https://t.co/Oe5Gjrp8FO

2022-11-16 18:19:15 @alexandrosM Correct, multi-decade longitudinal study found multiple sclerosis follows, decades later, from EBV. HPV to cancer, similar. Yeay vaccines. See: https://t.co/bnnldDdihd and https://t.co/xQ3eliB6lc You've literally turned into this, I can't argue with that. https://t.co/zKqfNLBAvH

2022-11-16 18:13:38 @localnotable See this thread. I read the full study. The Reuters headline is absolutely wrong. The study does not measure severity of reinfections compared to first ones at all. It's better not to get informed via Twitter or media, unfortunately. https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-16 17:54:29 @localnotable That headline is hundred percent wrong. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t inject falsehoods into this. Yes, media gets many things wrong. It sucks.

2022-11-16 17:33:53 @alexandrosM Post-viral sequelae, documented throughout history, especially after pandemics are a different matter. I'm sure you were as excited as I was by the recent paper in Science showing multiple sclerosis follows, decades after, an EBV infection. Can't wait for the soon EBV vaccine!

2022-11-16 17:32:35 @alexandrosM No, different! The reason all the immunologists I know have eagerly, and enthusiastically, vaccinated their children is that they understand that primary infections can be higher risk for the youngest, and training the immune system via vaccines is the safest route. Same as this: https://t.co/8jAm3owcgf

2022-11-16 00:34:59 @jgprogress @mykola @andrew_croxford Why are you lying about me? I wrote multiple pieces in the NYT explaining how healthy, active people got ill. See thread below for links. This multiyear campaign of lies is not acceptable. Why do you hate the patients who need help and research? https://t.co/fNS2OiXs9g

2022-11-15 23:32:17 @mykola You're telling me that me quoting Long Covid book co-author immunologist Danny Altmann—with the entire transcript so that it's not misunderstood—is somehow a problem for LC patients, because..? Yeah, I'll leave it here, too. It's a problem you have with Altmann. I can't fix that.

2022-11-15 23:26:56 @mykola And perhaps you should consider what it means that Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid Handbook *and* another immunologist from the very pro-mitigation Indie Sage *both* saying something straightforward is somehow seen by you as... an attack on Long Covid patients? Why?

2022-11-15 23:20:16 @mykola I put the entire transcript, too. He is saying exactly what he said.

2022-11-15 23:18:01 @mykola Long Covid is real, important, people are suffering and there is (still too little) but real research into the immunopathology. Altmann making straightforward scientific statement should not be seen as being insensitive.

2022-11-15 23:16:30 @mykola Once again, maybe reconsider what it means when even Indie Sage immunologist Altmann causes a problems for you, apparently, by making straightforward statements? It’s not being “sensitive” to let scientific terms become cudgels in Twitter wars. Altmann is a researcher. https://t.co/IkjSSMm6EP

2022-11-15 23:07:07 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe that should be an indicator for you? They are very concerned about the patients, but clearly also keeping the science, correct.

2022-11-15 23:06:01 @mykola @andrew_croxford *That* immunologist is Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid handbook, that Akiko wrote foreword for, part of very pro-mitigation Indie Sage. Watch the video, the second immunologist in the same group says the same thing. They’re referring to the incorrect, broad claims.

2022-11-15 22:58:29 @mykola @andrew_croxford Oh come on. Nobody is saying T cell exhaustion is pseudoscience. The person top of the thread is an immunologist! There are people making bizarre, Twitter-only claims. Antivaxxers use similar techniques. Real terminology, baseless assertion. That’s different. That’s all.

2022-11-15 22:55:50 @mykola @andrew_croxford 1-The current crude surveys includes too many subsets of post-viral sequelae lumped together. That’s not a secret. 2- I cite the UK ONS in my piece. Best we have despite lacking control group. 3- This is obviously false.

2022-11-15 22:41:40 @mykola @andrew_croxford What part?

2022-11-15 22:30:35 @healthyrespect1 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford I’ve written some of the earliest &

2022-11-15 22:27:19 @mykola @andrew_croxford You’re being lied to. There isn’t a single place I say or imply Long Covid patients are to be discarded, and in fact every single word has been the opposite. The people who lie about me also lie about the research and also don’t care about the patients.

2022-11-15 22:24:22 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe I should have written a lengthy NYT article about the history of post-viral illness after pandemics. You know the latest is because of their new lie? I said LC and ME patients are at *higher risk* from reinfections and they screenshotted and presented as “she doesn’t care”. https://t.co/B7fv2ynnLC

2022-11-15 21:29:43 @Naughty__Rabbit Or, stop being misled the seemingly unemployed guy (no research affiliation!) whose Covid papers remain uncited (sort Google Scholar by date!), but who tweets about me nonstop for years? (Fan of Dr. Iwasaki, I talk to her and quote her in my NYT pieces). https://t.co/LtgaElztsw

2022-11-15 20:53:16 @BenMazer Wait screenshots of abstracts of studies from a complex field and typing “I was right” repeatedly into the bird app input box isn’t enough?

2022-11-19 16:12:03 @vijayiyer312 @peterstaley @NIHDirector Exactly

2022-11-19 09:34:38 RT @AmnestyUK: Hey @RishiSunak Last week we urged you to bring Alaa home from unjust imprisonment in Egypt during #COP27 You didn’t. Ins…

2022-11-19 02:13:02 @CortJohnson Great overview, thanks.

2022-11-19 01:59:07 RT @PepperMarion: As promised! @UW_Immunology is excited to announce two open faculty job postings! We are hiring up to TWO Assistant Profe…

2022-11-18 21:43:46 Climate justice was never going to stand in isolation from the world. https://t.co/w9FKGNGK0J

2022-11-18 21:39:51 RT @TarletonG: Very much agree with @zeynep here: "The idea that advertisers alone will save us from hate speech and the further degradatio…

2022-11-18 17:47:16 @mitchpberg

2022-11-18 17:47:02 @ugurZp @nickgenes I look forward to the next opportunity!

2022-11-18 17:46:05 RT @peterstaley: So, before this site crashes, please use my DMs to suggest candidates to fill Tony Fauci’s shoes as NIAID Director. I’m on…

2022-11-18 17:31:11 @nickgenes @ugurZp Grateful for the opportunity to have retweeted it.

2022-11-18 17:14:11 RT @ugurZp: I don’t know about mastodon. My alternative platform for academics would be named Thriller where we can continue to be thrilled…

2022-11-18 16:40:52 RT @AbraarKaran: Recruiting participants for this study of #LongCovid &

2022-11-18 16:00:13 RT @fredbenenson: @mwseibel @ezraklein interviewed @zeynep about this 4 years ago and it’s a must listen - our brains are hard wired for hi…

2022-11-18 15:30:56 RT @EthanZ: Facebook just reminded me that it's @alaa's birthday. He remains imprisoned in Egypt, his hunger strike apparently broken, perh…

2022-11-18 15:08:35 Automating turning (downloaded) JSON into Substack (or any editor) friendly text would likely help many people. (Maybe already exists?). https://t.co/XzRKWmUEyp

2022-11-18 13:26:12 Alaa Abdel Fattah turned 41 today, in a prison cell. He almost died this week, and may not survive long given the cruel, murderous conditions of his imprisonment for most of the past decade. Moving #Cop27 recognition of the plight of the political prisoners. World leaders shrug. https://t.co/LKY7Ktf9du

2022-11-18 12:55:48 @mitchpberg Thank you. I tried, honestly.

2022-11-18 12:54:08 While parts of the world struggle with RSV and flu (always especially dangerous to infants and the elderly!), XBB update. Cases in Singapore continue to plummet. See France for BQ.1.1. More than two years in, nAbs labs do not reflect population immunity and are not predictive. https://t.co/faHW4TqkEj

2022-11-18 12:46:16 UK Monkeypox cases detected are down to 6 for all of last week. US is in low teens, daily. US/UK/EU potentially headed to zero, except for the new introductions. Imagine if we did the right thing, and made sure people in endemic countries were vaccinated as well. https://t.co/ign6CiuQMu

2022-11-18 12:31:04 For journalists/dissidents: This is why one should not post screenshots or PDFs from sources/whistleblowers, or send original documents back to wherever they came from to ask for comment/confirmation. Type it up and/or paraphrase. (See also the Reality Winner case). https://t.co/MwTPTumtGx

2022-11-18 11:34:23 @MBRodamilans @Andres4NY

2022-11-18 03:32:34 @EvolvedTech Yikes

2022-11-18 03:31:34 @AkiPeritz Boo

2022-11-18 03:18:01 “Tiktok and Tactical Nukes” Okay, let’s not. https://t.co/wIIUg0ZiB3

2022-11-17 23:16:05 RT @ElizabethHaighx: Very worrying update from @FreedomForAlaa today as family reveals his health has 'severely deteriorated' after seven m…

2022-11-17 23:15:36 RT @nariology: This is so painful &

2022-11-17 22:53:38 @billwasik

2022-11-17 21:10:04 RT @sharifkouddous: Chants of “Free Alaa, free them all” close out the COP27 People’s Plenary #FreeAlaa #Wish4Alaa https://t.co/70yqoEVNHm

2022-11-17 20:08:17 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I ignore them 99% of the time (they tweet about me pretty much every day, often multiple times, will soon be two years) but I highlighted the doctored tweet because now their lies are targeting Long Covid patients. Despicable, frankly. I just wanted to show an example. But onward

2022-11-17 20:05:38 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. But it's a campaign of lies against me, more than a year, nonstop. Doctored tweets, blatant lying that a first-grader could see through. They don't care about the patients

2022-11-17 19:49:38 RT @paulmasonnews: This is an account of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a British citizen. Not that it should matter - because this is…

2022-11-17 19:49:29 RT @ORHamilton: Like so many of you, I had allowed myself to feel some optimism. But while Sisi and Shoukry were giving world leaders and…

2022-11-17 19:44:21 Adding this here since I broke the thread. This is gut wrenching. https://t.co/DdWE5qEioV

2022-11-17 19:42:01 Horrifying. @RishiSunak and @JoeBiden can, and should, end this torture with murderous intent. They have the leverage. If they don’t, even if Alaa Abdel Fattah doesn’t die during #COP27, he will have been killed during it. This British citizen needs to be on a plane to the UK. https://t.co/mGiHhHYJlS

2022-11-17 19:17:21 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @mocoband @calirunnerdoc They’re so far gone that it’s impossible. Also both my NYT pieces mention or profile how healthy people became ill, and you can find so many tweets from me explaining it, and nowhere do I ever say healthy people can’t get Long Covid. But they’ll never stop, it seems.

2022-11-17 19:09:11 This was great fun, thanks to my fellow panelists and the @ObamaFoundation for the invitation. (Thanks to the audience for their support even when I was critical of, ahem, previous administrations. ) https://t.co/TzLZUCpQs9

2022-11-17 19:06:31 https://t.co/oS1A5tFuml

2022-11-17 17:47:04 RT @ObamaFoundation: https://t.co/HaUvH8zToT

2022-11-17 17:25:15 RT @hackneylad: At #COP27 in #Egypt, I watched @sana2 risk everything to save her brother's life - and show the world that climate justice…

2022-11-17 17:14:44 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I was ignoring them, as I’ve done for years while they go on and on and on about me, but enough with lying to Long Covid patients. That’s a line that, when crossed, deserves a response. Harming patients in their obsession about me is unacceptable.

2022-11-17 17:13:19 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. I published two full page pieces in the New York Times explaining how many previously healthy people got Long Covid. Not exactly obscure. It’s been a multiyear nonstop campaign of lies about me, rando trolls but also, sadly, a few people who should know better join. Nuts.

2022-11-17 16:02:34 The cruelty never ends. The family members haven’t been able to touch or hug Alaa Abdel Fattah for years. https://t.co/SSuewIt5XP

2022-11-17 16:00:49 @jljcolorado @ClarivateAG @JgrpBoulder @CIRESnews @CUBoulderCHEM @CUBoulder Congratulations!

2022-11-17 15:20:30 What a tragedy, the whole thing. https://t.co/IpbKW2j7OL

2022-11-17 03:22:00 RT @victorsojo: I saw this tweet and thought surely it’s related to accounts Alex had interacted with too. Nope. This is quite the gang! #a…

2022-11-17 01:02:40 The classic playbook of many industries. https://t.co/lKOOKJ7RXL

2022-11-17 00:35:57 https://t.co/fqB8MmeO8r

2022-11-17 00:34:45 @notdred Keep them off Twitter.

2022-11-16 23:35:58 @excellent__s Well, thanks but… I will keep writing and (stay tuned) I may be getting involved soon on the research side

2022-11-16 23:14:23 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today @TheTimes was very clear on the increasing seriousness of Alaa's case for British citizens everywhere, &

2022-11-16 23:13:17 RT @khalidabdalla: Exactly right from @JohnCassonUK. The longer this goes on the more serious it must become. Rights &

2022-11-16 22:15:07 @GidMK See Michael’s chart here, and rest of the thread. The study does not compare first and subsequent infections at all. https://t.co/MLigTTihJD

2022-11-16 21:39:30 @JamesStein18 Yeah

2022-11-16 19:42:09 @AlexGaggio @origincanada @calirunnerdoc Yeah, look at this thread breaking down the temporal pattern in the ONS data, and that heartbreaking red line of the more than 12 months folks. Really, really terrible. (You can see the more transient sequelae as well.) https://t.co/GpY0JAfs6z

2022-11-16 19:37:59 @calirunnerdoc It's become distracting, imo, to try to discuss granularity and stas on Twitter, but happy to have a lengthier conversation. Statistics/surveys is one of my core academic specialties, but Twitter isn't great. But none of that convo takes away from the reality of the illness.

2022-11-16 19:36:00 @calirunnerdoc On the other subsets, I think the ONS is the best long-term data we have, even without a control group and latest method change, but there are new studies with control groups. And I think the reduction of the risk is visible, but the data is far from the granularity we'd want.

2022-11-16 19:32:41 @calirunnerdoc So that discussion is very hard on Twitter, and gets misinterpreted, especially since there are subsets. On the "from severity" version, which dominates the stats, there's a clear reduction since severity is reduced (this is post-ICU, post-hospitalization syndromes).

2022-11-16 19:28:48 For sociological fun, search Twitter for mentions of the Nature study on immunological dysfunction that professor Dore is a co-author on and note how it's represented to ordinary people. Then see what he actually says about it: "Exhausted by misrepresentation" is how he put it.

2022-11-16 19:15:13 By the way, please note professor Greg Dore is the coauthor of that Nature study on immunological dysfunction that, he says in another thread, is also being misrepresented. https://t.co/Oe5Gjrp8FO

2022-11-16 18:19:15 @alexandrosM Correct, multi-decade longitudinal study found multiple sclerosis follows, decades later, from EBV. HPV to cancer, similar. Yeay vaccines. See: https://t.co/bnnldDdihd and https://t.co/xQ3eliB6lc You've literally turned into this, I can't argue with that. https://t.co/zKqfNLBAvH

2022-11-16 18:13:38 @localnotable See this thread. I read the full study. The Reuters headline is absolutely wrong. The study does not measure severity of reinfections compared to first ones at all. It's better not to get informed via Twitter or media, unfortunately. https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-16 17:54:29 @localnotable That headline is hundred percent wrong. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t inject falsehoods into this. Yes, media gets many things wrong. It sucks.

2022-11-16 17:33:53 @alexandrosM Post-viral sequelae, documented throughout history, especially after pandemics are a different matter. I'm sure you were as excited as I was by the recent paper in Science showing multiple sclerosis follows, decades after, an EBV infection. Can't wait for the soon EBV vaccine!

2022-11-16 17:32:35 @alexandrosM No, different! The reason all the immunologists I know have eagerly, and enthusiastically, vaccinated their children is that they understand that primary infections can be higher risk for the youngest, and training the immune system via vaccines is the safest route. Same as this: https://t.co/8jAm3owcgf

2022-11-16 00:34:59 @jgprogress @mykola @andrew_croxford Why are you lying about me? I wrote multiple pieces in the NYT explaining how healthy, active people got ill. See thread below for links. This multiyear campaign of lies is not acceptable. Why do you hate the patients who need help and research? https://t.co/fNS2OiXs9g

2022-11-15 23:32:17 @mykola You're telling me that me quoting Long Covid book co-author immunologist Danny Altmann—with the entire transcript so that it's not misunderstood—is somehow a problem for LC patients, because..? Yeah, I'll leave it here, too. It's a problem you have with Altmann. I can't fix that.

2022-11-15 23:26:56 @mykola And perhaps you should consider what it means that Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid Handbook *and* another immunologist from the very pro-mitigation Indie Sage *both* saying something straightforward is somehow seen by you as... an attack on Long Covid patients? Why?

2022-11-15 23:20:16 @mykola I put the entire transcript, too. He is saying exactly what he said.

2022-11-15 23:18:01 @mykola Long Covid is real, important, people are suffering and there is (still too little) but real research into the immunopathology. Altmann making straightforward scientific statement should not be seen as being insensitive.

2022-11-15 23:16:30 @mykola Once again, maybe reconsider what it means when even Indie Sage immunologist Altmann causes a problems for you, apparently, by making straightforward statements? It’s not being “sensitive” to let scientific terms become cudgels in Twitter wars. Altmann is a researcher. https://t.co/IkjSSMm6EP

2022-11-15 23:07:07 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe that should be an indicator for you? They are very concerned about the patients, but clearly also keeping the science, correct.

2022-11-15 23:06:01 @mykola @andrew_croxford *That* immunologist is Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid handbook, that Akiko wrote foreword for, part of very pro-mitigation Indie Sage. Watch the video, the second immunologist in the same group says the same thing. They’re referring to the incorrect, broad claims.

2022-11-15 22:58:29 @mykola @andrew_croxford Oh come on. Nobody is saying T cell exhaustion is pseudoscience. The person top of the thread is an immunologist! There are people making bizarre, Twitter-only claims. Antivaxxers use similar techniques. Real terminology, baseless assertion. That’s different. That’s all.

2022-11-15 22:55:50 @mykola @andrew_croxford 1-The current crude surveys includes too many subsets of post-viral sequelae lumped together. That’s not a secret. 2- I cite the UK ONS in my piece. Best we have despite lacking control group. 3- This is obviously false.

2022-11-15 22:41:40 @mykola @andrew_croxford What part?

2022-11-15 22:30:35 @healthyrespect1 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford I’ve written some of the earliest &

2022-11-15 22:27:19 @mykola @andrew_croxford You’re being lied to. There isn’t a single place I say or imply Long Covid patients are to be discarded, and in fact every single word has been the opposite. The people who lie about me also lie about the research and also don’t care about the patients.

2022-11-15 22:24:22 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe I should have written a lengthy NYT article about the history of post-viral illness after pandemics. You know the latest is because of their new lie? I said LC and ME patients are at *higher risk* from reinfections and they screenshotted and presented as “she doesn’t care”. https://t.co/B7fv2ynnLC

2022-11-15 21:29:43 @Naughty__Rabbit Or, stop being misled the seemingly unemployed guy (no research affiliation!) whose Covid papers remain uncited (sort Google Scholar by date!), but who tweets about me nonstop for years? (Fan of Dr. Iwasaki, I talk to her and quote her in my NYT pieces). https://t.co/LtgaElztsw

2022-11-15 20:53:16 @BenMazer Wait screenshots of abstracts of studies from a complex field and typing “I was right” repeatedly into the bird app input box isn’t enough?

2022-11-20 21:45:53 @those_this @andrew_croxford And few followup with any of this l. Remember the super-viral“forever plague” article? I guess you could say it didn’t have typos. Most everything else was.. utterly unfounded to loony. And yet, they’re still on the same beat. It works for RTs.

2022-11-20 21:36:56 RT @j_g_allen: New proposed ventilation rates for covid and other airborne respiratory infectious diseases from The Lancet @Commissioncovid.

2022-11-20 20:32:45 RT @NaomiAKlein: This is exactly right. @RishiSunak, appropriate to our age, *performed* diplomacy but did not actually engage in it. Tha…

2022-11-20 19:49:15 @daisy_court75 @r_prior @meghanor @brianvastag

2022-11-20 15:59:15 RT @MiddleEastEye: The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah said they were allowed to see him on Thursday and that his…

2022-11-20 15:58:54 RT @CarolineLucas: So incredibly sad &

2022-11-20 14:32:16 RT @shirinfdehghan: Iranian women basketball team together with their coaches have all taken their hijab’s off and took what seems like a n…

2022-11-19 16:12:03 @vijayiyer312 @peterstaley @NIHDirector Exactly

2022-11-19 09:34:38 RT @AmnestyUK: Hey @RishiSunak Last week we urged you to bring Alaa home from unjust imprisonment in Egypt during #COP27 You didn’t. Ins…

2022-11-19 02:13:02 @CortJohnson Great overview, thanks.

2022-11-19 01:59:07 RT @PepperMarion: As promised! @UW_Immunology is excited to announce two open faculty job postings! We are hiring up to TWO Assistant Profe…

2022-11-18 21:43:46 Climate justice was never going to stand in isolation from the world. https://t.co/w9FKGNGK0J

2022-11-18 21:39:51 RT @TarletonG: Very much agree with @zeynep here: "The idea that advertisers alone will save us from hate speech and the further degradatio…

2022-11-18 17:47:16 @mitchpberg

2022-11-18 17:47:02 @ugurZp @nickgenes I look forward to the next opportunity!

2022-11-18 17:46:05 RT @peterstaley: So, before this site crashes, please use my DMs to suggest candidates to fill Tony Fauci’s shoes as NIAID Director. I’m on…

2022-11-18 17:31:11 @nickgenes @ugurZp Grateful for the opportunity to have retweeted it.

2022-11-18 17:14:11 RT @ugurZp: I don’t know about mastodon. My alternative platform for academics would be named Thriller where we can continue to be thrilled…

2022-11-18 16:40:52 RT @AbraarKaran: Recruiting participants for this study of #LongCovid &

2022-11-18 16:00:13 RT @fredbenenson: @mwseibel @ezraklein interviewed @zeynep about this 4 years ago and it’s a must listen - our brains are hard wired for hi…

2022-11-18 15:30:56 RT @EthanZ: Facebook just reminded me that it's @alaa's birthday. He remains imprisoned in Egypt, his hunger strike apparently broken, perh…

2022-11-18 15:08:35 Automating turning (downloaded) JSON into Substack (or any editor) friendly text would likely help many people. (Maybe already exists?). https://t.co/XzRKWmUEyp

2022-11-18 13:26:12 Alaa Abdel Fattah turned 41 today, in a prison cell. He almost died this week, and may not survive long given the cruel, murderous conditions of his imprisonment for most of the past decade. Moving #Cop27 recognition of the plight of the political prisoners. World leaders shrug. https://t.co/LKY7Ktf9du

2022-11-18 12:55:48 @mitchpberg Thank you. I tried, honestly.

2022-11-18 12:54:08 While parts of the world struggle with RSV and flu (always especially dangerous to infants and the elderly!), XBB update. Cases in Singapore continue to plummet. See France for BQ.1.1. More than two years in, nAbs labs do not reflect population immunity and are not predictive. https://t.co/faHW4TqkEj

2022-11-18 12:46:16 UK Monkeypox cases detected are down to 6 for all of last week. US is in low teens, daily. US/UK/EU potentially headed to zero, except for the new introductions. Imagine if we did the right thing, and made sure people in endemic countries were vaccinated as well. https://t.co/ign6CiuQMu

2022-11-18 12:31:04 For journalists/dissidents: This is why one should not post screenshots or PDFs from sources/whistleblowers, or send original documents back to wherever they came from to ask for comment/confirmation. Type it up and/or paraphrase. (See also the Reality Winner case). https://t.co/MwTPTumtGx

2022-11-18 11:34:23 @MBRodamilans @Andres4NY

2022-11-18 03:32:34 @EvolvedTech Yikes

2022-11-18 03:31:34 @AkiPeritz Boo

2022-11-18 03:18:01 “Tiktok and Tactical Nukes” Okay, let’s not. https://t.co/wIIUg0ZiB3

2022-11-17 23:16:05 RT @ElizabethHaighx: Very worrying update from @FreedomForAlaa today as family reveals his health has 'severely deteriorated' after seven m…

2022-11-17 23:15:36 RT @nariology: This is so painful &

2022-11-17 22:53:38 @billwasik

2022-11-17 21:10:04 RT @sharifkouddous: Chants of “Free Alaa, free them all” close out the COP27 People’s Plenary #FreeAlaa #Wish4Alaa https://t.co/70yqoEVNHm

2022-11-17 20:08:17 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I ignore them 99% of the time (they tweet about me pretty much every day, often multiple times, will soon be two years) but I highlighted the doctored tweet because now their lies are targeting Long Covid patients. Despicable, frankly. I just wanted to show an example. But onward

2022-11-17 20:05:38 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. But it's a campaign of lies against me, more than a year, nonstop. Doctored tweets, blatant lying that a first-grader could see through. They don't care about the patients

2022-11-17 19:49:38 RT @paulmasonnews: This is an account of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a British citizen. Not that it should matter - because this is…

2022-11-17 19:49:29 RT @ORHamilton: Like so many of you, I had allowed myself to feel some optimism. But while Sisi and Shoukry were giving world leaders and…

2022-11-17 19:44:21 Adding this here since I broke the thread. This is gut wrenching. https://t.co/DdWE5qEioV

2022-11-17 19:42:01 Horrifying. @RishiSunak and @JoeBiden can, and should, end this torture with murderous intent. They have the leverage. If they don’t, even if Alaa Abdel Fattah doesn’t die during #COP27, he will have been killed during it. This British citizen needs to be on a plane to the UK. https://t.co/mGiHhHYJlS

2022-11-17 19:17:21 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @mocoband @calirunnerdoc They’re so far gone that it’s impossible. Also both my NYT pieces mention or profile how healthy people became ill, and you can find so many tweets from me explaining it, and nowhere do I ever say healthy people can’t get Long Covid. But they’ll never stop, it seems.

2022-11-17 19:09:11 This was great fun, thanks to my fellow panelists and the @ObamaFoundation for the invitation. (Thanks to the audience for their support even when I was critical of, ahem, previous administrations. ) https://t.co/TzLZUCpQs9

2022-11-17 19:06:31 https://t.co/oS1A5tFuml

2022-11-17 17:47:04 RT @ObamaFoundation: https://t.co/HaUvH8zToT

2022-11-17 17:25:15 RT @hackneylad: At #COP27 in #Egypt, I watched @sana2 risk everything to save her brother's life - and show the world that climate justice…

2022-11-17 17:14:44 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I was ignoring them, as I’ve done for years while they go on and on and on about me, but enough with lying to Long Covid patients. That’s a line that, when crossed, deserves a response. Harming patients in their obsession about me is unacceptable.

2022-11-17 17:13:19 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. I published two full page pieces in the New York Times explaining how many previously healthy people got Long Covid. Not exactly obscure. It’s been a multiyear nonstop campaign of lies about me, rando trolls but also, sadly, a few people who should know better join. Nuts.

2022-11-17 16:02:34 The cruelty never ends. The family members haven’t been able to touch or hug Alaa Abdel Fattah for years. https://t.co/SSuewIt5XP

2022-11-17 16:00:49 @jljcolorado @ClarivateAG @JgrpBoulder @CIRESnews @CUBoulderCHEM @CUBoulder Congratulations!

2022-11-17 15:20:30 What a tragedy, the whole thing. https://t.co/IpbKW2j7OL

2022-11-17 03:22:00 RT @victorsojo: I saw this tweet and thought surely it’s related to accounts Alex had interacted with too. Nope. This is quite the gang! #a…

2022-11-17 01:02:40 The classic playbook of many industries. https://t.co/lKOOKJ7RXL

2022-11-17 00:35:57 https://t.co/fqB8MmeO8r

2022-11-17 00:34:45 @notdred Keep them off Twitter.

2022-11-16 23:35:58 @excellent__s Well, thanks but… I will keep writing and (stay tuned) I may be getting involved soon on the research side

2022-11-16 23:14:23 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today @TheTimes was very clear on the increasing seriousness of Alaa's case for British citizens everywhere, &

2022-11-16 23:13:17 RT @khalidabdalla: Exactly right from @JohnCassonUK. The longer this goes on the more serious it must become. Rights &

2022-11-16 22:15:07 @GidMK See Michael’s chart here, and rest of the thread. The study does not compare first and subsequent infections at all. https://t.co/MLigTTihJD

2022-11-16 21:39:30 @JamesStein18 Yeah

2022-11-16 19:42:09 @AlexGaggio @origincanada @calirunnerdoc Yeah, look at this thread breaking down the temporal pattern in the ONS data, and that heartbreaking red line of the more than 12 months folks. Really, really terrible. (You can see the more transient sequelae as well.) https://t.co/GpY0JAfs6z

2022-11-16 19:37:59 @calirunnerdoc It's become distracting, imo, to try to discuss granularity and stas on Twitter, but happy to have a lengthier conversation. Statistics/surveys is one of my core academic specialties, but Twitter isn't great. But none of that convo takes away from the reality of the illness.

2022-11-16 19:36:00 @calirunnerdoc On the other subsets, I think the ONS is the best long-term data we have, even without a control group and latest method change, but there are new studies with control groups. And I think the reduction of the risk is visible, but the data is far from the granularity we'd want.

2022-11-16 19:32:41 @calirunnerdoc So that discussion is very hard on Twitter, and gets misinterpreted, especially since there are subsets. On the "from severity" version, which dominates the stats, there's a clear reduction since severity is reduced (this is post-ICU, post-hospitalization syndromes).

2022-11-16 19:28:48 For sociological fun, search Twitter for mentions of the Nature study on immunological dysfunction that professor Dore is a co-author on and note how it's represented to ordinary people. Then see what he actually says about it: "Exhausted by misrepresentation" is how he put it.

2022-11-16 19:15:13 By the way, please note professor Greg Dore is the coauthor of that Nature study on immunological dysfunction that, he says in another thread, is also being misrepresented. https://t.co/Oe5Gjrp8FO

2022-11-16 18:19:15 @alexandrosM Correct, multi-decade longitudinal study found multiple sclerosis follows, decades later, from EBV. HPV to cancer, similar. Yeay vaccines. See: https://t.co/bnnldDdihd and https://t.co/xQ3eliB6lc You've literally turned into this, I can't argue with that. https://t.co/zKqfNLBAvH

2022-11-16 18:13:38 @localnotable See this thread. I read the full study. The Reuters headline is absolutely wrong. The study does not measure severity of reinfections compared to first ones at all. It's better not to get informed via Twitter or media, unfortunately. https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-16 17:54:29 @localnotable That headline is hundred percent wrong. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t inject falsehoods into this. Yes, media gets many things wrong. It sucks.

2022-11-16 17:33:53 @alexandrosM Post-viral sequelae, documented throughout history, especially after pandemics are a different matter. I'm sure you were as excited as I was by the recent paper in Science showing multiple sclerosis follows, decades after, an EBV infection. Can't wait for the soon EBV vaccine!

2022-11-16 17:32:35 @alexandrosM No, different! The reason all the immunologists I know have eagerly, and enthusiastically, vaccinated their children is that they understand that primary infections can be higher risk for the youngest, and training the immune system via vaccines is the safest route. Same as this: https://t.co/8jAm3owcgf

2022-11-16 00:34:59 @jgprogress @mykola @andrew_croxford Why are you lying about me? I wrote multiple pieces in the NYT explaining how healthy, active people got ill. See thread below for links. This multiyear campaign of lies is not acceptable. Why do you hate the patients who need help and research? https://t.co/fNS2OiXs9g

2022-11-15 23:32:17 @mykola You're telling me that me quoting Long Covid book co-author immunologist Danny Altmann—with the entire transcript so that it's not misunderstood—is somehow a problem for LC patients, because..? Yeah, I'll leave it here, too. It's a problem you have with Altmann. I can't fix that.

2022-11-15 23:26:56 @mykola And perhaps you should consider what it means that Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid Handbook *and* another immunologist from the very pro-mitigation Indie Sage *both* saying something straightforward is somehow seen by you as... an attack on Long Covid patients? Why?

2022-11-15 23:20:16 @mykola I put the entire transcript, too. He is saying exactly what he said.

2022-11-15 23:18:01 @mykola Long Covid is real, important, people are suffering and there is (still too little) but real research into the immunopathology. Altmann making straightforward scientific statement should not be seen as being insensitive.

2022-11-15 23:16:30 @mykola Once again, maybe reconsider what it means when even Indie Sage immunologist Altmann causes a problems for you, apparently, by making straightforward statements? It’s not being “sensitive” to let scientific terms become cudgels in Twitter wars. Altmann is a researcher. https://t.co/IkjSSMm6EP

2022-11-15 23:07:07 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe that should be an indicator for you? They are very concerned about the patients, but clearly also keeping the science, correct.

2022-11-15 23:06:01 @mykola @andrew_croxford *That* immunologist is Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid handbook, that Akiko wrote foreword for, part of very pro-mitigation Indie Sage. Watch the video, the second immunologist in the same group says the same thing. They’re referring to the incorrect, broad claims.

2022-11-15 22:58:29 @mykola @andrew_croxford Oh come on. Nobody is saying T cell exhaustion is pseudoscience. The person top of the thread is an immunologist! There are people making bizarre, Twitter-only claims. Antivaxxers use similar techniques. Real terminology, baseless assertion. That’s different. That’s all.

2022-11-15 22:55:50 @mykola @andrew_croxford 1-The current crude surveys includes too many subsets of post-viral sequelae lumped together. That’s not a secret. 2- I cite the UK ONS in my piece. Best we have despite lacking control group. 3- This is obviously false.

2022-11-15 22:41:40 @mykola @andrew_croxford What part?

2022-11-15 22:30:35 @healthyrespect1 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford I’ve written some of the earliest &

2022-11-15 22:27:19 @mykola @andrew_croxford You’re being lied to. There isn’t a single place I say or imply Long Covid patients are to be discarded, and in fact every single word has been the opposite. The people who lie about me also lie about the research and also don’t care about the patients.

2022-11-15 22:24:22 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe I should have written a lengthy NYT article about the history of post-viral illness after pandemics. You know the latest is because of their new lie? I said LC and ME patients are at *higher risk* from reinfections and they screenshotted and presented as “she doesn’t care”. https://t.co/B7fv2ynnLC

2022-11-15 21:29:43 @Naughty__Rabbit Or, stop being misled the seemingly unemployed guy (no research affiliation!) whose Covid papers remain uncited (sort Google Scholar by date!), but who tweets about me nonstop for years? (Fan of Dr. Iwasaki, I talk to her and quote her in my NYT pieces). https://t.co/LtgaElztsw

2022-11-15 20:53:16 @BenMazer Wait screenshots of abstracts of studies from a complex field and typing “I was right” repeatedly into the bird app input box isn’t enough?

2022-11-22 02:51:47 I’m sorry. Yeah, that’s terrible, too, on top of the grief and the loss. Yes, turning people’s individual tragedies into political fodder via anecdotal “proof” isn’t okay like that either. https://t.co/uljxKdzQ5b

2022-11-22 02:33:53 @mzbitca Indeed. Tragic.

2022-11-22 02:30:50 @TrumplsCancer @PhilMiller2911 Yeah and during a pandemic, even non-star athlete deaths make become news.

2022-11-22 02:28:20 @juanrive @PhilMiller2911 Yeah happens unfortunately. Rare but real, precedes the pandemic.

2022-11-22 02:26:30 Yes, this has sadly been happening long before the pandemic. Young athletes collapsing or tragically dying is rare, but not unheard of at all. Anectodes are often available to fit preconceived ideas, doesn’t make it true. https://t.co/Ym3TL2eWnY

2022-11-22 02:23:15 Many tragic things happen, if rarely. Young people die unexpectedly. Athletes collapse. Especially during a pandemic, more such stories become news. None of that alone implicates vaccines. Statistics with careful controls are how it would be figured out—anecdote lists aren’t it.

2022-11-22 02:18:33 New anti-vaxxer movie “Died Suddenly” lists people who died or collapsed young/unexpectedly, alleging it’s the vaccine. Classic lying method. Young people do die or collapse, rarely but tragically, and just collating anecdotes or news stories preys on gullibility to push a lie. https://t.co/AImXFPBccT

2022-11-22 01:14:49 RT @UmarFarooq_: NSO, the Israeli company behind the Pegasus spyware, was trying to claim sovereign immunity because it worked on behalf of…

2022-11-21 23:30:56 @RiverdaleBoy @roxannedarling @ariehkovler It does.

2022-11-21 23:07:18 RT @PutrinoLab: Incredible to see this launching in Beta!

2022-11-21 22:40:56 @roxannedarling I would’ve happily paid for more functionality around lists. Also, bookmarks—I have them but you can’t search them.

2022-11-21 22:30:34 Anyway, this just about captures the rest of the sentiment, I think. https://t.co/wojGS1Eclf

2022-11-21 22:25:47 I don't know why shipping new analytics/search etc. wasn't monetized as a move away from advertisers—some make money from this platform, but the analytics are terrible. Add a way to authenticate, sure. The bluecheck wars feel like generals fighting the old war, but whatever.

2022-11-21 22:13:58 @ProfLHunter Wait does it mean "hey buddy" — like what you'd call your friend in the argument, or the bus driver when asking directions, or telling the waiter to hold the ketchup, as well as what you'd call the professor professor? That's what hocam is in Turkish nowadays.

2022-11-21 22:12:03 Anyway, I saw Musk is claiming that they will demote/deboost hate speech, rather than ban it. That requires.. rules about hate speech. Who decides? Moderators then identifying it *at scale*. That's always been the problem. New problem, same as the old problem, apparently.

2022-11-21 22:08:38 Yep, lists are great. If Twitter could *ship* some product around that, it would likely be a good addition. https://t.co/xihi7unMWD

2022-11-21 22:05:40 "hocam" It WORKED. I'm pretty fond of the updated usage, tbh. https://t.co/nL0NKSYDAM

2022-11-21 22:04:23 Sure, one can democratize the blue check and make it available for pay (though remains to be seen if without authentication?), but it can't *also* carry on the previous signification. "The bluechecks" had a *the* (as a for or against) for a reason. This makes it *a* bluecheck.

2022-11-21 22:00:22 During the tumultuous 1968 period in Turkey, some rebellious students started addressing *everyone* as "hocam"—means "my professor/teacher". (The professors were to be called that.) "Hocam": Friends, teachers, janitors... It caught on. These days, "hocam" means "my dude(tte)."

2022-11-21 21:55:52 Good to open up authentication (why did one have to be "notable" for that?). Good to mark official accounts—loved the insulin stunt, but don't want fake country sending nuclear tweets. But the "notable" signifier may end, so one reason people are purchasing it for won't matter.

2022-11-21 14:05:20 RT @practicingpod: Worth reading the whole . The "corner of twitter" @zeynep refers to is obvious to those who know it and the source of m…

2022-11-21 14:04:30 And this is why I respond. A small crew has been lying nonstop about me—and also science and research, for so long. I ignore 99% of it. The same crew harasses scientists who object to them. They have destroyed so much credibility of people—some scientists even—they fooled, too. https://t.co/onWP8XYWwL

2022-11-21 14:01:00 @Paul_Melman Yep. These people have been tweeting lies about me for more than a year. I ignore it 99% of the time. They keep at it, nonstop. I respond, than it’s “why is she engaging”? They lie about so many other things, too. Very harmful. So 1% of the time, I point to their awful methods.

2022-11-21 13:25:13 RT @RichardfromSyd1: This is an interesting thread I am reflecting on. The problem of knowing what is valid vs what is taken out of context…

2022-11-21 12:45:11 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada *feat! I can’t even spell, despite controlling the entire field of immunology!

2022-11-21 12:38:25 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Genuinely amused by my hypothetical powers to control an entire advanced, actual field that I am not part of. When I figure out how I actually pull this amazing feet, I’m going to apply it to other fields, too! Next up, particle physics.

2022-11-21 12:36:35 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada “Papers I didn’t write that have nothing to do with claims I’ve made that people in the field can read correctly proves my nonsensical claims. Why don’t immunologists cite my Covid claims or papers? The omnipotent sociologist somehow controls the entire field of immunology.”

2022-11-21 12:32:12 Adding examples. This is how a lot of Twitter viral nonsense works a lot of the time. Antivaxxers also use this method widely. https://t.co/abORZ27sLg

2022-11-21 12:29:03 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Also 2021 paper, not 2022. (Method: find old study from *someone else* usually something specific—say, severe cases—or subtle that doesn’t apply broadly or was followed up with different results, misrepresent it, claim it vindicates nonsensical other claims, go Twitter viral).

2022-11-21 11:17:15 RT @Monasosh: A riot squad carried him away before he fought back and was returned to his cell. "When they put him in the cell he started t…

2022-11-20 21:45:53 @those_this @andrew_croxford And few followup with any of this l. Remember the super-viral“forever plague” article? I guess you could say it didn’t have typos. Most everything else was.. utterly unfounded to loony. And yet, they’re still on the same beat. It works for RTs.

2022-11-20 21:36:56 RT @j_g_allen: New proposed ventilation rates for covid and other airborne respiratory infectious diseases from The Lancet @Commissioncovid.

2022-11-20 20:32:45 RT @NaomiAKlein: This is exactly right. @RishiSunak, appropriate to our age, *performed* diplomacy but did not actually engage in it. Tha…

2022-11-20 19:49:15 @daisy_court75 @r_prior @meghanor @brianvastag

2022-11-20 15:59:15 RT @MiddleEastEye: The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah said they were allowed to see him on Thursday and that his…

2022-11-20 15:58:54 RT @CarolineLucas: So incredibly sad &

2022-11-20 14:32:16 RT @shirinfdehghan: Iranian women basketball team together with their coaches have all taken their hijab’s off and took what seems like a n…

2022-11-19 16:12:03 @vijayiyer312 @peterstaley @NIHDirector Exactly

2022-11-19 09:34:38 RT @AmnestyUK: Hey @RishiSunak Last week we urged you to bring Alaa home from unjust imprisonment in Egypt during #COP27 You didn’t. Ins…

2022-11-19 02:13:02 @CortJohnson Great overview, thanks.

2022-11-19 01:59:07 RT @PepperMarion: As promised! @UW_Immunology is excited to announce two open faculty job postings! We are hiring up to TWO Assistant Profe…

2022-11-18 21:43:46 Climate justice was never going to stand in isolation from the world. https://t.co/w9FKGNGK0J

2022-11-18 21:39:51 RT @TarletonG: Very much agree with @zeynep here: "The idea that advertisers alone will save us from hate speech and the further degradatio…

2022-11-18 17:47:16 @mitchpberg

2022-11-18 17:47:02 @ugurZp @nickgenes I look forward to the next opportunity!

2022-11-18 17:46:05 RT @peterstaley: So, before this site crashes, please use my DMs to suggest candidates to fill Tony Fauci’s shoes as NIAID Director. I’m on…

2022-11-18 17:31:11 @nickgenes @ugurZp Grateful for the opportunity to have retweeted it.

2022-11-18 17:14:11 RT @ugurZp: I don’t know about mastodon. My alternative platform for academics would be named Thriller where we can continue to be thrilled…

2022-11-18 16:40:52 RT @AbraarKaran: Recruiting participants for this study of #LongCovid &

2022-11-18 16:00:13 RT @fredbenenson: @mwseibel @ezraklein interviewed @zeynep about this 4 years ago and it’s a must listen - our brains are hard wired for hi…

2022-11-18 15:30:56 RT @EthanZ: Facebook just reminded me that it's @alaa's birthday. He remains imprisoned in Egypt, his hunger strike apparently broken, perh…

2022-11-18 15:08:35 Automating turning (downloaded) JSON into Substack (or any editor) friendly text would likely help many people. (Maybe already exists?). https://t.co/XzRKWmUEyp

2022-11-18 13:26:12 Alaa Abdel Fattah turned 41 today, in a prison cell. He almost died this week, and may not survive long given the cruel, murderous conditions of his imprisonment for most of the past decade. Moving #Cop27 recognition of the plight of the political prisoners. World leaders shrug. https://t.co/LKY7Ktf9du

2022-11-18 12:55:48 @mitchpberg Thank you. I tried, honestly.

2022-11-18 12:54:08 While parts of the world struggle with RSV and flu (always especially dangerous to infants and the elderly!), XBB update. Cases in Singapore continue to plummet. See France for BQ.1.1. More than two years in, nAbs labs do not reflect population immunity and are not predictive. https://t.co/faHW4TqkEj

2022-11-18 12:46:16 UK Monkeypox cases detected are down to 6 for all of last week. US is in low teens, daily. US/UK/EU potentially headed to zero, except for the new introductions. Imagine if we did the right thing, and made sure people in endemic countries were vaccinated as well. https://t.co/ign6CiuQMu

2022-11-18 12:31:04 For journalists/dissidents: This is why one should not post screenshots or PDFs from sources/whistleblowers, or send original documents back to wherever they came from to ask for comment/confirmation. Type it up and/or paraphrase. (See also the Reality Winner case). https://t.co/MwTPTumtGx

2022-11-18 11:34:23 @MBRodamilans @Andres4NY

2022-11-18 03:32:34 @EvolvedTech Yikes

2022-11-18 03:31:34 @AkiPeritz Boo

2022-11-18 03:18:01 “Tiktok and Tactical Nukes” Okay, let’s not. https://t.co/wIIUg0ZiB3

2022-11-17 23:16:05 RT @ElizabethHaighx: Very worrying update from @FreedomForAlaa today as family reveals his health has 'severely deteriorated' after seven m…

2022-11-17 23:15:36 RT @nariology: This is so painful &

2022-11-17 22:53:38 @billwasik

2022-11-17 21:10:04 RT @sharifkouddous: Chants of “Free Alaa, free them all” close out the COP27 People’s Plenary #FreeAlaa #Wish4Alaa https://t.co/70yqoEVNHm

2022-11-17 20:08:17 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I ignore them 99% of the time (they tweet about me pretty much every day, often multiple times, will soon be two years) but I highlighted the doctored tweet because now their lies are targeting Long Covid patients. Despicable, frankly. I just wanted to show an example. But onward

2022-11-17 20:05:38 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. But it's a campaign of lies against me, more than a year, nonstop. Doctored tweets, blatant lying that a first-grader could see through. They don't care about the patients

2022-11-17 19:49:38 RT @paulmasonnews: This is an account of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a British citizen. Not that it should matter - because this is…

2022-11-17 19:49:29 RT @ORHamilton: Like so many of you, I had allowed myself to feel some optimism. But while Sisi and Shoukry were giving world leaders and…

2022-11-17 19:44:21 Adding this here since I broke the thread. This is gut wrenching. https://t.co/DdWE5qEioV

2022-11-17 19:42:01 Horrifying. @RishiSunak and @JoeBiden can, and should, end this torture with murderous intent. They have the leverage. If they don’t, even if Alaa Abdel Fattah doesn’t die during #COP27, he will have been killed during it. This British citizen needs to be on a plane to the UK. https://t.co/mGiHhHYJlS

2022-11-17 19:17:21 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @mocoband @calirunnerdoc They’re so far gone that it’s impossible. Also both my NYT pieces mention or profile how healthy people became ill, and you can find so many tweets from me explaining it, and nowhere do I ever say healthy people can’t get Long Covid. But they’ll never stop, it seems.

2022-11-17 19:09:11 This was great fun, thanks to my fellow panelists and the @ObamaFoundation for the invitation. (Thanks to the audience for their support even when I was critical of, ahem, previous administrations. ) https://t.co/TzLZUCpQs9

2022-11-17 19:06:31 https://t.co/oS1A5tFuml

2022-11-17 17:47:04 RT @ObamaFoundation: https://t.co/HaUvH8zToT

2022-11-17 17:25:15 RT @hackneylad: At #COP27 in #Egypt, I watched @sana2 risk everything to save her brother's life - and show the world that climate justice…

2022-11-17 17:14:44 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I was ignoring them, as I’ve done for years while they go on and on and on about me, but enough with lying to Long Covid patients. That’s a line that, when crossed, deserves a response. Harming patients in their obsession about me is unacceptable.

2022-11-17 17:13:19 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. I published two full page pieces in the New York Times explaining how many previously healthy people got Long Covid. Not exactly obscure. It’s been a multiyear nonstop campaign of lies about me, rando trolls but also, sadly, a few people who should know better join. Nuts.

2022-11-17 16:02:34 The cruelty never ends. The family members haven’t been able to touch or hug Alaa Abdel Fattah for years. https://t.co/SSuewIt5XP

2022-11-17 16:00:49 @jljcolorado @ClarivateAG @JgrpBoulder @CIRESnews @CUBoulderCHEM @CUBoulder Congratulations!

2022-11-17 15:20:30 What a tragedy, the whole thing. https://t.co/IpbKW2j7OL

2022-11-17 03:22:00 RT @victorsojo: I saw this tweet and thought surely it’s related to accounts Alex had interacted with too. Nope. This is quite the gang! #a…

2022-11-17 01:02:40 The classic playbook of many industries. https://t.co/lKOOKJ7RXL

2022-11-17 00:35:57 https://t.co/fqB8MmeO8r

2022-11-17 00:34:45 @notdred Keep them off Twitter.

2022-11-16 23:35:58 @excellent__s Well, thanks but… I will keep writing and (stay tuned) I may be getting involved soon on the research side

2022-11-16 23:14:23 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today @TheTimes was very clear on the increasing seriousness of Alaa's case for British citizens everywhere, &

2022-11-16 23:13:17 RT @khalidabdalla: Exactly right from @JohnCassonUK. The longer this goes on the more serious it must become. Rights &

2022-11-16 22:15:07 @GidMK See Michael’s chart here, and rest of the thread. The study does not compare first and subsequent infections at all. https://t.co/MLigTTihJD

2022-11-16 21:39:30 @JamesStein18 Yeah

2022-11-16 19:42:09 @AlexGaggio @origincanada @calirunnerdoc Yeah, look at this thread breaking down the temporal pattern in the ONS data, and that heartbreaking red line of the more than 12 months folks. Really, really terrible. (You can see the more transient sequelae as well.) https://t.co/GpY0JAfs6z

2022-11-16 19:37:59 @calirunnerdoc It's become distracting, imo, to try to discuss granularity and stas on Twitter, but happy to have a lengthier conversation. Statistics/surveys is one of my core academic specialties, but Twitter isn't great. But none of that convo takes away from the reality of the illness.

2022-11-16 19:36:00 @calirunnerdoc On the other subsets, I think the ONS is the best long-term data we have, even without a control group and latest method change, but there are new studies with control groups. And I think the reduction of the risk is visible, but the data is far from the granularity we'd want.

2022-11-16 19:32:41 @calirunnerdoc So that discussion is very hard on Twitter, and gets misinterpreted, especially since there are subsets. On the "from severity" version, which dominates the stats, there's a clear reduction since severity is reduced (this is post-ICU, post-hospitalization syndromes).

2022-11-16 19:28:48 For sociological fun, search Twitter for mentions of the Nature study on immunological dysfunction that professor Dore is a co-author on and note how it's represented to ordinary people. Then see what he actually says about it: "Exhausted by misrepresentation" is how he put it.

2022-11-16 19:15:13 By the way, please note professor Greg Dore is the coauthor of that Nature study on immunological dysfunction that, he says in another thread, is also being misrepresented. https://t.co/Oe5Gjrp8FO

2022-11-16 18:19:15 @alexandrosM Correct, multi-decade longitudinal study found multiple sclerosis follows, decades later, from EBV. HPV to cancer, similar. Yeay vaccines. See: https://t.co/bnnldDdihd and https://t.co/xQ3eliB6lc You've literally turned into this, I can't argue with that. https://t.co/zKqfNLBAvH

2022-11-16 18:13:38 @localnotable See this thread. I read the full study. The Reuters headline is absolutely wrong. The study does not measure severity of reinfections compared to first ones at all. It's better not to get informed via Twitter or media, unfortunately. https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-16 17:54:29 @localnotable That headline is hundred percent wrong. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t inject falsehoods into this. Yes, media gets many things wrong. It sucks.

2022-11-16 17:33:53 @alexandrosM Post-viral sequelae, documented throughout history, especially after pandemics are a different matter. I'm sure you were as excited as I was by the recent paper in Science showing multiple sclerosis follows, decades after, an EBV infection. Can't wait for the soon EBV vaccine!

2022-11-16 17:32:35 @alexandrosM No, different! The reason all the immunologists I know have eagerly, and enthusiastically, vaccinated their children is that they understand that primary infections can be higher risk for the youngest, and training the immune system via vaccines is the safest route. Same as this: https://t.co/8jAm3owcgf

2022-11-16 00:34:59 @jgprogress @mykola @andrew_croxford Why are you lying about me? I wrote multiple pieces in the NYT explaining how healthy, active people got ill. See thread below for links. This multiyear campaign of lies is not acceptable. Why do you hate the patients who need help and research? https://t.co/fNS2OiXs9g

2022-11-15 23:32:17 @mykola You're telling me that me quoting Long Covid book co-author immunologist Danny Altmann—with the entire transcript so that it's not misunderstood—is somehow a problem for LC patients, because..? Yeah, I'll leave it here, too. It's a problem you have with Altmann. I can't fix that.

2022-11-15 23:26:56 @mykola And perhaps you should consider what it means that Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid Handbook *and* another immunologist from the very pro-mitigation Indie Sage *both* saying something straightforward is somehow seen by you as... an attack on Long Covid patients? Why?

2022-11-15 23:20:16 @mykola I put the entire transcript, too. He is saying exactly what he said.

2022-11-15 23:18:01 @mykola Long Covid is real, important, people are suffering and there is (still too little) but real research into the immunopathology. Altmann making straightforward scientific statement should not be seen as being insensitive.

2022-11-15 23:16:30 @mykola Once again, maybe reconsider what it means when even Indie Sage immunologist Altmann causes a problems for you, apparently, by making straightforward statements? It’s not being “sensitive” to let scientific terms become cudgels in Twitter wars. Altmann is a researcher. https://t.co/IkjSSMm6EP

2022-11-15 23:07:07 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe that should be an indicator for you? They are very concerned about the patients, but clearly also keeping the science, correct.

2022-11-15 23:06:01 @mykola @andrew_croxford *That* immunologist is Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid handbook, that Akiko wrote foreword for, part of very pro-mitigation Indie Sage. Watch the video, the second immunologist in the same group says the same thing. They’re referring to the incorrect, broad claims.

2022-11-15 22:58:29 @mykola @andrew_croxford Oh come on. Nobody is saying T cell exhaustion is pseudoscience. The person top of the thread is an immunologist! There are people making bizarre, Twitter-only claims. Antivaxxers use similar techniques. Real terminology, baseless assertion. That’s different. That’s all.

2022-11-15 22:55:50 @mykola @andrew_croxford 1-The current crude surveys includes too many subsets of post-viral sequelae lumped together. That’s not a secret. 2- I cite the UK ONS in my piece. Best we have despite lacking control group. 3- This is obviously false.

2022-11-15 22:41:40 @mykola @andrew_croxford What part?

2022-11-15 22:30:35 @healthyrespect1 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford I’ve written some of the earliest &

2022-11-15 22:27:19 @mykola @andrew_croxford You’re being lied to. There isn’t a single place I say or imply Long Covid patients are to be discarded, and in fact every single word has been the opposite. The people who lie about me also lie about the research and also don’t care about the patients.

2022-11-15 22:24:22 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe I should have written a lengthy NYT article about the history of post-viral illness after pandemics. You know the latest is because of their new lie? I said LC and ME patients are at *higher risk* from reinfections and they screenshotted and presented as “she doesn’t care”. https://t.co/B7fv2ynnLC

2022-11-15 21:29:43 @Naughty__Rabbit Or, stop being misled the seemingly unemployed guy (no research affiliation!) whose Covid papers remain uncited (sort Google Scholar by date!), but who tweets about me nonstop for years? (Fan of Dr. Iwasaki, I talk to her and quote her in my NYT pieces). https://t.co/LtgaElztsw

2022-11-15 20:53:16 @BenMazer Wait screenshots of abstracts of studies from a complex field and typing “I was right” repeatedly into the bird app input box isn’t enough?

2022-11-22 17:43:47 @smithsj See here, as well. (Obviously, more empirical research into the Long X sequelae is necessary and may help a lot of people including Long Covid as well a a whole host of other ailments such as ME/CFS, and some research suggests Alzheimer and Parkinson’s may turn out like MS did.) https://t.co/9anHsEf3JJ

2022-11-22 17:39:52 @smithsj Also I didn’t say it! I wish! It was a great essay written by an expert about acute severity and fact-checked by multiple immunologists. It has been amply shown. Iwasaki *separately* told me it could also explain why pandemics (novel viruses) produce more “Long” viral sequelae.

2022-11-22 17:28:49 So much potential upside to recognition of airborne transmission for other respiratory illnesses, as well as potential longer-term sequelae from other viruses including influenza and especially Epstein-Barr Virus.

2022-11-22 17:23:47 “Marr said she and her colleagues don’t have a clear answer as to which mode of transmission is dominant, but her work has shown that the flu, like Covid, can also spread via aerosols.”

2022-11-22 17:22:05 “Covid is definitely not alone in having these long-term consequences, even after a mild infection,” Iwasaki said. “According to Iwasaki, seasonal flu is less likely to cause lasting symptoms than pandemic flu strains like the 2009 H1N1 virus.” Post-viral syndromes are broader. https://t.co/wMjUwBGMOB

2022-11-22 16:20:55 RT @NathanGrubaugh: We are hiring an Associate Research Scientist (or postdoc with relevant experience) with a background in pathogen gen…

2022-11-22 15:34:46 RT @mlipsitch: The Public Health Analytics and Modeling Fellowship at @CDCgov https://t.co/tUxLffil90 is a great opportunity for postdocs t…

2022-11-22 15:22:10 @scree177

2022-11-22 14:10:13 @JohnSkylar I’m sorry for your loss. And yes, it happens, tragically though rarely.

2022-11-22 12:52:25 @DeryaTR_ !

2022-11-22 10:25:53 https://t.co/MeaCcv3DS7

2022-11-22 02:51:47 I’m sorry. Yeah, that’s terrible, too, on top of the grief and the loss. Yes, turning people’s individual tragedies into political fodder via anecdotal “proof” isn’t okay like that either. https://t.co/uljxKdzQ5b

2022-11-22 02:33:53 @mzbitca Indeed. Tragic.

2022-11-22 02:30:50 @TrumplsCancer @PhilMiller2911 Yeah and during a pandemic, even non-star athlete deaths make become news.

2022-11-22 02:28:20 @juanrive @PhilMiller2911 Yeah happens unfortunately. Rare but real, precedes the pandemic.

2022-11-22 02:26:30 Yes, this has sadly been happening long before the pandemic. Young athletes collapsing or tragically dying is rare, but not unheard of at all. Anectodes are often available to fit preconceived ideas, doesn’t make it true. https://t.co/Ym3TL2eWnY

2022-11-22 02:23:15 Many tragic things happen, if rarely. Young people die unexpectedly. Athletes collapse. Especially during a pandemic, more such stories become news. None of that alone implicates vaccines. Statistics with careful controls are how it would be figured out—anecdote lists aren’t it.

2022-11-22 02:18:33 New anti-vaxxer movie “Died Suddenly” lists people who died or collapsed young/unexpectedly, alleging it’s the vaccine. Classic lying method. Young people do die or collapse, rarely but tragically, and just collating anecdotes or news stories preys on gullibility to push a lie. https://t.co/AImXFPBccT

2022-11-22 01:14:49 RT @UmarFarooq_: NSO, the Israeli company behind the Pegasus spyware, was trying to claim sovereign immunity because it worked on behalf of…

2022-11-21 23:30:56 @RiverdaleBoy @roxannedarling @ariehkovler It does.

2022-11-21 23:07:18 RT @PutrinoLab: Incredible to see this launching in Beta!

2022-11-21 22:40:56 @roxannedarling I would’ve happily paid for more functionality around lists. Also, bookmarks—I have them but you can’t search them.

2022-11-21 22:30:34 Anyway, this just about captures the rest of the sentiment, I think. https://t.co/wojGS1Eclf

2022-11-21 22:25:47 I don't know why shipping new analytics/search etc. wasn't monetized as a move away from advertisers—some make money from this platform, but the analytics are terrible. Add a way to authenticate, sure. The bluecheck wars feel like generals fighting the old war, but whatever.

2022-11-21 22:13:58 @ProfLHunter Wait does it mean "hey buddy" — like what you'd call your friend in the argument, or the bus driver when asking directions, or telling the waiter to hold the ketchup, as well as what you'd call the professor professor? That's what hocam is in Turkish nowadays.

2022-11-21 22:12:03 Anyway, I saw Musk is claiming that they will demote/deboost hate speech, rather than ban it. That requires.. rules about hate speech. Who decides? Moderators then identifying it *at scale*. That's always been the problem. New problem, same as the old problem, apparently.

2022-11-21 22:08:38 Yep, lists are great. If Twitter could *ship* some product around that, it would likely be a good addition. https://t.co/xihi7unMWD

2022-11-21 22:05:40 "hocam" It WORKED. I'm pretty fond of the updated usage, tbh. https://t.co/nL0NKSYDAM

2022-11-21 22:04:23 Sure, one can democratize the blue check and make it available for pay (though remains to be seen if without authentication?), but it can't *also* carry on the previous signification. "The bluechecks" had a *the* (as a for or against) for a reason. This makes it *a* bluecheck.

2022-11-21 22:00:22 During the tumultuous 1968 period in Turkey, some rebellious students started addressing *everyone* as "hocam"—means "my professor/teacher". (The professors were to be called that.) "Hocam": Friends, teachers, janitors... It caught on. These days, "hocam" means "my dude(tte)."

2022-11-21 21:55:52 Good to open up authentication (why did one have to be "notable" for that?). Good to mark official accounts—loved the insulin stunt, but don't want fake country sending nuclear tweets. But the "notable" signifier may end, so one reason people are purchasing it for won't matter.

2022-11-21 14:05:20 RT @practicingpod: Worth reading the whole . The "corner of twitter" @zeynep refers to is obvious to those who know it and the source of m…

2022-11-21 14:04:30 And this is why I respond. A small crew has been lying nonstop about me—and also science and research, for so long. I ignore 99% of it. The same crew harasses scientists who object to them. They have destroyed so much credibility of people—some scientists even—they fooled, too. https://t.co/onWP8XYWwL

2022-11-21 14:01:00 @Paul_Melman Yep. These people have been tweeting lies about me for more than a year. I ignore it 99% of the time. They keep at it, nonstop. I respond, than it’s “why is she engaging”? They lie about so many other things, too. Very harmful. So 1% of the time, I point to their awful methods.

2022-11-21 13:25:13 RT @RichardfromSyd1: This is an interesting thread I am reflecting on. The problem of knowing what is valid vs what is taken out of context…

2022-11-21 12:45:11 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada *feat! I can’t even spell, despite controlling the entire field of immunology!

2022-11-21 12:38:25 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Genuinely amused by my hypothetical powers to control an entire advanced, actual field that I am not part of. When I figure out how I actually pull this amazing feet, I’m going to apply it to other fields, too! Next up, particle physics.

2022-11-21 12:36:35 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada “Papers I didn’t write that have nothing to do with claims I’ve made that people in the field can read correctly proves my nonsensical claims. Why don’t immunologists cite my Covid claims or papers? The omnipotent sociologist somehow controls the entire field of immunology.”

2022-11-21 12:32:12 Adding examples. This is how a lot of Twitter viral nonsense works a lot of the time. Antivaxxers also use this method widely. https://t.co/abORZ27sLg

2022-11-21 12:29:03 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Also 2021 paper, not 2022. (Method: find old study from *someone else* usually something specific—say, severe cases—or subtle that doesn’t apply broadly or was followed up with different results, misrepresent it, claim it vindicates nonsensical other claims, go Twitter viral).

2022-11-21 11:17:15 RT @Monasosh: A riot squad carried him away before he fought back and was returned to his cell. "When they put him in the cell he started t…

2022-11-20 21:45:53 @those_this @andrew_croxford And few followup with any of this l. Remember the super-viral“forever plague” article? I guess you could say it didn’t have typos. Most everything else was.. utterly unfounded to loony. And yet, they’re still on the same beat. It works for RTs.

2022-11-20 21:36:56 RT @j_g_allen: New proposed ventilation rates for covid and other airborne respiratory infectious diseases from The Lancet @Commissioncovid.

2022-11-20 20:32:45 RT @NaomiAKlein: This is exactly right. @RishiSunak, appropriate to our age, *performed* diplomacy but did not actually engage in it. Tha…

2022-11-20 19:49:15 @daisy_court75 @r_prior @meghanor @brianvastag

2022-11-20 15:59:15 RT @MiddleEastEye: The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah said they were allowed to see him on Thursday and that his…

2022-11-20 15:58:54 RT @CarolineLucas: So incredibly sad &

2022-11-20 14:32:16 RT @shirinfdehghan: Iranian women basketball team together with their coaches have all taken their hijab’s off and took what seems like a n…

2022-11-19 16:12:03 @vijayiyer312 @peterstaley @NIHDirector Exactly

2022-11-19 09:34:38 RT @AmnestyUK: Hey @RishiSunak Last week we urged you to bring Alaa home from unjust imprisonment in Egypt during #COP27 You didn’t. Ins…

2022-11-19 02:13:02 @CortJohnson Great overview, thanks.

2022-11-19 01:59:07 RT @PepperMarion: As promised! @UW_Immunology is excited to announce two open faculty job postings! We are hiring up to TWO Assistant Profe…

2022-11-18 21:43:46 Climate justice was never going to stand in isolation from the world. https://t.co/w9FKGNGK0J

2022-11-18 21:39:51 RT @TarletonG: Very much agree with @zeynep here: "The idea that advertisers alone will save us from hate speech and the further degradatio…

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2022-11-18 17:47:02 @ugurZp @nickgenes I look forward to the next opportunity!

2022-11-18 17:46:05 RT @peterstaley: So, before this site crashes, please use my DMs to suggest candidates to fill Tony Fauci’s shoes as NIAID Director. I’m on…

2022-11-18 17:31:11 @nickgenes @ugurZp Grateful for the opportunity to have retweeted it.

2022-11-18 17:14:11 RT @ugurZp: I don’t know about mastodon. My alternative platform for academics would be named Thriller where we can continue to be thrilled…

2022-11-18 16:40:52 RT @AbraarKaran: Recruiting participants for this study of #LongCovid &

2022-11-18 16:00:13 RT @fredbenenson: @mwseibel @ezraklein interviewed @zeynep about this 4 years ago and it’s a must listen - our brains are hard wired for hi…

2022-11-18 15:30:56 RT @EthanZ: Facebook just reminded me that it's @alaa's birthday. He remains imprisoned in Egypt, his hunger strike apparently broken, perh…

2022-11-18 15:08:35 Automating turning (downloaded) JSON into Substack (or any editor) friendly text would likely help many people. (Maybe already exists?). https://t.co/XzRKWmUEyp

2022-11-18 13:26:12 Alaa Abdel Fattah turned 41 today, in a prison cell. He almost died this week, and may not survive long given the cruel, murderous conditions of his imprisonment for most of the past decade. Moving #Cop27 recognition of the plight of the political prisoners. World leaders shrug. https://t.co/LKY7Ktf9du

2022-11-18 12:55:48 @mitchpberg Thank you. I tried, honestly.

2022-11-18 12:54:08 While parts of the world struggle with RSV and flu (always especially dangerous to infants and the elderly!), XBB update. Cases in Singapore continue to plummet. See France for BQ.1.1. More than two years in, nAbs labs do not reflect population immunity and are not predictive. https://t.co/faHW4TqkEj

2022-11-18 12:46:16 UK Monkeypox cases detected are down to 6 for all of last week. US is in low teens, daily. US/UK/EU potentially headed to zero, except for the new introductions. Imagine if we did the right thing, and made sure people in endemic countries were vaccinated as well. https://t.co/ign6CiuQMu

2022-11-18 12:31:04 For journalists/dissidents: This is why one should not post screenshots or PDFs from sources/whistleblowers, or send original documents back to wherever they came from to ask for comment/confirmation. Type it up and/or paraphrase. (See also the Reality Winner case). https://t.co/MwTPTumtGx

2022-11-18 11:34:23 @MBRodamilans @Andres4NY

2022-11-18 03:32:34 @EvolvedTech Yikes

2022-11-18 03:31:34 @AkiPeritz Boo

2022-11-18 03:18:01 “Tiktok and Tactical Nukes” Okay, let’s not. https://t.co/wIIUg0ZiB3

2022-11-17 23:16:05 RT @ElizabethHaighx: Very worrying update from @FreedomForAlaa today as family reveals his health has 'severely deteriorated' after seven m…

2022-11-17 23:15:36 RT @nariology: This is so painful &

2022-11-17 22:53:38 @billwasik

2022-11-17 21:10:04 RT @sharifkouddous: Chants of “Free Alaa, free them all” close out the COP27 People’s Plenary #FreeAlaa #Wish4Alaa https://t.co/70yqoEVNHm

2022-11-17 20:08:17 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I ignore them 99% of the time (they tweet about me pretty much every day, often multiple times, will soon be two years) but I highlighted the doctored tweet because now their lies are targeting Long Covid patients. Despicable, frankly. I just wanted to show an example. But onward

2022-11-17 20:05:38 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. But it's a campaign of lies against me, more than a year, nonstop. Doctored tweets, blatant lying that a first-grader could see through. They don't care about the patients

2022-11-17 19:49:38 RT @paulmasonnews: This is an account of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a British citizen. Not that it should matter - because this is…

2022-11-17 19:49:29 RT @ORHamilton: Like so many of you, I had allowed myself to feel some optimism. But while Sisi and Shoukry were giving world leaders and…

2022-11-17 19:44:21 Adding this here since I broke the thread. This is gut wrenching. https://t.co/DdWE5qEioV

2022-11-17 19:42:01 Horrifying. @RishiSunak and @JoeBiden can, and should, end this torture with murderous intent. They have the leverage. If they don’t, even if Alaa Abdel Fattah doesn’t die during #COP27, he will have been killed during it. This British citizen needs to be on a plane to the UK. https://t.co/mGiHhHYJlS

2022-11-17 19:17:21 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @mocoband @calirunnerdoc They’re so far gone that it’s impossible. Also both my NYT pieces mention or profile how healthy people became ill, and you can find so many tweets from me explaining it, and nowhere do I ever say healthy people can’t get Long Covid. But they’ll never stop, it seems.

2022-11-17 19:09:11 This was great fun, thanks to my fellow panelists and the @ObamaFoundation for the invitation. (Thanks to the audience for their support even when I was critical of, ahem, previous administrations. ) https://t.co/TzLZUCpQs9

2022-11-17 19:06:31 https://t.co/oS1A5tFuml

2022-11-17 17:47:04 RT @ObamaFoundation: https://t.co/HaUvH8zToT

2022-11-17 17:25:15 RT @hackneylad: At #COP27 in #Egypt, I watched @sana2 risk everything to save her brother's life - and show the world that climate justice…

2022-11-17 17:14:44 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I was ignoring them, as I’ve done for years while they go on and on and on about me, but enough with lying to Long Covid patients. That’s a line that, when crossed, deserves a response. Harming patients in their obsession about me is unacceptable.

2022-11-17 17:13:19 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. I published two full page pieces in the New York Times explaining how many previously healthy people got Long Covid. Not exactly obscure. It’s been a multiyear nonstop campaign of lies about me, rando trolls but also, sadly, a few people who should know better join. Nuts.

2022-11-17 16:02:34 The cruelty never ends. The family members haven’t been able to touch or hug Alaa Abdel Fattah for years. https://t.co/SSuewIt5XP

2022-11-17 16:00:49 @jljcolorado @ClarivateAG @JgrpBoulder @CIRESnews @CUBoulderCHEM @CUBoulder Congratulations!

2022-11-17 15:20:30 What a tragedy, the whole thing. https://t.co/IpbKW2j7OL

2022-11-17 03:22:00 RT @victorsojo: I saw this tweet and thought surely it’s related to accounts Alex had interacted with too. Nope. This is quite the gang! #a…

2022-11-17 01:02:40 The classic playbook of many industries. https://t.co/lKOOKJ7RXL

2022-11-17 00:35:57 https://t.co/fqB8MmeO8r

2022-11-17 00:34:45 @notdred Keep them off Twitter.

2022-11-16 23:35:58 @excellent__s Well, thanks but… I will keep writing and (stay tuned) I may be getting involved soon on the research side

2022-11-16 23:14:23 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today @TheTimes was very clear on the increasing seriousness of Alaa's case for British citizens everywhere, &

2022-11-16 23:13:17 RT @khalidabdalla: Exactly right from @JohnCassonUK. The longer this goes on the more serious it must become. Rights &

2022-11-16 22:15:07 @GidMK See Michael’s chart here, and rest of the thread. The study does not compare first and subsequent infections at all. https://t.co/MLigTTihJD

2022-11-16 21:39:30 @JamesStein18 Yeah

2022-11-16 19:42:09 @AlexGaggio @origincanada @calirunnerdoc Yeah, look at this thread breaking down the temporal pattern in the ONS data, and that heartbreaking red line of the more than 12 months folks. Really, really terrible. (You can see the more transient sequelae as well.) https://t.co/GpY0JAfs6z

2022-11-16 19:37:59 @calirunnerdoc It's become distracting, imo, to try to discuss granularity and stas on Twitter, but happy to have a lengthier conversation. Statistics/surveys is one of my core academic specialties, but Twitter isn't great. But none of that convo takes away from the reality of the illness.

2022-11-16 19:36:00 @calirunnerdoc On the other subsets, I think the ONS is the best long-term data we have, even without a control group and latest method change, but there are new studies with control groups. And I think the reduction of the risk is visible, but the data is far from the granularity we'd want.

2022-11-16 19:32:41 @calirunnerdoc So that discussion is very hard on Twitter, and gets misinterpreted, especially since there are subsets. On the "from severity" version, which dominates the stats, there's a clear reduction since severity is reduced (this is post-ICU, post-hospitalization syndromes).

2022-11-16 19:28:48 For sociological fun, search Twitter for mentions of the Nature study on immunological dysfunction that professor Dore is a co-author on and note how it's represented to ordinary people. Then see what he actually says about it: "Exhausted by misrepresentation" is how he put it.

2022-11-16 19:15:13 By the way, please note professor Greg Dore is the coauthor of that Nature study on immunological dysfunction that, he says in another thread, is also being misrepresented. https://t.co/Oe5Gjrp8FO

2022-11-16 18:19:15 @alexandrosM Correct, multi-decade longitudinal study found multiple sclerosis follows, decades later, from EBV. HPV to cancer, similar. Yeay vaccines. See: https://t.co/bnnldDdihd and https://t.co/xQ3eliB6lc You've literally turned into this, I can't argue with that. https://t.co/zKqfNLBAvH

2022-11-16 18:13:38 @localnotable See this thread. I read the full study. The Reuters headline is absolutely wrong. The study does not measure severity of reinfections compared to first ones at all. It's better not to get informed via Twitter or media, unfortunately. https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-16 17:54:29 @localnotable That headline is hundred percent wrong. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t inject falsehoods into this. Yes, media gets many things wrong. It sucks.

2022-11-16 17:33:53 @alexandrosM Post-viral sequelae, documented throughout history, especially after pandemics are a different matter. I'm sure you were as excited as I was by the recent paper in Science showing multiple sclerosis follows, decades after, an EBV infection. Can't wait for the soon EBV vaccine!

2022-11-16 17:32:35 @alexandrosM No, different! The reason all the immunologists I know have eagerly, and enthusiastically, vaccinated their children is that they understand that primary infections can be higher risk for the youngest, and training the immune system via vaccines is the safest route. Same as this: https://t.co/8jAm3owcgf

2022-11-16 00:34:59 @jgprogress @mykola @andrew_croxford Why are you lying about me? I wrote multiple pieces in the NYT explaining how healthy, active people got ill. See thread below for links. This multiyear campaign of lies is not acceptable. Why do you hate the patients who need help and research? https://t.co/fNS2OiXs9g

2022-11-15 23:32:17 @mykola You're telling me that me quoting Long Covid book co-author immunologist Danny Altmann—with the entire transcript so that it's not misunderstood—is somehow a problem for LC patients, because..? Yeah, I'll leave it here, too. It's a problem you have with Altmann. I can't fix that.

2022-11-15 23:26:56 @mykola And perhaps you should consider what it means that Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid Handbook *and* another immunologist from the very pro-mitigation Indie Sage *both* saying something straightforward is somehow seen by you as... an attack on Long Covid patients? Why?

2022-11-15 23:20:16 @mykola I put the entire transcript, too. He is saying exactly what he said.

2022-11-15 23:18:01 @mykola Long Covid is real, important, people are suffering and there is (still too little) but real research into the immunopathology. Altmann making straightforward scientific statement should not be seen as being insensitive.

2022-11-15 23:16:30 @mykola Once again, maybe reconsider what it means when even Indie Sage immunologist Altmann causes a problems for you, apparently, by making straightforward statements? It’s not being “sensitive” to let scientific terms become cudgels in Twitter wars. Altmann is a researcher. https://t.co/IkjSSMm6EP

2022-11-15 23:07:07 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe that should be an indicator for you? They are very concerned about the patients, but clearly also keeping the science, correct.

2022-11-15 23:06:01 @mykola @andrew_croxford *That* immunologist is Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid handbook, that Akiko wrote foreword for, part of very pro-mitigation Indie Sage. Watch the video, the second immunologist in the same group says the same thing. They’re referring to the incorrect, broad claims.

2022-11-15 22:58:29 @mykola @andrew_croxford Oh come on. Nobody is saying T cell exhaustion is pseudoscience. The person top of the thread is an immunologist! There are people making bizarre, Twitter-only claims. Antivaxxers use similar techniques. Real terminology, baseless assertion. That’s different. That’s all.

2022-11-15 22:55:50 @mykola @andrew_croxford 1-The current crude surveys includes too many subsets of post-viral sequelae lumped together. That’s not a secret. 2- I cite the UK ONS in my piece. Best we have despite lacking control group. 3- This is obviously false.

2022-11-15 22:41:40 @mykola @andrew_croxford What part?

2022-11-15 22:30:35 @healthyrespect1 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford I’ve written some of the earliest &

2022-11-15 22:27:19 @mykola @andrew_croxford You’re being lied to. There isn’t a single place I say or imply Long Covid patients are to be discarded, and in fact every single word has been the opposite. The people who lie about me also lie about the research and also don’t care about the patients.

2022-11-15 22:24:22 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe I should have written a lengthy NYT article about the history of post-viral illness after pandemics. You know the latest is because of their new lie? I said LC and ME patients are at *higher risk* from reinfections and they screenshotted and presented as “she doesn’t care”. https://t.co/B7fv2ynnLC

2022-11-15 21:29:43 @Naughty__Rabbit Or, stop being misled the seemingly unemployed guy (no research affiliation!) whose Covid papers remain uncited (sort Google Scholar by date!), but who tweets about me nonstop for years? (Fan of Dr. Iwasaki, I talk to her and quote her in my NYT pieces). https://t.co/LtgaElztsw

2022-11-15 20:53:16 @BenMazer Wait screenshots of abstracts of studies from a complex field and typing “I was right” repeatedly into the bird app input box isn’t enough?

2022-11-24 23:11:08 @SirKneeland @SethTClarke Nutella? On a crust?

2022-11-24 23:10:56 @aaiqbal

2022-11-24 22:51:31 Rhubarb people at least made the chart! https://t.co/W6VjqbUGNa

2022-11-24 20:21:43 RT @at_tgibson: The EU has not been tough enough on #Egypt for too long. #COP27 and #FreeAlaa have brought the eyes of Europe to just how…

2022-11-24 20:13:51 @cjmaddison This isn’t necessarily about Long Covid though?

2022-11-24 18:40:36 RT @MarietjeSchaake: The institute does not disclose the source of its funding, but The New York Times obtained copies of the group’s annua…

2022-11-24 17:26:44 @Lujan588 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer We don’t test for it. It’s fairly common when one does, including 17% of people having two flu infections in a single year. https://t.co/higczdN6Hi

2022-11-24 15:45:53 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer That's why we need proper studies of all of this, and also why looking merely at abstracts of studies isn't enough. Have to understand what we're looking at? Suggestion, effect, proof, a clarion call to do a proper study, etc?

2022-11-24 15:44:42 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer Could be: contributing, triggering *or* downstream of weaker immune system (Many such examples of results being overturned when switching from retrospective EHR to much better controlled studies, see HRT and cardiovascular events/mortality—reverse result from cohort was true).

2022-11-24 15:42:45 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer Also, there's always "contributing", "accelarating" vs "but for" distinction. For example, Denmark study showed higher rates of Alzheimer and Parkinsons in elderly folks post-Covid (made headlines)—but also for post-influenza, at similarly elevated rates (largely ignored). +

2022-11-24 14:23:29 Refuting/checking essays that string together abstracts from cherry-picked studies that the author clearly didn’t understand or checked what happened later when scientists tried to drilled down to causal pathways? Little incentive for it on social media right now. So it goes.

2022-11-24 14:13:19 In fact, we already know some suggested effects were artifacts of higher diagnostic rates, not causal from an infection, because the predictions didn’t come true. Some other things are still unclear. You’d hardly know that from rando essays people RT without understanding.

2022-11-24 14:09:57 Some things could be higher risk following an infection. Others may be an artifact of getting a workup as part of being ill—not caused by it but discovered because of that. Some studies suggest effects but not what caused elevated diagnoses. That requires more, different work.

2022-11-24 14:04:52 For all prospective studies of electronic health records: people who interact with the health system are more likely to be diagnosed with conditions they *already had* compared to people who don’t. Noting this also doesn’t prove no effect. Careful scientists read studies &

2022-11-24 12:46:35 RT @jljcolorado: .@WHO chief Scientist: "We were not forcefully saying: “This is an airborne virus.” I regret that we didn't do this much,…

2022-11-23 20:21:32 RT @walidgellad: I want to again highlight this really important point when you see an observational study of paxlovid efficacy using date…

2022-11-23 19:49:53 @GregDore2 Lovely!

2022-11-23 19:47:23 @GregDore2 Is that Bondi Beach?

2022-11-23 19:21:29 Unfortunately, yes. Controlled, careful statistics can illuminate. In contra, stringing together anecdotes can often be a tragically easy way to lie. https://t.co/Ym3TL2eWnY

2022-11-23 19:18:15 RT @hackneylad: "He chose not to die as a symbol, not to give up his life for whatever cost the regime will bear for it. He chose to live,…

2022-11-22 17:43:47 @smithsj See here, as well. (Obviously, more empirical research into the Long X sequelae is necessary and may help a lot of people including Long Covid as well a a whole host of other ailments such as ME/CFS, and some research suggests Alzheimer and Parkinson’s may turn out like MS did.) https://t.co/9anHsEf3JJ

2022-11-22 17:39:52 @smithsj Also I didn’t say it! I wish! It was a great essay written by an expert about acute severity and fact-checked by multiple immunologists. It has been amply shown. Iwasaki *separately* told me it could also explain why pandemics (novel viruses) produce more “Long” viral sequelae.

2022-11-22 17:28:49 So much potential upside to recognition of airborne transmission for other respiratory illnesses, as well as potential longer-term sequelae from other viruses including influenza and especially Epstein-Barr Virus.

2022-11-22 17:23:47 “Marr said she and her colleagues don’t have a clear answer as to which mode of transmission is dominant, but her work has shown that the flu, like Covid, can also spread via aerosols.”

2022-11-22 17:22:05 “Covid is definitely not alone in having these long-term consequences, even after a mild infection,” Iwasaki said. “According to Iwasaki, seasonal flu is less likely to cause lasting symptoms than pandemic flu strains like the 2009 H1N1 virus.” Post-viral syndromes are broader. https://t.co/wMjUwBGMOB

2022-11-22 16:20:55 RT @NathanGrubaugh: We are hiring an Associate Research Scientist (or postdoc with relevant experience) with a background in pathogen gen…

2022-11-22 15:34:46 RT @mlipsitch: The Public Health Analytics and Modeling Fellowship at @CDCgov https://t.co/tUxLffil90 is a great opportunity for postdocs t…

2022-11-22 15:22:10 @scree177

2022-11-22 14:10:13 @JohnSkylar I’m sorry for your loss. And yes, it happens, tragically though rarely.

2022-11-22 12:52:25 @DeryaTR_ !

2022-11-22 10:25:53 https://t.co/MeaCcv3DS7

2022-11-22 02:51:47 I’m sorry. Yeah, that’s terrible, too, on top of the grief and the loss. Yes, turning people’s individual tragedies into political fodder via anecdotal “proof” isn’t okay like that either. https://t.co/uljxKdzQ5b

2022-11-22 02:33:53 @mzbitca Indeed. Tragic.

2022-11-22 02:30:50 @TrumplsCancer @PhilMiller2911 Yeah and during a pandemic, even non-star athlete deaths make become news.

2022-11-22 02:28:20 @juanrive @PhilMiller2911 Yeah happens unfortunately. Rare but real, precedes the pandemic.

2022-11-22 02:26:30 Yes, this has sadly been happening long before the pandemic. Young athletes collapsing or tragically dying is rare, but not unheard of at all. Anectodes are often available to fit preconceived ideas, doesn’t make it true. https://t.co/Ym3TL2eWnY

2022-11-22 02:23:15 Many tragic things happen, if rarely. Young people die unexpectedly. Athletes collapse. Especially during a pandemic, more such stories become news. None of that alone implicates vaccines. Statistics with careful controls are how it would be figured out—anecdote lists aren’t it.

2022-11-22 02:18:33 New anti-vaxxer movie “Died Suddenly” lists people who died or collapsed young/unexpectedly, alleging it’s the vaccine. Classic lying method. Young people do die or collapse, rarely but tragically, and just collating anecdotes or news stories preys on gullibility to push a lie. https://t.co/AImXFPBccT

2022-11-22 01:14:49 RT @UmarFarooq_: NSO, the Israeli company behind the Pegasus spyware, was trying to claim sovereign immunity because it worked on behalf of…

2022-11-21 23:30:56 @RiverdaleBoy @roxannedarling @ariehkovler It does.

2022-11-21 23:07:18 RT @PutrinoLab: Incredible to see this launching in Beta!

2022-11-21 22:40:56 @roxannedarling I would’ve happily paid for more functionality around lists. Also, bookmarks—I have them but you can’t search them.

2022-11-21 22:30:34 Anyway, this just about captures the rest of the sentiment, I think. https://t.co/wojGS1Eclf

2022-11-21 22:25:47 I don't know why shipping new analytics/search etc. wasn't monetized as a move away from advertisers—some make money from this platform, but the analytics are terrible. Add a way to authenticate, sure. The bluecheck wars feel like generals fighting the old war, but whatever.

2022-11-21 22:13:58 @ProfLHunter Wait does it mean "hey buddy" — like what you'd call your friend in the argument, or the bus driver when asking directions, or telling the waiter to hold the ketchup, as well as what you'd call the professor professor? That's what hocam is in Turkish nowadays.

2022-11-21 22:12:03 Anyway, I saw Musk is claiming that they will demote/deboost hate speech, rather than ban it. That requires.. rules about hate speech. Who decides? Moderators then identifying it *at scale*. That's always been the problem. New problem, same as the old problem, apparently.

2022-11-21 22:08:38 Yep, lists are great. If Twitter could *ship* some product around that, it would likely be a good addition. https://t.co/xihi7unMWD

2022-11-21 22:05:40 "hocam" It WORKED. I'm pretty fond of the updated usage, tbh. https://t.co/nL0NKSYDAM

2022-11-21 22:04:23 Sure, one can democratize the blue check and make it available for pay (though remains to be seen if without authentication?), but it can't *also* carry on the previous signification. "The bluechecks" had a *the* (as a for or against) for a reason. This makes it *a* bluecheck.

2022-11-21 22:00:22 During the tumultuous 1968 period in Turkey, some rebellious students started addressing *everyone* as "hocam"—means "my professor/teacher". (The professors were to be called that.) "Hocam": Friends, teachers, janitors... It caught on. These days, "hocam" means "my dude(tte)."

2022-11-21 21:55:52 Good to open up authentication (why did one have to be "notable" for that?). Good to mark official accounts—loved the insulin stunt, but don't want fake country sending nuclear tweets. But the "notable" signifier may end, so one reason people are purchasing it for won't matter.

2022-11-21 14:05:20 RT @practicingpod: Worth reading the whole . The "corner of twitter" @zeynep refers to is obvious to those who know it and the source of m…

2022-11-21 14:04:30 And this is why I respond. A small crew has been lying nonstop about me—and also science and research, for so long. I ignore 99% of it. The same crew harasses scientists who object to them. They have destroyed so much credibility of people—some scientists even—they fooled, too. https://t.co/onWP8XYWwL

2022-11-21 14:01:00 @Paul_Melman Yep. These people have been tweeting lies about me for more than a year. I ignore it 99% of the time. They keep at it, nonstop. I respond, than it’s “why is she engaging”? They lie about so many other things, too. Very harmful. So 1% of the time, I point to their awful methods.

2022-11-21 13:25:13 RT @RichardfromSyd1: This is an interesting thread I am reflecting on. The problem of knowing what is valid vs what is taken out of context…

2022-11-21 12:45:11 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada *feat! I can’t even spell, despite controlling the entire field of immunology!

2022-11-21 12:38:25 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Genuinely amused by my hypothetical powers to control an entire advanced, actual field that I am not part of. When I figure out how I actually pull this amazing feet, I’m going to apply it to other fields, too! Next up, particle physics.

2022-11-21 12:36:35 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada “Papers I didn’t write that have nothing to do with claims I’ve made that people in the field can read correctly proves my nonsensical claims. Why don’t immunologists cite my Covid claims or papers? The omnipotent sociologist somehow controls the entire field of immunology.”

2022-11-21 12:32:12 Adding examples. This is how a lot of Twitter viral nonsense works a lot of the time. Antivaxxers also use this method widely. https://t.co/abORZ27sLg

2022-11-21 12:29:03 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Also 2021 paper, not 2022. (Method: find old study from *someone else* usually something specific—say, severe cases—or subtle that doesn’t apply broadly or was followed up with different results, misrepresent it, claim it vindicates nonsensical other claims, go Twitter viral).

2022-11-21 11:17:15 RT @Monasosh: A riot squad carried him away before he fought back and was returned to his cell. "When they put him in the cell he started t…

2022-11-20 21:45:53 @those_this @andrew_croxford And few followup with any of this l. Remember the super-viral“forever plague” article? I guess you could say it didn’t have typos. Most everything else was.. utterly unfounded to loony. And yet, they’re still on the same beat. It works for RTs.

2022-11-20 21:36:56 RT @j_g_allen: New proposed ventilation rates for covid and other airborne respiratory infectious diseases from The Lancet @Commissioncovid.

2022-11-20 20:32:45 RT @NaomiAKlein: This is exactly right. @RishiSunak, appropriate to our age, *performed* diplomacy but did not actually engage in it. Tha…

2022-11-20 19:49:15 @daisy_court75 @r_prior @meghanor @brianvastag

2022-11-20 15:59:15 RT @MiddleEastEye: The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah said they were allowed to see him on Thursday and that his…

2022-11-20 15:58:54 RT @CarolineLucas: So incredibly sad &

2022-11-20 14:32:16 RT @shirinfdehghan: Iranian women basketball team together with their coaches have all taken their hijab’s off and took what seems like a n…

2022-11-19 16:12:03 @vijayiyer312 @peterstaley @NIHDirector Exactly

2022-11-19 09:34:38 RT @AmnestyUK: Hey @RishiSunak Last week we urged you to bring Alaa home from unjust imprisonment in Egypt during #COP27 You didn’t. Ins…

2022-11-19 02:13:02 @CortJohnson Great overview, thanks.

2022-11-19 01:59:07 RT @PepperMarion: As promised! @UW_Immunology is excited to announce two open faculty job postings! We are hiring up to TWO Assistant Profe…

2022-11-18 21:43:46 Climate justice was never going to stand in isolation from the world. https://t.co/w9FKGNGK0J

2022-11-18 21:39:51 RT @TarletonG: Very much agree with @zeynep here: "The idea that advertisers alone will save us from hate speech and the further degradatio…

2022-11-18 17:47:16 @mitchpberg

2022-11-18 17:47:02 @ugurZp @nickgenes I look forward to the next opportunity!

2022-11-18 17:46:05 RT @peterstaley: So, before this site crashes, please use my DMs to suggest candidates to fill Tony Fauci’s shoes as NIAID Director. I’m on…

2022-11-18 17:31:11 @nickgenes @ugurZp Grateful for the opportunity to have retweeted it.

2022-11-18 17:14:11 RT @ugurZp: I don’t know about mastodon. My alternative platform for academics would be named Thriller where we can continue to be thrilled…

2022-11-18 16:40:52 RT @AbraarKaran: Recruiting participants for this study of #LongCovid &

2022-11-18 16:00:13 RT @fredbenenson: @mwseibel @ezraklein interviewed @zeynep about this 4 years ago and it’s a must listen - our brains are hard wired for hi…

2022-11-18 15:30:56 RT @EthanZ: Facebook just reminded me that it's @alaa's birthday. He remains imprisoned in Egypt, his hunger strike apparently broken, perh…

2022-11-18 15:08:35 Automating turning (downloaded) JSON into Substack (or any editor) friendly text would likely help many people. (Maybe already exists?). https://t.co/XzRKWmUEyp

2022-11-18 13:26:12 Alaa Abdel Fattah turned 41 today, in a prison cell. He almost died this week, and may not survive long given the cruel, murderous conditions of his imprisonment for most of the past decade. Moving #Cop27 recognition of the plight of the political prisoners. World leaders shrug. https://t.co/LKY7Ktf9du

2022-11-18 12:55:48 @mitchpberg Thank you. I tried, honestly.

2022-11-18 12:54:08 While parts of the world struggle with RSV and flu (always especially dangerous to infants and the elderly!), XBB update. Cases in Singapore continue to plummet. See France for BQ.1.1. More than two years in, nAbs labs do not reflect population immunity and are not predictive. https://t.co/faHW4TqkEj

2022-11-18 12:46:16 UK Monkeypox cases detected are down to 6 for all of last week. US is in low teens, daily. US/UK/EU potentially headed to zero, except for the new introductions. Imagine if we did the right thing, and made sure people in endemic countries were vaccinated as well. https://t.co/ign6CiuQMu

2022-11-18 12:31:04 For journalists/dissidents: This is why one should not post screenshots or PDFs from sources/whistleblowers, or send original documents back to wherever they came from to ask for comment/confirmation. Type it up and/or paraphrase. (See also the Reality Winner case). https://t.co/MwTPTumtGx

2022-11-18 11:34:23 @MBRodamilans @Andres4NY

2022-11-18 03:32:34 @EvolvedTech Yikes

2022-11-18 03:31:34 @AkiPeritz Boo

2022-11-18 03:18:01 “Tiktok and Tactical Nukes” Okay, let’s not. https://t.co/wIIUg0ZiB3

2022-11-17 23:16:05 RT @ElizabethHaighx: Very worrying update from @FreedomForAlaa today as family reveals his health has 'severely deteriorated' after seven m…

2022-11-17 23:15:36 RT @nariology: This is so painful &

2022-11-17 22:53:38 @billwasik

2022-11-17 21:10:04 RT @sharifkouddous: Chants of “Free Alaa, free them all” close out the COP27 People’s Plenary #FreeAlaa #Wish4Alaa https://t.co/70yqoEVNHm

2022-11-17 20:08:17 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I ignore them 99% of the time (they tweet about me pretty much every day, often multiple times, will soon be two years) but I highlighted the doctored tweet because now their lies are targeting Long Covid patients. Despicable, frankly. I just wanted to show an example. But onward

2022-11-17 20:05:38 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. But it's a campaign of lies against me, more than a year, nonstop. Doctored tweets, blatant lying that a first-grader could see through. They don't care about the patients

2022-11-17 19:49:38 RT @paulmasonnews: This is an account of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a British citizen. Not that it should matter - because this is…

2022-11-17 19:49:29 RT @ORHamilton: Like so many of you, I had allowed myself to feel some optimism. But while Sisi and Shoukry were giving world leaders and…

2022-11-17 19:44:21 Adding this here since I broke the thread. This is gut wrenching. https://t.co/DdWE5qEioV

2022-11-17 19:42:01 Horrifying. @RishiSunak and @JoeBiden can, and should, end this torture with murderous intent. They have the leverage. If they don’t, even if Alaa Abdel Fattah doesn’t die during #COP27, he will have been killed during it. This British citizen needs to be on a plane to the UK. https://t.co/mGiHhHYJlS

2022-11-17 19:17:21 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @mocoband @calirunnerdoc They’re so far gone that it’s impossible. Also both my NYT pieces mention or profile how healthy people became ill, and you can find so many tweets from me explaining it, and nowhere do I ever say healthy people can’t get Long Covid. But they’ll never stop, it seems.

2022-11-17 19:09:11 This was great fun, thanks to my fellow panelists and the @ObamaFoundation for the invitation. (Thanks to the audience for their support even when I was critical of, ahem, previous administrations. ) https://t.co/TzLZUCpQs9

2022-11-17 19:06:31 https://t.co/oS1A5tFuml

2022-11-17 17:47:04 RT @ObamaFoundation: https://t.co/HaUvH8zToT

2022-11-17 17:25:15 RT @hackneylad: At #COP27 in #Egypt, I watched @sana2 risk everything to save her brother's life - and show the world that climate justice…

2022-11-17 17:14:44 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I was ignoring them, as I’ve done for years while they go on and on and on about me, but enough with lying to Long Covid patients. That’s a line that, when crossed, deserves a response. Harming patients in their obsession about me is unacceptable.

2022-11-17 17:13:19 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. I published two full page pieces in the New York Times explaining how many previously healthy people got Long Covid. Not exactly obscure. It’s been a multiyear nonstop campaign of lies about me, rando trolls but also, sadly, a few people who should know better join. Nuts.

2022-11-17 16:02:34 The cruelty never ends. The family members haven’t been able to touch or hug Alaa Abdel Fattah for years. https://t.co/SSuewIt5XP

2022-11-17 16:00:49 @jljcolorado @ClarivateAG @JgrpBoulder @CIRESnews @CUBoulderCHEM @CUBoulder Congratulations!

2022-11-17 15:20:30 What a tragedy, the whole thing. https://t.co/IpbKW2j7OL

2022-11-17 03:22:00 RT @victorsojo: I saw this tweet and thought surely it’s related to accounts Alex had interacted with too. Nope. This is quite the gang! #a…

2022-11-17 01:02:40 The classic playbook of many industries. https://t.co/lKOOKJ7RXL

2022-11-17 00:35:57 https://t.co/fqB8MmeO8r

2022-11-17 00:34:45 @notdred Keep them off Twitter.

2022-11-16 23:35:58 @excellent__s Well, thanks but… I will keep writing and (stay tuned) I may be getting involved soon on the research side

2022-11-16 23:14:23 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today @TheTimes was very clear on the increasing seriousness of Alaa's case for British citizens everywhere, &

2022-11-16 23:13:17 RT @khalidabdalla: Exactly right from @JohnCassonUK. The longer this goes on the more serious it must become. Rights &

2022-11-16 22:15:07 @GidMK See Michael’s chart here, and rest of the thread. The study does not compare first and subsequent infections at all. https://t.co/MLigTTihJD

2022-11-16 21:39:30 @JamesStein18 Yeah

2022-11-16 19:42:09 @AlexGaggio @origincanada @calirunnerdoc Yeah, look at this thread breaking down the temporal pattern in the ONS data, and that heartbreaking red line of the more than 12 months folks. Really, really terrible. (You can see the more transient sequelae as well.) https://t.co/GpY0JAfs6z

2022-11-16 19:37:59 @calirunnerdoc It's become distracting, imo, to try to discuss granularity and stas on Twitter, but happy to have a lengthier conversation. Statistics/surveys is one of my core academic specialties, but Twitter isn't great. But none of that convo takes away from the reality of the illness.

2022-11-16 19:36:00 @calirunnerdoc On the other subsets, I think the ONS is the best long-term data we have, even without a control group and latest method change, but there are new studies with control groups. And I think the reduction of the risk is visible, but the data is far from the granularity we'd want.

2022-11-16 19:32:41 @calirunnerdoc So that discussion is very hard on Twitter, and gets misinterpreted, especially since there are subsets. On the "from severity" version, which dominates the stats, there's a clear reduction since severity is reduced (this is post-ICU, post-hospitalization syndromes).

2022-11-16 19:28:48 For sociological fun, search Twitter for mentions of the Nature study on immunological dysfunction that professor Dore is a co-author on and note how it's represented to ordinary people. Then see what he actually says about it: "Exhausted by misrepresentation" is how he put it.

2022-11-16 19:15:13 By the way, please note professor Greg Dore is the coauthor of that Nature study on immunological dysfunction that, he says in another thread, is also being misrepresented. https://t.co/Oe5Gjrp8FO

2022-11-16 18:19:15 @alexandrosM Correct, multi-decade longitudinal study found multiple sclerosis follows, decades later, from EBV. HPV to cancer, similar. Yeay vaccines. See: https://t.co/bnnldDdihd and https://t.co/xQ3eliB6lc You've literally turned into this, I can't argue with that. https://t.co/zKqfNLBAvH

2022-11-16 18:13:38 @localnotable See this thread. I read the full study. The Reuters headline is absolutely wrong. The study does not measure severity of reinfections compared to first ones at all. It's better not to get informed via Twitter or media, unfortunately. https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-16 17:54:29 @localnotable That headline is hundred percent wrong. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t inject falsehoods into this. Yes, media gets many things wrong. It sucks.

2022-11-16 17:33:53 @alexandrosM Post-viral sequelae, documented throughout history, especially after pandemics are a different matter. I'm sure you were as excited as I was by the recent paper in Science showing multiple sclerosis follows, decades after, an EBV infection. Can't wait for the soon EBV vaccine!

2022-11-16 17:32:35 @alexandrosM No, different! The reason all the immunologists I know have eagerly, and enthusiastically, vaccinated their children is that they understand that primary infections can be higher risk for the youngest, and training the immune system via vaccines is the safest route. Same as this: https://t.co/8jAm3owcgf

2022-11-16 00:34:59 @jgprogress @mykola @andrew_croxford Why are you lying about me? I wrote multiple pieces in the NYT explaining how healthy, active people got ill. See thread below for links. This multiyear campaign of lies is not acceptable. Why do you hate the patients who need help and research? https://t.co/fNS2OiXs9g

2022-11-15 23:32:17 @mykola You're telling me that me quoting Long Covid book co-author immunologist Danny Altmann—with the entire transcript so that it's not misunderstood—is somehow a problem for LC patients, because..? Yeah, I'll leave it here, too. It's a problem you have with Altmann. I can't fix that.

2022-11-15 23:26:56 @mykola And perhaps you should consider what it means that Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid Handbook *and* another immunologist from the very pro-mitigation Indie Sage *both* saying something straightforward is somehow seen by you as... an attack on Long Covid patients? Why?

2022-11-15 23:20:16 @mykola I put the entire transcript, too. He is saying exactly what he said.

2022-11-15 23:18:01 @mykola Long Covid is real, important, people are suffering and there is (still too little) but real research into the immunopathology. Altmann making straightforward scientific statement should not be seen as being insensitive.

2022-11-15 23:16:30 @mykola Once again, maybe reconsider what it means when even Indie Sage immunologist Altmann causes a problems for you, apparently, by making straightforward statements? It’s not being “sensitive” to let scientific terms become cudgels in Twitter wars. Altmann is a researcher. https://t.co/IkjSSMm6EP

2022-11-15 23:07:07 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe that should be an indicator for you? They are very concerned about the patients, but clearly also keeping the science, correct.

2022-11-15 23:06:01 @mykola @andrew_croxford *That* immunologist is Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid handbook, that Akiko wrote foreword for, part of very pro-mitigation Indie Sage. Watch the video, the second immunologist in the same group says the same thing. They’re referring to the incorrect, broad claims.

2022-11-15 22:58:29 @mykola @andrew_croxford Oh come on. Nobody is saying T cell exhaustion is pseudoscience. The person top of the thread is an immunologist! There are people making bizarre, Twitter-only claims. Antivaxxers use similar techniques. Real terminology, baseless assertion. That’s different. That’s all.

2022-11-15 22:55:50 @mykola @andrew_croxford 1-The current crude surveys includes too many subsets of post-viral sequelae lumped together. That’s not a secret. 2- I cite the UK ONS in my piece. Best we have despite lacking control group. 3- This is obviously false.

2022-11-15 22:41:40 @mykola @andrew_croxford What part?

2022-11-15 22:30:35 @healthyrespect1 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford I’ve written some of the earliest &

2022-11-15 22:27:19 @mykola @andrew_croxford You’re being lied to. There isn’t a single place I say or imply Long Covid patients are to be discarded, and in fact every single word has been the opposite. The people who lie about me also lie about the research and also don’t care about the patients.

2022-11-15 22:24:22 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe I should have written a lengthy NYT article about the history of post-viral illness after pandemics. You know the latest is because of their new lie? I said LC and ME patients are at *higher risk* from reinfections and they screenshotted and presented as “she doesn’t care”. https://t.co/B7fv2ynnLC

2022-11-15 21:29:43 @Naughty__Rabbit Or, stop being misled the seemingly unemployed guy (no research affiliation!) whose Covid papers remain uncited (sort Google Scholar by date!), but who tweets about me nonstop for years? (Fan of Dr. Iwasaki, I talk to her and quote her in my NYT pieces). https://t.co/LtgaElztsw

2022-11-15 20:53:16 @BenMazer Wait screenshots of abstracts of studies from a complex field and typing “I was right” repeatedly into the bird app input box isn’t enough?

2022-11-25 22:02:55 RT @jljcolorado: @gabbystern @WHO @doctorsoumya If you are new to this #COVIDisAirborne topic and are perplexed, this thread explains the i…

2022-11-25 21:48:47 @gefeedly @tomgara Exactly. There is no choice, really.

2022-11-25 19:39:08 @tomgara https://t.co/SOvKwqIVui

2022-11-25 15:25:16 @BrianRWasik @wanderer_jasnah

2022-11-25 10:24:16 @cjmaddison I can see your view of this, but I didn't see this as connected to Long Covid necessarily — instead, causal inference failures in science/study reporting are much broader, and this particular issue (EHR studies) is a perennial problem. I can try to pick other examples, though!

2022-11-24 23:11:08 @SirKneeland @SethTClarke Nutella? On a crust?

2022-11-24 23:10:56 @aaiqbal

2022-11-24 22:51:31 Rhubarb people at least made the chart! https://t.co/W6VjqbUGNa

2022-11-24 20:21:43 RT @at_tgibson: The EU has not been tough enough on #Egypt for too long. #COP27 and #FreeAlaa have brought the eyes of Europe to just how…

2022-11-24 20:13:51 @cjmaddison This isn’t necessarily about Long Covid though?

2022-11-24 18:40:36 RT @MarietjeSchaake: The institute does not disclose the source of its funding, but The New York Times obtained copies of the group’s annua…

2022-11-24 17:26:44 @Lujan588 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer We don’t test for it. It’s fairly common when one does, including 17% of people having two flu infections in a single year. https://t.co/higczdN6Hi

2022-11-24 15:45:53 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer That's why we need proper studies of all of this, and also why looking merely at abstracts of studies isn't enough. Have to understand what we're looking at? Suggestion, effect, proof, a clarion call to do a proper study, etc?

2022-11-24 15:44:42 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer Could be: contributing, triggering *or* downstream of weaker immune system (Many such examples of results being overturned when switching from retrospective EHR to much better controlled studies, see HRT and cardiovascular events/mortality—reverse result from cohort was true).

2022-11-24 15:42:45 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer Also, there's always "contributing", "accelarating" vs "but for" distinction. For example, Denmark study showed higher rates of Alzheimer and Parkinsons in elderly folks post-Covid (made headlines)—but also for post-influenza, at similarly elevated rates (largely ignored). +

2022-11-24 14:23:29 Refuting/checking essays that string together abstracts from cherry-picked studies that the author clearly didn’t understand or checked what happened later when scientists tried to drilled down to causal pathways? Little incentive for it on social media right now. So it goes.

2022-11-24 14:13:19 In fact, we already know some suggested effects were artifacts of higher diagnostic rates, not causal from an infection, because the predictions didn’t come true. Some other things are still unclear. You’d hardly know that from rando essays people RT without understanding.

2022-11-24 14:09:57 Some things could be higher risk following an infection. Others may be an artifact of getting a workup as part of being ill—not caused by it but discovered because of that. Some studies suggest effects but not what caused elevated diagnoses. That requires more, different work.

2022-11-24 14:04:52 For all prospective studies of electronic health records: people who interact with the health system are more likely to be diagnosed with conditions they *already had* compared to people who don’t. Noting this also doesn’t prove no effect. Careful scientists read studies &

2022-11-24 12:46:35 RT @jljcolorado: .@WHO chief Scientist: "We were not forcefully saying: “This is an airborne virus.” I regret that we didn't do this much,…

2022-11-23 20:21:32 RT @walidgellad: I want to again highlight this really important point when you see an observational study of paxlovid efficacy using date…

2022-11-23 19:49:53 @GregDore2 Lovely!

2022-11-23 19:47:23 @GregDore2 Is that Bondi Beach?

2022-11-23 19:21:29 Unfortunately, yes. Controlled, careful statistics can illuminate. In contra, stringing together anecdotes can often be a tragically easy way to lie. https://t.co/Ym3TL2eWnY

2022-11-23 19:18:15 RT @hackneylad: "He chose not to die as a symbol, not to give up his life for whatever cost the regime will bear for it. He chose to live,…

2022-11-22 17:43:47 @smithsj See here, as well. (Obviously, more empirical research into the Long X sequelae is necessary and may help a lot of people including Long Covid as well a a whole host of other ailments such as ME/CFS, and some research suggests Alzheimer and Parkinson’s may turn out like MS did.) https://t.co/9anHsEf3JJ

2022-11-22 17:39:52 @smithsj Also I didn’t say it! I wish! It was a great essay written by an expert about acute severity and fact-checked by multiple immunologists. It has been amply shown. Iwasaki *separately* told me it could also explain why pandemics (novel viruses) produce more “Long” viral sequelae.

2022-11-22 17:28:49 So much potential upside to recognition of airborne transmission for other respiratory illnesses, as well as potential longer-term sequelae from other viruses including influenza and especially Epstein-Barr Virus.

2022-11-22 17:23:47 “Marr said she and her colleagues don’t have a clear answer as to which mode of transmission is dominant, but her work has shown that the flu, like Covid, can also spread via aerosols.”

2022-11-22 17:22:05 “Covid is definitely not alone in having these long-term consequences, even after a mild infection,” Iwasaki said. “According to Iwasaki, seasonal flu is less likely to cause lasting symptoms than pandemic flu strains like the 2009 H1N1 virus.” Post-viral syndromes are broader. https://t.co/wMjUwBGMOB

2022-11-22 16:20:55 RT @NathanGrubaugh: We are hiring an Associate Research Scientist (or postdoc with relevant experience) with a background in pathogen gen…

2022-11-22 15:34:46 RT @mlipsitch: The Public Health Analytics and Modeling Fellowship at @CDCgov https://t.co/tUxLffil90 is a great opportunity for postdocs t…

2022-11-22 15:22:10 @scree177

2022-11-22 14:10:13 @JohnSkylar I’m sorry for your loss. And yes, it happens, tragically though rarely.

2022-11-22 12:52:25 @DeryaTR_ !

2022-11-22 10:25:53 https://t.co/MeaCcv3DS7

2022-11-22 02:51:47 I’m sorry. Yeah, that’s terrible, too, on top of the grief and the loss. Yes, turning people’s individual tragedies into political fodder via anecdotal “proof” isn’t okay like that either. https://t.co/uljxKdzQ5b

2022-11-22 02:33:53 @mzbitca Indeed. Tragic.

2022-11-22 02:30:50 @TrumplsCancer @PhilMiller2911 Yeah and during a pandemic, even non-star athlete deaths make become news.

2022-11-22 02:28:20 @juanrive @PhilMiller2911 Yeah happens unfortunately. Rare but real, precedes the pandemic.

2022-11-22 02:26:30 Yes, this has sadly been happening long before the pandemic. Young athletes collapsing or tragically dying is rare, but not unheard of at all. Anectodes are often available to fit preconceived ideas, doesn’t make it true. https://t.co/Ym3TL2eWnY

2022-11-22 02:23:15 Many tragic things happen, if rarely. Young people die unexpectedly. Athletes collapse. Especially during a pandemic, more such stories become news. None of that alone implicates vaccines. Statistics with careful controls are how it would be figured out—anecdote lists aren’t it.

2022-11-22 02:18:33 New anti-vaxxer movie “Died Suddenly” lists people who died or collapsed young/unexpectedly, alleging it’s the vaccine. Classic lying method. Young people do die or collapse, rarely but tragically, and just collating anecdotes or news stories preys on gullibility to push a lie. https://t.co/AImXFPBccT

2022-11-22 01:14:49 RT @UmarFarooq_: NSO, the Israeli company behind the Pegasus spyware, was trying to claim sovereign immunity because it worked on behalf of…

2022-11-21 23:30:56 @RiverdaleBoy @roxannedarling @ariehkovler It does.

2022-11-21 23:07:18 RT @PutrinoLab: Incredible to see this launching in Beta!

2022-11-21 22:40:56 @roxannedarling I would’ve happily paid for more functionality around lists. Also, bookmarks—I have them but you can’t search them.

2022-11-21 22:30:34 Anyway, this just about captures the rest of the sentiment, I think. https://t.co/wojGS1Eclf

2022-11-21 22:25:47 I don't know why shipping new analytics/search etc. wasn't monetized as a move away from advertisers—some make money from this platform, but the analytics are terrible. Add a way to authenticate, sure. The bluecheck wars feel like generals fighting the old war, but whatever.

2022-11-21 22:13:58 @ProfLHunter Wait does it mean "hey buddy" — like what you'd call your friend in the argument, or the bus driver when asking directions, or telling the waiter to hold the ketchup, as well as what you'd call the professor professor? That's what hocam is in Turkish nowadays.

2022-11-21 22:12:03 Anyway, I saw Musk is claiming that they will demote/deboost hate speech, rather than ban it. That requires.. rules about hate speech. Who decides? Moderators then identifying it *at scale*. That's always been the problem. New problem, same as the old problem, apparently.

2022-11-21 22:08:38 Yep, lists are great. If Twitter could *ship* some product around that, it would likely be a good addition. https://t.co/xihi7unMWD

2022-11-21 22:05:40 "hocam" It WORKED. I'm pretty fond of the updated usage, tbh. https://t.co/nL0NKSYDAM

2022-11-21 22:04:23 Sure, one can democratize the blue check and make it available for pay (though remains to be seen if without authentication?), but it can't *also* carry on the previous signification. "The bluechecks" had a *the* (as a for or against) for a reason. This makes it *a* bluecheck.

2022-11-21 22:00:22 During the tumultuous 1968 period in Turkey, some rebellious students started addressing *everyone* as "hocam"—means "my professor/teacher". (The professors were to be called that.) "Hocam": Friends, teachers, janitors... It caught on. These days, "hocam" means "my dude(tte)."

2022-11-21 21:55:52 Good to open up authentication (why did one have to be "notable" for that?). Good to mark official accounts—loved the insulin stunt, but don't want fake country sending nuclear tweets. But the "notable" signifier may end, so one reason people are purchasing it for won't matter.

2022-11-21 14:05:20 RT @practicingpod: Worth reading the whole . The "corner of twitter" @zeynep refers to is obvious to those who know it and the source of m…

2022-11-21 14:04:30 And this is why I respond. A small crew has been lying nonstop about me—and also science and research, for so long. I ignore 99% of it. The same crew harasses scientists who object to them. They have destroyed so much credibility of people—some scientists even—they fooled, too. https://t.co/onWP8XYWwL

2022-11-21 14:01:00 @Paul_Melman Yep. These people have been tweeting lies about me for more than a year. I ignore it 99% of the time. They keep at it, nonstop. I respond, than it’s “why is she engaging”? They lie about so many other things, too. Very harmful. So 1% of the time, I point to their awful methods.

2022-11-21 13:25:13 RT @RichardfromSyd1: This is an interesting thread I am reflecting on. The problem of knowing what is valid vs what is taken out of context…

2022-11-21 12:45:11 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada *feat! I can’t even spell, despite controlling the entire field of immunology!

2022-11-21 12:38:25 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Genuinely amused by my hypothetical powers to control an entire advanced, actual field that I am not part of. When I figure out how I actually pull this amazing feet, I’m going to apply it to other fields, too! Next up, particle physics.

2022-11-21 12:36:35 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada “Papers I didn’t write that have nothing to do with claims I’ve made that people in the field can read correctly proves my nonsensical claims. Why don’t immunologists cite my Covid claims or papers? The omnipotent sociologist somehow controls the entire field of immunology.”

2022-11-21 12:32:12 Adding examples. This is how a lot of Twitter viral nonsense works a lot of the time. Antivaxxers also use this method widely. https://t.co/abORZ27sLg

2022-11-21 12:29:03 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Also 2021 paper, not 2022. (Method: find old study from *someone else* usually something specific—say, severe cases—or subtle that doesn’t apply broadly or was followed up with different results, misrepresent it, claim it vindicates nonsensical other claims, go Twitter viral).

2022-11-21 11:17:15 RT @Monasosh: A riot squad carried him away before he fought back and was returned to his cell. "When they put him in the cell he started t…

2022-11-20 21:45:53 @those_this @andrew_croxford And few followup with any of this l. Remember the super-viral“forever plague” article? I guess you could say it didn’t have typos. Most everything else was.. utterly unfounded to loony. And yet, they’re still on the same beat. It works for RTs.

2022-11-20 21:36:56 RT @j_g_allen: New proposed ventilation rates for covid and other airborne respiratory infectious diseases from The Lancet @Commissioncovid.

2022-11-20 20:32:45 RT @NaomiAKlein: This is exactly right. @RishiSunak, appropriate to our age, *performed* diplomacy but did not actually engage in it. Tha…

2022-11-20 19:49:15 @daisy_court75 @r_prior @meghanor @brianvastag

2022-11-20 15:59:15 RT @MiddleEastEye: The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah said they were allowed to see him on Thursday and that his…

2022-11-20 15:58:54 RT @CarolineLucas: So incredibly sad &

2022-11-20 14:32:16 RT @shirinfdehghan: Iranian women basketball team together with their coaches have all taken their hijab’s off and took what seems like a n…

2022-11-19 16:12:03 @vijayiyer312 @peterstaley @NIHDirector Exactly

2022-11-19 09:34:38 RT @AmnestyUK: Hey @RishiSunak Last week we urged you to bring Alaa home from unjust imprisonment in Egypt during #COP27 You didn’t. Ins…

2022-11-19 02:13:02 @CortJohnson Great overview, thanks.

2022-11-19 01:59:07 RT @PepperMarion: As promised! @UW_Immunology is excited to announce two open faculty job postings! We are hiring up to TWO Assistant Profe…

2022-11-18 21:43:46 Climate justice was never going to stand in isolation from the world. https://t.co/w9FKGNGK0J

2022-11-18 21:39:51 RT @TarletonG: Very much agree with @zeynep here: "The idea that advertisers alone will save us from hate speech and the further degradatio…

2022-11-18 17:47:16 @mitchpberg

2022-11-18 17:47:02 @ugurZp @nickgenes I look forward to the next opportunity!

2022-11-18 17:46:05 RT @peterstaley: So, before this site crashes, please use my DMs to suggest candidates to fill Tony Fauci’s shoes as NIAID Director. I’m on…

2022-11-18 17:31:11 @nickgenes @ugurZp Grateful for the opportunity to have retweeted it.

2022-11-18 17:14:11 RT @ugurZp: I don’t know about mastodon. My alternative platform for academics would be named Thriller where we can continue to be thrilled…

2022-11-18 16:40:52 RT @AbraarKaran: Recruiting participants for this study of #LongCovid &

2022-11-18 16:00:13 RT @fredbenenson: @mwseibel @ezraklein interviewed @zeynep about this 4 years ago and it’s a must listen - our brains are hard wired for hi…

2022-11-18 15:30:56 RT @EthanZ: Facebook just reminded me that it's @alaa's birthday. He remains imprisoned in Egypt, his hunger strike apparently broken, perh…

2022-11-18 15:08:35 Automating turning (downloaded) JSON into Substack (or any editor) friendly text would likely help many people. (Maybe already exists?). https://t.co/XzRKWmUEyp

2022-11-18 13:26:12 Alaa Abdel Fattah turned 41 today, in a prison cell. He almost died this week, and may not survive long given the cruel, murderous conditions of his imprisonment for most of the past decade. Moving #Cop27 recognition of the plight of the political prisoners. World leaders shrug. https://t.co/LKY7Ktf9du

2022-11-18 12:55:48 @mitchpberg Thank you. I tried, honestly.

2022-11-18 12:54:08 While parts of the world struggle with RSV and flu (always especially dangerous to infants and the elderly!), XBB update. Cases in Singapore continue to plummet. See France for BQ.1.1. More than two years in, nAbs labs do not reflect population immunity and are not predictive. https://t.co/faHW4TqkEj

2022-11-18 12:46:16 UK Monkeypox cases detected are down to 6 for all of last week. US is in low teens, daily. US/UK/EU potentially headed to zero, except for the new introductions. Imagine if we did the right thing, and made sure people in endemic countries were vaccinated as well. https://t.co/ign6CiuQMu

2022-11-18 12:31:04 For journalists/dissidents: This is why one should not post screenshots or PDFs from sources/whistleblowers, or send original documents back to wherever they came from to ask for comment/confirmation. Type it up and/or paraphrase. (See also the Reality Winner case). https://t.co/MwTPTumtGx

2022-11-18 11:34:23 @MBRodamilans @Andres4NY

2022-11-18 03:32:34 @EvolvedTech Yikes

2022-11-18 03:31:34 @AkiPeritz Boo

2022-11-18 03:18:01 “Tiktok and Tactical Nukes” Okay, let’s not. https://t.co/wIIUg0ZiB3

2022-11-17 23:16:05 RT @ElizabethHaighx: Very worrying update from @FreedomForAlaa today as family reveals his health has 'severely deteriorated' after seven m…

2022-11-17 23:15:36 RT @nariology: This is so painful &

2022-11-17 22:53:38 @billwasik

2022-11-17 21:10:04 RT @sharifkouddous: Chants of “Free Alaa, free them all” close out the COP27 People’s Plenary #FreeAlaa #Wish4Alaa https://t.co/70yqoEVNHm

2022-11-17 20:08:17 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I ignore them 99% of the time (they tweet about me pretty much every day, often multiple times, will soon be two years) but I highlighted the doctored tweet because now their lies are targeting Long Covid patients. Despicable, frankly. I just wanted to show an example. But onward

2022-11-17 20:05:38 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. But it's a campaign of lies against me, more than a year, nonstop. Doctored tweets, blatant lying that a first-grader could see through. They don't care about the patients

2022-11-17 19:49:38 RT @paulmasonnews: This is an account of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a British citizen. Not that it should matter - because this is…

2022-11-17 19:49:29 RT @ORHamilton: Like so many of you, I had allowed myself to feel some optimism. But while Sisi and Shoukry were giving world leaders and…

2022-11-17 19:44:21 Adding this here since I broke the thread. This is gut wrenching. https://t.co/DdWE5qEioV

2022-11-17 19:42:01 Horrifying. @RishiSunak and @JoeBiden can, and should, end this torture with murderous intent. They have the leverage. If they don’t, even if Alaa Abdel Fattah doesn’t die during #COP27, he will have been killed during it. This British citizen needs to be on a plane to the UK. https://t.co/mGiHhHYJlS

2022-11-17 19:17:21 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @mocoband @calirunnerdoc They’re so far gone that it’s impossible. Also both my NYT pieces mention or profile how healthy people became ill, and you can find so many tweets from me explaining it, and nowhere do I ever say healthy people can’t get Long Covid. But they’ll never stop, it seems.

2022-11-17 19:09:11 This was great fun, thanks to my fellow panelists and the @ObamaFoundation for the invitation. (Thanks to the audience for their support even when I was critical of, ahem, previous administrations. ) https://t.co/TzLZUCpQs9

2022-11-17 19:06:31 https://t.co/oS1A5tFuml

2022-11-17 17:47:04 RT @ObamaFoundation: https://t.co/HaUvH8zToT

2022-11-17 17:25:15 RT @hackneylad: At #COP27 in #Egypt, I watched @sana2 risk everything to save her brother's life - and show the world that climate justice…

2022-11-17 17:14:44 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I was ignoring them, as I’ve done for years while they go on and on and on about me, but enough with lying to Long Covid patients. That’s a line that, when crossed, deserves a response. Harming patients in their obsession about me is unacceptable.

2022-11-17 17:13:19 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. I published two full page pieces in the New York Times explaining how many previously healthy people got Long Covid. Not exactly obscure. It’s been a multiyear nonstop campaign of lies about me, rando trolls but also, sadly, a few people who should know better join. Nuts.

2022-11-17 16:02:34 The cruelty never ends. The family members haven’t been able to touch or hug Alaa Abdel Fattah for years. https://t.co/SSuewIt5XP

2022-11-17 16:00:49 @jljcolorado @ClarivateAG @JgrpBoulder @CIRESnews @CUBoulderCHEM @CUBoulder Congratulations!

2022-11-17 15:20:30 What a tragedy, the whole thing. https://t.co/IpbKW2j7OL

2022-11-17 03:22:00 RT @victorsojo: I saw this tweet and thought surely it’s related to accounts Alex had interacted with too. Nope. This is quite the gang! #a…

2022-11-17 01:02:40 The classic playbook of many industries. https://t.co/lKOOKJ7RXL

2022-11-17 00:35:57 https://t.co/fqB8MmeO8r

2022-11-17 00:34:45 @notdred Keep them off Twitter.

2022-11-16 23:35:58 @excellent__s Well, thanks but… I will keep writing and (stay tuned) I may be getting involved soon on the research side

2022-11-16 23:14:23 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today @TheTimes was very clear on the increasing seriousness of Alaa's case for British citizens everywhere, &

2022-11-16 23:13:17 RT @khalidabdalla: Exactly right from @JohnCassonUK. The longer this goes on the more serious it must become. Rights &

2022-11-16 22:15:07 @GidMK See Michael’s chart here, and rest of the thread. The study does not compare first and subsequent infections at all. https://t.co/MLigTTihJD

2022-11-16 21:39:30 @JamesStein18 Yeah

2022-11-16 19:42:09 @AlexGaggio @origincanada @calirunnerdoc Yeah, look at this thread breaking down the temporal pattern in the ONS data, and that heartbreaking red line of the more than 12 months folks. Really, really terrible. (You can see the more transient sequelae as well.) https://t.co/GpY0JAfs6z

2022-11-16 19:37:59 @calirunnerdoc It's become distracting, imo, to try to discuss granularity and stas on Twitter, but happy to have a lengthier conversation. Statistics/surveys is one of my core academic specialties, but Twitter isn't great. But none of that convo takes away from the reality of the illness.

2022-11-16 19:36:00 @calirunnerdoc On the other subsets, I think the ONS is the best long-term data we have, even without a control group and latest method change, but there are new studies with control groups. And I think the reduction of the risk is visible, but the data is far from the granularity we'd want.

2022-11-16 19:32:41 @calirunnerdoc So that discussion is very hard on Twitter, and gets misinterpreted, especially since there are subsets. On the "from severity" version, which dominates the stats, there's a clear reduction since severity is reduced (this is post-ICU, post-hospitalization syndromes).

2022-11-16 19:28:48 For sociological fun, search Twitter for mentions of the Nature study on immunological dysfunction that professor Dore is a co-author on and note how it's represented to ordinary people. Then see what he actually says about it: "Exhausted by misrepresentation" is how he put it.

2022-11-16 19:15:13 By the way, please note professor Greg Dore is the coauthor of that Nature study on immunological dysfunction that, he says in another thread, is also being misrepresented. https://t.co/Oe5Gjrp8FO

2022-11-16 18:19:15 @alexandrosM Correct, multi-decade longitudinal study found multiple sclerosis follows, decades later, from EBV. HPV to cancer, similar. Yeay vaccines. See: https://t.co/bnnldDdihd and https://t.co/xQ3eliB6lc You've literally turned into this, I can't argue with that. https://t.co/zKqfNLBAvH

2022-11-16 18:13:38 @localnotable See this thread. I read the full study. The Reuters headline is absolutely wrong. The study does not measure severity of reinfections compared to first ones at all. It's better not to get informed via Twitter or media, unfortunately. https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-16 17:54:29 @localnotable That headline is hundred percent wrong. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t inject falsehoods into this. Yes, media gets many things wrong. It sucks.

2022-11-16 17:33:53 @alexandrosM Post-viral sequelae, documented throughout history, especially after pandemics are a different matter. I'm sure you were as excited as I was by the recent paper in Science showing multiple sclerosis follows, decades after, an EBV infection. Can't wait for the soon EBV vaccine!

2022-11-16 17:32:35 @alexandrosM No, different! The reason all the immunologists I know have eagerly, and enthusiastically, vaccinated their children is that they understand that primary infections can be higher risk for the youngest, and training the immune system via vaccines is the safest route. Same as this: https://t.co/8jAm3owcgf

2022-11-16 00:34:59 @jgprogress @mykola @andrew_croxford Why are you lying about me? I wrote multiple pieces in the NYT explaining how healthy, active people got ill. See thread below for links. This multiyear campaign of lies is not acceptable. Why do you hate the patients who need help and research? https://t.co/fNS2OiXs9g

2022-11-15 23:32:17 @mykola You're telling me that me quoting Long Covid book co-author immunologist Danny Altmann—with the entire transcript so that it's not misunderstood—is somehow a problem for LC patients, because..? Yeah, I'll leave it here, too. It's a problem you have with Altmann. I can't fix that.

2022-11-15 23:26:56 @mykola And perhaps you should consider what it means that Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid Handbook *and* another immunologist from the very pro-mitigation Indie Sage *both* saying something straightforward is somehow seen by you as... an attack on Long Covid patients? Why?

2022-11-15 23:20:16 @mykola I put the entire transcript, too. He is saying exactly what he said.

2022-11-15 23:18:01 @mykola Long Covid is real, important, people are suffering and there is (still too little) but real research into the immunopathology. Altmann making straightforward scientific statement should not be seen as being insensitive.

2022-11-15 23:16:30 @mykola Once again, maybe reconsider what it means when even Indie Sage immunologist Altmann causes a problems for you, apparently, by making straightforward statements? It’s not being “sensitive” to let scientific terms become cudgels in Twitter wars. Altmann is a researcher. https://t.co/IkjSSMm6EP

2022-11-15 23:07:07 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe that should be an indicator for you? They are very concerned about the patients, but clearly also keeping the science, correct.

2022-11-15 23:06:01 @mykola @andrew_croxford *That* immunologist is Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid handbook, that Akiko wrote foreword for, part of very pro-mitigation Indie Sage. Watch the video, the second immunologist in the same group says the same thing. They’re referring to the incorrect, broad claims.

2022-11-15 22:58:29 @mykola @andrew_croxford Oh come on. Nobody is saying T cell exhaustion is pseudoscience. The person top of the thread is an immunologist! There are people making bizarre, Twitter-only claims. Antivaxxers use similar techniques. Real terminology, baseless assertion. That’s different. That’s all.

2022-11-15 22:55:50 @mykola @andrew_croxford 1-The current crude surveys includes too many subsets of post-viral sequelae lumped together. That’s not a secret. 2- I cite the UK ONS in my piece. Best we have despite lacking control group. 3- This is obviously false.

2022-11-15 22:41:40 @mykola @andrew_croxford What part?

2022-11-15 22:30:35 @healthyrespect1 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford I’ve written some of the earliest &

2022-11-15 22:27:19 @mykola @andrew_croxford You’re being lied to. There isn’t a single place I say or imply Long Covid patients are to be discarded, and in fact every single word has been the opposite. The people who lie about me also lie about the research and also don’t care about the patients.

2022-11-15 22:24:22 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe I should have written a lengthy NYT article about the history of post-viral illness after pandemics. You know the latest is because of their new lie? I said LC and ME patients are at *higher risk* from reinfections and they screenshotted and presented as “she doesn’t care”. https://t.co/B7fv2ynnLC

2022-11-15 21:29:43 @Naughty__Rabbit Or, stop being misled the seemingly unemployed guy (no research affiliation!) whose Covid papers remain uncited (sort Google Scholar by date!), but who tweets about me nonstop for years? (Fan of Dr. Iwasaki, I talk to her and quote her in my NYT pieces). https://t.co/LtgaElztsw

2022-11-15 20:53:16 @BenMazer Wait screenshots of abstracts of studies from a complex field and typing “I was right” repeatedly into the bird app input box isn’t enough?

2022-11-26 23:32:39 The person asking is the president of the university, Cao Guozheng. They didn’t back down. https://t.co/FEsIhGax1y

2022-11-26 23:25:35 Courage. https://t.co/dn2nk2Zdab

2022-11-26 23:18:57 RT @ThisIsWenhao: New protest method in China: holding a piece of white paper with nothing on it.

2022-11-26 18:52:37 Many photos/news of protests coming out of China in the last day, following a fire in Urumqui, Xinjiang where residents, including children, died reportedly as their building was sealed. Whatever else happens, a moment to appreciate the collective bravery of these young people. https://t.co/M6FQIVp3nH

2022-11-26 18:33:03 (It's a really difficult read, but as with such history books, puts many current dynamics in context).

2022-11-26 18:32:00 Today is Holodomor remembrance day, commemorating the millions of Ukrainians who died during Stalin's forced famine in otherwise rich agricultural lands. Snyder's Bloodlands, which covers the era and the region, tops my list of doomreading books as alternative to doomscrolling. https://t.co/YZr6cEavvu

2022-11-26 14:25:32 RT @OmidVEbrahimi: Is it OK to spend 12 months to get a visa to attend a 3-day conference? My piece in @ScienceMagazine sheds light on thi…

2022-11-26 14:03:31 @AngelidisAn @VirusesImmunity @PutrinoLab @resiapretorius @research_long @microbeminded2 @MBVanElzakker @Daltmann10

2022-11-25 22:02:55 RT @jljcolorado: @gabbystern @WHO @doctorsoumya If you are new to this #COVIDisAirborne topic and are perplexed, this thread explains the i…

2022-11-25 21:48:47 @gefeedly @tomgara Exactly. There is no choice, really.

2022-11-25 19:39:08 @tomgara https://t.co/SOvKwqIVui

2022-11-25 15:25:16 @BrianRWasik @wanderer_jasnah

2022-11-25 10:24:16 @cjmaddison I can see your view of this, but I didn't see this as connected to Long Covid necessarily — instead, causal inference failures in science/study reporting are much broader, and this particular issue (EHR studies) is a perennial problem. I can try to pick other examples, though!

2022-11-24 23:11:08 @SirKneeland @SethTClarke Nutella? On a crust?

2022-11-24 23:10:56 @aaiqbal

2022-11-24 22:51:31 Rhubarb people at least made the chart! https://t.co/W6VjqbUGNa

2022-11-24 20:21:43 RT @at_tgibson: The EU has not been tough enough on #Egypt for too long. #COP27 and #FreeAlaa have brought the eyes of Europe to just how…

2022-11-24 20:13:51 @cjmaddison This isn’t necessarily about Long Covid though?

2022-11-24 18:40:36 RT @MarietjeSchaake: The institute does not disclose the source of its funding, but The New York Times obtained copies of the group’s annua…

2022-11-24 17:26:44 @Lujan588 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer We don’t test for it. It’s fairly common when one does, including 17% of people having two flu infections in a single year. https://t.co/higczdN6Hi

2022-11-24 15:45:53 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer That's why we need proper studies of all of this, and also why looking merely at abstracts of studies isn't enough. Have to understand what we're looking at? Suggestion, effect, proof, a clarion call to do a proper study, etc?

2022-11-24 15:44:42 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer Could be: contributing, triggering *or* downstream of weaker immune system (Many such examples of results being overturned when switching from retrospective EHR to much better controlled studies, see HRT and cardiovascular events/mortality—reverse result from cohort was true).

2022-11-24 15:42:45 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer Also, there's always "contributing", "accelarating" vs "but for" distinction. For example, Denmark study showed higher rates of Alzheimer and Parkinsons in elderly folks post-Covid (made headlines)—but also for post-influenza, at similarly elevated rates (largely ignored). +

2022-11-24 14:23:29 Refuting/checking essays that string together abstracts from cherry-picked studies that the author clearly didn’t understand or checked what happened later when scientists tried to drilled down to causal pathways? Little incentive for it on social media right now. So it goes.

2022-11-24 14:13:19 In fact, we already know some suggested effects were artifacts of higher diagnostic rates, not causal from an infection, because the predictions didn’t come true. Some other things are still unclear. You’d hardly know that from rando essays people RT without understanding.

2022-11-24 14:09:57 Some things could be higher risk following an infection. Others may be an artifact of getting a workup as part of being ill—not caused by it but discovered because of that. Some studies suggest effects but not what caused elevated diagnoses. That requires more, different work.

2022-11-24 14:04:52 For all prospective studies of electronic health records: people who interact with the health system are more likely to be diagnosed with conditions they *already had* compared to people who don’t. Noting this also doesn’t prove no effect. Careful scientists read studies &

2022-11-24 12:46:35 RT @jljcolorado: .@WHO chief Scientist: "We were not forcefully saying: “This is an airborne virus.” I regret that we didn't do this much,…

2022-11-23 20:21:32 RT @walidgellad: I want to again highlight this really important point when you see an observational study of paxlovid efficacy using date…

2022-11-23 19:49:53 @GregDore2 Lovely!

2022-11-23 19:47:23 @GregDore2 Is that Bondi Beach?

2022-11-23 19:21:29 Unfortunately, yes. Controlled, careful statistics can illuminate. In contra, stringing together anecdotes can often be a tragically easy way to lie. https://t.co/Ym3TL2eWnY

2022-11-23 19:18:15 RT @hackneylad: "He chose not to die as a symbol, not to give up his life for whatever cost the regime will bear for it. He chose to live,…

2022-11-22 17:43:47 @smithsj See here, as well. (Obviously, more empirical research into the Long X sequelae is necessary and may help a lot of people including Long Covid as well a a whole host of other ailments such as ME/CFS, and some research suggests Alzheimer and Parkinson’s may turn out like MS did.) https://t.co/9anHsEf3JJ

2022-11-22 17:39:52 @smithsj Also I didn’t say it! I wish! It was a great essay written by an expert about acute severity and fact-checked by multiple immunologists. It has been amply shown. Iwasaki *separately* told me it could also explain why pandemics (novel viruses) produce more “Long” viral sequelae.

2022-11-22 17:28:49 So much potential upside to recognition of airborne transmission for other respiratory illnesses, as well as potential longer-term sequelae from other viruses including influenza and especially Epstein-Barr Virus.

2022-11-22 17:23:47 “Marr said she and her colleagues don’t have a clear answer as to which mode of transmission is dominant, but her work has shown that the flu, like Covid, can also spread via aerosols.”

2022-11-22 17:22:05 “Covid is definitely not alone in having these long-term consequences, even after a mild infection,” Iwasaki said. “According to Iwasaki, seasonal flu is less likely to cause lasting symptoms than pandemic flu strains like the 2009 H1N1 virus.” Post-viral syndromes are broader. https://t.co/wMjUwBGMOB

2022-11-22 16:20:55 RT @NathanGrubaugh: We are hiring an Associate Research Scientist (or postdoc with relevant experience) with a background in pathogen gen…

2022-11-22 15:34:46 RT @mlipsitch: The Public Health Analytics and Modeling Fellowship at @CDCgov https://t.co/tUxLffil90 is a great opportunity for postdocs t…

2022-11-22 15:22:10 @scree177

2022-11-22 14:10:13 @JohnSkylar I’m sorry for your loss. And yes, it happens, tragically though rarely.

2022-11-22 12:52:25 @DeryaTR_ !

2022-11-22 10:25:53 https://t.co/MeaCcv3DS7

2022-11-22 02:51:47 I’m sorry. Yeah, that’s terrible, too, on top of the grief and the loss. Yes, turning people’s individual tragedies into political fodder via anecdotal “proof” isn’t okay like that either. https://t.co/uljxKdzQ5b

2022-11-22 02:33:53 @mzbitca Indeed. Tragic.

2022-11-22 02:30:50 @TrumplsCancer @PhilMiller2911 Yeah and during a pandemic, even non-star athlete deaths make become news.

2022-11-22 02:28:20 @juanrive @PhilMiller2911 Yeah happens unfortunately. Rare but real, precedes the pandemic.

2022-11-22 02:26:30 Yes, this has sadly been happening long before the pandemic. Young athletes collapsing or tragically dying is rare, but not unheard of at all. Anectodes are often available to fit preconceived ideas, doesn’t make it true. https://t.co/Ym3TL2eWnY

2022-11-22 02:23:15 Many tragic things happen, if rarely. Young people die unexpectedly. Athletes collapse. Especially during a pandemic, more such stories become news. None of that alone implicates vaccines. Statistics with careful controls are how it would be figured out—anecdote lists aren’t it.

2022-11-22 02:18:33 New anti-vaxxer movie “Died Suddenly” lists people who died or collapsed young/unexpectedly, alleging it’s the vaccine. Classic lying method. Young people do die or collapse, rarely but tragically, and just collating anecdotes or news stories preys on gullibility to push a lie. https://t.co/AImXFPBccT

2022-11-22 01:14:49 RT @UmarFarooq_: NSO, the Israeli company behind the Pegasus spyware, was trying to claim sovereign immunity because it worked on behalf of…

2022-11-21 23:30:56 @RiverdaleBoy @roxannedarling @ariehkovler It does.

2022-11-21 23:07:18 RT @PutrinoLab: Incredible to see this launching in Beta!

2022-11-21 22:40:56 @roxannedarling I would’ve happily paid for more functionality around lists. Also, bookmarks—I have them but you can’t search them.

2022-11-21 22:30:34 Anyway, this just about captures the rest of the sentiment, I think. https://t.co/wojGS1Eclf

2022-11-21 22:25:47 I don't know why shipping new analytics/search etc. wasn't monetized as a move away from advertisers—some make money from this platform, but the analytics are terrible. Add a way to authenticate, sure. The bluecheck wars feel like generals fighting the old war, but whatever.

2022-11-21 22:13:58 @ProfLHunter Wait does it mean "hey buddy" — like what you'd call your friend in the argument, or the bus driver when asking directions, or telling the waiter to hold the ketchup, as well as what you'd call the professor professor? That's what hocam is in Turkish nowadays.

2022-11-21 22:12:03 Anyway, I saw Musk is claiming that they will demote/deboost hate speech, rather than ban it. That requires.. rules about hate speech. Who decides? Moderators then identifying it *at scale*. That's always been the problem. New problem, same as the old problem, apparently.

2022-11-21 22:08:38 Yep, lists are great. If Twitter could *ship* some product around that, it would likely be a good addition. https://t.co/xihi7unMWD

2022-11-21 22:05:40 "hocam" It WORKED. I'm pretty fond of the updated usage, tbh. https://t.co/nL0NKSYDAM

2022-11-21 22:04:23 Sure, one can democratize the blue check and make it available for pay (though remains to be seen if without authentication?), but it can't *also* carry on the previous signification. "The bluechecks" had a *the* (as a for or against) for a reason. This makes it *a* bluecheck.

2022-11-21 22:00:22 During the tumultuous 1968 period in Turkey, some rebellious students started addressing *everyone* as "hocam"—means "my professor/teacher". (The professors were to be called that.) "Hocam": Friends, teachers, janitors... It caught on. These days, "hocam" means "my dude(tte)."

2022-11-21 21:55:52 Good to open up authentication (why did one have to be "notable" for that?). Good to mark official accounts—loved the insulin stunt, but don't want fake country sending nuclear tweets. But the "notable" signifier may end, so one reason people are purchasing it for won't matter.

2022-11-21 14:05:20 RT @practicingpod: Worth reading the whole . The "corner of twitter" @zeynep refers to is obvious to those who know it and the source of m…

2022-11-21 14:04:30 And this is why I respond. A small crew has been lying nonstop about me—and also science and research, for so long. I ignore 99% of it. The same crew harasses scientists who object to them. They have destroyed so much credibility of people—some scientists even—they fooled, too. https://t.co/onWP8XYWwL

2022-11-21 14:01:00 @Paul_Melman Yep. These people have been tweeting lies about me for more than a year. I ignore it 99% of the time. They keep at it, nonstop. I respond, than it’s “why is she engaging”? They lie about so many other things, too. Very harmful. So 1% of the time, I point to their awful methods.

2022-11-21 13:25:13 RT @RichardfromSyd1: This is an interesting thread I am reflecting on. The problem of knowing what is valid vs what is taken out of context…

2022-11-21 12:45:11 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada *feat! I can’t even spell, despite controlling the entire field of immunology!

2022-11-21 12:38:25 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Genuinely amused by my hypothetical powers to control an entire advanced, actual field that I am not part of. When I figure out how I actually pull this amazing feet, I’m going to apply it to other fields, too! Next up, particle physics.

2022-11-21 12:36:35 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada “Papers I didn’t write that have nothing to do with claims I’ve made that people in the field can read correctly proves my nonsensical claims. Why don’t immunologists cite my Covid claims or papers? The omnipotent sociologist somehow controls the entire field of immunology.”

2022-11-21 12:32:12 Adding examples. This is how a lot of Twitter viral nonsense works a lot of the time. Antivaxxers also use this method widely. https://t.co/abORZ27sLg

2022-11-21 12:29:03 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Also 2021 paper, not 2022. (Method: find old study from *someone else* usually something specific—say, severe cases—or subtle that doesn’t apply broadly or was followed up with different results, misrepresent it, claim it vindicates nonsensical other claims, go Twitter viral).

2022-11-21 11:17:15 RT @Monasosh: A riot squad carried him away before he fought back and was returned to his cell. "When they put him in the cell he started t…

2022-11-20 21:45:53 @those_this @andrew_croxford And few followup with any of this l. Remember the super-viral“forever plague” article? I guess you could say it didn’t have typos. Most everything else was.. utterly unfounded to loony. And yet, they’re still on the same beat. It works for RTs.

2022-11-20 21:36:56 RT @j_g_allen: New proposed ventilation rates for covid and other airborne respiratory infectious diseases from The Lancet @Commissioncovid.

2022-11-20 20:32:45 RT @NaomiAKlein: This is exactly right. @RishiSunak, appropriate to our age, *performed* diplomacy but did not actually engage in it. Tha…

2022-11-20 19:49:15 @daisy_court75 @r_prior @meghanor @brianvastag

2022-11-20 15:59:15 RT @MiddleEastEye: The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah said they were allowed to see him on Thursday and that his…

2022-11-20 15:58:54 RT @CarolineLucas: So incredibly sad &

2022-11-20 14:32:16 RT @shirinfdehghan: Iranian women basketball team together with their coaches have all taken their hijab’s off and took what seems like a n…

2022-11-19 16:12:03 @vijayiyer312 @peterstaley @NIHDirector Exactly

2022-11-19 09:34:38 RT @AmnestyUK: Hey @RishiSunak Last week we urged you to bring Alaa home from unjust imprisonment in Egypt during #COP27 You didn’t. Ins…

2022-11-19 02:13:02 @CortJohnson Great overview, thanks.

2022-11-19 01:59:07 RT @PepperMarion: As promised! @UW_Immunology is excited to announce two open faculty job postings! We are hiring up to TWO Assistant Profe…

2022-11-18 21:43:46 Climate justice was never going to stand in isolation from the world. https://t.co/w9FKGNGK0J

2022-11-18 21:39:51 RT @TarletonG: Very much agree with @zeynep here: "The idea that advertisers alone will save us from hate speech and the further degradatio…

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2022-11-18 17:47:02 @ugurZp @nickgenes I look forward to the next opportunity!

2022-11-18 17:46:05 RT @peterstaley: So, before this site crashes, please use my DMs to suggest candidates to fill Tony Fauci’s shoes as NIAID Director. I’m on…

2022-11-18 17:31:11 @nickgenes @ugurZp Grateful for the opportunity to have retweeted it.

2022-11-18 17:14:11 RT @ugurZp: I don’t know about mastodon. My alternative platform for academics would be named Thriller where we can continue to be thrilled…

2022-11-18 16:40:52 RT @AbraarKaran: Recruiting participants for this study of #LongCovid &

2022-11-18 16:00:13 RT @fredbenenson: @mwseibel @ezraklein interviewed @zeynep about this 4 years ago and it’s a must listen - our brains are hard wired for hi…

2022-11-18 15:30:56 RT @EthanZ: Facebook just reminded me that it's @alaa's birthday. He remains imprisoned in Egypt, his hunger strike apparently broken, perh…

2022-11-18 15:08:35 Automating turning (downloaded) JSON into Substack (or any editor) friendly text would likely help many people. (Maybe already exists?). https://t.co/XzRKWmUEyp

2022-11-18 13:26:12 Alaa Abdel Fattah turned 41 today, in a prison cell. He almost died this week, and may not survive long given the cruel, murderous conditions of his imprisonment for most of the past decade. Moving #Cop27 recognition of the plight of the political prisoners. World leaders shrug. https://t.co/LKY7Ktf9du

2022-11-18 12:55:48 @mitchpberg Thank you. I tried, honestly.

2022-11-18 12:54:08 While parts of the world struggle with RSV and flu (always especially dangerous to infants and the elderly!), XBB update. Cases in Singapore continue to plummet. See France for BQ.1.1. More than two years in, nAbs labs do not reflect population immunity and are not predictive. https://t.co/faHW4TqkEj

2022-11-18 12:46:16 UK Monkeypox cases detected are down to 6 for all of last week. US is in low teens, daily. US/UK/EU potentially headed to zero, except for the new introductions. Imagine if we did the right thing, and made sure people in endemic countries were vaccinated as well. https://t.co/ign6CiuQMu

2022-11-18 12:31:04 For journalists/dissidents: This is why one should not post screenshots or PDFs from sources/whistleblowers, or send original documents back to wherever they came from to ask for comment/confirmation. Type it up and/or paraphrase. (See also the Reality Winner case). https://t.co/MwTPTumtGx

2022-11-18 11:34:23 @MBRodamilans @Andres4NY

2022-11-18 03:32:34 @EvolvedTech Yikes

2022-11-18 03:31:34 @AkiPeritz Boo

2022-11-18 03:18:01 “Tiktok and Tactical Nukes” Okay, let’s not. https://t.co/wIIUg0ZiB3

2022-11-17 23:16:05 RT @ElizabethHaighx: Very worrying update from @FreedomForAlaa today as family reveals his health has 'severely deteriorated' after seven m…

2022-11-17 23:15:36 RT @nariology: This is so painful &

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2022-11-17 21:10:04 RT @sharifkouddous: Chants of “Free Alaa, free them all” close out the COP27 People’s Plenary #FreeAlaa #Wish4Alaa https://t.co/70yqoEVNHm

2022-11-17 20:08:17 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I ignore them 99% of the time (they tweet about me pretty much every day, often multiple times, will soon be two years) but I highlighted the doctored tweet because now their lies are targeting Long Covid patients. Despicable, frankly. I just wanted to show an example. But onward

2022-11-17 20:05:38 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. But it's a campaign of lies against me, more than a year, nonstop. Doctored tweets, blatant lying that a first-grader could see through. They don't care about the patients

2022-11-17 19:49:38 RT @paulmasonnews: This is an account of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a British citizen. Not that it should matter - because this is…

2022-11-17 19:49:29 RT @ORHamilton: Like so many of you, I had allowed myself to feel some optimism. But while Sisi and Shoukry were giving world leaders and…

2022-11-17 19:44:21 Adding this here since I broke the thread. This is gut wrenching. https://t.co/DdWE5qEioV

2022-11-17 19:42:01 Horrifying. @RishiSunak and @JoeBiden can, and should, end this torture with murderous intent. They have the leverage. If they don’t, even if Alaa Abdel Fattah doesn’t die during #COP27, he will have been killed during it. This British citizen needs to be on a plane to the UK. https://t.co/mGiHhHYJlS

2022-11-17 19:17:21 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @mocoband @calirunnerdoc They’re so far gone that it’s impossible. Also both my NYT pieces mention or profile how healthy people became ill, and you can find so many tweets from me explaining it, and nowhere do I ever say healthy people can’t get Long Covid. But they’ll never stop, it seems.

2022-11-17 19:09:11 This was great fun, thanks to my fellow panelists and the @ObamaFoundation for the invitation. (Thanks to the audience for their support even when I was critical of, ahem, previous administrations. ) https://t.co/TzLZUCpQs9

2022-11-17 19:06:31 https://t.co/oS1A5tFuml

2022-11-17 17:47:04 RT @ObamaFoundation: https://t.co/HaUvH8zToT

2022-11-17 17:25:15 RT @hackneylad: At #COP27 in #Egypt, I watched @sana2 risk everything to save her brother's life - and show the world that climate justice…

2022-11-17 17:14:44 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I was ignoring them, as I’ve done for years while they go on and on and on about me, but enough with lying to Long Covid patients. That’s a line that, when crossed, deserves a response. Harming patients in their obsession about me is unacceptable.

2022-11-17 17:13:19 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. I published two full page pieces in the New York Times explaining how many previously healthy people got Long Covid. Not exactly obscure. It’s been a multiyear nonstop campaign of lies about me, rando trolls but also, sadly, a few people who should know better join. Nuts.

2022-11-17 16:02:34 The cruelty never ends. The family members haven’t been able to touch or hug Alaa Abdel Fattah for years. https://t.co/SSuewIt5XP

2022-11-17 16:00:49 @jljcolorado @ClarivateAG @JgrpBoulder @CIRESnews @CUBoulderCHEM @CUBoulder Congratulations!

2022-11-17 15:20:30 What a tragedy, the whole thing. https://t.co/IpbKW2j7OL

2022-11-17 03:22:00 RT @victorsojo: I saw this tweet and thought surely it’s related to accounts Alex had interacted with too. Nope. This is quite the gang! #a…

2022-11-17 01:02:40 The classic playbook of many industries. https://t.co/lKOOKJ7RXL

2022-11-17 00:35:57 https://t.co/fqB8MmeO8r

2022-11-17 00:34:45 @notdred Keep them off Twitter.

2022-11-16 23:35:58 @excellent__s Well, thanks but… I will keep writing and (stay tuned) I may be getting involved soon on the research side

2022-11-16 23:14:23 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today @TheTimes was very clear on the increasing seriousness of Alaa's case for British citizens everywhere, &

2022-11-16 23:13:17 RT @khalidabdalla: Exactly right from @JohnCassonUK. The longer this goes on the more serious it must become. Rights &

2022-11-16 22:15:07 @GidMK See Michael’s chart here, and rest of the thread. The study does not compare first and subsequent infections at all. https://t.co/MLigTTihJD

2022-11-16 21:39:30 @JamesStein18 Yeah

2022-11-16 19:42:09 @AlexGaggio @origincanada @calirunnerdoc Yeah, look at this thread breaking down the temporal pattern in the ONS data, and that heartbreaking red line of the more than 12 months folks. Really, really terrible. (You can see the more transient sequelae as well.) https://t.co/GpY0JAfs6z

2022-11-16 19:37:59 @calirunnerdoc It's become distracting, imo, to try to discuss granularity and stas on Twitter, but happy to have a lengthier conversation. Statistics/surveys is one of my core academic specialties, but Twitter isn't great. But none of that convo takes away from the reality of the illness.

2022-11-16 19:36:00 @calirunnerdoc On the other subsets, I think the ONS is the best long-term data we have, even without a control group and latest method change, but there are new studies with control groups. And I think the reduction of the risk is visible, but the data is far from the granularity we'd want.

2022-11-16 19:32:41 @calirunnerdoc So that discussion is very hard on Twitter, and gets misinterpreted, especially since there are subsets. On the "from severity" version, which dominates the stats, there's a clear reduction since severity is reduced (this is post-ICU, post-hospitalization syndromes).

2022-11-16 19:28:48 For sociological fun, search Twitter for mentions of the Nature study on immunological dysfunction that professor Dore is a co-author on and note how it's represented to ordinary people. Then see what he actually says about it: "Exhausted by misrepresentation" is how he put it.

2022-11-16 19:15:13 By the way, please note professor Greg Dore is the coauthor of that Nature study on immunological dysfunction that, he says in another thread, is also being misrepresented. https://t.co/Oe5Gjrp8FO

2022-11-16 18:19:15 @alexandrosM Correct, multi-decade longitudinal study found multiple sclerosis follows, decades later, from EBV. HPV to cancer, similar. Yeay vaccines. See: https://t.co/bnnldDdihd and https://t.co/xQ3eliB6lc You've literally turned into this, I can't argue with that. https://t.co/zKqfNLBAvH

2022-11-16 18:13:38 @localnotable See this thread. I read the full study. The Reuters headline is absolutely wrong. The study does not measure severity of reinfections compared to first ones at all. It's better not to get informed via Twitter or media, unfortunately. https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-16 17:54:29 @localnotable That headline is hundred percent wrong. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t inject falsehoods into this. Yes, media gets many things wrong. It sucks.

2022-11-16 17:33:53 @alexandrosM Post-viral sequelae, documented throughout history, especially after pandemics are a different matter. I'm sure you were as excited as I was by the recent paper in Science showing multiple sclerosis follows, decades after, an EBV infection. Can't wait for the soon EBV vaccine!

2022-11-16 17:32:35 @alexandrosM No, different! The reason all the immunologists I know have eagerly, and enthusiastically, vaccinated their children is that they understand that primary infections can be higher risk for the youngest, and training the immune system via vaccines is the safest route. Same as this: https://t.co/8jAm3owcgf

2022-11-16 00:34:59 @jgprogress @mykola @andrew_croxford Why are you lying about me? I wrote multiple pieces in the NYT explaining how healthy, active people got ill. See thread below for links. This multiyear campaign of lies is not acceptable. Why do you hate the patients who need help and research? https://t.co/fNS2OiXs9g

2022-11-15 23:32:17 @mykola You're telling me that me quoting Long Covid book co-author immunologist Danny Altmann—with the entire transcript so that it's not misunderstood—is somehow a problem for LC patients, because..? Yeah, I'll leave it here, too. It's a problem you have with Altmann. I can't fix that.

2022-11-15 23:26:56 @mykola And perhaps you should consider what it means that Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid Handbook *and* another immunologist from the very pro-mitigation Indie Sage *both* saying something straightforward is somehow seen by you as... an attack on Long Covid patients? Why?

2022-11-15 23:20:16 @mykola I put the entire transcript, too. He is saying exactly what he said.

2022-11-15 23:18:01 @mykola Long Covid is real, important, people are suffering and there is (still too little) but real research into the immunopathology. Altmann making straightforward scientific statement should not be seen as being insensitive.

2022-11-15 23:16:30 @mykola Once again, maybe reconsider what it means when even Indie Sage immunologist Altmann causes a problems for you, apparently, by making straightforward statements? It’s not being “sensitive” to let scientific terms become cudgels in Twitter wars. Altmann is a researcher. https://t.co/IkjSSMm6EP

2022-11-15 23:07:07 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe that should be an indicator for you? They are very concerned about the patients, but clearly also keeping the science, correct.

2022-11-15 23:06:01 @mykola @andrew_croxford *That* immunologist is Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid handbook, that Akiko wrote foreword for, part of very pro-mitigation Indie Sage. Watch the video, the second immunologist in the same group says the same thing. They’re referring to the incorrect, broad claims.

2022-11-15 22:58:29 @mykola @andrew_croxford Oh come on. Nobody is saying T cell exhaustion is pseudoscience. The person top of the thread is an immunologist! There are people making bizarre, Twitter-only claims. Antivaxxers use similar techniques. Real terminology, baseless assertion. That’s different. That’s all.

2022-11-15 22:55:50 @mykola @andrew_croxford 1-The current crude surveys includes too many subsets of post-viral sequelae lumped together. That’s not a secret. 2- I cite the UK ONS in my piece. Best we have despite lacking control group. 3- This is obviously false.

2022-11-15 22:41:40 @mykola @andrew_croxford What part?

2022-11-15 22:30:35 @healthyrespect1 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford I’ve written some of the earliest &

2022-11-15 22:27:19 @mykola @andrew_croxford You’re being lied to. There isn’t a single place I say or imply Long Covid patients are to be discarded, and in fact every single word has been the opposite. The people who lie about me also lie about the research and also don’t care about the patients.

2022-11-15 22:24:22 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe I should have written a lengthy NYT article about the history of post-viral illness after pandemics. You know the latest is because of their new lie? I said LC and ME patients are at *higher risk* from reinfections and they screenshotted and presented as “she doesn’t care”. https://t.co/B7fv2ynnLC

2022-11-15 21:29:43 @Naughty__Rabbit Or, stop being misled the seemingly unemployed guy (no research affiliation!) whose Covid papers remain uncited (sort Google Scholar by date!), but who tweets about me nonstop for years? (Fan of Dr. Iwasaki, I talk to her and quote her in my NYT pieces). https://t.co/LtgaElztsw

2022-11-15 20:53:16 @BenMazer Wait screenshots of abstracts of studies from a complex field and typing “I was right” repeatedly into the bird app input box isn’t enough?

2022-11-28 23:17:48 @antoniogm You haven’t discovered Yalom yet? This is the theory book. “He presents his four ultimate concerns of life—death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness—and discusses developmental changes” as Wikipedia summarizes. Has many novels and non-fiction as well. https://t.co/QVkdayoraE

2022-11-28 20:33:50 Not all left, but it is a very common form of racism—assuming other, usually non-white people who are protesting and risking so much have no agency and are merely super malleable, easy to manipulate tools of apparently omnipotent, competent westerners. That’s racism, both ways. https://t.co/5rIMHVuLoS

2022-11-28 02:00:43 RT @bokane: It wasn't as bad last night, but the first few dozen results for any city name I search are now escort spam

2022-11-28 00:35:10 @MartinKulldorff Also this discussion. It remained respectful. But I think it’s important. https://t.co/tvOA6bG1aB

2022-11-28 00:33:21 @MartinKulldorff Rest of thread. https://t.co/TEefe3rUJd

2022-11-27 23:37:28 @wanderer_jasnah

2022-11-27 22:10:31 @subsix848 @ChristinaPushaw @DrJMarine @anish_koka Did the students end up with multi year prison sentences under very harsh conditions and their relatives rounded up and fired from jobs etc.? Seriously, perspective is useful if you want to criticize whatever you want about what happened here.

2022-11-27 22:08:23 @ChristinaPushaw @DrJMarine @anish_koka You can find a large number of threads etc. from me pointing out about the absurdity of such nonsense, going back to spring of 2020. That example is absurd, and wrong, still nowhere similar to broad, severe repression from China. Have some perspective and for what China is like.

2022-11-27 22:01:04 @wolfstrength @contrarian4data @anish_koka @DrJMarine January 22, 2020 and I’m calling for international cooperation. That sounds pretty good to me! China’s delay in informing the rest of the world was very costly.

2022-11-27 21:41:56 RT @CIA_in_China: While we’re focused on the fire in Xinjiang, it’s a chance to teach about the notorious Karamay fire in 1994 when hundred…

2022-11-27 21:39:49 RT @democracynow: Despite a global campaign to free Alaa Abd El-Fattah, the Egyptian activist remains in prison with little apparent moveme…

2022-11-27 17:11:14 @anish_koka @DrJMarine Come on. One, even in your thread, people aren’t calling for severe, broad multi year repression. Two, the word “lockdown” has come to mean whatever people criticizing it want it to mean. Three, random nephrologist says something isn’t proof of anything. Especially in early 2020.

2022-11-27 16:52:02 @DrJMarine @anish_koka Fauci would have preferred stricter policies (which didn’t happen, even under Biden) has no path to claiming Fauci preferred China-style massive, broad and severe repression. You can criticize Fauci without attempting that non-existent connection.

2022-11-27 16:26:13 @BenMazer Please! Let’s not forget hamsters which Honk Kong contact-traced! https://t.co/ZLVadKzCSI

2022-11-27 16:19:10 @DrJMarine @anish_koka An editorial by a single person that also went nowhere and called for, let's see, more tests and PPE in hospitals, and to do this if "virtually everyone is wiling" etc. You're proving my point? People had a range of views, and calling to "inspire" people and more tests is China?

2022-11-27 16:15:34 @Br1ckAnother1 @IoanaA_Cristea It's a great paper I'm proud to have co-written, and the conclusions would have allowed much smarter, targeted mitigations had it been accepted earlier, in my view. I don't clone policy views of my coauthors. I also co-authored with people with policy views in opposite direction.

2022-11-27 16:13:10 @DrJMarine @anish_koka @nytimes An op-ed that went nowhere. Plus, there were many opeds in exact opposite direction in the NYT. If one essay in the NYT changed the world, we'd be in a different place. It's truly disrespectful to the suffering in China to link whatever discussion you want about Western policies.

2022-11-27 16:11:07 @be335651783 People wanting to discuss the trade-offs and effectiveness of Western policies (in either direction) are obviously fine. (I've done both types of criticisms). It's the ridiculous equivalence to China's severe, broad multi-year authoritarian repression that I'm objecting to.

2022-11-27 16:06:09 @DrJMarine @anish_koka So you've an op-ed, from 2020, calling for measures that aren't comparable at all to what has been happening in China, and whose suggestions weren't implemented. Guess I can still distinguish a random op-ed from an authoritarian government's severe, broad multi-year repression.

2022-11-27 15:15:55 @cjmaddison I do understand where you're coming from. I'll try to pick methodological examples from other topics unless the substantive point is also crucial. The people being unacceptably ignored and/or left behind have an understandably different focus than some causal inference point.

2022-11-27 15:09:29 @JLeytonMange @DrJMarine I've criticized US response for being too lax/late as well as being performative strict even nonsensical since about the start, and I can tell the difference between others being critical of me or me thinking the government had it wrong and China-level repression. Not that hard.

2022-11-27 15:04:10 @BenMazer Also the key role of prolonged infections in immunocompromised people. And the fact that the rest of the world isn’t zero covid. And that any selection at a population level at a place with little prior immunity would then hit places with both vaccine and infection immunity.

2022-11-26 23:32:39 The person asking is the president of the university, Cao Guozheng. They didn’t back down. https://t.co/FEsIhGax1y

2022-11-26 23:25:35 Courage. https://t.co/dn2nk2Zdab

2022-11-26 23:18:57 RT @ThisIsWenhao: New protest method in China: holding a piece of white paper with nothing on it.

2022-11-26 18:52:37 Many photos/news of protests coming out of China in the last day, following a fire in Urumqui, Xinjiang where residents, including children, died reportedly as their building was sealed. Whatever else happens, a moment to appreciate the collective bravery of these young people. https://t.co/M6FQIVp3nH

2022-11-26 18:33:03 (It's a really difficult read, but as with such history books, puts many current dynamics in context).

2022-11-26 18:32:00 Today is Holodomor remembrance day, commemorating the millions of Ukrainians who died during Stalin's forced famine in otherwise rich agricultural lands. Snyder's Bloodlands, which covers the era and the region, tops my list of doomreading books as alternative to doomscrolling. https://t.co/YZr6cEavvu

2022-11-26 14:25:32 RT @OmidVEbrahimi: Is it OK to spend 12 months to get a visa to attend a 3-day conference? My piece in @ScienceMagazine sheds light on thi…

2022-11-26 14:03:31 @AngelidisAn @VirusesImmunity @PutrinoLab @resiapretorius @research_long @microbeminded2 @MBVanElzakker @Daltmann10

2022-11-25 22:02:55 RT @jljcolorado: @gabbystern @WHO @doctorsoumya If you are new to this #COVIDisAirborne topic and are perplexed, this thread explains the i…

2022-11-25 21:48:47 @gefeedly @tomgara Exactly. There is no choice, really.

2022-11-25 19:39:08 @tomgara https://t.co/SOvKwqIVui

2022-11-25 15:25:16 @BrianRWasik @wanderer_jasnah

2022-11-25 10:24:16 @cjmaddison I can see your view of this, but I didn't see this as connected to Long Covid necessarily — instead, causal inference failures in science/study reporting are much broader, and this particular issue (EHR studies) is a perennial problem. I can try to pick other examples, though!

2022-11-24 23:11:08 @SirKneeland @SethTClarke Nutella? On a crust?

2022-11-24 23:10:56 @aaiqbal

2022-11-24 22:51:31 Rhubarb people at least made the chart! https://t.co/W6VjqbUGNa

2022-11-24 20:21:43 RT @at_tgibson: The EU has not been tough enough on #Egypt for too long. #COP27 and #FreeAlaa have brought the eyes of Europe to just how…

2022-11-24 20:13:51 @cjmaddison This isn’t necessarily about Long Covid though?

2022-11-24 18:40:36 RT @MarietjeSchaake: The institute does not disclose the source of its funding, but The New York Times obtained copies of the group’s annua…

2022-11-24 17:26:44 @Lujan588 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer We don’t test for it. It’s fairly common when one does, including 17% of people having two flu infections in a single year. https://t.co/higczdN6Hi

2022-11-24 15:45:53 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer That's why we need proper studies of all of this, and also why looking merely at abstracts of studies isn't enough. Have to understand what we're looking at? Suggestion, effect, proof, a clarion call to do a proper study, etc?

2022-11-24 15:44:42 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer Could be: contributing, triggering *or* downstream of weaker immune system (Many such examples of results being overturned when switching from retrospective EHR to much better controlled studies, see HRT and cardiovascular events/mortality—reverse result from cohort was true).

2022-11-24 15:42:45 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer Also, there's always "contributing", "accelarating" vs "but for" distinction. For example, Denmark study showed higher rates of Alzheimer and Parkinsons in elderly folks post-Covid (made headlines)—but also for post-influenza, at similarly elevated rates (largely ignored). +

2022-11-24 14:23:29 Refuting/checking essays that string together abstracts from cherry-picked studies that the author clearly didn’t understand or checked what happened later when scientists tried to drilled down to causal pathways? Little incentive for it on social media right now. So it goes.

2022-11-24 14:13:19 In fact, we already know some suggested effects were artifacts of higher diagnostic rates, not causal from an infection, because the predictions didn’t come true. Some other things are still unclear. You’d hardly know that from rando essays people RT without understanding.

2022-11-24 14:09:57 Some things could be higher risk following an infection. Others may be an artifact of getting a workup as part of being ill—not caused by it but discovered because of that. Some studies suggest effects but not what caused elevated diagnoses. That requires more, different work.

2022-11-24 14:04:52 For all prospective studies of electronic health records: people who interact with the health system are more likely to be diagnosed with conditions they *already had* compared to people who don’t. Noting this also doesn’t prove no effect. Careful scientists read studies &

2022-11-24 12:46:35 RT @jljcolorado: .@WHO chief Scientist: "We were not forcefully saying: “This is an airborne virus.” I regret that we didn't do this much,…

2022-11-23 20:21:32 RT @walidgellad: I want to again highlight this really important point when you see an observational study of paxlovid efficacy using date…

2022-11-23 19:49:53 @GregDore2 Lovely!

2022-11-23 19:47:23 @GregDore2 Is that Bondi Beach?

2022-11-23 19:21:29 Unfortunately, yes. Controlled, careful statistics can illuminate. In contra, stringing together anecdotes can often be a tragically easy way to lie. https://t.co/Ym3TL2eWnY

2022-11-23 19:18:15 RT @hackneylad: "He chose not to die as a symbol, not to give up his life for whatever cost the regime will bear for it. He chose to live,…

2022-11-22 17:43:47 @smithsj See here, as well. (Obviously, more empirical research into the Long X sequelae is necessary and may help a lot of people including Long Covid as well a a whole host of other ailments such as ME/CFS, and some research suggests Alzheimer and Parkinson’s may turn out like MS did.) https://t.co/9anHsEf3JJ

2022-11-22 17:39:52 @smithsj Also I didn’t say it! I wish! It was a great essay written by an expert about acute severity and fact-checked by multiple immunologists. It has been amply shown. Iwasaki *separately* told me it could also explain why pandemics (novel viruses) produce more “Long” viral sequelae.

2022-11-22 17:28:49 So much potential upside to recognition of airborne transmission for other respiratory illnesses, as well as potential longer-term sequelae from other viruses including influenza and especially Epstein-Barr Virus.

2022-11-22 17:23:47 “Marr said she and her colleagues don’t have a clear answer as to which mode of transmission is dominant, but her work has shown that the flu, like Covid, can also spread via aerosols.”

2022-11-22 17:22:05 “Covid is definitely not alone in having these long-term consequences, even after a mild infection,” Iwasaki said. “According to Iwasaki, seasonal flu is less likely to cause lasting symptoms than pandemic flu strains like the 2009 H1N1 virus.” Post-viral syndromes are broader. https://t.co/wMjUwBGMOB

2022-11-22 16:20:55 RT @NathanGrubaugh: We are hiring an Associate Research Scientist (or postdoc with relevant experience) with a background in pathogen gen…

2022-11-22 15:34:46 RT @mlipsitch: The Public Health Analytics and Modeling Fellowship at @CDCgov https://t.co/tUxLffil90 is a great opportunity for postdocs t…

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2022-11-22 14:10:13 @JohnSkylar I’m sorry for your loss. And yes, it happens, tragically though rarely.

2022-11-22 12:52:25 @DeryaTR_ !

2022-11-22 10:25:53 https://t.co/MeaCcv3DS7

2022-11-22 02:51:47 I’m sorry. Yeah, that’s terrible, too, on top of the grief and the loss. Yes, turning people’s individual tragedies into political fodder via anecdotal “proof” isn’t okay like that either. https://t.co/uljxKdzQ5b

2022-11-22 02:33:53 @mzbitca Indeed. Tragic.

2022-11-22 02:30:50 @TrumplsCancer @PhilMiller2911 Yeah and during a pandemic, even non-star athlete deaths make become news.

2022-11-22 02:28:20 @juanrive @PhilMiller2911 Yeah happens unfortunately. Rare but real, precedes the pandemic.

2022-11-22 02:26:30 Yes, this has sadly been happening long before the pandemic. Young athletes collapsing or tragically dying is rare, but not unheard of at all. Anectodes are often available to fit preconceived ideas, doesn’t make it true. https://t.co/Ym3TL2eWnY

2022-11-22 02:23:15 Many tragic things happen, if rarely. Young people die unexpectedly. Athletes collapse. Especially during a pandemic, more such stories become news. None of that alone implicates vaccines. Statistics with careful controls are how it would be figured out—anecdote lists aren’t it.

2022-11-22 02:18:33 New anti-vaxxer movie “Died Suddenly” lists people who died or collapsed young/unexpectedly, alleging it’s the vaccine. Classic lying method. Young people do die or collapse, rarely but tragically, and just collating anecdotes or news stories preys on gullibility to push a lie. https://t.co/AImXFPBccT

2022-11-22 01:14:49 RT @UmarFarooq_: NSO, the Israeli company behind the Pegasus spyware, was trying to claim sovereign immunity because it worked on behalf of…

2022-11-21 23:30:56 @RiverdaleBoy @roxannedarling @ariehkovler It does.

2022-11-21 23:07:18 RT @PutrinoLab: Incredible to see this launching in Beta!

2022-11-21 22:40:56 @roxannedarling I would’ve happily paid for more functionality around lists. Also, bookmarks—I have them but you can’t search them.

2022-11-21 22:30:34 Anyway, this just about captures the rest of the sentiment, I think. https://t.co/wojGS1Eclf

2022-11-21 22:25:47 I don't know why shipping new analytics/search etc. wasn't monetized as a move away from advertisers—some make money from this platform, but the analytics are terrible. Add a way to authenticate, sure. The bluecheck wars feel like generals fighting the old war, but whatever.

2022-11-21 22:13:58 @ProfLHunter Wait does it mean "hey buddy" — like what you'd call your friend in the argument, or the bus driver when asking directions, or telling the waiter to hold the ketchup, as well as what you'd call the professor professor? That's what hocam is in Turkish nowadays.

2022-11-21 22:12:03 Anyway, I saw Musk is claiming that they will demote/deboost hate speech, rather than ban it. That requires.. rules about hate speech. Who decides? Moderators then identifying it *at scale*. That's always been the problem. New problem, same as the old problem, apparently.

2022-11-21 22:08:38 Yep, lists are great. If Twitter could *ship* some product around that, it would likely be a good addition. https://t.co/xihi7unMWD

2022-11-21 22:05:40 "hocam" It WORKED. I'm pretty fond of the updated usage, tbh. https://t.co/nL0NKSYDAM

2022-11-21 22:04:23 Sure, one can democratize the blue check and make it available for pay (though remains to be seen if without authentication?), but it can't *also* carry on the previous signification. "The bluechecks" had a *the* (as a for or against) for a reason. This makes it *a* bluecheck.

2022-11-21 22:00:22 During the tumultuous 1968 period in Turkey, some rebellious students started addressing *everyone* as "hocam"—means "my professor/teacher". (The professors were to be called that.) "Hocam": Friends, teachers, janitors... It caught on. These days, "hocam" means "my dude(tte)."

2022-11-21 21:55:52 Good to open up authentication (why did one have to be "notable" for that?). Good to mark official accounts—loved the insulin stunt, but don't want fake country sending nuclear tweets. But the "notable" signifier may end, so one reason people are purchasing it for won't matter.

2022-11-21 14:05:20 RT @practicingpod: Worth reading the whole . The "corner of twitter" @zeynep refers to is obvious to those who know it and the source of m…

2022-11-21 14:04:30 And this is why I respond. A small crew has been lying nonstop about me—and also science and research, for so long. I ignore 99% of it. The same crew harasses scientists who object to them. They have destroyed so much credibility of people—some scientists even—they fooled, too. https://t.co/onWP8XYWwL

2022-11-21 14:01:00 @Paul_Melman Yep. These people have been tweeting lies about me for more than a year. I ignore it 99% of the time. They keep at it, nonstop. I respond, than it’s “why is she engaging”? They lie about so many other things, too. Very harmful. So 1% of the time, I point to their awful methods.

2022-11-21 13:25:13 RT @RichardfromSyd1: This is an interesting thread I am reflecting on. The problem of knowing what is valid vs what is taken out of context…

2022-11-21 12:45:11 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada *feat! I can’t even spell, despite controlling the entire field of immunology!

2022-11-21 12:38:25 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Genuinely amused by my hypothetical powers to control an entire advanced, actual field that I am not part of. When I figure out how I actually pull this amazing feet, I’m going to apply it to other fields, too! Next up, particle physics.

2022-11-21 12:36:35 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada “Papers I didn’t write that have nothing to do with claims I’ve made that people in the field can read correctly proves my nonsensical claims. Why don’t immunologists cite my Covid claims or papers? The omnipotent sociologist somehow controls the entire field of immunology.”

2022-11-21 12:32:12 Adding examples. This is how a lot of Twitter viral nonsense works a lot of the time. Antivaxxers also use this method widely. https://t.co/abORZ27sLg

2022-11-21 12:29:03 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Also 2021 paper, not 2022. (Method: find old study from *someone else* usually something specific—say, severe cases—or subtle that doesn’t apply broadly or was followed up with different results, misrepresent it, claim it vindicates nonsensical other claims, go Twitter viral).

2022-11-21 11:17:15 RT @Monasosh: A riot squad carried him away before he fought back and was returned to his cell. "When they put him in the cell he started t…

2022-11-20 21:45:53 @those_this @andrew_croxford And few followup with any of this l. Remember the super-viral“forever plague” article? I guess you could say it didn’t have typos. Most everything else was.. utterly unfounded to loony. And yet, they’re still on the same beat. It works for RTs.

2022-11-20 21:36:56 RT @j_g_allen: New proposed ventilation rates for covid and other airborne respiratory infectious diseases from The Lancet @Commissioncovid.

2022-11-20 20:32:45 RT @NaomiAKlein: This is exactly right. @RishiSunak, appropriate to our age, *performed* diplomacy but did not actually engage in it. Tha…

2022-11-20 19:49:15 @daisy_court75 @r_prior @meghanor @brianvastag

2022-11-20 15:59:15 RT @MiddleEastEye: The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah said they were allowed to see him on Thursday and that his…

2022-11-20 15:58:54 RT @CarolineLucas: So incredibly sad &

2022-11-20 14:32:16 RT @shirinfdehghan: Iranian women basketball team together with their coaches have all taken their hijab’s off and took what seems like a n…

2022-11-19 16:12:03 @vijayiyer312 @peterstaley @NIHDirector Exactly

2022-11-19 09:34:38 RT @AmnestyUK: Hey @RishiSunak Last week we urged you to bring Alaa home from unjust imprisonment in Egypt during #COP27 You didn’t. Ins…

2022-11-19 02:13:02 @CortJohnson Great overview, thanks.

2022-11-19 01:59:07 RT @PepperMarion: As promised! @UW_Immunology is excited to announce two open faculty job postings! We are hiring up to TWO Assistant Profe…

2022-11-18 21:43:46 Climate justice was never going to stand in isolation from the world. https://t.co/w9FKGNGK0J

2022-11-18 21:39:51 RT @TarletonG: Very much agree with @zeynep here: "The idea that advertisers alone will save us from hate speech and the further degradatio…

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2022-11-18 17:47:02 @ugurZp @nickgenes I look forward to the next opportunity!

2022-11-18 17:46:05 RT @peterstaley: So, before this site crashes, please use my DMs to suggest candidates to fill Tony Fauci’s shoes as NIAID Director. I’m on…

2022-11-18 17:31:11 @nickgenes @ugurZp Grateful for the opportunity to have retweeted it.

2022-11-18 17:14:11 RT @ugurZp: I don’t know about mastodon. My alternative platform for academics would be named Thriller where we can continue to be thrilled…

2022-11-18 16:40:52 RT @AbraarKaran: Recruiting participants for this study of #LongCovid &

2022-11-18 16:00:13 RT @fredbenenson: @mwseibel @ezraklein interviewed @zeynep about this 4 years ago and it’s a must listen - our brains are hard wired for hi…

2022-11-18 15:30:56 RT @EthanZ: Facebook just reminded me that it's @alaa's birthday. He remains imprisoned in Egypt, his hunger strike apparently broken, perh…

2022-11-18 15:08:35 Automating turning (downloaded) JSON into Substack (or any editor) friendly text would likely help many people. (Maybe already exists?). https://t.co/XzRKWmUEyp

2022-11-18 13:26:12 Alaa Abdel Fattah turned 41 today, in a prison cell. He almost died this week, and may not survive long given the cruel, murderous conditions of his imprisonment for most of the past decade. Moving #Cop27 recognition of the plight of the political prisoners. World leaders shrug. https://t.co/LKY7Ktf9du

2022-11-18 12:55:48 @mitchpberg Thank you. I tried, honestly.

2022-11-18 12:54:08 While parts of the world struggle with RSV and flu (always especially dangerous to infants and the elderly!), XBB update. Cases in Singapore continue to plummet. See France for BQ.1.1. More than two years in, nAbs labs do not reflect population immunity and are not predictive. https://t.co/faHW4TqkEj

2022-11-18 12:46:16 UK Monkeypox cases detected are down to 6 for all of last week. US is in low teens, daily. US/UK/EU potentially headed to zero, except for the new introductions. Imagine if we did the right thing, and made sure people in endemic countries were vaccinated as well. https://t.co/ign6CiuQMu

2022-11-18 12:31:04 For journalists/dissidents: This is why one should not post screenshots or PDFs from sources/whistleblowers, or send original documents back to wherever they came from to ask for comment/confirmation. Type it up and/or paraphrase. (See also the Reality Winner case). https://t.co/MwTPTumtGx

2022-11-18 11:34:23 @MBRodamilans @Andres4NY

2022-11-18 03:32:34 @EvolvedTech Yikes

2022-11-18 03:31:34 @AkiPeritz Boo

2022-11-18 03:18:01 “Tiktok and Tactical Nukes” Okay, let’s not. https://t.co/wIIUg0ZiB3

2022-11-17 23:16:05 RT @ElizabethHaighx: Very worrying update from @FreedomForAlaa today as family reveals his health has 'severely deteriorated' after seven m…

2022-11-17 23:15:36 RT @nariology: This is so painful &

2022-11-17 22:53:38 @billwasik

2022-11-17 21:10:04 RT @sharifkouddous: Chants of “Free Alaa, free them all” close out the COP27 People’s Plenary #FreeAlaa #Wish4Alaa https://t.co/70yqoEVNHm

2022-11-17 20:08:17 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I ignore them 99% of the time (they tweet about me pretty much every day, often multiple times, will soon be two years) but I highlighted the doctored tweet because now their lies are targeting Long Covid patients. Despicable, frankly. I just wanted to show an example. But onward

2022-11-17 20:05:38 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. But it's a campaign of lies against me, more than a year, nonstop. Doctored tweets, blatant lying that a first-grader could see through. They don't care about the patients

2022-11-17 19:49:38 RT @paulmasonnews: This is an account of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a British citizen. Not that it should matter - because this is…

2022-11-17 19:49:29 RT @ORHamilton: Like so many of you, I had allowed myself to feel some optimism. But while Sisi and Shoukry were giving world leaders and…

2022-11-17 19:44:21 Adding this here since I broke the thread. This is gut wrenching. https://t.co/DdWE5qEioV

2022-11-17 19:42:01 Horrifying. @RishiSunak and @JoeBiden can, and should, end this torture with murderous intent. They have the leverage. If they don’t, even if Alaa Abdel Fattah doesn’t die during #COP27, he will have been killed during it. This British citizen needs to be on a plane to the UK. https://t.co/mGiHhHYJlS

2022-11-17 19:17:21 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @mocoband @calirunnerdoc They’re so far gone that it’s impossible. Also both my NYT pieces mention or profile how healthy people became ill, and you can find so many tweets from me explaining it, and nowhere do I ever say healthy people can’t get Long Covid. But they’ll never stop, it seems.

2022-11-17 19:09:11 This was great fun, thanks to my fellow panelists and the @ObamaFoundation for the invitation. (Thanks to the audience for their support even when I was critical of, ahem, previous administrations. ) https://t.co/TzLZUCpQs9

2022-11-17 19:06:31 https://t.co/oS1A5tFuml

2022-11-17 17:47:04 RT @ObamaFoundation: https://t.co/HaUvH8zToT

2022-11-17 17:25:15 RT @hackneylad: At #COP27 in #Egypt, I watched @sana2 risk everything to save her brother's life - and show the world that climate justice…

2022-11-17 17:14:44 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I was ignoring them, as I’ve done for years while they go on and on and on about me, but enough with lying to Long Covid patients. That’s a line that, when crossed, deserves a response. Harming patients in their obsession about me is unacceptable.

2022-11-17 17:13:19 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. I published two full page pieces in the New York Times explaining how many previously healthy people got Long Covid. Not exactly obscure. It’s been a multiyear nonstop campaign of lies about me, rando trolls but also, sadly, a few people who should know better join. Nuts.

2022-11-17 16:02:34 The cruelty never ends. The family members haven’t been able to touch or hug Alaa Abdel Fattah for years. https://t.co/SSuewIt5XP

2022-11-17 16:00:49 @jljcolorado @ClarivateAG @JgrpBoulder @CIRESnews @CUBoulderCHEM @CUBoulder Congratulations!

2022-11-17 15:20:30 What a tragedy, the whole thing. https://t.co/IpbKW2j7OL

2022-11-17 03:22:00 RT @victorsojo: I saw this tweet and thought surely it’s related to accounts Alex had interacted with too. Nope. This is quite the gang! #a…

2022-11-17 01:02:40 The classic playbook of many industries. https://t.co/lKOOKJ7RXL

2022-11-17 00:35:57 https://t.co/fqB8MmeO8r

2022-11-17 00:34:45 @notdred Keep them off Twitter.

2022-11-16 23:35:58 @excellent__s Well, thanks but… I will keep writing and (stay tuned) I may be getting involved soon on the research side

2022-11-16 23:14:23 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today @TheTimes was very clear on the increasing seriousness of Alaa's case for British citizens everywhere, &

2022-11-16 23:13:17 RT @khalidabdalla: Exactly right from @JohnCassonUK. The longer this goes on the more serious it must become. Rights &

2022-11-16 22:15:07 @GidMK See Michael’s chart here, and rest of the thread. The study does not compare first and subsequent infections at all. https://t.co/MLigTTihJD

2022-11-16 21:39:30 @JamesStein18 Yeah

2022-11-16 19:42:09 @AlexGaggio @origincanada @calirunnerdoc Yeah, look at this thread breaking down the temporal pattern in the ONS data, and that heartbreaking red line of the more than 12 months folks. Really, really terrible. (You can see the more transient sequelae as well.) https://t.co/GpY0JAfs6z

2022-11-16 19:37:59 @calirunnerdoc It's become distracting, imo, to try to discuss granularity and stas on Twitter, but happy to have a lengthier conversation. Statistics/surveys is one of my core academic specialties, but Twitter isn't great. But none of that convo takes away from the reality of the illness.

2022-11-16 19:36:00 @calirunnerdoc On the other subsets, I think the ONS is the best long-term data we have, even without a control group and latest method change, but there are new studies with control groups. And I think the reduction of the risk is visible, but the data is far from the granularity we'd want.

2022-11-16 19:32:41 @calirunnerdoc So that discussion is very hard on Twitter, and gets misinterpreted, especially since there are subsets. On the "from severity" version, which dominates the stats, there's a clear reduction since severity is reduced (this is post-ICU, post-hospitalization syndromes).

2022-11-16 19:28:48 For sociological fun, search Twitter for mentions of the Nature study on immunological dysfunction that professor Dore is a co-author on and note how it's represented to ordinary people. Then see what he actually says about it: "Exhausted by misrepresentation" is how he put it.

2022-11-16 19:15:13 By the way, please note professor Greg Dore is the coauthor of that Nature study on immunological dysfunction that, he says in another thread, is also being misrepresented. https://t.co/Oe5Gjrp8FO

2022-11-16 18:19:15 @alexandrosM Correct, multi-decade longitudinal study found multiple sclerosis follows, decades later, from EBV. HPV to cancer, similar. Yeay vaccines. See: https://t.co/bnnldDdihd and https://t.co/xQ3eliB6lc You've literally turned into this, I can't argue with that. https://t.co/zKqfNLBAvH

2022-11-16 18:13:38 @localnotable See this thread. I read the full study. The Reuters headline is absolutely wrong. The study does not measure severity of reinfections compared to first ones at all. It's better not to get informed via Twitter or media, unfortunately. https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-16 17:54:29 @localnotable That headline is hundred percent wrong. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t inject falsehoods into this. Yes, media gets many things wrong. It sucks.

2022-11-16 17:33:53 @alexandrosM Post-viral sequelae, documented throughout history, especially after pandemics are a different matter. I'm sure you were as excited as I was by the recent paper in Science showing multiple sclerosis follows, decades after, an EBV infection. Can't wait for the soon EBV vaccine!

2022-11-16 17:32:35 @alexandrosM No, different! The reason all the immunologists I know have eagerly, and enthusiastically, vaccinated their children is that they understand that primary infections can be higher risk for the youngest, and training the immune system via vaccines is the safest route. Same as this: https://t.co/8jAm3owcgf

2022-11-16 00:34:59 @jgprogress @mykola @andrew_croxford Why are you lying about me? I wrote multiple pieces in the NYT explaining how healthy, active people got ill. See thread below for links. This multiyear campaign of lies is not acceptable. Why do you hate the patients who need help and research? https://t.co/fNS2OiXs9g

2022-11-15 23:32:17 @mykola You're telling me that me quoting Long Covid book co-author immunologist Danny Altmann—with the entire transcript so that it's not misunderstood—is somehow a problem for LC patients, because..? Yeah, I'll leave it here, too. It's a problem you have with Altmann. I can't fix that.

2022-11-15 23:26:56 @mykola And perhaps you should consider what it means that Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid Handbook *and* another immunologist from the very pro-mitigation Indie Sage *both* saying something straightforward is somehow seen by you as... an attack on Long Covid patients? Why?

2022-11-15 23:20:16 @mykola I put the entire transcript, too. He is saying exactly what he said.

2022-11-15 23:18:01 @mykola Long Covid is real, important, people are suffering and there is (still too little) but real research into the immunopathology. Altmann making straightforward scientific statement should not be seen as being insensitive.

2022-11-15 23:16:30 @mykola Once again, maybe reconsider what it means when even Indie Sage immunologist Altmann causes a problems for you, apparently, by making straightforward statements? It’s not being “sensitive” to let scientific terms become cudgels in Twitter wars. Altmann is a researcher. https://t.co/IkjSSMm6EP

2022-11-15 23:07:07 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe that should be an indicator for you? They are very concerned about the patients, but clearly also keeping the science, correct.

2022-11-15 23:06:01 @mykola @andrew_croxford *That* immunologist is Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid handbook, that Akiko wrote foreword for, part of very pro-mitigation Indie Sage. Watch the video, the second immunologist in the same group says the same thing. They’re referring to the incorrect, broad claims.

2022-11-15 22:58:29 @mykola @andrew_croxford Oh come on. Nobody is saying T cell exhaustion is pseudoscience. The person top of the thread is an immunologist! There are people making bizarre, Twitter-only claims. Antivaxxers use similar techniques. Real terminology, baseless assertion. That’s different. That’s all.

2022-11-15 22:55:50 @mykola @andrew_croxford 1-The current crude surveys includes too many subsets of post-viral sequelae lumped together. That’s not a secret. 2- I cite the UK ONS in my piece. Best we have despite lacking control group. 3- This is obviously false.

2022-11-15 22:41:40 @mykola @andrew_croxford What part?

2022-11-15 22:30:35 @healthyrespect1 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford I’ve written some of the earliest &

2022-11-15 22:27:19 @mykola @andrew_croxford You’re being lied to. There isn’t a single place I say or imply Long Covid patients are to be discarded, and in fact every single word has been the opposite. The people who lie about me also lie about the research and also don’t care about the patients.

2022-11-15 22:24:22 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe I should have written a lengthy NYT article about the history of post-viral illness after pandemics. You know the latest is because of their new lie? I said LC and ME patients are at *higher risk* from reinfections and they screenshotted and presented as “she doesn’t care”. https://t.co/B7fv2ynnLC

2022-11-15 21:29:43 @Naughty__Rabbit Or, stop being misled the seemingly unemployed guy (no research affiliation!) whose Covid papers remain uncited (sort Google Scholar by date!), but who tweets about me nonstop for years? (Fan of Dr. Iwasaki, I talk to her and quote her in my NYT pieces). https://t.co/LtgaElztsw

2022-11-15 20:53:16 @BenMazer Wait screenshots of abstracts of studies from a complex field and typing “I was right” repeatedly into the bird app input box isn’t enough?

2022-11-28 23:17:48 @antoniogm You haven’t discovered Yalom yet? This is the theory book. “He presents his four ultimate concerns of life—death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness—and discusses developmental changes” as Wikipedia summarizes. Has many novels and non-fiction as well. https://t.co/QVkdayoraE

2022-11-28 20:33:50 Not all left, but it is a very common form of racism—assuming other, usually non-white people who are protesting and risking so much have no agency and are merely super malleable, easy to manipulate tools of apparently omnipotent, competent westerners. That’s racism, both ways. https://t.co/5rIMHVuLoS

2022-11-28 02:00:43 RT @bokane: It wasn't as bad last night, but the first few dozen results for any city name I search are now escort spam

2022-11-28 00:35:10 @MartinKulldorff Also this discussion. It remained respectful. But I think it’s important. https://t.co/tvOA6bG1aB

2022-11-28 00:33:21 @MartinKulldorff Rest of thread. https://t.co/TEefe3rUJd

2022-11-27 23:37:28 @wanderer_jasnah

2022-11-27 22:10:31 @subsix848 @ChristinaPushaw @DrJMarine @anish_koka Did the students end up with multi year prison sentences under very harsh conditions and their relatives rounded up and fired from jobs etc.? Seriously, perspective is useful if you want to criticize whatever you want about what happened here.

2022-11-27 22:08:23 @ChristinaPushaw @DrJMarine @anish_koka You can find a large number of threads etc. from me pointing out about the absurdity of such nonsense, going back to spring of 2020. That example is absurd, and wrong, still nowhere similar to broad, severe repression from China. Have some perspective and for what China is like.

2022-11-27 22:01:04 @wolfstrength @contrarian4data @anish_koka @DrJMarine January 22, 2020 and I’m calling for international cooperation. That sounds pretty good to me! China’s delay in informing the rest of the world was very costly.

2022-11-27 21:41:56 RT @CIA_in_China: While we’re focused on the fire in Xinjiang, it’s a chance to teach about the notorious Karamay fire in 1994 when hundred…

2022-11-27 21:39:49 RT @democracynow: Despite a global campaign to free Alaa Abd El-Fattah, the Egyptian activist remains in prison with little apparent moveme…

2022-11-27 17:11:14 @anish_koka @DrJMarine Come on. One, even in your thread, people aren’t calling for severe, broad multi year repression. Two, the word “lockdown” has come to mean whatever people criticizing it want it to mean. Three, random nephrologist says something isn’t proof of anything. Especially in early 2020.

2022-11-27 16:52:02 @DrJMarine @anish_koka Fauci would have preferred stricter policies (which didn’t happen, even under Biden) has no path to claiming Fauci preferred China-style massive, broad and severe repression. You can criticize Fauci without attempting that non-existent connection.

2022-11-27 16:26:13 @BenMazer Please! Let’s not forget hamsters which Honk Kong contact-traced! https://t.co/ZLVadKzCSI

2022-11-27 16:19:10 @DrJMarine @anish_koka An editorial by a single person that also went nowhere and called for, let's see, more tests and PPE in hospitals, and to do this if "virtually everyone is wiling" etc. You're proving my point? People had a range of views, and calling to "inspire" people and more tests is China?

2022-11-27 16:15:34 @Br1ckAnother1 @IoanaA_Cristea It's a great paper I'm proud to have co-written, and the conclusions would have allowed much smarter, targeted mitigations had it been accepted earlier, in my view. I don't clone policy views of my coauthors. I also co-authored with people with policy views in opposite direction.

2022-11-27 16:13:10 @DrJMarine @anish_koka @nytimes An op-ed that went nowhere. Plus, there were many opeds in exact opposite direction in the NYT. If one essay in the NYT changed the world, we'd be in a different place. It's truly disrespectful to the suffering in China to link whatever discussion you want about Western policies.

2022-11-27 16:11:07 @be335651783 People wanting to discuss the trade-offs and effectiveness of Western policies (in either direction) are obviously fine. (I've done both types of criticisms). It's the ridiculous equivalence to China's severe, broad multi-year authoritarian repression that I'm objecting to.

2022-11-27 16:06:09 @DrJMarine @anish_koka So you've an op-ed, from 2020, calling for measures that aren't comparable at all to what has been happening in China, and whose suggestions weren't implemented. Guess I can still distinguish a random op-ed from an authoritarian government's severe, broad multi-year repression.

2022-11-27 15:15:55 @cjmaddison I do understand where you're coming from. I'll try to pick methodological examples from other topics unless the substantive point is also crucial. The people being unacceptably ignored and/or left behind have an understandably different focus than some causal inference point.

2022-11-27 15:09:29 @JLeytonMange @DrJMarine I've criticized US response for being too lax/late as well as being performative strict even nonsensical since about the start, and I can tell the difference between others being critical of me or me thinking the government had it wrong and China-level repression. Not that hard.

2022-11-27 15:04:10 @BenMazer Also the key role of prolonged infections in immunocompromised people. And the fact that the rest of the world isn’t zero covid. And that any selection at a population level at a place with little prior immunity would then hit places with both vaccine and infection immunity.

2022-11-26 23:32:39 The person asking is the president of the university, Cao Guozheng. They didn’t back down. https://t.co/FEsIhGax1y

2022-11-26 23:25:35 Courage. https://t.co/dn2nk2Zdab

2022-11-26 23:18:57 RT @ThisIsWenhao: New protest method in China: holding a piece of white paper with nothing on it.

2022-11-26 18:52:37 Many photos/news of protests coming out of China in the last day, following a fire in Urumqui, Xinjiang where residents, including children, died reportedly as their building was sealed. Whatever else happens, a moment to appreciate the collective bravery of these young people. https://t.co/M6FQIVp3nH

2022-11-26 18:33:03 (It's a really difficult read, but as with such history books, puts many current dynamics in context).

2022-11-26 18:32:00 Today is Holodomor remembrance day, commemorating the millions of Ukrainians who died during Stalin's forced famine in otherwise rich agricultural lands. Snyder's Bloodlands, which covers the era and the region, tops my list of doomreading books as alternative to doomscrolling. https://t.co/YZr6cEavvu

2022-11-26 14:25:32 RT @OmidVEbrahimi: Is it OK to spend 12 months to get a visa to attend a 3-day conference? My piece in @ScienceMagazine sheds light on thi…

2022-11-26 14:03:31 @AngelidisAn @VirusesImmunity @PutrinoLab @resiapretorius @research_long @microbeminded2 @MBVanElzakker @Daltmann10

2022-11-25 22:02:55 RT @jljcolorado: @gabbystern @WHO @doctorsoumya If you are new to this #COVIDisAirborne topic and are perplexed, this thread explains the i…

2022-11-25 21:48:47 @gefeedly @tomgara Exactly. There is no choice, really.

2022-11-25 19:39:08 @tomgara https://t.co/SOvKwqIVui

2022-11-25 15:25:16 @BrianRWasik @wanderer_jasnah

2022-11-25 10:24:16 @cjmaddison I can see your view of this, but I didn't see this as connected to Long Covid necessarily — instead, causal inference failures in science/study reporting are much broader, and this particular issue (EHR studies) is a perennial problem. I can try to pick other examples, though!

2022-11-24 23:11:08 @SirKneeland @SethTClarke Nutella? On a crust?

2022-11-24 23:10:56 @aaiqbal

2022-11-24 22:51:31 Rhubarb people at least made the chart! https://t.co/W6VjqbUGNa

2022-11-24 20:21:43 RT @at_tgibson: The EU has not been tough enough on #Egypt for too long. #COP27 and #FreeAlaa have brought the eyes of Europe to just how…

2022-11-24 20:13:51 @cjmaddison This isn’t necessarily about Long Covid though?

2022-11-24 18:40:36 RT @MarietjeSchaake: The institute does not disclose the source of its funding, but The New York Times obtained copies of the group’s annua…

2022-11-24 17:26:44 @Lujan588 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer We don’t test for it. It’s fairly common when one does, including 17% of people having two flu infections in a single year. https://t.co/higczdN6Hi

2022-11-24 15:45:53 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer That's why we need proper studies of all of this, and also why looking merely at abstracts of studies isn't enough. Have to understand what we're looking at? Suggestion, effect, proof, a clarion call to do a proper study, etc?

2022-11-24 15:44:42 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer Could be: contributing, triggering *or* downstream of weaker immune system (Many such examples of results being overturned when switching from retrospective EHR to much better controlled studies, see HRT and cardiovascular events/mortality—reverse result from cohort was true).

2022-11-24 15:42:45 @vijayiyer312 @BenMazer Also, there's always "contributing", "accelarating" vs "but for" distinction. For example, Denmark study showed higher rates of Alzheimer and Parkinsons in elderly folks post-Covid (made headlines)—but also for post-influenza, at similarly elevated rates (largely ignored). +

2022-11-24 14:23:29 Refuting/checking essays that string together abstracts from cherry-picked studies that the author clearly didn’t understand or checked what happened later when scientists tried to drilled down to causal pathways? Little incentive for it on social media right now. So it goes.

2022-11-24 14:13:19 In fact, we already know some suggested effects were artifacts of higher diagnostic rates, not causal from an infection, because the predictions didn’t come true. Some other things are still unclear. You’d hardly know that from rando essays people RT without understanding.

2022-11-24 14:09:57 Some things could be higher risk following an infection. Others may be an artifact of getting a workup as part of being ill—not caused by it but discovered because of that. Some studies suggest effects but not what caused elevated diagnoses. That requires more, different work.

2022-11-24 14:04:52 For all prospective studies of electronic health records: people who interact with the health system are more likely to be diagnosed with conditions they *already had* compared to people who don’t. Noting this also doesn’t prove no effect. Careful scientists read studies &

2022-11-24 12:46:35 RT @jljcolorado: .@WHO chief Scientist: "We were not forcefully saying: “This is an airborne virus.” I regret that we didn't do this much,…

2022-11-23 20:21:32 RT @walidgellad: I want to again highlight this really important point when you see an observational study of paxlovid efficacy using date…

2022-11-23 19:49:53 @GregDore2 Lovely!

2022-11-23 19:47:23 @GregDore2 Is that Bondi Beach?

2022-11-23 19:21:29 Unfortunately, yes. Controlled, careful statistics can illuminate. In contra, stringing together anecdotes can often be a tragically easy way to lie. https://t.co/Ym3TL2eWnY

2022-11-23 19:18:15 RT @hackneylad: "He chose not to die as a symbol, not to give up his life for whatever cost the regime will bear for it. He chose to live,…

2022-11-22 17:43:47 @smithsj See here, as well. (Obviously, more empirical research into the Long X sequelae is necessary and may help a lot of people including Long Covid as well a a whole host of other ailments such as ME/CFS, and some research suggests Alzheimer and Parkinson’s may turn out like MS did.) https://t.co/9anHsEf3JJ

2022-11-22 17:39:52 @smithsj Also I didn’t say it! I wish! It was a great essay written by an expert about acute severity and fact-checked by multiple immunologists. It has been amply shown. Iwasaki *separately* told me it could also explain why pandemics (novel viruses) produce more “Long” viral sequelae.

2022-11-22 17:28:49 So much potential upside to recognition of airborne transmission for other respiratory illnesses, as well as potential longer-term sequelae from other viruses including influenza and especially Epstein-Barr Virus.

2022-11-22 17:23:47 “Marr said she and her colleagues don’t have a clear answer as to which mode of transmission is dominant, but her work has shown that the flu, like Covid, can also spread via aerosols.”

2022-11-22 17:22:05 “Covid is definitely not alone in having these long-term consequences, even after a mild infection,” Iwasaki said. “According to Iwasaki, seasonal flu is less likely to cause lasting symptoms than pandemic flu strains like the 2009 H1N1 virus.” Post-viral syndromes are broader. https://t.co/wMjUwBGMOB

2022-11-22 16:20:55 RT @NathanGrubaugh: We are hiring an Associate Research Scientist (or postdoc with relevant experience) with a background in pathogen gen…

2022-11-22 15:34:46 RT @mlipsitch: The Public Health Analytics and Modeling Fellowship at @CDCgov https://t.co/tUxLffil90 is a great opportunity for postdocs t…

2022-11-22 15:22:10 @scree177

2022-11-22 14:10:13 @JohnSkylar I’m sorry for your loss. And yes, it happens, tragically though rarely.

2022-11-22 12:52:25 @DeryaTR_ !

2022-11-22 10:25:53 https://t.co/MeaCcv3DS7

2022-11-22 02:51:47 I’m sorry. Yeah, that’s terrible, too, on top of the grief and the loss. Yes, turning people’s individual tragedies into political fodder via anecdotal “proof” isn’t okay like that either. https://t.co/uljxKdzQ5b

2022-11-22 02:33:53 @mzbitca Indeed. Tragic.

2022-11-22 02:30:50 @TrumplsCancer @PhilMiller2911 Yeah and during a pandemic, even non-star athlete deaths make become news.

2022-11-22 02:28:20 @juanrive @PhilMiller2911 Yeah happens unfortunately. Rare but real, precedes the pandemic.

2022-11-22 02:26:30 Yes, this has sadly been happening long before the pandemic. Young athletes collapsing or tragically dying is rare, but not unheard of at all. Anectodes are often available to fit preconceived ideas, doesn’t make it true. https://t.co/Ym3TL2eWnY

2022-11-22 02:23:15 Many tragic things happen, if rarely. Young people die unexpectedly. Athletes collapse. Especially during a pandemic, more such stories become news. None of that alone implicates vaccines. Statistics with careful controls are how it would be figured out—anecdote lists aren’t it.

2022-11-22 02:18:33 New anti-vaxxer movie “Died Suddenly” lists people who died or collapsed young/unexpectedly, alleging it’s the vaccine. Classic lying method. Young people do die or collapse, rarely but tragically, and just collating anecdotes or news stories preys on gullibility to push a lie. https://t.co/AImXFPBccT

2022-11-22 01:14:49 RT @UmarFarooq_: NSO, the Israeli company behind the Pegasus spyware, was trying to claim sovereign immunity because it worked on behalf of…

2022-11-21 23:30:56 @RiverdaleBoy @roxannedarling @ariehkovler It does.

2022-11-21 23:07:18 RT @PutrinoLab: Incredible to see this launching in Beta!

2022-11-21 22:40:56 @roxannedarling I would’ve happily paid for more functionality around lists. Also, bookmarks—I have them but you can’t search them.

2022-11-21 22:30:34 Anyway, this just about captures the rest of the sentiment, I think. https://t.co/wojGS1Eclf

2022-11-21 22:25:47 I don't know why shipping new analytics/search etc. wasn't monetized as a move away from advertisers—some make money from this platform, but the analytics are terrible. Add a way to authenticate, sure. The bluecheck wars feel like generals fighting the old war, but whatever.

2022-11-21 22:13:58 @ProfLHunter Wait does it mean "hey buddy" — like what you'd call your friend in the argument, or the bus driver when asking directions, or telling the waiter to hold the ketchup, as well as what you'd call the professor professor? That's what hocam is in Turkish nowadays.

2022-11-21 22:12:03 Anyway, I saw Musk is claiming that they will demote/deboost hate speech, rather than ban it. That requires.. rules about hate speech. Who decides? Moderators then identifying it *at scale*. That's always been the problem. New problem, same as the old problem, apparently.

2022-11-21 22:08:38 Yep, lists are great. If Twitter could *ship* some product around that, it would likely be a good addition. https://t.co/xihi7unMWD

2022-11-21 22:05:40 "hocam" It WORKED. I'm pretty fond of the updated usage, tbh. https://t.co/nL0NKSYDAM

2022-11-21 22:04:23 Sure, one can democratize the blue check and make it available for pay (though remains to be seen if without authentication?), but it can't *also* carry on the previous signification. "The bluechecks" had a *the* (as a for or against) for a reason. This makes it *a* bluecheck.

2022-11-21 22:00:22 During the tumultuous 1968 period in Turkey, some rebellious students started addressing *everyone* as "hocam"—means "my professor/teacher". (The professors were to be called that.) "Hocam": Friends, teachers, janitors... It caught on. These days, "hocam" means "my dude(tte)."

2022-11-21 21:55:52 Good to open up authentication (why did one have to be "notable" for that?). Good to mark official accounts—loved the insulin stunt, but don't want fake country sending nuclear tweets. But the "notable" signifier may end, so one reason people are purchasing it for won't matter.

2022-11-21 14:05:20 RT @practicingpod: Worth reading the whole . The "corner of twitter" @zeynep refers to is obvious to those who know it and the source of m…

2022-11-21 14:04:30 And this is why I respond. A small crew has been lying nonstop about me—and also science and research, for so long. I ignore 99% of it. The same crew harasses scientists who object to them. They have destroyed so much credibility of people—some scientists even—they fooled, too. https://t.co/onWP8XYWwL

2022-11-21 14:01:00 @Paul_Melman Yep. These people have been tweeting lies about me for more than a year. I ignore it 99% of the time. They keep at it, nonstop. I respond, than it’s “why is she engaging”? They lie about so many other things, too. Very harmful. So 1% of the time, I point to their awful methods.

2022-11-21 13:25:13 RT @RichardfromSyd1: This is an interesting thread I am reflecting on. The problem of knowing what is valid vs what is taken out of context…

2022-11-21 12:45:11 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada *feat! I can’t even spell, despite controlling the entire field of immunology!

2022-11-21 12:38:25 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Genuinely amused by my hypothetical powers to control an entire advanced, actual field that I am not part of. When I figure out how I actually pull this amazing feet, I’m going to apply it to other fields, too! Next up, particle physics.

2022-11-21 12:36:35 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada “Papers I didn’t write that have nothing to do with claims I’ve made that people in the field can read correctly proves my nonsensical claims. Why don’t immunologists cite my Covid claims or papers? The omnipotent sociologist somehow controls the entire field of immunology.”

2022-11-21 12:32:12 Adding examples. This is how a lot of Twitter viral nonsense works a lot of the time. Antivaxxers also use this method widely. https://t.co/abORZ27sLg

2022-11-21 12:29:03 @Marc_Veld @Dave99117584 @andrew_croxford @Anto_Berto @origincanada Also 2021 paper, not 2022. (Method: find old study from *someone else* usually something specific—say, severe cases—or subtle that doesn’t apply broadly or was followed up with different results, misrepresent it, claim it vindicates nonsensical other claims, go Twitter viral).

2022-11-21 11:17:15 RT @Monasosh: A riot squad carried him away before he fought back and was returned to his cell. "When they put him in the cell he started t…

2022-11-20 21:45:53 @those_this @andrew_croxford And few followup with any of this l. Remember the super-viral“forever plague” article? I guess you could say it didn’t have typos. Most everything else was.. utterly unfounded to loony. And yet, they’re still on the same beat. It works for RTs.

2022-11-20 21:36:56 RT @j_g_allen: New proposed ventilation rates for covid and other airborne respiratory infectious diseases from The Lancet @Commissioncovid.

2022-11-20 20:32:45 RT @NaomiAKlein: This is exactly right. @RishiSunak, appropriate to our age, *performed* diplomacy but did not actually engage in it. Tha…

2022-11-20 19:49:15 @daisy_court75 @r_prior @meghanor @brianvastag

2022-11-20 15:59:15 RT @MiddleEastEye: The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah said they were allowed to see him on Thursday and that his…

2022-11-20 15:58:54 RT @CarolineLucas: So incredibly sad &

2022-11-20 14:32:16 RT @shirinfdehghan: Iranian women basketball team together with their coaches have all taken their hijab’s off and took what seems like a n…

2022-11-19 16:12:03 @vijayiyer312 @peterstaley @NIHDirector Exactly

2022-11-19 09:34:38 RT @AmnestyUK: Hey @RishiSunak Last week we urged you to bring Alaa home from unjust imprisonment in Egypt during #COP27 You didn’t. Ins…

2022-11-19 02:13:02 @CortJohnson Great overview, thanks.

2022-11-19 01:59:07 RT @PepperMarion: As promised! @UW_Immunology is excited to announce two open faculty job postings! We are hiring up to TWO Assistant Profe…

2022-11-18 21:43:46 Climate justice was never going to stand in isolation from the world. https://t.co/w9FKGNGK0J

2022-11-18 21:39:51 RT @TarletonG: Very much agree with @zeynep here: "The idea that advertisers alone will save us from hate speech and the further degradatio…

2022-11-18 17:47:16 @mitchpberg

2022-11-18 17:47:02 @ugurZp @nickgenes I look forward to the next opportunity!

2022-11-18 17:46:05 RT @peterstaley: So, before this site crashes, please use my DMs to suggest candidates to fill Tony Fauci’s shoes as NIAID Director. I’m on…

2022-11-18 17:31:11 @nickgenes @ugurZp Grateful for the opportunity to have retweeted it.

2022-11-18 17:14:11 RT @ugurZp: I don’t know about mastodon. My alternative platform for academics would be named Thriller where we can continue to be thrilled…

2022-11-18 16:40:52 RT @AbraarKaran: Recruiting participants for this study of #LongCovid &

2022-11-18 16:00:13 RT @fredbenenson: @mwseibel @ezraklein interviewed @zeynep about this 4 years ago and it’s a must listen - our brains are hard wired for hi…

2022-11-18 15:30:56 RT @EthanZ: Facebook just reminded me that it's @alaa's birthday. He remains imprisoned in Egypt, his hunger strike apparently broken, perh…

2022-11-18 15:08:35 Automating turning (downloaded) JSON into Substack (or any editor) friendly text would likely help many people. (Maybe already exists?). https://t.co/XzRKWmUEyp

2022-11-18 13:26:12 Alaa Abdel Fattah turned 41 today, in a prison cell. He almost died this week, and may not survive long given the cruel, murderous conditions of his imprisonment for most of the past decade. Moving #Cop27 recognition of the plight of the political prisoners. World leaders shrug. https://t.co/LKY7Ktf9du

2022-11-18 12:55:48 @mitchpberg Thank you. I tried, honestly.

2022-11-18 12:54:08 While parts of the world struggle with RSV and flu (always especially dangerous to infants and the elderly!), XBB update. Cases in Singapore continue to plummet. See France for BQ.1.1. More than two years in, nAbs labs do not reflect population immunity and are not predictive. https://t.co/faHW4TqkEj

2022-11-18 12:46:16 UK Monkeypox cases detected are down to 6 for all of last week. US is in low teens, daily. US/UK/EU potentially headed to zero, except for the new introductions. Imagine if we did the right thing, and made sure people in endemic countries were vaccinated as well. https://t.co/ign6CiuQMu

2022-11-18 12:31:04 For journalists/dissidents: This is why one should not post screenshots or PDFs from sources/whistleblowers, or send original documents back to wherever they came from to ask for comment/confirmation. Type it up and/or paraphrase. (See also the Reality Winner case). https://t.co/MwTPTumtGx

2022-11-18 11:34:23 @MBRodamilans @Andres4NY

2022-11-18 03:32:34 @EvolvedTech Yikes

2022-11-18 03:31:34 @AkiPeritz Boo

2022-11-18 03:18:01 “Tiktok and Tactical Nukes” Okay, let’s not. https://t.co/wIIUg0ZiB3

2022-11-17 23:16:05 RT @ElizabethHaighx: Very worrying update from @FreedomForAlaa today as family reveals his health has 'severely deteriorated' after seven m…

2022-11-17 23:15:36 RT @nariology: This is so painful &

2022-11-17 22:53:38 @billwasik

2022-11-17 21:10:04 RT @sharifkouddous: Chants of “Free Alaa, free them all” close out the COP27 People’s Plenary #FreeAlaa #Wish4Alaa https://t.co/70yqoEVNHm

2022-11-17 20:08:17 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I ignore them 99% of the time (they tweet about me pretty much every day, often multiple times, will soon be two years) but I highlighted the doctored tweet because now their lies are targeting Long Covid patients. Despicable, frankly. I just wanted to show an example. But onward

2022-11-17 20:05:38 @3dPartyInternet @mocoband @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. But it's a campaign of lies against me, more than a year, nonstop. Doctored tweets, blatant lying that a first-grader could see through. They don't care about the patients

2022-11-17 19:49:38 RT @paulmasonnews: This is an account of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a British citizen. Not that it should matter - because this is…

2022-11-17 19:49:29 RT @ORHamilton: Like so many of you, I had allowed myself to feel some optimism. But while Sisi and Shoukry were giving world leaders and…

2022-11-17 19:44:21 Adding this here since I broke the thread. This is gut wrenching. https://t.co/DdWE5qEioV

2022-11-17 19:42:01 Horrifying. @RishiSunak and @JoeBiden can, and should, end this torture with murderous intent. They have the leverage. If they don’t, even if Alaa Abdel Fattah doesn’t die during #COP27, he will have been killed during it. This British citizen needs to be on a plane to the UK. https://t.co/mGiHhHYJlS

2022-11-17 19:17:21 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @mocoband @calirunnerdoc They’re so far gone that it’s impossible. Also both my NYT pieces mention or profile how healthy people became ill, and you can find so many tweets from me explaining it, and nowhere do I ever say healthy people can’t get Long Covid. But they’ll never stop, it seems.

2022-11-17 19:09:11 This was great fun, thanks to my fellow panelists and the @ObamaFoundation for the invitation. (Thanks to the audience for their support even when I was critical of, ahem, previous administrations. ) https://t.co/TzLZUCpQs9

2022-11-17 19:06:31 https://t.co/oS1A5tFuml

2022-11-17 17:47:04 RT @ObamaFoundation: https://t.co/HaUvH8zToT

2022-11-17 17:25:15 RT @hackneylad: At #COP27 in #Egypt, I watched @sana2 risk everything to save her brother's life - and show the world that climate justice…

2022-11-17 17:14:44 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc I was ignoring them, as I’ve done for years while they go on and on and on about me, but enough with lying to Long Covid patients. That’s a line that, when crossed, deserves a response. Harming patients in their obsession about me is unacceptable.

2022-11-17 17:13:19 @3dPartyInternet @APazyryk @calirunnerdoc Thanks. I published two full page pieces in the New York Times explaining how many previously healthy people got Long Covid. Not exactly obscure. It’s been a multiyear nonstop campaign of lies about me, rando trolls but also, sadly, a few people who should know better join. Nuts.

2022-11-17 16:02:34 The cruelty never ends. The family members haven’t been able to touch or hug Alaa Abdel Fattah for years. https://t.co/SSuewIt5XP

2022-11-17 16:00:49 @jljcolorado @ClarivateAG @JgrpBoulder @CIRESnews @CUBoulderCHEM @CUBoulder Congratulations!

2022-11-17 15:20:30 What a tragedy, the whole thing. https://t.co/IpbKW2j7OL

2022-11-17 03:22:00 RT @victorsojo: I saw this tweet and thought surely it’s related to accounts Alex had interacted with too. Nope. This is quite the gang! #a…

2022-11-17 01:02:40 The classic playbook of many industries. https://t.co/lKOOKJ7RXL

2022-11-17 00:35:57 https://t.co/fqB8MmeO8r

2022-11-17 00:34:45 @notdred Keep them off Twitter.

2022-11-16 23:35:58 @excellent__s Well, thanks but… I will keep writing and (stay tuned) I may be getting involved soon on the research side

2022-11-16 23:14:23 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today @TheTimes was very clear on the increasing seriousness of Alaa's case for British citizens everywhere, &

2022-11-16 23:13:17 RT @khalidabdalla: Exactly right from @JohnCassonUK. The longer this goes on the more serious it must become. Rights &

2022-11-16 22:15:07 @GidMK See Michael’s chart here, and rest of the thread. The study does not compare first and subsequent infections at all. https://t.co/MLigTTihJD

2022-11-16 21:39:30 @JamesStein18 Yeah

2022-11-16 19:42:09 @AlexGaggio @origincanada @calirunnerdoc Yeah, look at this thread breaking down the temporal pattern in the ONS data, and that heartbreaking red line of the more than 12 months folks. Really, really terrible. (You can see the more transient sequelae as well.) https://t.co/GpY0JAfs6z

2022-11-16 19:37:59 @calirunnerdoc It's become distracting, imo, to try to discuss granularity and stas on Twitter, but happy to have a lengthier conversation. Statistics/surveys is one of my core academic specialties, but Twitter isn't great. But none of that convo takes away from the reality of the illness.

2022-11-16 19:36:00 @calirunnerdoc On the other subsets, I think the ONS is the best long-term data we have, even without a control group and latest method change, but there are new studies with control groups. And I think the reduction of the risk is visible, but the data is far from the granularity we'd want.

2022-11-16 19:32:41 @calirunnerdoc So that discussion is very hard on Twitter, and gets misinterpreted, especially since there are subsets. On the "from severity" version, which dominates the stats, there's a clear reduction since severity is reduced (this is post-ICU, post-hospitalization syndromes).

2022-11-16 19:28:48 For sociological fun, search Twitter for mentions of the Nature study on immunological dysfunction that professor Dore is a co-author on and note how it's represented to ordinary people. Then see what he actually says about it: "Exhausted by misrepresentation" is how he put it.

2022-11-16 19:15:13 By the way, please note professor Greg Dore is the coauthor of that Nature study on immunological dysfunction that, he says in another thread, is also being misrepresented. https://t.co/Oe5Gjrp8FO

2022-11-16 18:19:15 @alexandrosM Correct, multi-decade longitudinal study found multiple sclerosis follows, decades later, from EBV. HPV to cancer, similar. Yeay vaccines. See: https://t.co/bnnldDdihd and https://t.co/xQ3eliB6lc You've literally turned into this, I can't argue with that. https://t.co/zKqfNLBAvH

2022-11-16 18:13:38 @localnotable See this thread. I read the full study. The Reuters headline is absolutely wrong. The study does not measure severity of reinfections compared to first ones at all. It's better not to get informed via Twitter or media, unfortunately. https://t.co/dO9PKZOdSy

2022-11-16 17:54:29 @localnotable That headline is hundred percent wrong. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t inject falsehoods into this. Yes, media gets many things wrong. It sucks.

2022-11-16 17:33:53 @alexandrosM Post-viral sequelae, documented throughout history, especially after pandemics are a different matter. I'm sure you were as excited as I was by the recent paper in Science showing multiple sclerosis follows, decades after, an EBV infection. Can't wait for the soon EBV vaccine!

2022-11-16 17:32:35 @alexandrosM No, different! The reason all the immunologists I know have eagerly, and enthusiastically, vaccinated their children is that they understand that primary infections can be higher risk for the youngest, and training the immune system via vaccines is the safest route. Same as this: https://t.co/8jAm3owcgf

2022-11-16 00:34:59 @jgprogress @mykola @andrew_croxford Why are you lying about me? I wrote multiple pieces in the NYT explaining how healthy, active people got ill. See thread below for links. This multiyear campaign of lies is not acceptable. Why do you hate the patients who need help and research? https://t.co/fNS2OiXs9g

2022-11-15 23:32:17 @mykola You're telling me that me quoting Long Covid book co-author immunologist Danny Altmann—with the entire transcript so that it's not misunderstood—is somehow a problem for LC patients, because..? Yeah, I'll leave it here, too. It's a problem you have with Altmann. I can't fix that.

2022-11-15 23:26:56 @mykola And perhaps you should consider what it means that Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid Handbook *and* another immunologist from the very pro-mitigation Indie Sage *both* saying something straightforward is somehow seen by you as... an attack on Long Covid patients? Why?

2022-11-15 23:20:16 @mykola I put the entire transcript, too. He is saying exactly what he said.

2022-11-15 23:18:01 @mykola Long Covid is real, important, people are suffering and there is (still too little) but real research into the immunopathology. Altmann making straightforward scientific statement should not be seen as being insensitive.

2022-11-15 23:16:30 @mykola Once again, maybe reconsider what it means when even Indie Sage immunologist Altmann causes a problems for you, apparently, by making straightforward statements? It’s not being “sensitive” to let scientific terms become cudgels in Twitter wars. Altmann is a researcher. https://t.co/IkjSSMm6EP

2022-11-15 23:07:07 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe that should be an indicator for you? They are very concerned about the patients, but clearly also keeping the science, correct.

2022-11-15 23:06:01 @mykola @andrew_croxford *That* immunologist is Danny Altmann, co-author of the Long Covid handbook, that Akiko wrote foreword for, part of very pro-mitigation Indie Sage. Watch the video, the second immunologist in the same group says the same thing. They’re referring to the incorrect, broad claims.

2022-11-15 22:58:29 @mykola @andrew_croxford Oh come on. Nobody is saying T cell exhaustion is pseudoscience. The person top of the thread is an immunologist! There are people making bizarre, Twitter-only claims. Antivaxxers use similar techniques. Real terminology, baseless assertion. That’s different. That’s all.

2022-11-15 22:55:50 @mykola @andrew_croxford 1-The current crude surveys includes too many subsets of post-viral sequelae lumped together. That’s not a secret. 2- I cite the UK ONS in my piece. Best we have despite lacking control group. 3- This is obviously false.

2022-11-15 22:41:40 @mykola @andrew_croxford What part?

2022-11-15 22:30:35 @healthyrespect1 @mkhalili @andrew_croxford I’ve written some of the earliest &

2022-11-15 22:27:19 @mykola @andrew_croxford You’re being lied to. There isn’t a single place I say or imply Long Covid patients are to be discarded, and in fact every single word has been the opposite. The people who lie about me also lie about the research and also don’t care about the patients.

2022-11-15 22:24:22 @mykola @andrew_croxford Maybe I should have written a lengthy NYT article about the history of post-viral illness after pandemics. You know the latest is because of their new lie? I said LC and ME patients are at *higher risk* from reinfections and they screenshotted and presented as “she doesn’t care”. https://t.co/B7fv2ynnLC

2022-11-15 21:29:43 @Naughty__Rabbit Or, stop being misled the seemingly unemployed guy (no research affiliation!) whose Covid papers remain uncited (sort Google Scholar by date!), but who tweets about me nonstop for years? (Fan of Dr. Iwasaki, I talk to her and quote her in my NYT pieces). https://t.co/LtgaElztsw

2022-11-15 20:53:16 @BenMazer Wait screenshots of abstracts of studies from a complex field and typing “I was right” repeatedly into the bird app input box isn’t enough?

2022-12-07 17:26:47 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today is Alaa's son, Khaled's 11th Birthday. Alaa wasn't allowed to attend Khaled's birth because he was in prison. Sin…

2022-12-07 17:26:31 RT @Monasosh: If you are in London, write @alaa a card with a personal wish and join me next Monday to remind @JamesCleverly as he prepare…

2022-12-07 16:05:13 Anyway, the people in China are the victims here: from draconian repression disguised as Covid control to a tanking economy to profound human suffering over years—that they bravely protested—but now being thrust into more suffering because of authoritarian, callous incompetence.

2022-12-07 16:02:51 Hong Kong went through this earlier, an incompetent forced opening without being fully prepared. It was carnage. They quickly had some of the highest death rates in the world. China is a vast country: the potential suffering (that they will likely censor from the stats) is huge.

2022-12-07 15:59:34 China's vaccines aren't terrible

2022-12-07 15:54:18 @estro_femme Yeah, I'm sorry.

2022-12-07 15:53:34 Compare with Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Japan had hardly any mandatory restrictions. S Korea traced huge early outbreaks back to zero. Way fewer deaths than US. Taiwan had of a strict but early Zero Covid strategy: opened schools in FEBRUARY of 2020. https://t.co/0gnJzYF6ns

2022-12-07 15:49:25 Some want to use China (dishonestly) for their Twitter outrage wars —by pretending China's repression resembled anything Western countries experienced—but look beyond that. Not only did people in China already suffer greatly, the easing without proper preparation will add to it.

2022-12-07 15:46:10 "For many, the expansive and often seemingly arbitrary pandemic measures became the clearest example of the excesses of Mr. Xi’s authoritarian tendencies". Also incompetence. They're easing rules due to pressure, after having tanked the economy, but without being fully prepared. https://t.co/yGaCoRJYDT

2022-12-07 15:41:47 RT @nytimes: The global auto industry still has extensive links to the Xinjiang region of China, a new report says, despite a U.S. law inte…

2022-12-07 14:27:35 RT @devisridhar: Dec 7: After several months of battling an Ebola outbreak with a strong public health response by the Ministry of Health,…

2022-12-07 23:09:33 @ritholtz

2022-12-07 17:26:47 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today is Alaa's son, Khaled's 11th Birthday. Alaa wasn't allowed to attend Khaled's birth because he was in prison. Sin…

2022-12-07 17:26:31 RT @Monasosh: If you are in London, write @alaa a card with a personal wish and join me next Monday to remind @JamesCleverly as he prepare…

2022-12-07 16:05:13 Anyway, the people in China are the victims here: from draconian repression disguised as Covid control to a tanking economy to profound human suffering over years—that they bravely protested—but now being thrust into more suffering because of authoritarian, callous incompetence.

2022-12-07 16:02:51 Hong Kong went through this earlier, an incompetent forced opening without being fully prepared. It was carnage. They quickly had some of the highest death rates in the world. China is a vast country: the potential suffering (that they will likely censor from the stats) is huge.

2022-12-07 15:59:34 China's vaccines aren't terrible

2022-12-07 15:54:18 @estro_femme Yeah, I'm sorry.

2022-12-07 15:53:34 Compare with Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Japan had hardly any mandatory restrictions. S Korea traced huge early outbreaks back to zero. Way fewer deaths than US. Taiwan had of a strict but early Zero Covid strategy: opened schools in FEBRUARY of 2020. https://t.co/0gnJzYF6ns

2022-12-07 15:49:25 Some want to use China (dishonestly) for their Twitter outrage wars —by pretending China's repression resembled anything Western countries experienced—but look beyond that. Not only did people in China already suffer greatly, the easing without proper preparation will add to it.

2022-12-07 15:46:10 "For many, the expansive and often seemingly arbitrary pandemic measures became the clearest example of the excesses of Mr. Xi’s authoritarian tendencies". Also incompetence. They're easing rules due to pressure, after having tanked the economy, but without being fully prepared. https://t.co/yGaCoRJYDT

2022-12-07 15:41:47 RT @nytimes: The global auto industry still has extensive links to the Xinjiang region of China, a new report says, despite a U.S. law inte…

2022-12-07 14:27:35 RT @devisridhar: Dec 7: After several months of battling an Ebola outbreak with a strong public health response by the Ministry of Health,…

2022-12-08 22:26:19 @PatAndriola @nataliesurely @mattyglesias It's the "but for" bit. Many clearly have an illness not explainable by stress alone, wouldn't be this ill *but for* a post-viral syndrome, which clearly existed throughout history and that medicine, in denial, kept attributing to "psychosocial factors"— like they did to ulcers.

2022-12-08 22:08:46 @PatAndriola @nataliesurely @mattyglesias I could definitely do that as well, and so many have written about it—as have I. It just keeps happening. I understand her argument and I’m sympathetic to it *when it applies*. Just baffled by this ongoing effort to implausibly stuff something that really doesn’t fit into it.

2022-12-08 22:00:59 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Then don’t lump postviral syndromes into your argument. Stick to Havana syndrome or similar examples. Stop interviewing the gaslighting establishment. If you have spoken with that many suffering from post-viral syndromes, then your interpretation is weak. It *simply* doesn’t fit.

2022-12-08 21:45:45 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Your arguments don’t apply here. Please pick relevant examples. You don’t want to be like the people who long resisted the clear evidence of bacterial roots of peptic ulcers, furthering much suffering. This is a version if that. Not everything that exists applies to everything.

2022-12-08 21:43:54 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias I get your argument and sympathetic to it.. when it applies. Speak to 100s of very healthy, active folks who come down with virus and suddenly can’t walk to the bathroom, dig up centuries of examples and talk to immunologists—who never got funds to research deeper. Doesn’t apply.

2022-12-08 21:40:29 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias You’re ignoring much science and the experience &

2022-12-08 21:35:22 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Your article is behind on the science and the epidemiology and the experience of so many, which means something regardless of your dismissal. I sincerely recommend focusing on examples like, say the Havana syndrome, which are plausible examples of what you’re talking about.

2022-12-08 21:33:21 @AdamMantine @mattyglesias @nataliesurely You probably also believe in bloodletting instead of antibiotics for infections.

2022-12-08 21:32:00 @mattyglesias @nataliesurely I wish everyone on this beat would stop, read up on the history of peptic ulcers, a century of patients being gaslit about what caused it and how that changed, before writing yet another article with the same arguments ignoring latest science. That’s not how we overcome dualism.

2022-12-08 21:28:48 @mattyglesias @nataliesurely Also ignoring the fact that the key problem is that the patients are being gaslit by the medical establishment, for post-viral conditions as well as what might plausibly be called functional disorders—and whatever interactions occur between autoimmune disorders and mental states.

2022-12-08 21:25:31 @mattyglesias @nataliesurely The article would’ve been OK if it cut every single sentence after “But Long Covid was never exactly as cut and dried as some quarters made it out to be”. Everything after that is either a distraction or ignores enormous amount of science and experience. It’s really not okay.

2022-12-08 16:47:32 @DannyFischer35 @jeffbenner Yes immunodeficiency is scary (sorry!) and not something subtle as it's so devastating. I guess they use jargon salad to scare regular people who cannot evaluate it so that they'll get Twitter followers. That's why they harass scientists doing real research—they expose the con.

2022-12-08 15:08:48 @Burgos

2022-12-08 03:00:10 RT @linseymarr: Hooray! "ASHRAE...today announced its commitment to support the expedited development of a national indoor air quality (IAQ…

2022-12-07 23:09:33 @ritholtz

2022-12-07 17:26:47 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today is Alaa's son, Khaled's 11th Birthday. Alaa wasn't allowed to attend Khaled's birth because he was in prison. Sin…

2022-12-07 17:26:31 RT @Monasosh: If you are in London, write @alaa a card with a personal wish and join me next Monday to remind @JamesCleverly as he prepare…

2022-12-07 16:05:13 Anyway, the people in China are the victims here: from draconian repression disguised as Covid control to a tanking economy to profound human suffering over years—that they bravely protested—but now being thrust into more suffering because of authoritarian, callous incompetence.

2022-12-07 16:02:51 Hong Kong went through this earlier, an incompetent forced opening without being fully prepared. It was carnage. They quickly had some of the highest death rates in the world. China is a vast country: the potential suffering (that they will likely censor from the stats) is huge.

2022-12-07 15:59:34 China's vaccines aren't terrible

2022-12-07 15:54:18 @estro_femme Yeah, I'm sorry.

2022-12-07 15:53:34 Compare with Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Japan had hardly any mandatory restrictions. S Korea traced huge early outbreaks back to zero. Way fewer deaths than US. Taiwan had of a strict but early Zero Covid strategy: opened schools in FEBRUARY of 2020. https://t.co/0gnJzYF6ns

2022-12-07 15:49:25 Some want to use China (dishonestly) for their Twitter outrage wars —by pretending China's repression resembled anything Western countries experienced—but look beyond that. Not only did people in China already suffer greatly, the easing without proper preparation will add to it.

2022-12-07 15:46:10 "For many, the expansive and often seemingly arbitrary pandemic measures became the clearest example of the excesses of Mr. Xi’s authoritarian tendencies". Also incompetence. They're easing rules due to pressure, after having tanked the economy, but without being fully prepared. https://t.co/yGaCoRJYDT

2022-12-07 15:41:47 RT @nytimes: The global auto industry still has extensive links to the Xinjiang region of China, a new report says, despite a U.S. law inte…

2022-12-07 14:27:35 RT @devisridhar: Dec 7: After several months of battling an Ebola outbreak with a strong public health response by the Ministry of Health,…

2022-12-08 22:50:10 RT @linseymarr: Lots happening to ensure cleaner air. Though not headline-grabbing, these will make a difference: 1⃣ Lancet recs on non-in…

2022-12-08 22:26:19 @PatAndriola @nataliesurely @mattyglesias It's the "but for" bit. Many clearly have an illness not explainable by stress alone, wouldn't be this ill *but for* a post-viral syndrome, which clearly existed throughout history and that medicine, in denial, kept attributing to "psychosocial factors"— like they did to ulcers.

2022-12-08 22:08:46 @PatAndriola @nataliesurely @mattyglesias I could definitely do that as well, and so many have written about it—as have I. It just keeps happening. I understand her argument and I’m sympathetic to it *when it applies*. Just baffled by this ongoing effort to implausibly stuff something that really doesn’t fit into it.

2022-12-08 22:00:59 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Then don’t lump postviral syndromes into your argument. Stick to Havana syndrome or similar examples. Stop interviewing the gaslighting establishment. If you have spoken with that many suffering from post-viral syndromes, then your interpretation is weak. It *simply* doesn’t fit.

2022-12-08 21:45:45 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Your arguments don’t apply here. Please pick relevant examples. You don’t want to be like the people who long resisted the clear evidence of bacterial roots of peptic ulcers, furthering much suffering. This is a version if that. Not everything that exists applies to everything.

2022-12-08 21:43:54 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias I get your argument and sympathetic to it.. when it applies. Speak to 100s of very healthy, active folks who come down with virus and suddenly can’t walk to the bathroom, dig up centuries of examples and talk to immunologists—who never got funds to research deeper. Doesn’t apply.

2022-12-08 21:40:29 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias You’re ignoring much science and the experience &

2022-12-08 21:35:22 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Your article is behind on the science and the epidemiology and the experience of so many, which means something regardless of your dismissal. I sincerely recommend focusing on examples like, say the Havana syndrome, which are plausible examples of what you’re talking about.

2022-12-08 21:33:21 @AdamMantine @mattyglesias @nataliesurely You probably also believe in bloodletting instead of antibiotics for infections.

2022-12-08 21:32:00 @mattyglesias @nataliesurely I wish everyone on this beat would stop, read up on the history of peptic ulcers, a century of patients being gaslit about what caused it and how that changed, before writing yet another article with the same arguments ignoring latest science. That’s not how we overcome dualism.

2022-12-08 21:28:48 @mattyglesias @nataliesurely Also ignoring the fact that the key problem is that the patients are being gaslit by the medical establishment, for post-viral conditions as well as what might plausibly be called functional disorders—and whatever interactions occur between autoimmune disorders and mental states.

2022-12-08 21:25:31 @mattyglesias @nataliesurely The article would’ve been OK if it cut every single sentence after “But Long Covid was never exactly as cut and dried as some quarters made it out to be”. Everything after that is either a distraction or ignores enormous amount of science and experience. It’s really not okay.

2022-12-08 16:47:32 @DannyFischer35 @jeffbenner Yes immunodeficiency is scary (sorry!) and not something subtle as it's so devastating. I guess they use jargon salad to scare regular people who cannot evaluate it so that they'll get Twitter followers. That's why they harass scientists doing real research—they expose the con.

2022-12-08 15:08:48 @Burgos

2022-12-08 03:00:10 RT @linseymarr: Hooray! "ASHRAE...today announced its commitment to support the expedited development of a national indoor air quality (IAQ…

2022-12-07 23:09:33 @ritholtz

2022-12-07 17:26:47 RT @FreedomForAlaa: Today is Alaa's son, Khaled's 11th Birthday. Alaa wasn't allowed to attend Khaled's birth because he was in prison. Sin…

2022-12-07 17:26:31 RT @Monasosh: If you are in London, write @alaa a card with a personal wish and join me next Monday to remind @JamesCleverly as he prepare…

2022-12-07 16:05:13 Anyway, the people in China are the victims here: from draconian repression disguised as Covid control to a tanking economy to profound human suffering over years—that they bravely protested—but now being thrust into more suffering because of authoritarian, callous incompetence.

2022-12-07 16:02:51 Hong Kong went through this earlier, an incompetent forced opening without being fully prepared. It was carnage. They quickly had some of the highest death rates in the world. China is a vast country: the potential suffering (that they will likely censor from the stats) is huge.

2022-12-07 15:59:34 China's vaccines aren't terrible

2022-12-07 15:54:18 @estro_femme Yeah, I'm sorry.

2022-12-07 15:53:34 Compare with Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Japan had hardly any mandatory restrictions. S Korea traced huge early outbreaks back to zero. Way fewer deaths than US. Taiwan had of a strict but early Zero Covid strategy: opened schools in FEBRUARY of 2020. https://t.co/0gnJzYF6ns

2022-12-07 15:49:25 Some want to use China (dishonestly) for their Twitter outrage wars —by pretending China's repression resembled anything Western countries experienced—but look beyond that. Not only did people in China already suffer greatly, the easing without proper preparation will add to it.

2022-12-07 15:46:10 "For many, the expansive and often seemingly arbitrary pandemic measures became the clearest example of the excesses of Mr. Xi’s authoritarian tendencies". Also incompetence. They're easing rules due to pressure, after having tanked the economy, but without being fully prepared. https://t.co/yGaCoRJYDT

2022-12-07 15:41:47 RT @nytimes: The global auto industry still has extensive links to the Xinjiang region of China, a new report says, despite a U.S. law inte…

2022-12-07 14:27:35 RT @devisridhar: Dec 7: After several months of battling an Ebola outbreak with a strong public health response by the Ministry of Health,…

2022-12-09 04:12:43 @nataliesurely @smithsj @SteveWarden20 @mattyglesias Even the WHO and the NHS, slow and bureaucratic, have abandoned GET. These patients want to desperately get better. They tried graded exercise. Some would amputate a limb if there was a glimmer of improvement there. Let me introduce you to many, many, many patients—over decades.

2022-12-09 03:59:02 @nataliesurely @smithsj @SteveWarden20 @mattyglesias The sooner medicine's gaslighting (no other word for it) campaign ends, and research funded and harmful (for this subgroup) approaches like GET abandoned in favor of better treatments, the easier to discuss what you seem to want to focus on, but which simply doesn't work here.

2022-12-09 03:55:24 @nataliesurely @smithsj @SteveWarden20 @mattyglesias Other things including injury (TBI has long been identified) may cause the same set of debilitating symptoms, but it's exceedingly clear that viral infections are a key dynamic, and for those, graded exercise (which many desperately wanting to get better try) does not really work

2022-12-09 03:41:21 @winstoncb @awgaffney @nataliesurely @newrepublic I'd, again, offer to introduce many, many patients whose independent stories do not fit this mold, go over decades (centuries!) of primary documentation of the syndromes, similarity to other examples of medical gaslighting &

2022-12-09 03:36:58 @winstoncb @awgaffney @nataliesurely @newrepublic I interviewed so many patients with these illnesses, and have yet to meet one that hasn't tried pretty much everything suggested, including CBT &

2022-12-09 03:33:16 @SteveWarden20 @smithsj @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Yep. This is SO likely to follow ulcers, HPV, airborne transmission into "wait, how did the establishment deny, reject, resist for so long" And one can write about psychosocial stress &

2022-12-09 03:23:59 @smithsj @SteveWarden20 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias I'm convinced their denial is likely the medical scandal of the century and also big breakthroughs possible if research is finally funded and pursued—especially with advances that finally allow working with viruses and immune system, both hard given very tiny size and complexity.

2022-12-09 03:20:42 @smithsj @SteveWarden20 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias "Post-viral syndromes cause baffling and debilitating chronic illness" absolutely fits the epi, history, the biomedical research as well as *widespread* patient experience, while psychosocial suffering—real and relevant to many things—as the "but for" explainer simply does not.

2022-12-09 03:15:28 @Kantrowitz And what did we even learn? I'm not a fan of how much power these platforms have, or the lack of transparency—among fairly-lengthy beefs I've had with it all—but being treated like we're all idiots isn't really the opposite of that. I mean, see this. https://t.co/Tfcs75X8Ut

2022-12-09 02:38:10 @PatAndriola @vijayiyer312 Consider that the illness is appropriately comparable to imprisonment—some of the “rest” that people undertake to retain minimal functioning are similar to sensory-deprived solitary punishment. Honestly, the analogy isn’t misplaced. Just to communicate its severity.

2022-12-09 02:26:25 @PatAndriola @vijayiyer312 It’s not name calling. This isn’t something that one just jumps into by ignoring so much evidence, and especially given the level of suffering post-viral conditions bring. I speak of this after much research, and I’ve written long articles that reflect a fraction of the research.

2022-12-09 02:04:25 @PatAndriola @vijayiyer312 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias It doesn’t fit the facts of this syndrome—the epidemiology, history, advancing science &

2022-12-09 01:23:53 @Kantrowitz I'm also still awaiting what requests the Trump White House made, we were told that happened and yet, all I've seen revealed is the Biden campaign flagging non-consensual nudes. I don't understand how people are playing this game like everyone else is that stupid.

2022-12-09 01:21:51 @Kantrowitz I'm not sure Twitter even denied "shadowbanning" as they defined it—meaning you just didn't appear. They clearly deboosted stuff, to use Musk's terminology, and Musk's plan is to be *even more aggressive* with deboosting. If that's shadowbanning, we will just have more of it.

2022-12-09 01:15:24 @katypearce @aschrock @jdp23 Ah, thank you! Also happy to have ChatGPT think we are co-author, fine with me, lol.

2022-12-09 01:13:38 @Kantrowitz One of the first things Musk did after purchasing Twitter was to announce that, going forward, Twitter would have an aggressive policy of shadow-banning "negative/hate" and "hate speech" — presumably now defined solely by Musk. It's pretty amazing that nobody seems to care.

2022-12-08 22:50:10 RT @linseymarr: Lots happening to ensure cleaner air. Though not headline-grabbing, these will make a difference: 1⃣ Lancet recs on non-in…

2022-12-08 22:26:19 @PatAndriola @nataliesurely @mattyglesias It's the "but for" bit. Many clearly have an illness not explainable by stress alone, wouldn't be this ill *but for* a post-viral syndrome, which clearly existed throughout history and that medicine, in denial, kept attributing to "psychosocial factors"— like they did to ulcers.

2022-12-08 22:08:46 @PatAndriola @nataliesurely @mattyglesias I could definitely do that as well, and so many have written about it—as have I. It just keeps happening. I understand her argument and I’m sympathetic to it *when it applies*. Just baffled by this ongoing effort to implausibly stuff something that really doesn’t fit into it.

2022-12-08 22:00:59 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Then don’t lump postviral syndromes into your argument. Stick to Havana syndrome or similar examples. Stop interviewing the gaslighting establishment. If you have spoken with that many suffering from post-viral syndromes, then your interpretation is weak. It *simply* doesn’t fit.

2022-12-08 21:45:45 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Your arguments don’t apply here. Please pick relevant examples. You don’t want to be like the people who long resisted the clear evidence of bacterial roots of peptic ulcers, furthering much suffering. This is a version if that. Not everything that exists applies to everything.

2022-12-08 21:43:54 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias I get your argument and sympathetic to it.. when it applies. Speak to 100s of very healthy, active folks who come down with virus and suddenly can’t walk to the bathroom, dig up centuries of examples and talk to immunologists—who never got funds to research deeper. Doesn’t apply.

2022-12-08 21:40:29 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias You’re ignoring much science and the experience &

2022-12-08 21:35:22 @nataliesurely @mattyglesias Your article is behind on the science and the epidemiology and the experience of so many, which means something regardless of your dismissal. I sincerely recommend focusing on examples like, say the Havana syndrome, which are plausible examples of what you’re talking about.

2022-12-08 21:33:21 @AdamMantine @mattyglesias @nataliesurely You probably also believe in bloodletting instead of antibiotics for infections.

2022-12-08 21:32:00 @mattyglesias @nataliesurely I wish everyone on this beat would stop, read up on the history of peptic ulcers, a century of patients being gaslit about what caused it and how that changed, before writing yet another article with the same arguments ignoring latest science. That’s not how we overcome dualism.

2022-12-08 21:28:48 @mattyglesias @nataliesurely Also ignoring the fact that the key problem is that the patients are being gaslit by the medical establishment, for post-viral conditions as well as what might plausibly be called functional disorders—and whatever interactions occur between autoimmune disorders and mental states.

2022-12-08 21:25:31 @mattyglesias @nataliesurely The article would’ve been OK if it cut every single sentence after “But Long Covid was never exactly as cut and dried as some quarters made it out to be”. Everything after that is either a distraction or ignores enormous amount of science and experience. It’s really not okay.

2022-12-08 16:47:32 @DannyFischer35 @jeffbenner Yes immunodeficiency is scary (sorry!) and not something subtle as it's so devastating. I guess they use jargon salad to scare regular people who cannot evaluate it so that they'll get Twitter followers. That's why they harass scientists doing real research—they expose the con.

2022-12-08 15:08:48 @Burgos