This framing misses the bigger point. As I describe in my book (bit.ly/asymptomatic...) Bhattacharya co-led a flawed April 2020 study that wrongly concluded (wrong at the time) that COVID-19 was far less a threat given a misestimation of evidence of prior infections. www.bbc.com/news/article... - ThreadSky

joshuasweitz.bsky.social • 96 days ago

This framing misses the bigger point.

As I describe in my book (https://bit.ly/asymptomatic-jhupress) Bhattacharya co-led a flawed April 2020 study that wrongly concluded (wrong at the time) that COVID-19 was far less a threat given a misestimation of evidence of prior infections.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4yxmmg1zo

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michaeleichner.bsky.social•95 days ago

The Reddit r/conspiracy folks (and they aren’t unanimous about anyone so far) are thrilled with this appointment

rnussbaum11.bsky.social•96 days ago

📌😞

glendabau.bsky.social•95 days ago

He hasn't picked a decent one yet, has he ?

dj1au.bsky.social•95 days ago

That seems to be the aim.

greenhombre.bsky.social•95 days ago

1,211,535 Americans died of COVID, so far. With no masks or quarantines, what would the numbers have been? I was glad adults like Fauci where there, despite Trump's constant downplaying.

dj1au.bsky.social•95 days ago

We will be in deep💩 if there is another pandemic in the next 4 years.

greenhombre.bsky.social•95 days ago

Bird Flu found In California retail Raw Milk products over last weekend.

oldmandork.bsky.social•95 days ago

What could possibly go wrong!?!

joshuasweitz.bsky.social•96 days ago

If the number of infections were in fact 50-85x greater than confirmed cases (as Bhattacharya + colleagues claimed via serological surveys) then this implied: (i) infection fatality rates were far lower than claimed; (ii) the pandemic was burning itself out.

But none of this was true.

joshuasweitz.bsky.social•96 days ago

Policy makers, journalists, and the public should consider what it means if the incoming head of NIH failed to design, execute, interpret, and communicate a public health study in a critical moment in the pandemic, and continued to double-down on the interpretation.

cyclingaikidoka.bsky.social•96 days ago

Glad I have access to primary care and friends that are REAL doctors, nor those that change their medical practices based in a political narrative

joshuasweitz.bsky.social•96 days ago

Critically - the errors were known at the time:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaws-in-stanford-study-of-coronavirus-prevalence/

& also raise ethical concerns

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/AssessingEvidence.pdf

johnmajerus.bsky.social•96 days ago

"Is it an ethics violation not to acknowledge errors in one's work that have been noted by outsiders? Yes." — Andrew Gelman, 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘷𝘴. 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤

joshuasweitz.bsky.social•96 days ago

One of the callings of world-class science is to make sure that narratives fit the data, not the other way around.

Let's be careful not to break what we have in the US.

doclt.bsky.social•96 days ago

Trump’s *goal* is to break the government.

cityatlas.bsky.social•95 days ago

Trump's benefactors' goal is to break the government, and Trump is the method.

tdawry.bsky.social•96 days ago

How did Biden's COVID-19 response differ from what this guy was advocating? An end to masking and all other NPI seems to line up pretty well.

Credit to him, he didn't nominate this guy to anything, but they've been using the same playbook.

realbenisons.bsky.social•96 days ago

27 minutes into an early April 2020 Stanford/Hoover conversation, Bhattacharya sounds suspiciously pro-globalization for a 2024 Trump nominee

Covid is just part of the “new normal” of globalization, he said

Wonder if he gets asked about that view
https://healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/news/questioning-conventional-wisdom-covid-19-crisis-dr-jay-bhattacharya

nalits.bsky.social•96 days ago

Nationalism is for chmipanzees.

harrietthespy.bsky.social•96 days ago

Oh, we're on our own. I've never stopped masking in public.

cyclingaikidoka.bsky.social•96 days ago

Same

joshuahunter.bsky.social•95 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/amandalhu.bsky.social/post/3lbvn5su53k2p

green496.bsky.social•95 days ago

The bonkers thing about that study is that it provided an estimate for IFR which, at the time of publication (April I believe), was already clearly wrong based on death rates in northern Italy or the NYC area.

joelmcurzon.bsky.social•95 days ago

Among his many proven errors, he coauthored this article advocating against vaccinations in India. A few months later, a Covid wave swept through India, killing some 4 million people, and they were burning bodies in the streets.

coolcolin.bsky.social•95 days ago

I am curious how Indians (or any geographic/racial/whatever group) could have a natural immunity to a NOVEL virus?

maudegertrude.bsky.social•96 days ago

📌

thevaccinationstation.org•96 days ago

holidaygold.bsky.social•96 days ago

Pin 📌

andrewcuda.bsky.social•96 days ago

This appointment makes me so sad. Jay was never censored. He made some claims, those claims were universally rejected by working scientists, he continued to repeat those claims, scientists ignored him, he played the victim in right-wing circles, and now he's gonna head the NIH.

johnmcmd.bsky.social•96 days ago

Bhattacharya was wrong at almost every prediction with the pandemic

Ugh

lightnow.bsky.social•96 days ago

Honestly all I can do is laugh now

arghavansallesmd.medsky.social•96 days ago

The research misconduct here is also disturbing

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/stanford-coronavirus-study-bhattacharya-email

cave-malum.bsky.social•95 days ago

I can't believe Stanford IRB would approve recruitment by Dr B's wife or what's alleged in story. Reporter(s) should ask for IRB minutes for the study, consent form and all correspondence between the IRB and the investigator.

cave-malum.bsky.social•95 days ago

Looked at preprint and noticed 889 children were involved & covid test hadn't been validated or approved by FDA - ahhh. Did they disclose test results to subjects? @leighturner.bsky.social

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1.full-text