kevinbonham.com
Assistant Professor at Tufts Medicine studying microbes, brains, and the immune system 🚽🦠🧠
Fermenter, gardener, Zen Buddhist. Ask me about #julialang!
🎙️: https://audiommunity.org
🌎: https://blog.bonham.ch
💻: https://GitHub.com/kescobo
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I tagged it in Libby, didn't see how to make a request, but sometimes it just takes a little longer
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❌ "Only Covid vaccine had placebo-controlled trials"
✅ Patently false
Our dataset: 274 controlled vaccine trials, >3 million participants, 164 placebo-controlled trials
Let’s go through each of the CDC scheduled routine vaccines: TL;DR – ALL of them have been placebo-controlled.
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The key: more vaccines = massive public health wins since 1986:
Invasive Hib disease in infants fell 99%
Pediatric hepatitis A and B plummeted >90%
Chickenpox hospitalizations and deaths down ~90%
Rotavirus and pneumococcal hospitalizations in young children dropped >80%
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There is no audiobook version available through my library 😞
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As a reminder, here's a quick (over) estimate of how much each American has spent over their lifetime to support the work of the NEH
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Connect this to the disastrous budget proposal. This would take NIH funding back more than 20 years. We have the potential to make incredible new progress on diseases that cause tremendous suffering to Americans of all ages.
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Hit him on the points where he's made headway bc his words speak to real public concerns (about toxic exposures and chronic disease).
- eliminating NIOSH research that protects workers from exposure to pesticides, lead, coal dust, wildfire smoke
- eliminating CDC program to limit kid lead exposures
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If anything we need more money so that we can have slightly looser review, and take more risks scientifically!
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I'm not, actually. I'm saying that action needs to be taken now.
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Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”
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Doesn't this mean they'd have to track what I've seen? If something got posted into my timeline 3 hours ago but I didn't see it, and it's still getting shared, I think I'd want to see it, but not sure how to get both this *and* avoid endless repeats
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Well sure, but do you have any expectation that will happen in the next 18 months?
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🙋 but can't DM you 🥲
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Link got mangled somehow and doubled the base url - thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-6-no-...
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The extant evidence for the origin of Covid points in one direction - that it emanated from live animal sales at the Huanan Seafood Market. With the exception of SARS1 (where animals were still on sale unbeknownst to authorities) the evidence for this is stronger than any viral emergence in history.