ykramerezha.bsky.social
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Professor J Bhattacharya has no biomedical clinical or research expertise, work experience off the Stanford campus, no managerial expertise, and no policy achievements. His economics interests are eclectic.
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He will survive in office for a relatively short time, no more than one or two years.
The mid-term elections may put an end to all this madness.
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Perhaps, Maine should join Canada. Newfoundland voted to join Canada after WW II.
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This is a terrible decision.
But population-wide immunity will take time to wane. Small outbreaks are likely.
In public health, we must think of our patients, not our enemies, and speak to our society's vaccine-hesitant and fearful segments
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@aaronsibarium on X is a serial right wing disinformer.
Dean Flier should be much more careful.
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I have a replacement for USAID’s role in Ukraine. RSVP!
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This is worth reading.
www.science.org/content/article/new-journal-co-founded-nih-nominee-raises-eyebrows-misinformation-fears
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Professor Copelovitch,
You are a master of understatement.
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Dr. Cifu points out that Prasad should be on Ritalin. He laughs but misses the harm he is causing.
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Senator Paul was wrong. As Dr. Senator Bill Cassidy pointed out, American mothers often do not benefit from ante-natal care. Their HepB status is unknown and so Hep B vaccine is necessary during labor.
Other countries have the leisure to delay HepB vaccine.
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Coronaviruses do not necessarily generate natural herd immunity.
Herd immunity is a bad term for vaccine induced population wide protective immunity.
Humans are not cattle.
bit.ly/4eMdCIs
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You are not "Dean of Public Health."
You are the Dean of a private school of "public health."
You must first understand that contradiction.
You and all the deans of private schools of public health are silent on RFK Jr, Professor J Bhattacharya, & Dr. M Makary
You failed with COVID
Grow up
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BCG is relatively harmless but ineffective.
Its nonspecific benefit is undoubtedly transient.
To be effective vaccines have historically been designed to be specific.
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An excellent article by Dr. D Freedman.
Dr. FS Buchholzer does BCG research & promotes the nonspecific benefits of vaccines such as BCG.
He does not understand American epidemiology or public health. We have IVDUs, 340 million people and no universal health insurance.
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So totally unprofessional!
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Anish Koka has made a series of unbelievable ignorant gaffs.
I have blocked him for my peace of mind.
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President Trump has channeled Madison Grant.
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Columbia University is clearly on the mind of the White House.
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Elon is not the industrialist in bed with fascists. He is the fasicist industrialist.
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The physician behind Sensible Medicine is Dr Adam Cifu. He is a respected and popular faculty member at the University of Chicago Medical School.
We must hold Sensible-Med accountable for its medical information.
www.adamcifu.com
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Professor Bhattacharya confuses transmission and virulence.
A less virulent virus can kill many more people than a virulent one if it infects more people. SARS-CoV-2 was much more transmissible than influenza and so killed many more children.
Deaths come from both virulence and transmission.
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Actually, we need Covidians like Christian Drosten, who understand nucleic acids, the genetic code, and the language of RNA viruses.
In the nineteenth century @ the dawn of germ theory, Virchow & Max von Pettenkofer failed to believe that microscopic organisms could cause tuberculosis & cholera.
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That is exactly what we want! Turn the DOD into LA.
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Mr. Tucker should have volunteered his grandchildren.
NYC had a smallpox scare in early 1948. That led to a massive immunization of the population.
In the 1950s, polio lockdowns led to the decline of Coney Island as an amusement park.
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You are 100% correct.
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I have been following Dr. Mallory Harris for several years. I began when she was still a student at Stanford.
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We are undergoing a scientific revolt akin to the Protestant Revolt of the 16th century.
Many laymen now believe they know the science literature because they read it and share it on social media.
In some Protestant denominations, lay readings of the Bible prevail.
Science must counter-reform.
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She is a victim of rheumatoid arthritis.
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Hi there.
@ykramerezha.bsky.social
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The SM blog on Semmelweis is riddled with errors. The GBD was late with no evidence based recommendations.
Semmelweis did careful studies & DEMONSTRATED better outcomes with hand washing.
The AIDS analogy is also totally wrong. From the beginning AIDS was an IVDU and an STD. I was there.
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Claiming less harm from herd immunity required evidence rather than expert recommendations by modellers, economists with little or no expertise in infectious diseases, pandemics, or epidemiology.
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I was kidding about Quebec.
www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-care-system/reports-publications/health-care-system/canada.html
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Medicare was fully in place from 1974 to 1981 when I was in PQ.
I do understand that PQ is not part of Canada.
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That was the latest version.
I would add that I spent six years at the McGill U Faculty in the mid seventies to early 1980s. The Medicare Act passed in 1962 and began implementation in 1964. It was fully in effect when I came to PQ.
Anything else was an amendment.
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In Canada, the Conservative Progressive Party passed universal health insurance.
President Trump is the only president since Teddy Roosevelt to praise another health care system: Scotland, Australia, and Canada.
I voted for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.