Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Professor @ucsf, Physician-Scientist, Writer; More at @vkprasadlab @plenary_session, YouTube, #vpzd podcast & @Sensible__Med; Views are mine
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Here is why hospitals need to ditch universal masking Let's weight the possible upside vs. the possible downside 🧵
To make good Vax policy you must hold 2 thoughts in your head In Jan 2021, adults, especially elderly, who had not had covid19, should choose WISELY--for their sake-- to get vacci...
Some say we had to approve annual Covid 19 shots like the flu shot. Give the company the sequence to hit, and authorize based on Ab levels in 8 mice We didn't HAVE TO. This was a...
CDC wants it both ways Obviously, having had and recovered from covid is protective against future bad Covid. They admit that here👇 At the same time, they want to say you have to...
ACIP slides: it is a BAD decision to add this to the SCHEDULE 👇 This vaccine has (a) no convincing evidence it helps the 86% of kids who already had covid & (b) no evidence it wil...
CDC does not make vaccine requirements, but they clearly play a huge role. The more they endorse covid vax the more they pave the way. I owe my unnecessary booster mandate to them...
192. With @ID_ethics https://t.co/o5XjKsfjBL
Over the last 10 years, I have published 17 articles on screening (~5% of @vkprasadlab's focus) I am going to make them all available free in a thread If you read them all, you m...
Our obsession with masking, an intervention w/ terrible evidence base, is crazy Fauci was honest the 1st time on 60 mins; Pre-pandemic data was poor; it was not recommended 4 good...
Another win for @nytimes covid coverage. They managed to cover the study without mentioning that a 16% response rate to a survey is so abysmal that no medical journal would publi...
As a Dem, I think it is way more dangerous to selectively cry misinfo for our political opponents & demand unis punish Here is e.g. of Ashish Jha amplifying a trash analysis that...
Adenoma Detection Rate & 42% compliance Editorialists fault NordICC for ADR where 29% of investigators were bottom quartile. But what was it in the USA back in 2014.... Hmmm, sh...