Dr. Safa Mote, Discover and Read the Best of Twitter Threads by @SafaMote

Yesterday, @nytimes published an article titled "Coronavirus Reinfections Are Real but Very, Very Rare."I wish this statement were true. But it is not only inaccurate, it may lead to dangerous

Thread: The Precautionary PrincipleIn order to minimize risk when information is insufficient, assume a higher negative impact outcome, especially when the stakes are high. The resulting decisions could prevent or

ThreadOn 2020 Aug 23, @SteveFDA falsely claimed that out of "100 people who are sick with #COVID19, 35 would have been saved because of the administration of [convalescent] plasma."Dr. Hahn

Thread: Wearing masks is our best defense against the #coronavirus.@WhiteHouse press secretary said today that masks are no longer required in West Wing. Many tweets also advise against masks.Result: Colossal

Thread: Predicting #COVID deaths in the US from 8k to 100k.I started predicting the US COVID death toll ~2 months ago. All of my predictions to date have proven accurate.

Thread on "Masks, Einstein, Interdisciplinary Science, and defeating #COVID."In 1905, which @AlbertEinstein called his "miracle year", he published four important papers. One of them was on "Brownian Motion":ht

Thread: "How to predict #coronavirus trends with Kinematics of Epidemics?"On Apr 4, I made a spot-on prediction for US #COVID deaths by Apr 12 (~20k). https://twitter.com/SafaMote/status/1249391715951300609?s=20My prediction on Apr 12

On Mar 24, we had ~800 #COVID deaths in the US. On Apr 4, when the count was at ~8,000, I predicted ~20,000 deaths by Easter Sunday, Apr 12.My prediction