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I am the biggest advocate of adult vaccination, and took the first opportunity I could get to get mRNA, but I am stunned that so many smart people are so

JUST OUT in the @TheLancet led by @ManniMD1, we ask tough questions to the BOSTON trial investigatorsHow do the authors justify a grossly unethical control arm?.... beneath the standard of

Few thoughts on the new CDC guidanceTL:DR Some steps in right direction; Still a lot that doesn't make sense; They will be forced to keep revising; Not always science

The cognitive error that leads many people to not push hard enough on schools is that they still do not fully appreciate the harms. They struggle to consider those harms,

Media errors on vaccine messenging1. Breathlessly covering anecdotes of people who get SARS cov 2 after vaccination (you know it's inevitable, and the vaccine is still awesome?) 2. For some

I disagree on many issues w/ the Governor, but I am chilled by these actions. There is no limiting principle.In this case, the dispute is about kids wearing masks. But

It is easy to see of the loss of life from covid19, and hard to see the loss of life from closing schools, but, make no mistake, both rob people

Just OUT!The Great Barrington Declaration and the John Snow Memorandum: Is the fate of the globe to be decided by signatures?https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/vinay-prasad/89177 First, lets start with what we all agree on:

Now OUT in @medpagetoday Continuing our debate last week, I flesh out the 8 reasons why extra (new) clinical fellowship years in medicine are problematicLast Friday we had a big

Quick series of polls about the current @NEJM 'Dying in a leadership vacuum'Curious what you think!https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812#1 Writing it - was it the right thing to do? #2 Did it have

A terrific, courageous and data-driven article, but reading the comments is painful.A few thoughts...[Thread]https://twitter.com/ProfEmilyOster/status/1314572214621143040 The intervention is Closing Schools. Let's be clear.And it is not

A soul-crushing article We are watching one of the greatest inequities committed in the name of public health in a generationI urge, beg my progressive colleagues to reconsiderBeyond this article,