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My comment about this: in the days after the pause was announced, we saw a lot of women scientists who are not medical or public health professionals saying things like, “The chances are low, the pill has blood clots risk too, calm down.”
It was very bad #scicomm. https://twitter.com/drleanawen/status/1386026334208528384
My comment about this: in the days after the pause was announced, we saw a lot of women scientists who are not medical or public health professionals saying things like, “The chances are low, the pill has blood clots risk too, calm down.”
It was very bad #scicomm. https://twitter.com/drleanawen/status/1386026334208528384
1. The type of clot was different than the kind from the pill.
2. Y’all quoted bad statistics, including AMAB in your risk assessment.
3. This is what happens when you start dispensing medical advice and have no expertise.
4. Dismissing anxiety doesn’t alleviate it.
2. Y’all quoted bad statistics, including AMAB in your risk assessment.
3. This is what happens when you start dispensing medical advice and have no expertise.
4. Dismissing anxiety doesn’t alleviate it.
I know that people are going to debate Dr. Wen’s take on this. That’s fine.
But what’s deeply troubling here, fellow feminists, is how you didn’t stop to consider a third option: that AFAB folks should get *priority* for vaccines that had lower risk for us as a group.
But what’s deeply troubling here, fellow feminists, is how you didn’t stop to consider a third option: that AFAB folks should get *priority* for vaccines that had lower risk for us as a group.
What the fuck is feminist about how y’all handled yourselves?
What happened to all the big talk about the importance of recognizing that AFAB and AMAB don’t always experience the same reactions to medications and therefore medicine needs to account for that?
What happened to all the big talk about the importance of recognizing that AFAB and AMAB don’t always experience the same reactions to medications and therefore medicine needs to account for that?
tl;dr My best friend and her boyfriend were taking on *different* risks when they took the shot.
Why wasn’t an option that was just as low risk for her as J&J was for him made available to her?
Why wasn’t an option that was just as low risk for her as J&J was for him made available to her?
It’s gonna be a while before I stop thinking about how bad the condescending math was: https://twitter.com/drleanawen/status/1386026758969995266
Just because we want to fit into science doesn’t mean we have to reproduce the patriarchy that embeds the community’s logics, including that we can bring our Phd in physics to bear on epidemiology and the art of public health management because we read a stat one time
