When the world recovers its senses, hope that Dr. Tegnell will be nominated for a Nobel Prize as one of the few public health leaders who resisted panic and groupthink in March 2020.

'After all the controversy over the past few years about gain-of-function research on viruses,..I thought this kind of work was on hold..Nonetheless,..scientists continue to pursue gain-of-function work.'

forbes.com/sites/stevensa…

.Paul Offit just said there is 'probably no greater collateral damage, frankly, than what we did to those children in terms of lack of socialization, lack of education.'

Here is why hospitals need to ditch universal masking

Let's weight the possible upside vs. the possible downside
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Nicholas Wade: 'In the three years or so since Covid-19 appeared, it has become increasingly clear, despite the protestations of virologists who do this kind of work, that the causative virus was probably the result of genetic manipulation in a lab.'

city-journal.org/review-of-brea…

Vinay Prasad MD MPH The New York Times NPR I used to write for the The New York Times and was invited to go on NPR a lot, but after I wrote this popular piece in the NYT & argued for open schools and to recognize natural immunity, they blackballed me and turned to like-minded doctors instead who locked arms nytimes.com/2020/05/14/opi…

#epeeps this is worth sharing. How many of your patients had to stop dofetilide or other drugs due to cost?
Take a look at #costplus . Several generic meds at deep discounts. Hope to see DOACs on this list soon.
costplusdrugs.com/medications/do…

4 Pillars of #Afib Care
Risk Factor Management needs to be address
🔹️Obesity
🔹️Cardio-resp fitness
🔹️Hypertension
🔹️Sleep apnea
🔹️Alcohol consumption
🔹️Diabetes
Andrea Russo Ohio Chapter-ACC

YES, evidence that schools should have been open was all over Europe but ignored as the CDC had a teachers union edit their school closure guidance before publication. CDC also conducted 2 flawed studies to support masking millions of toddlers including those with disabilities.

The CDC director getting COVID-19 one month after bivalent booster is a reminder that she doesn't know what she's talking about. That's because she has never asked Pfizer for appropriate randomized data. The CDC is headed for a cliff.

sensiblemed.substack.com/p/the-cdc-dire…

A central conundrum of the pandemic - no locus of accountability for poor decision making. It all just sorta happened and no one is responsible. h/t el gato malo

“The Boston episode “certainly tells us the P3CO framework needs to be overhauled pretty dramatically” via ⁦The New York Times⁩ nytimes.com/2022/10/22/sci…

“Some third graders struggle to sound out words. Some ninth graders have given up on school because they feel so behind they can’t catch up. The future of American children hangs in the balance.”

Generational harm. It will continue. apnews.com/article/online…

“The first step …accept that there is no robust evidence to recommend face masks for children. Whilst a precautionary approach might have been appropriate early in the pandemic, the onus must be to prove that an intervention works before recommending large-scale implementation.”

Vax mandates were predicated on falsehoods. “…while claiming that it was the dissenters who caused harm, it was in fact the censors and enforcers of speech restrictions who caused immense damage to the social fabric and to the lives of individuals.” tabletmag.com/sections/scien…

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