Rob

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@RidleyDM @angie_rasmussen @apoorva_nyc @nytimes If you talk to a truly qualified senior & experienced academic at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, this is the rich & nuanced answer you get. Contrast it with the stilted outputs from Rasmussen, a mediocre thinker catapulted out of her depth by an ignorant reporter.

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@zeynep It's a very powerful spotlight for valid speculation, because the immensely powerful commercial interests backing the Vax-Only pandemic response are unable to quietly bury an obviously healthy, prominent journalist who collapses in a press box surrounded by the global media.

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@DrNeilStone @zeynep Do your part. Spread the word. Get your booster & (*importantly*) wear an N95 mask when in crowded indoor spaces.

That's common sense.
Vax-Only zealotry among the credentialed (often with indirect payoffs from Commercial Real estate interests) is what's repulsive.

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@zeynep You are well aware of:
https://t.co/es121FBpsW

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@zeynep Sophistry.

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@RichidsCoulter @zeynep @celinegounder @GrantWahl Again, the data linking COVID to heart attacks was well known, published, and discussed in early 2020 through summer 2020, BEFORE vaccines were available.

The anti-VAX folks jumping on this have it totally and completely WRONG.

https://t.co/Ldvc2FZb8G

[Scott Gottlieb, MD 🇺🇸 @ScottGottliebMD]

Increasing evidence of cardiac manifestations of Covid infection should prompt greater attention to the potential for cardiac involvement; and further studies to more fully evaluate the potential correlation between infection and long term cardiac outcomes https://t.co/GF2NKaqm80

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@RichidsCoulter @zeynep @celinegounder @GrantWahl Total Nonsense: The link between Sars-CoV-2 infection and later cardiac issues was well established long before vaccines were available.
This article noting the link was from March of 2020, many many months before vaccines were available.

https://t.co/DEXT0uVkrd

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@zeynep @celinegounder @GrantWahl We should have listened to @ScottGottliebMD back in 2020 and cranked up to 11 our attention on the links between: mild-asymptomatic COVID --> lethal cardiac event.
Maybe Grant and many others would be alive today if we'd follow-up
https://t.co/Ldvc2FZb8G

[Scott Gottlieb, MD 🇺🇸 @ScottGottliebMD]

Increasing evidence of cardiac manifestations of Covid infection should prompt greater attention to the potential for cardiac involvement; and further studies to more fully evaluate the potential correlation between infection and long term cardiac outcomes https://t.co/GF2NKaqm80

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@zeynep @celinegounder @GrantWahl Grant Wahl's final podcast from a few days ago describing "bronchitis"
https://t.co/qiYZvSXeYO

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@Logan_JH1 Don't sweat being early -- more time to dig the bugout tunnel in the basement. Jackhammered through the cinder blocks yesterday. Dusty.
Good news: Burrowed 8-feet into the yard so far.
Bad news: Cracks in the foundation & wife is annoyed by dirt pile blocking the washer & dryer.

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@MackayIM No vision.

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@MackayIM Do you wonder why you missed how critically important persistent infection would be for this whole story?

It's the source of variants, of course.
But why couldn't you see how important persistence would be a year ago? Strange. All that experience, yet..
https://t.co/xAbftBqPZB

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

One more paper with a case demonstrating how variants of concern can also arise in single individuals with chronic/long-term infections through intra-host evolution. https://t.co/c5nYkZJSJG

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@angie_rasmussen Yes, me too
Beware intentionally deceptive puff titles: "Virologist at Columbia"
People assume that you're a tenured or at least tenure-track faculty member -> Nope.

Have you apologized for spreading deadly misinformation about masks?
"I'm more agnostic with regard to mask use."

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

Avoiding comment on the growing indications of Sars-CoV-2 persistence does not inspire confidence. Just because the mechanism of persistence is poorly understood doesn't mean it should be ignored. Avoidance of key topics worthy of exploration undermines an otherwise good article

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

Once again: overemphasis on reinfection red herring, and insufficient attention to viral persistence (the real issue). There is no basis for the statement that these cases are exceptionally rare. A mildly useful contribution.

https://t.co/KR0OJwbYUI

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

Mhmm

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Prolonged persistence of #SARSCoV2 has been duly noted and confused with reinfection. Here is another master deconvolution by @rkhamsi, who takes us from Antarctica to body fluids like semen, to explain this issue
https://t.co/UeDX6Wn7r5 @elemental @Medium

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Prolonged persistence of #SARSCoV2 has been duly noted and confused with reinfection. Here is another master deconvolution by @rkhamsi, who takes us from Antarctica to body fluids like semen, to explain this issue
https://t.co/UeDX6Wn7r5 @elemental @Medium

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

https://t.co/waUAO798QA

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@tommyk122 @MackayIM @Burner86895093 @SCMPNews Getting warmer and warmer
https://t.co/waUAO798QA

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@tommyk122 @MackayIM @Burner86895093 @SCMPNews I wrote this article months ago in tweet form. So sad to see how slow the world's leading researchers, doctors and medical reporters are in seeing the real story. Now they act as if it was obvious all along.

From May 1st

https://t.co/ae5f8ifYQZ

[Rob @CollegeTerrace1]

@DavidLat Reinfection was never the issue in South Korea or anywhere, even if a bunch of journalists foolishly made that the focus. It wasn't latency and reactivation either. Another red herring.

The issue has always been, and remains, persistence of the initial infection.