So, your doctor ordered a test or treatment and your insurance company denied it. That is a typical cost saving method.
OK, here is what you do:
1. Call the insurance company and tell them you want to speak with the "HIPAA Compliance/Privacy Officer"
(By federal law, they have to have one)
2. Then ask them for the NAMES as well as
CREDENTIALS of every person accessing your record to make that decision of denial.
By law you have a right to that information.
3. They will almost always reverse the decision very shortly rather than admit that the committee is made of low paid HS graduates, looking at "criteria words." making the medical decision to deny your care.
Even in the rare case it is made by medical personnel, it is unlikely that it is made by a board certified doctor in that specialty and they DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS!!
4. Any refusal should be reported to the US Office of Civil
Rights (https://t.co/QJjJAm5BxT) as a HIPAA violation.
Be safe out there 🫵🏻✨
Know your rights 👊🏼
#ThrowbackThursday
In 2020 I published a paper arguing that there likely was an element of CD8 T cell death in Covid. For the following years, I was met with overall antipathy from many professors for claiming covid was harming T cells. Now, a new publication highlights persistent T cell attenuation. https://t.co/0pENAkeUhM
I was punished the sin of being correct on my matter of expertise before I had done a postdoc or graduated medical school, and for an opinion contrary to many individuals who had incentives to downplay covid or a lack of scientific imagination.
My claims were swiftboated, people tried to put words in my mouth, strawman me, and attack me personally.
Vincent Raccaniello said the claims covid was harming T cells was "twitter science." Vincent Rajkumar, the editor of Blood, said it was "nonsense." Carlos Del Rio, a professor of Infectious disease said, "I'm exhausted reading such claims from non-immunologists." One immunologist and nephrologist at the Francis Crick institute, Rupert Beale, claimed that cranks were being taken as legitimate sources while I was a medical student. An immunologist at Novartis, Andrew Croxford, mocked me as if I was a self-described 'galileo,' after Zeynep Tufekci referred to me saying, 'not every crank is Galileo.'
I'm sorry the truth had to come from someone who lacked pretense, completed fellowships, and several decades of life. It should have been enough to have published in the field, understood the issue, and have been able to articulate the rationale. There were many attacks to my livelihood and my affiliated entities, accusing me of fear-mongering. and writing pseudo-science.
One group of Professors even saw it fit to write that the T cells were "Fit and Happy" following breakthrough covid. I have never seen in history someone lampooning an individual with the title of a scientific journal article. Their aim was total demoralization. Having been subjected to this, I believe it is a very unique experience, to be met with derision from
1) Established professors
2) Journalists at the New York Times
3) Journal publications
A recent article in the BMJ highlighted how eminent immunologists are starting to believe Covid has harmed population immunity. I was included in the piece until the editor said they needed to avoid the controversy to save face, thereby erasing my advocacy and the absolutely unethical conduct of people who had fixed to attack me.
Regardless, this is a significant result. With multiple covid infections, the issue becomes even more relevant.
Please keep up to date with vaccinations and avoid covid with use of an N95 if you want to keep your immune system healthy.
PMC COVlD Update, Week of Nov 24, 2025 (U.S.)
🧵10/10
Now's the time to restock on tests, masks, and air filters, and get boosted if one has delayed doing so.
Thanks for your help in getting the word out. 🙏
https://t.co/Iy7BEEGBId
Maybe because the world has spent the past 5 years asking “why is everyone sick right now?” instead of acknowledging the ongoing airborne pandemic that destroys immune systems or something idk
You could probably go anywhere on the planet right now; walk up to a stranger and say ‘I hate that motherf*cker’ and they would know exactly who you mean.
Here are three clear and important statements about COVID and Long COVID — what’s happening to our bodies, why the medical system fails to respond, and how to support the people affected.
Worth your time. Sharing them here:
It's absolutely wild how hard I have to sell Novavax, considering...
-Higher neutralizing antibodies
-Creates a sterilizing upper respiratory effect
-Helps fight old and new persistent virus
-Never wanes completely
-Effective against more variants for longer
-Can override imprinting with one shot
-We have extensive data on all these points
It's absurd that someone who cannot refute these ideas can still stand up in a room and say mRNA is better.
Stop being nice to these people.
Stop promoting their work.
You are only helping them hurt more people.
1) 5-yr Anniversary of the WHO Pandemic Declaration
🔥10 waves
🔥Covid mortality rivals lung cancer
🔥8 infections/person by 2030
🔥Long Covid as catastrophic
🔥Death trajectories becoming complex
🔥"During Covid" as anti-science rhetoric
🔥Serious ppl take Covid seriously
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Hi all. Breaking my Twitter silence to make a statement on behalf of myself here. NOAA, the parent agency of the @NWS indiscriminately fired a number of employees yesterday. A thread of comments & advice for those fired. 1/18
Hey @UPS please tell your drivers to stop dumping my packages in the snow on the side of my driveway. They need to bring everything to the house, not half-ass it.