Richard A. Loftus MD

MD, internist, clinician educator, AIDS & COVID researcher. Proud alum @UCSF, @Columbia, @YaleCollege. NY, USA, Kanienʼkehá:ka lands . He/him 🏳️‍🌈.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Say it with me (and repeat it to @Sen_JoeManchin and @SenatorSinema): protecting the right to vote is more important than protecting the filibuster.

[Astronomy Magazine @AstronomyMag]

Calculations suggest satellites are already making it harder to find truly dark skies. https://t.co/3KvJESPqTe

[Peter Horby @peterhorby.bsky.social @PeterHorby]

🔥 RECOVERY result Aspirin
14892 COVID patients randomised to aspirin vs. usual care alone - no significant difference in 28-day mortality (17% aspirin vs. 17% usual care; rate ratio 0.96 [95% CI 0.89-1.04]; p=0.35). Pre-print imminent.
https://t.co/AxMxEHH7SE

[Frank-STOP-Christian-Nationalists-Schaeffer @Frank_Schaeffer]

Am I the only person thinking that if a professional medical worker is so anti-science and frankly gullible and accepting of misinformation as to be anti-vaccine that they really do NOT belong in their profession?

[Emily Hunt is on Bluesky @emilydoesastro]

We just sent an open letter to Astronomy & Astrophysics' Board of Directors about their lack of name change policy for trans academics.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Early educators will keep leaving the profession unless we start paying them like the professionals that they are. My plan for universal child care includes a raise for every child care worker and preschool teacher in America.
https://t.co/pYcJX2z9CJ

[BythePeople @BythePeople18]

The FDA approved an Alzheimers drug made by Biogen even though trials showed no benefit. The cost for this IV drug will be $56,000 per year per pt plus the cost of diagnostic tests of about $30,000 the 1st year and $15,000 each year after. Who exactly is the FDA working for?

[Richard A. Loftus MD @RichardALoftus1]

@TonyHinton2016 This is not an evidence-based position. Experts in pediatric immunology and vaccine allergy — which are not surgery — have pointed out that we have copious evidence that COVID vaccines are quite safe. What’s dangerous is Covid giving children permanent disability.

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

The embodiment of mediocrity in tv news:

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

Please stop listening to the idiots who say Garland has some secret plan. They’re the same idiots who bleated out “Mueller is going to save us” for years. They are there to instill false hope and passivity and to direct your ire toward people who speak the truth about corruption.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

Once again, Garland serves Trump and Barr. We warned you about this many times on @gaslitnation. The DOJ is a corrupt institution and Garland is a corrupt institutionalist.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Vermont's governor has signed a law requiring the state's top election official to send a mail ballot to every eligible voter, becoming one of the few Republican leaders at the state level to buck their party's trend of trying to limit voting access. https://t.co/tn3fRwktXX

[Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin @JRubinBlogger]

There is another way to save democracy: Keep D's in House majority and elect more D senators in 2022 to come up with a majority to reform the filibuster. Just saying... Win. Elections.

[WicMar @WicMar]

@omg_butter Ridiculous. Why are the Dutch and Swedes so similar? Oh, because they were gaslit and now suffering the Stockholm syndrome.

Meanwhile in NZ, with no covid cases..wear a mask. Just be safe. Do we mind? No, we want to be safe.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Thank you Brian Williams for sharing our ad that Fox “News” doesn’t want their viewers to see

[Jhudora Feingold @JhudoraF]

Trump and company will never pay for their crimes. USA is a Country of rich criminals that never will be charged or pay for such. If you're poor it's a different story. USA really is a safe haven for the party of hate.

[Elie Honig @eliehonig]

This much has become clear: Merrick Garland is *not* the anti-Barr.

[Richard A. Loftus MD @RichardALoftus1]

@DavidJuurlink Thank you. It’s a ridiculous case of preying on families’ & patients’ desperation, to prop up pharma largesse.

This is exactly why @PCORI was created-to support work on interventions that *mean* something to patients, not to support elegant, near-useless expensive “therapies.”

[David Juurlink @DavidJuurlink]

Trying to envision a scenario in which I encourage a patient with mild Alzheimer's to take a drug that's given intravenously every 4 weeks, costs $56,000+ per year, sometimes causes cerebral edema and microbleeds, and we have no idea if it works.

Nope.

https://t.co/7APrYa1okd