Colleen Kelly

Ohio at ❤️ living in PVD RI ⚓, GI/obesity medicine/IBD 🏥 Microbiome, C. diff, FMT research, alt-middle, free thinker, slow runner 🏃🏻‍♀, mom 💕🇺🇸😊🦔⚖️🫘

[Anish Koka, MD @anish_koka]

"If you're a physician reading this, take a Valium before the next paragraph. The budget neutrality constraint that governs the PFS — where every dollar increase in one service must be offset by a dollar decrease somewhere else — applies only to the physician fee schedule. It does not apply to Medicare spending as a whole. Congress can and does appropriate additional money for hospitals, for MA plans, for drug coverage, for post-acute care — all outside the zero-sum straitjacket that governs physician payment."

[Colleen Kelly @ckellymd]

We worked REALLY hard on this & hope it helps patients with CDI get the best possible care. Excited to share the AGA Clinical Practice Update on Management of Clostridioides difficile... https://t.co/CKLgJKbsmV

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Colleen Kelly @ckellymd]

@focodereality Thelma, Felicia, Irene, Angela

[Anish Koka, MD @anish_koka]

https://t.co/TbRjaE2gq4

[Colleen Kelly @ckellymd]

#DDW2026 Moderating with my best (and most fashionable) friend

[Colleen Kelly @ckellymd]

@bioinvesting5 @toonces4280 💯

[Colleen Kelly @ckellymd]

@toonces4280 This “expert” is 💯 AI generated pretending to be a crispr scientist.

[Colleen Kelly @ckellymd]

@ashishkjha @matthewherper You have attacked people too! Don’t pretend otherwise. Hypocrisy is a bad look.

[Colleen Kelly @ckellymd]

@RepAuchincloss Leave them alone. Prasad is one of the smartest, bravest and most ethical among us. The piece by Anish Koka explains it all. The system is horribly corrupt and broken and this is why my patients don’t trust anything anymore.

[Anish Koka, MD @anish_koka]

https://t.co/WXyKfmyS8e

[Colleen Kelly @ckellymd]

@DrJBhattacharya @ashishkjha @meganranney I think option 1 would be a good way for public health leadership to come together and begin to rebuild public trust. Hoping we can get past the politics and start healing. ❤️‍🩹

[Jay Bhattacharya @DrJBhattacharya]

I think this thread is posted in at least a simulacrum of good faith, so I'll give a substantive response.

It is obviously true that in the moment of crisis, leaders face tremendous pressure to do something dramatic to address the crisis, and often those decisions turn out, in retrospect, to be wrong.

In the case of the covid crisis, the problems were confounded by a determined unwillingness of scientific and public health leaders to respond to data -- in real time -- that showed that core assumptions underlying the lockdown strategy were wrong.

Here is a short list of facts about covid that undermined these leaders' core assumptions:
* covid is airborne,
* covid spreads asymptomatically,
* covid infection fatality rate << case fatality rate,
* covid has a sharp age gradient in its infection mortality risk,
* lockdowns cannot suppress covid spread or protect the vulnerable for long,
* lockdowns crush the lives and well-being of children, the poor, and the working class, and almost everyone other than the laptop class
* lockdowns cause a form of psychological terror that guarantee they could never last just two weeks

The WHO and public health leaders got all of these facts wrong in 2020, which I suppose is understandable.

What is not understandable is that these same leaders conducted "devastating takedowns" of even well-credentialed outside critics who pointed out that the WHO's core assumptions were incorrect, and accepted these assumptions as true even as overwhelming data to the contrary emerged in real time.

What is not understandable is the utter confidence that the WHO and public health leaders expressed in these ideas and lockdown policies to the public as the only way to protect the population, going so far as to call for censorship of contrary voices on social media and elsewhere.

The closest analogue I can think of is the set of "best and brightest" advisors who told Pres. LBJ that victory in the Vietnam War was just around the corner, based on a whole host of faulty information.

Leaders who come out of such situations having embraced such a litany of catastrophically failed ideas and policies have a few choices on how to handle the post-crisis era.

1) They can, in good faith, admit their failures and work to reform systems so the disaster never happens again. This would be best, though I would understand why the public would want a new set of leaders to design and implement the reforms. I personally am very happy to work with and learn from public health leaders who choose this option.

2) They can pretend to have done nothing wrong, clinging to power for as long as they can, hoping against hope that history will vindicate them, crushing public trust in the institutions they lead.

3) They can try to pretend they never recommended or adopted the catastrophically failed policies, hoping that the public has a short memory. This is the current strategy that the @WHO is taking.

4) They can appeal to the difficulty of the job of handling a crisis under considerable uncertainty, not in a spirit of reform, but rather as an excuse to avoid responsibility for their failed crisis management. This is the approach that Koopmans is taking in her thread.

I have very little sympathy for the covid crisis leaders who choose options 2, 3, or 4. Their job was to manage the uncertainty with wisdom and humanity, which they failed to do. They cannot, at this juncture, turn around and expect public sympathy because their job was hard, or expect the public to forget their failure. These leaders have destroyed public trust in public health, and should step aside as a new set of public health leaders works to fix the damage they caused.

[Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP @weldeiry]

I am pleased to share the peer-reviewed published manuscripts by

Kuperwasser and El-Deiry “COVID vaccination and post-infection cancer signals: Evaluating patterns and potential biological mechanisms”

and

El-Deiry “Hypothesis: HPV E6 and COVID spike proteins cooperate in targeting tumor suppression by p53”

both published today but censored due to cybercriminial attack on the @Oncotarget @OncotargetJrnl website.

The authors are happy to share the full PDFs with any interested reader upon request by email.

[Coach Tommy Tuberville @SenTuberville]

Just a few days ago, Ella Cook was tragically murdered by a deranged psychopath at Brown University.

Ella was an outspoken Christian and a patriot who truly loved this country.

Though she is no longer with us here on earth, we know she is in heaven.

Today I spoke on the Senate floor to honor her memory.

[Colleen Kelly @ckellymd]

Approach to Weight Management in GI Practice

Obesity contributes to many GI diseases and cancers, and gastroenterologists must take this on to help our patients. Here’s an easy guide https://t.co/dLmwlFSnQ4

[Colleen Kelly @ckellymd]

@john_damianosMD @MarkPimentelMD @AliRezaieMD @LinChangMD @IrisWangMD @WalterChanMD @ANMSociety @AmCollegeGastro @AmerGastroAssn @SeanPaulSpencer @DCharabaty Is the constipation a factor?

[U.S. FDA @FDA]

FDA Commissioner Makary sits down for a conversation with the newly appointed director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Dr. Vinayak “Vinay” Kashyap Prasad and Sanjula Jain-Nagpal, Associate Director of Policy & Research Strategy, Office of the Commissioner (OC). The trio talks about the current and future happenings at the FDA.

[Colleen Kelly @ckellymd]

@DrMakaryFDA Great choice! I can’t wait to see what you guys do.

[STAT @statnews]

#Breaking: Vinay Prasad will be the next director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, after Peter Marks was forced out. https://t.co/XGVPbf2bHL