Heather McKay

Epidemiologist @JohnsHopkinsEPI | @JohnsHopkinsSPH @CC_Columbia @ColumbiaMSPH alum | views are my own

[Heather McKay @hsmckay]

@nicksortor @NobodymrRobert You mean this never occurred under other mayors?

[Heather McKay @hsmckay]

@BrilynHollyhand How old were you when Obama was elected?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

13 workers left Palantir and issued this statement.

"Palantir is increasingly complicit, normalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a 'revolution' led by oligarchs. We must resist this trend."

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out."

Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it."

The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened.
When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time.

The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie."

This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.

[Heather McKay @hsmckay]

@JeremyCom The explanation literally told you the answer: the batch that was received by mail was not a random sampling of all ballots. Those extreme odds are only valid under the assumption of random sampling. You literally did not understand any of the statistical assumptions.

[Heather McKay @hsmckay]

@TomiLahren The question is, why are you trying so hard to make sure all of Californians’ votes are not counted?

[Heather McKay @hsmckay]

@MeghanMcCain So chattering about something makes it true?

[Heather McKay @hsmckay]

@elonmusk Liar.

[Heather McKay @hsmckay]

@SbordoneZone @EndWokeness Again, this is well documented. The votes are not late - they were mailed in. Those who mail in their ballots clearly have a difference of opinion about candidates than those who vote in person.

[Heather McKay @hsmckay]

@BrittRooted Wait, so only your experience counts?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Obama expressed empathy for Trayvon Martin and @benshapiro had a decade long tantrum. Imagine if instead he had stolen $1.8 bil from taxpayers and had BLM dole it out to whoever they wanted. Because that's what Trump is doing but for insurrectionist whites instead.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Acting CDC head cancels publication of a study showing Covid vaccine sharply cut odds of hospitalization and ER visits. Agency veterans say they've never seen an article pulled after being cleared by scientists and scheduled for publication. @apoorva_nyc https://t.co/vGKGOajbsH

[Trip Gabriel @tripgabriel]

The acting head of the CDC canceled the publication of a study by CDC scientists that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter
https://t.co/an0TjL4b0M

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Unbelievable. NIH scientists are some of the best in the world. The level of distrust being sown regarding his own agency is unfathomable.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I’ll never understand how displays like this don’t cause people to spontaneously combust with embarrassment.

[Heather McKay @hsmckay]

@AndrewZywiecMD Tell us you don't understand epidemiology without telling us you don't understand epidemiology.

[Heather McKay @hsmckay]

@NicHulscher So "believing" something is true makes it true? Surely they didn't teach you that in your epi class.