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[VerizonMD @md_verizon]

Why a moratorium? Why not start firing whites already in positions of power, and supposedly benefitting from to the detriment of others? Shameful hate peddling by people who should know better.

[BigDaddyMD @BigDaddyMD2]

Medicine is now controlled at every level by those planning to use the tenets of critical race theory to implement racist policies.

Long read: https://t.co/aGajNjrgEs
🧵 follows on how widespread it is in medicine - Here is cardiologist @DavidLBrownMD from @WUSTLMed

[VerizonMD @md_verizon]

In any other sphere, this would have cost an expert such as @meganranney huge reputational damage. Instead, she was cheered on this platform.

[MDJD @trueMDJD]

What if we had listened to frequent CNN talking head @meganranney mid April?

https://t.co/Aiprkkg0lh

[VerizonMD @md_verizon]

Politics and Medicine don't mix. If they do, the results are ranging from embarrassing to catastrophic.

[MDJD @trueMDJD]

But hold on, lets fast forward 4 months

Michigan finds itself in the midst of significant surge … and Ohio appears better off.

With this spike CDC refuses to surge vaccines, recommends another lockdown - MI refuses this time!

[VerizonMD @md_verizon]

For many clinicians, the infamous 1000 signature letter in support of protesting in the pandemic was the breaking point. It caused irreparable harm to the reputation of this profession as impartial guardians of life and health.

[MDJD @trueMDJD]

There is of course lots of handwaving to explain why “irresponsible” Red state led outdoor motorcycle rally triggers wave, but BLM protests/riots do not (with supporting studies to boot! - amazing how science is fashioned to fit a narrative)
https://t.co/mOHiwuSE5d

[VerizonMD @md_verizon]

Truly shameful partisan behavior. Peak irresponsibility from figures held in such high esteems.

[MDJD @trueMDJD]

The implication from this tweet is that regional rise of cases relates to irresponsible S. Dakota motorcycle rally (The Sturgis event) (S. Dakota -> GOP governor who didn’t mandate lockdowns)

[VerizonMD @md_verizon]

Fall surge was a lot less sicker, mirrored in much lower in hospital mortality.

[MDJD @trueMDJD]

As predicted by clinicians .. Fall hospitalization spike not as bad as Spring, and mortality also much less

[VerizonMD @md_verizon]

This is very interesting

[MDJD @trueMDJD]

High cycle threshold +ve PCR → No virus that grows in culture -> No live virus -> No transmission risk

Dark maroon bars : viral culture growth from +ve PCR samples. Notice : Beyond 35Ct -> no viral cultures able to be grown

[VerizonMD @md_verizon]

Test positivity measures above all, the testing capacity. The United States has flexed its healthcare muscles and we have seen the results, a meticulous tracing of cases based on sheer number of tests performed each day. All should be proud, instead, most stoked fear.

[MDJD @trueMDJD]

But, a nursing home geriatrician disagrees : Observes + cases in nursing home in Fall wave are a result of new weekly mass screening protocol.

Most patients are asymptomatic or much milder than earlier Spring 2020 wave

Why? B/c all Positive PCR isn’t the same.

[VerizonMD @md_verizon]

In these times of mass confusion and fake news, it's absolutely paramount for doctors and health experts to be forthright about what is NOT known. Whatever potential benefit a white lie may confer pales in comparison to the destruction of public's trust.

[MDJD @trueMDJD]

“Experts” have been focused on prolonged lockdowns , non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for COVID19 despite the fact this was never part of any prior pandemic playbook.

A 🧵 to show why these Emperors have no clothes..

[VerizonMD @md_verizon]

Remember doctors helped war criminals of Nazi Germany and alqiada terrorists. I have no doubt almost all of those doctors felt deepest disdain for what these people did and believed in. Crucially, they didn't abandon their hippocratic oath. There is something noble about that.

[JusticeLeague @JusticeLeagueMD]

Things not 2do as a medstudent on #some. Real life eg.: @RachelAlter007 student @SacklerMed cc @AANSNeurosurg @RegisHaid @IDSA @udiqimron
1. Don’t proclaim your hate for 1/2 the country. They are potentially your patients too.