Osman David Mansoor

Medical Officer of Health (he/him), Tairawhiti, Aotearoa
Personal reflections on the world, not from my Office.

[Osman David Mansoor @ozmansoor]

Invitation to Public Health Party: serious fun https://t.co/NsIEP8J04B

[Osman David Mansoor @ozmansoor]

A play on our pandemic response, and two vaccine briefings: https://t.co/uPsmHVy6Df

[Osman David Mansoor @ozmansoor]

Sabbatical report https://t.co/uPsmHVy6Df

[Osman David Mansoor @ozmansoor]

My first sabbatical Briefing:
Dropping the ball on measles? Aotearoa must close an ‘immunity gap’ to avoid a measles epidemic https://t.co/xdozmhp7tn

[Frank Han MD 🇺🇦Pediatric/ACHD/GUCH Cardiologist @han_francis]

I would be happy to answer these questions @troonrose8800 .

1. There is the mirage of sudden deaths occuring in the world of media reports, however there is not an increase in the actual amount of cardiac arrests in 2024. While cardiologists have been familiar with sudden cardiac arrest for a long, long, time, in the regular non-medical community cardiac arrests make for very attention-grabbing news stories and are therefore reported in the news, and especially amplified in antivax circles because they love to sell fear. Ultimately, I am certainly aware of vaccine myocarditis deaths, but these diagnoses were arrived at through methodical analysis by physicians and pathologists, and not breathless accusations on Rumble. The number of these deaths pales in comparison to the number of COVID deaths in every country that measured them, but it is somewhat accurate in April 2024 to say that there aren't tons of people dying of COVID like they were in Winter 2020. I have many citations to back this up of which one would be Patone et al's study out of Oxford University.

2. The physicians you mention have an aversion to any evidence that goes contrary to their point of view, to the point of referring to such research as "fraud", in the absence of evidence. This is not the mark of competent medical professionals participating in sincere scientific research; they don't even practice what they preach, to "question everything". Just see the Twitter timeline of @MauritzPreller to see the weaknesses in the ivermectin evidence. What Zelenko and Mccullough could have done to make a sincere scientific breakthrough is to discover why some COVID patients got better on extremely subtherapeutic doses of ivermectin, but they chose not to do that despite having several years to do so. They instead created networks like FLCCC and MyFreeDoctor to sell ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. While I certainly agree this crowd saved some lives, their unprofessional actions otherwise in my mind greatly overshadow the good they did.

3. Remdesivir isn't systematically killing people, the complications of COVID disease can do that though https://t.co/mDsQfMisRo.

4. Lungs with viral pneumonitis or bacterial pneumonia can become stiff enough that they are prone to popping holes or a "pneumothorax". This fact of lung physiology is well known to ICU physicians and ICU consultants such as myself, but was not well known to the public. While it is accurate that some aspects of public health science communication were to blame and still are to blame, this fact of ICU physiology remains nondebatable; physicians weren't trying to get holes in lungs, they were trying what they could to balance the ventilation https://t.co/mDsQfMisRo (and Cecil's Textbook of medicine).

5. The Pfizer trial data was forced to be released by court order via the FDA, which antivaxxers love to paint as a win, but the FDA literally didn't have enough people to release all the data while adhering to federal rules on patient private information protection and trade secret protection. Therefore, more people were hired and the release will occur much faster, thanks to lawyer Aaron Siri, who doesn't really have a sincere desire to help vaccines get better, he promotes the antivax narrative.

6. Informed consent must be tailored to the individual family - this is a basic tenet of informed consent delivery that is taught in medical school. I as a BS in biochemistry can certainly go through Pfizer VRBPAC presentations with the patient if they request it plus the exact ingredients of each COVID vaccine, but I need to give the kind of informed consent that the patient wants. If a patient wants a specific kind of consent, then that's what they are getting. Childrens Health Defense describes the only kind of proper informed consent as going through every available study on every available vaccine, which is impossible due to the amount of time allotted per patient appointment (and also for many other reasons). RFK is a lawyer and should theoretically know the legal definition of informed consent https://t.co/bxeZzrYuUm. , but I'm not putting every patient through a dense 1 hour epidemiology and advanced biochemistry discussion unless they ask for it. While some patients may be upset with the discussions they received in 2020 especially if they had loved ones hospitalized for COVID (sure some physicians can give informed consent better), there is no evidence from any country that informed consent was being systemically withheld. @RobertKennedyJr could probably do the kind of informed consent he preaches, but he has never set foot in a clinical setting his entire life and had to help a patient with real medical problems.

[Osman David Mansoor @ozmansoor]

Tairāwhiti data, 8 March 2024 https://t.co/4TCfJpKSZq

[Osman David Mansoor @ozmansoor]

@CaulfieldTim @JAMA_current JAMA news article; here is the study:https://t.co/WenKpopyp9

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Tairāwhiti data, 16 February 2024 https://t.co/LQIcKDci6W

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Tairāwhiti data, 9 February 2024 https://t.co/3Jaqeij7rT

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Tairāwhiti data, 2 February 2024 https://t.co/IzHfttfkOi

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Tairāwhiti data, 26 January 2024 https://t.co/8dYhTkZJDn

[Osman David Mansoor @ozmansoor]

@1goodtern Immune system is complex; unique in each of us. Previous antigen exposures can benefit or harm later response. SARS-CoV-2 impairs immune system; repeated infections more; some more than others. More likely cause of sicker kids? Do we have more than opinion?

[Osman David Mansoor @ozmansoor]

Tairāwhiti data, 19 January 2024 https://t.co/4UYs5mgIpN

[Osman David Mansoor @ozmansoor]

Useful acronym. If trust is in spirit, then society makes 9 and gives many new starts.

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

I know we’ve been talking a lot about light. For good reason. But light is only one 1 of 8 facets of our life where we can improve our health: NEW START.

Nutrition
Exercise
Water

Sunshine
Temperance
Air
Rest
Trust

[Tyler Black, MD @tylerblack32]

🧵 BUSTING ANTIVAXXER MISINFO 🇨🇦

Antivax myth : vax caused young people to die of cardiac/vessel disease.

REALITY: NOPE, these deaths during vax period within trend.

But let's REALLY test the "vaccines caused circulatory harm" claim! Systematically, like a scientist may.

/1

[Osman David Mansoor @ozmansoor]

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Random sharing; do subscribe to get weekly data. Sad news to have to report two case of rheumatic fever when I was hoping to not have any
Tairāwhiti data, 1 December 2023 https://t.co/cnzT5SOsmk

[Osman David Mansoor @ozmansoor]

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