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@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
I was stunned reading the @nytimes profile of Didier Raoult who has promoted HCQ and AZT based on weak, unreliable data His contempt for and misunderstanding of RCTs is amazing [thread] https://nytimes.com/2020/05/12/magazine/didier-raoult-hydroxychloroquine.html
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
He celebrates having never done an RCT!?! I think we have to confront the issue that Raoult's view is emblematic of a broader failure https://t.co/yrMowozy8Z
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
How are we training so many doctors who honestly do not understand why RCTs are vital to assess whether medical practices work?
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Glad that we @vkprasadlab have published over 20++ peer reviewed papers on COVID19 policy to date & many more to come I will share them here & a free link to all of them at end We see policy failure #1 visitor restriction It was sad to separate family from dying people, & had no data
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Cloth masking 2 year olds was an unforced error by @cdcgov and @AmerAcadPeds, who pushed this policy with no credible data, and despite its obvious silliness https://t.co/8z7W1MQ1lx
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Long COVID is an evidence based disaster There is a strong narrative that is not well supported by the evidence. To date, besides anosmia, there is no evidence COVID has any more long symptoms than being equally ill with any other respiratory virus. period. https://t.co/ZBT1XFK4Yo
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Young men suffered unfortunate rates of myocarditis from COVID19 vaccines, particularly dose 2 The CDC could have tried to lower this harm with lower doses, or spaced out doses, and not giving it to boys who had COVID, but they repeatedly did not try https://t.co/iIYPSTlmnC
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
The evidence to support community cloth masking was weak, and this was always incorrect. Unfortunately, leaders pushed a failed intervention https://t.co/9jRyeefDiq
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
The media coverage of even influenza was distorted by inaccurate messaging on covid masking. https://t.co/hqZksWY39a
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
The CDC has made countless statistical and numerical errors, including inaccurately counting dead children (paper forthcoming in peer reviewed journal) https://t.co/tf6F2lSeBn
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Rochelle Walensky, then CDC director, incorrectly told Congress that she lacked equipoise to conduct RCTs of masking in kids. She had it, but chose not to generate evidence Another unforced error https://t.co/MBZFQOHBD7
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
COVID19 booster mandates in young men generated net harm, and were medically incorrect. https://t.co/EbnIsWgwrD
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Only local politics predicted dropping mask mandates in 2023-- not cases or hospitalizations masks in 2023 are a political symbol and not evidence based https://t.co/Y0b4GVXx4Y
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Even in interventional studies, long COVID lacks a precise definition The evidence base of long covid is very poor this is a disservice to patients https://t.co/56cbxMTm10
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
There is a double standard for evidence for drugs and evidence for non pharmacologic interventions In general, experts failed to generate evidence for the latter https://t.co/ssq53egIyY
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
This is unfortunate because there is an ethical obligation TO GENERATE evidence during pandemics, particularly, when those policies continue year after year or are re-instituted, as is the case https://t.co/7qv8XWc3Es
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
We can run more pragmatic RCTs and extrapolate the lessons to oncology https://t.co/o21a8GqQzW
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
We need better quality evidence for long COVID studies https://t.co/PNRz3sUTjf
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
An editorial by Hoeger offered unproven interventions to protect cancer patients from COVID this was a sad commentary https://t.co/Fzi9aHwyAU
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Observational studies supporting boosters in @NEJM were inappropriate and incorrect People who choose to get boosters are NOT COMPARABLE to those who do not choose to get them https://t.co/jGzU39T53s
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Contract tracing policies for masked students (which vary by mask status) confound observational studies of mask efficacy.... duh! https://t.co/u2pAY7okJy
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
COVID19 vaccine implementation was flawed these were mostly obvious mistakes https://t.co/yhgHOn7uq0
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
The boston school mask study in the NEJM was incorrect https://t.co/LgpkpIbCH1
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
A paper by Wallace and colleagues in Jama IM claiming republicans died more from COVID b/c they didn't vax has serious errors https://t.co/ulmdNAdN3k
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Long COVID studies use incorrect comparison groups https://t.co/l1tpufWHW3
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Here is a link to all of them in a folder download a copy https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J4FZo5B4MXWskKfaSaBgJ6aB9KRDj7j1/view?usp=sharing
@VPrasadMDMPH - Vinay Prasad MD MPH
This week in @NEJM, @TracyBethHoeg, RD & I prove that Israeli Studies, which FDA relied upon, are CONFOUNDED. Boosters reduce non covid deaths far too much to be true. Israeli authors concede this in reply Wow! Millions got unproven boosters FDA failed https://nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2306683
