Let's talk #DeathTrajectories 🧵 One of the biases in #PublicHealth policy is the focus on acute COVID deaths. It's a lagging indicator and only covers 1 of 5 common death trajectories. For COVID, people imagine the upper left. Get COVID, then a quick death. 1/7

Overhyped metformin study. They randomized people to 6 groups (2x3 design), report findings on 1 comparison, & don't adjust statistically for multiple testing. With a 2x3 design, you'll find "something" by chance if not analyzing the data correctly. Nothing to write home about.

Houston Health Department opens COVID-19 testing centers as surge happens nationwide ⁦Houston Chronicle⁩ houstonchronicle.com/health/article…

Suggestions please? For patients' family members who will wear earloop but not headband masks, I had been providing the Vitacore CAN99e, but their USA store is out of a lot of stuff right now. What low-cost KF94/KN95 gets the best universal fit?

Oofta. I’ve spent 8 Painful days in the hospital with shingles, away from my young kids & husband. & It turns out it was preventable. I am a public health expert, & I didn’t know: 💪 Immunocompromised people can get the new shingles vaccine — so can people 50+. Spread the word!

ASHRAE 241: Control of Infectious Aerosols should be the standard for all schools.

I have e-mailed Novavax basically pleading for their vaccine here. I don't have a big lot of followers however...please, those who see this, start agitating directly with the Company & showing interest, whatever way you can? We are getting NO WHERE whinging here.

An Alabama man has died while in surgery after a doctor reportedly removed his liver instead of his spleen. bit.ly/3Mx5AYe

Watching people frantically wipe down a shopping cart and then enter a store maskless is the best representation of where we are at.

Scheduled a COVID booster for my 5 year old! 🥳🥳🥳 Let’s go updated protection!

NBC news crew on their way to my home so I can share this info and help the public understand and protect themselves.

With #LaissezFairePublicHealth, outdoor air can get so dangerous that it's no longer safe for air quality researchers to work.