PendletonG @GatesPendleton

Professor, Biological sciences Science is the worst method of gaining knowledge, except for every other method. SoCal Joined February 2021

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Harry A. Patrinos @hpatrinos

9 months ago

1/ COVID-19 led to unprecedented disruptions in education affecting >1 billion children globally. School closures lasted average 5.5 months, aiming to mitigate virus spread but also caused significant learning losses🧑‍🏫🌍 #EducationImpact New paper alert: shorturl.at/WM268

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The Free Press @TheFP

10 months ago

WATCH: This mom was handcuffed, hauled to jail, and charged with “reckless conduct”—because her 10-year-old son wandered off for a walk alone. @lwoodhouse reports on the growing number of parents nationwide being punished for giving their kids some space to explore.…

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Kelley K @KelleyKga

10 months ago

@sandyrose9720 @txsalth2o @DrJBhattacharya I'm just saying... I'm right here in Atlanta... And I'd absolutely love the opportunity to have some input at the CDC.

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Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt

10 months ago

People have to stop calling the police to report children walking around outside without adult supervision. We have to make it normal again for kids to be out in the world. Crime rates are way down since the 1980s. (The predators are mostly online now.) From @FreeRangeKids

reason @reason

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夏巢川 Rei Xia @karasu_ga_warau

11 months ago

7/ Creative people also criticized the zero-covid policy which killed thousands by cosplaying in the #BigWhites, the official suit of covid-policy enforcers, implying to their abuse of power during the pandemic and the human rights tragedy followed.

李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele

2 years ago

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ClownBasket 🙂 @ClownBasket

12 months ago

Unless you lived it, and fought against it, you probably don't know the convenient hide-the-football game that school districts played during Covid to be the boot on the neck of students on behalf of the authoritarian bureaucratic 4th branches of govt. Here's how it worked...

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Anthony LaMesa @ajlamesa

a year ago

What the Data Says About Pandemic School Closures, Four Years Later The more time students spent in remote instruction, the further they fell behind. And, experts say, extended closures did little to stop the spread of Covid. (Some of us were saying...) nytimes.com/2024/03/18/ups…

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Anil Makam @AnilMakam

a year ago

Incredible pragmatic trial in @bmj_latest Results consistent with ASCERTAINMENT BIAS Volunteers who mostly felt masks worked self-reported fewer respiratory symptoms if assigned to mask group But... No difference in COVID Findings were dependent on perceived mask efficacy

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Kelley K @KelleyKga

a year ago

This tweet about Covid deaths in ages 0-19, by a professor of epidemiology, is grossly incorrect. It has a pending community note, but it's already been retweeted over 500 times. * The paper, from the peak of the pandemic in the US, reported a death rate of 1.0 per 100K. *…

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Amesh Adalja @AmeshAA

a year ago

"Pandemic lockdown imposed a sudden increase to attention and executive behavioral demands, coupled with a lack of daily structures and reduced possibilities for physical exercise..These challenges in living conditions may have surfaced ADHD symptoms” cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new-a…

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Stefan Baral @sdbaral

a year ago

At the beginning of covid, I was worried that academics personally attacking other academics with whom they didn't agree would undermine the respect for academia and ultimately the power of evidence in driving policy. But that ship has long since sailed and the respect for…

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Kelley K @KelleyKga

a year ago

Remember the game telephone from when you were a kid? That's basically what happened here... Metkus 2021: "Of 243 intubated patients with COVID-19, 51% had troponin levels above the upper limit of normal." [among patients intubated between March 15 and June 11 who had troponin…

Kelley K @KelleyKga

a year ago

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PendletonG @GatesPendleton

a year ago

NIH documents show how $1.6 billion long Covid initiative has failed so far to meet its goals statnews.com/2024/05/31/lon… via @statnews

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Stefan Baral @sdbaral

a year ago

COVID-Zero was only a viable and sustainable solution on social media given that 99.9% of its prophets and believers were and remain active on these platforms. The coverage in legacy media was driven by a few believers with platforms in well-established newspapers and journals…