Katrine Wallace, PhD
@DrKatEpi
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🧵People who are using Justin Beiber’s Ramsay Hunt syndrome as an anti-vaccine talking point don’t understand that this is a vaccine-preventable condition, and this is a great example why vaccines are important /1
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My son lasted three days in the “mask optional” school year and he tested positive for COVID-19 last night. He wore a KN95 mask.
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The “died suddenly” shockumentary is ridiculous disinformation. Let me count the ways…./1
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During the last 24 hrs the pile-ons and the ad hominem insults have been unbelievable & truly make me scared for the future of this country. Science is not an opinion folks…and harassing scientists about things that were proven false decades ago will not make the truths go away
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Shame on
@SpotifyUSA
for continuing to allow dangerous nonsense on their platform that has been proven to be false
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The varicella virus stays dormant in the nerves after an infection. *Any* stress to the immune system can cause a reawakening of the virus and a case of shingles. So to be clear: Shingles (& Ramsay Hunt) are caused by the varicella virus, not a vaccine /3
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Vaccination of kids against the chicken pox virus, and vaccination of immunocompromised people or people 50+ against shingles will prevent against shingles, and also Ramsay Hunt syndrome /4
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A) If the vaccine was supposed to “depopulate the world” as the doc claims, then it’s doing a bad job. Instead it saved millions of lives. COVID would have done a better job just running unchecked. /2
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Ramsay Hunt syndrome is a form of shingles, which is caused by the varicella virus that causes chickenpox, in people who have been infected, often decades later. In Ramsay Hunt syndrome, shingles occur in the ear and the nerves in the face are paralyzed /2
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B) the film claims ppl have started dropping dead since the vaccines in 2021. I used data from the CARES* registry from 2017-2021 to graph the extrapolated incidence of sudden cardiac arrest in the US. The only big increase happened in 2020 from COVID-19, before the vaccines /3
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C)film claims that morticians are seeing postmortem blood clots from the vaccine.
@thereal_truther
found that the clots in the doc that supposedly came from a postmortem vaccinated person were taken from a 2019 educational youtube video of a pulmonary embolectomy procedure ⬇️ /5
Hey
@DiedSuddenly_
&
@drcole12
can you explain why you used this youtube video from 2019 to "prove" the COVID vaccine is causing blood clots in 2022?
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Hi. Wear a mask. If you’re feeling sick don’t do the thing. Respiratory viruses are surging. Current flu and covid levels are represented in the maps attached:
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Please make sure you are getting your health information from a reputable source. Those who are up to date on the vaccines and get the bivalent booster shot are 14.9 times less likely to die from COVID-19 /13
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There have been almost 13 BILLION vaccine doses given to date. The vaccines have had the most rigorous safety surveillance of any vaccine program to date. They have been found to be exceptionally safe /8
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Wear a mask everyone. And get the bivalent booster next week. And…If you feel sick at all, don’t do the thing.
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*The CARES dataset (Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival) represents 40% of cardiac arrest data in the US and can be extrapolated to the whole US using weighted estimate methods. This data shows an increase happened due to COVID, before vaccines were even available /4
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Here
@Doctor_Eric_B
explains the difference between antemortem and postmortem blood clots and why none of this is “new” and the clots are not from vaccines ⬇️ /6
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Too bad my son got COVID just before Biden made the pandemic disappear! What horrible luck!
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This image of over 7 million deaths is more disturbing, Martin
"One of the most disturbing images of the Covid-19 pandemic was when a teacher .. forced a mask on a crying toddler ..
In some ways, the U.S. government .. treated all of us like toddlers, compelling us to endure draconian Covid measures" -
@HRaleighspeaks
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D) Dr Ryan Cole also claims cancer cells suddenly “wake up” bc of “toxic spike proteins” from the vaccines.
@dr_jon_l
explains that the “vaccines cause cancer” claims are not biologically plausible given all that we know about the natural history of cancer ⬇️⬇️ /7
#DiedSuddenlydocumentary
is really dumb. Here is part 1 where I address Ryan Cole's cancer claims:
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🧵Lots of throwing around of the word “endemic” today. Let’s look at the actual data.
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Despite the school recommendation, he won’t be returning on day 6 unless he is negative on a rapid antigen test. I don’t want to put another family through this because of us.
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I told the vice principal in early august that I thought masks were something easy and inexpensive that everyone can do to protect the school community. I reminded her that last year we had ZERO outbreaks of COVID
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I have a rare autoimmune condition which causes us to take extra precautions, and also my mother is immunocompromised due to medication she takes. My sons infection puts us both in danger.
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I have asked several times over the past 2.5 years to be included in the schools “COVID task force” and I have repeatedly told that they are “all set” because they only include MDs on the team.
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There have been some rare adverse events found to be associated with the vaccines, namely myocarditis with the mRNA vaccines and TTS with the J&J vaccine. But there has been a process in place for assessing these AEs and not a “cover up”/9
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These events, although very rare, resulted in FDA warnings in the labels, full clinical case investigations and risk/benefit analyses. Why would this strict process be followed just for certain adverse events while others are “covered up?”. It’s ridiculous and makes no sense/12
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Thank you Prince Harry and Megan for standing behind us scientists and medical professionals asking Spotify to institute a policy to moderate misinformation on their platform
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Thrombosis w/thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) after J&J vaccine is rare and has occurred in ~4 cases per 1M doses. It was immediately examined, and this vaccine was deprioritized for use as a result /10
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The burden of this pandemic is shifting to vulnerable populations who don’t have the luxury of not caring about COVID. And it’s really scary for them right now.
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Rare myocarditis was found in young males after dose 2 of mRNA vaccine in the following age groups: 12–15 years (70.7 cases per 1M doses of Pfizer), 16–17 years (105.9 per 1M doses of Pfizer), 18–24 years (52.4 & 56.3 per 1M doses of Pfizer & Moderna)/11
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🧵We (
@jessicamalaty
& I) tried to raise alarms about this “series” a few weeks ago. We saw Candace spreading vaccine misinformation on her large ig platform, & could not understand why Candace, who is neither a doctor nor a scientist, would be educating parents about vaccines/1
In two weeks I’m dropping a free video series (11 episodes) to go through the history of every single childhood vaccination on the schedule. It’s taken me almost two years to research.
I want parents to truly have informed consent.
Available exclusively on
@parler_app
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The school ultimately decided to go with the bare minimum requirements put forth by the CDC recently (masks optional, no testing, no quarantining, 5 days isolation w/days 6-10 return to school with a mask on)
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Alex, I’ll take “debunked 20 years ago for $1000”
FYI- autism develops in utero, well before a baby is born or receives vaccinations
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Thanks everyone for all the support. He is doing well so far. I hope he has no post COVID complications. We usually LOVE his school, but this was just an extremely unfortunate situation that could have been prevented IMO
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And for all the quote tweeters who think you’re clever: debating is not how science conversations are advanced. If RFK (or anyone) has additional data to add to the decades-old body of evidence on vaccines and autism, he should publish it… He doesn’t, so he won’t. End of story.
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My pronouns are she/her. I express them because I am a safe person for *everyone* and because it costs me NOTHING to be inclusive and kind.
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As an epidemiologist whose father died of lung cancer, I can’t believe this is being discussed on tv in 2023. Smoking is a risk factor for nearly every chronic disease & exacerbates severity of illness even in diseases where it’s not a primary risk factor
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🧵This thread about the twitter files is an example of false balance: trying to “both sides” COVID & the vaccines. It argues that the practice of misinformation moderation is simply “political bias”. Let’s walk through the examples:
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1. THREAD:
THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE
– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*
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I love how every news story lately is about how to “pivot COVID” and “return to normal” but the things we could ✨actually✨ do to prevent infections are apparently too much to ask because “people are tired” of COVID 😅
#makeitmakesense
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People need to stop. No one ever said that there was no immunity from infection, but ANY follow-up data on people who had Covid suffers from survivorship bias because these people had to survive COVID to be in the study. The over 1 million US dead (and their families) would agree
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This is not over, “endemic”, or “under control”. Yes we have vaccines, but we need to increase uptake. Yes we have treatment, but there is not universal access. Also few resources will likely be allocated to COVID moving forward.
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@doc_gero
No one pays me anything except to teach class and do research. It’s really easy to hide behind a Simpson’s character and harass female scientists for two days straight. At least I’m on here with my full chest with nothing to hide. You’re weak & pathetic and not a real dr I’m sure
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While we are still at the mercy of viral mutations to cause big surges (instead of, for example, seasonal flu where we know what to expect & when, we know when to vaccinate, etc.), there’s nothing “endemic” about COVID-19
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Over 90% of Americans currently live in a county with either high or substantial transmission
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“Woke” is simply empathy and respect for others. That should not bother you, unless you are an asshole.
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@healthbyjames
Epidemiologist here - this is a very skewed questionnaire as there is no 0 option
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A recent study estimated that up to 1 million people at a time may be unable to work due to long COVID
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Earlier this summer the CDC presented new data that nearly 1 in 5 COVID cases suffer from prolonged illness or “long COVID”
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There’s a ridiculous, embarrassing Newsweek article by a med student speaking for the entire medical/scientific community saying “we” were wrong about covid” listing all the usual bad takes, not factoring in viral mutation & how policies were changed in response to the virus
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For all the comments saying that I am pro-censorship: disallowing misinformation that has been researched, considered and proven to be false is not censorship. Censorship is the Republican Party banning books. So save this same energy for Ron DeSantis.
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Only 68% of the US population has has gotten the primary series of COVID-19 vaccine and, of these, only 51% have had any booster.
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When people call us science communicators “pharma shills” it makes me realize that some people have ZERO concept of altruism. It’s just projection pure and simple.
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@TheSkylineTrail
One person with a large following who likes to attack scientists commented and brought trolls. I definitely don’t need anything else to be anxious about right now
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@elonmusk
False information about COVID-19 and the vaccines actually has killed hundreds of thousands of people. Is it legal to spread dangerous misinformation on social media? Unfortunately yes. Does that make it ok? Absolutely not. People are dying as a result.
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As epidemiologists, we understand the need for vaccines & chose to debunk her misinformation about the rubella vaccine as one example. We posted a well-researched slide deck on Jan 29 dismantling her conspiratorial claims about the rubella vaccine & congenital rubella syndrome /2
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People who are angry that others will get student loans forgiven are the same people who won’t wear a mask to protect others in a pandemic. Change my mind.
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🧵It’s fascinating to see antivaxxers doing mental gymnastics to claim that excess mortality that started in march 2020 was due to the vaccines that were not widely available until spring, 2021.
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@tracedominguez
You don’t need a “story” to wear a mask. We are still very much in a pandemic ✅
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As public health professionals we are disturbed to see the degree of
misinformation that goes unchecked on social media platforms. Several large accounts like hers have repeatedly misrepresented data related to infectious diseases, mitigation efforts, & particularly vaccines /5
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@bethanyshondark
Bullying to get out of participating in public health is a great summary of the last 2.5 years 🙄
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Why did the CDC change the mask guidance? I review some of the most recent delta variant data
#CDC
#DeltaVariant
#COVID
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@TheEliKlein
Nothing confers lasting immunity against infection sorry. Maybe you’re just not an epidemiologist so should stay in your lane.
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Some people don’t like being confronted with facts and data, and it shows.
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🧵🪡A Cleveland clinic study is currently being widely cherry picked and misrepresented on social media, with people claiming that being up to date with bivalent COVID-19 vaccines actually makes you more susceptible to COVID-19 infection /1
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She responded to our debunk with vitriol & vengeance; posting our usernames in her Instagram stories, encouraging her 4 million followers to bully & harass us, which they did. /3
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Also for those asking me to debunk point by point these were all old classics that were debunked decades ago:
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10/ Here are the slides we presented to provide evidence that she isn’t the correct person to be leading discussions with parents regarding whether to vaccinate their children:
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Trivializing the value of life-saving vaccines is ableist and shows no empathy for communities who have experienced irreparable physical, emotional, and financial harm from infectious disease outbreaks /7
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What's most concerning is the blatant disregard for public health and a minimization of the morbidity impacts from vaccine preventable illnesses /6
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man with every resource on earth refuses to consult any of them before making uninformed statement
@TheChiefNerd
We cannot ascribe everything to the vaccine, but, by the same token, we cannot ascribe nothing.
Myocarditis is a known side-effect. The only question is whether it is rare or common.
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Our goal is to help restore that trust by being transparent about data, and to help empower people with reliable information. MISINFORMATION IS DEADLY. And misinformation during a public health emergency is cruel and requires accountability /9
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She notes in a video on her page that she doesn’t ever save her vaccine Instagram stories as highlights for fear of Instagram giving her community guideline violations and that she is moving her new vaccine series to Parler “because her husband is the CEO”/4
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We’re sorry Tom. We didn’t appreciate you. Come back.
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Accusing the CDC of hiding information and making inflammatory statements like "the disappearance of information" or "moving the goal post" or “making things crazier than they were" are all attempts to further erode public trust in science /8
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Why are people still saying the COVID-19 vaccines are causing harm? There have been 5.4 BILLION doses given to date. Maybe because I’m an epidemiologist, I look at things on a population level but BY NOW WE WOULD HAVE NOTICED if something was going on.
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Bad Example 1 - This is a gaslighting effort that children are not at risk for severe COVID and shouldn’t be vaccinated. Not true. Older adults and their care takers also have children in their lives. “natural infection” does NOT confer lasting immunity either. All misinfo. /3
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Tweets spreading disinformation about a global health emergency that has killed over 6M people should be flagged and removed. This is not a freedom of speech issue. This is a private company & not the government. You can’t yell fire in a movie theatre. Same thing. /12
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One of the conference participants today told me after my talk that his daughter started an MPH program in epidemiology because of my videos on social media 😭😭 I absolutely love to think of my work inspiring other women to pursue careers in public health and STEM 🥰 🙏🏼
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it was discovered that vaccinated people transmitted SARS-COV-2 in July 2021 w/the delta variant. Specifically the 4th of July weekend outbreak in Provincetown MA. People are revising history about a comment Walensky made months earlier, in March 2021. Science & data ✨evolves✨
Our
@CDCDirector
just making things up
Claims it was correct when she said "vaccinated people do not carry the virus"
(was incorrect)
Then says "All the data at that time suggested people who were vaccinated even if sick couldn't transmit"
(No all the data didn't suggest this)
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The examples used in that thread ARE misleading and were rightly flagged by twitter. This journalist is not a scientist. The conclusions in these tweets may appear correct to a layperson, but are in fact either very misleading or just wrong /2
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You’re all awesome - just wanted to let you know. The one silver lining of this pandemic mess is meeting awesome like minded science folks. It’s like we are all in a big fellowship together 👯♀️
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@JHowardBrainMD
It’s so interesting that every vaccine skeptic knows several people who vaccine related problems but doctors that see hundreds of patients a week somehow haven’t seen those people in the clinic
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Yep
@PublicHealth
told me they could not fit the panel I proposed on the effects of misinformation on health equity into the schedule, but they are including Leana Wen to speak on misinformation? This is someone who BLOCKED ME for calling our *HER* disinformation!
#MAKEITMAKESENSE
Just checked my email to find an announcement for
@PublicHealth
’s annual convention in November .
Their convention focus this year is Equity, but Dr. Leana Wen is leading a session called “Backlash”.
Seriously considering canceling my membership.
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Here is a paper that I wrote with
@jessicamalaty
that came out *TODAY* explaining ALL the evidence supporting vaccination in young children /4
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Got my bivalent booster at 2:30pm. So far just have a sore arm. I got whatever was available to me & it happened to be Moderna.
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