Scott J Balsitis
@DrScottBalsitis
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Dad, husband, viral immunologist. All tweets are my own.
Moss Beach, CA
Joined July 2021
As we head into winter, it's a good time to review what the data shows us about mask efficacy against respiratory viruses. (Long 🧵👇) Immunity and therapeutics give effective protection. Masks do not. Let's rely on what works.
We now have many well-controlled studies showing masks have negligible to zero efficacy in real-world use. Two extensively careful contact tracing studies in Spain showed no benefit.
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RT @lindayaX: COMMUNITY NOTES FTW!!! 🔥 Fact-checking and moderation doesn't belong in the hands of a few select gatekeepers who can easily…
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RT @WhelanHealth: Children can't visit their dying parents in the hospital at Duke because the Covid extremists are back in control
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Childhood over screens. We flourish when we're actually present with one another.
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RT @TheFP: “A lot of very thoughtful people who once believed reason and science could explain everything—why we’re here, what comes after…
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RT @jonjakubowski: Jesus urges us to fix ourselves first, before we criticize anyone else. Social media trains us to do the opposite. It en…
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RT @MartinKulldorff: Harvard President Alan Garber on the next NIH Director @DrJBhattacharya: "“I know Jay as a serious and dedicated rese…
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RT @nfergus: Quite extraordinary to see the disgraceful behavior of the anti-Israel mob in the chamber of the Oxford Union. One can only ad…
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RT @AdamMGrant: What leads us to ignore experts isn't their knowledge. It's their arrogance. Evidence: Scientists are more credible when t…
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RT @MarshaBlackburn: Led by X, the new changes made to the Kids Online Safety Act strengthen the bill while safeguarding free speech online…
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RT @MAbsoud: Academics should call out marquee journals when politics is dressed up as science... Lots of work to regain societal trust
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Very encouraging. You can have an institution of higher learning, or you can have censorship. Can't have both. Thanks @DrJBhattacharya.
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RT @JonHaidt: Why do we have legal minimum ages? To protect kids from at least 4 harms: graphic sex, graphic violence, addiction, & health/…
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RT @bariweiss: During the pandemic, Biden's NIH director called for a 'takedown' of Jay Bhattacharya's ideas. Now the Stanford scientist is…
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RT @RubensteinAdam: The Trump pardons are going to be wild. And this will be used to justify them.
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RT @sdbaral: Viruses have been around forever and will be around forever. They are part of our ecosystem. That said, if we can avoid un…
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RT @DrJMarine: Excellent point made here. The choice was never between “lockdown” and “let it rip.” The choice was between public health th…
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RT @sdbaral: It has been fascinating to see virologists, psychiatrists, journalists, and beyond claim that there was an archetype of a COVI…
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