Sitemap - 2022 - Vinay Prasad's Observations and Thoughts
Testing travelers from China is a useless intervention
Avoiding respiratory viruses is a delusion with harmful consequences
Press release: People who skipped COVID19 vaccine are at higher risk of losing fingers and teeth
Latest MMWR analysis of bivalent booster is irredeemably flawed
Long COVID kills? That's still unproven
Do unvaccinated people need to be counseled to drive slower?
Why No one Wants to Match into Infectious Diseases
Long COVID in Children and Young Adults
Why is news coverage of Elon Musk's Twitter always negative?
STAT's ID experts are not good thinkers
Bob Califf's tweets as commissioner of the US FDA are problematic
Science is still in its infancy: a few simple randomized trials could save us
We need to strip CDC and Public Health of Powers
Biden's Bivalent Booster Blunder
Democrats' COVID policy decisions will hurt them
We are soon going to treat COVID19 the way we treated the flu in 2007, as part of life
The opposite of crazy isn't institutionalism, it's reason and evidence
2022 is not the year to sniff Yankee Candles
Students get NYU Prof cancelled after getting bad grades
Joe Rogan/ Mark Zuckerberg: The Interview
I am going to mask because I want to get fewer colds & other flawed ideas
Bizzare tweets reveal anxious/ magical thinking minds
Two divorced parents can't decide on kids vaccination
Normalizing vaccine induced myocarditis is not good medicine nor public health
The Bangladesh Mask Trial is re-analyzed and it falls apart
When scientists' anxiety disorder interferes with other people's lives
A good doctor and researcher makes a factual statement, at his peril
The White House Needs New COVID Advisors
Additional thoughts on legitimizing irrational anxiety
Diary from a Multiple Myeloma Conference
In Medicine: You Have to Prove Your Intervention Helps
How many kids have to mask to prevent a case of Monkeypox
Cops called on a 4 year old for the crime of going unmasked
A new mask study is poised to affect Boston area children
What does the Thailand Myocarditis Study Teach Us?
Zealotry and fundamentalism are a problem
Another bad CDC study on Long COVID in Kids
A few thoughts on getting promoted
Does science matter? White House COVID Czar pushes flawed study
ID Epidemiologist sets the record straight
A Medical Student's Thoughts During COVID-19: Crazy Policies
Djokovic not playing in the US open shows how public health failed
Methods Matter: An Analysis of NEJM's Singapore Study Claiming Benefits of Vaccines in Kids 5-11
Kids vaccine is low risk either way
Who is to blame if your child gets COVID19?
Cursing people when you get COVID is poor form
Zoom learning is terrible; For medicine, it's even worse
A second booster for people <50
How many of our current problems are due to COVID-19 policy vs. the virus itself vs. unrelated
Important revelations with Paul Offit
The future of endemic Covid-19
Fourth of July and Political Opponents
A doctor apologizes for not wearing a mask when it was not required
Time to break all home Covid tests
Guest post: A virologist reflects on COVID 19
Criticizing the Young Oncology Critics
Boycotting is virtue signalling for losers
If someone you live with gets sick, what should you do?
Lies and Exaggerations re: Kids Vax are Bad Public Health
Kids vaccine for under 5 years old
Fauci has COVID. Kids vax gets vote. & More
Will Healthcare Workers Mask Forever?
Biden drops pre-departure testing, NYC drops toddler masking, and more...
Interview with Lilia Cortina, Ph.D.
White House's Jha Spreads Misinformation about COVID & Kids
Pro-Masking Doctors Are Often Hypocrites
The Best Argument Public Health Should be Stripped of Power is The CDC Ran Zero Cluster RCTs
Memorial Day Travel: Experts vs. Americans
No, Seatbelts are not like a Covid19 booster shot in kids 5 to 11
I won't wear an n95 alone in my office
Politicians should not manage drug and vaccine regulation
What Netflix can teach Universities
Mental health in kids and COVID 19
Regulatory scientists are quiet about EUA, kids vax, Paxlovid and boosters
The real misinformation was COVIDZero
Public health has fragmented trust
President Obama wants Big Tech to stop misinformation
We are doomed: attacks on Leana Wen and Monica Gandhi
Judge strikes down TSA mask mandate
Is it Better to get COVID 4 times than 5?
Lessons from the Gridiron dinner
NYC's Toddlers Only Mask Mandate is Bad Policy
As ZeroCovid proponents get Covid, when will we reach herd sanity?
CDC's method underestimates Vaccine Induced Myocarditis
The Hypocrisy of Medical Experts
A new paper on vaccination in kids...
A New Preprint Proves 4th doses Save Lives!
The White House is now your doctor!
An unethical proposal from an.... ethicist?
Cases might rise soon. "We better close schools/ mask up, " says worst policy makers ever
You get a yearly flu shot, so a 4th dose, heck even a yearly covid shot, is no big deal
How dare an economics professor say something.... correct and hard to argue with
Kyrie Irving and decline in trust of public health
Michigan State's Policy: Masks in Class Not in Stadiums
OncoAlert's Virtue Signaling Hurts Cancer Patients
Colleges and Universities Must Join Push for Normal
Public health needs restrictions
A new health affairs paper "proves" mask mandates slow covid-19
Long term cardiovascular complications of COVID
What happens when cases go up?
Mask studies reach a new scientific low point
A new paper claims kids masking associated with more daycare: Truth or Fiction?
Weathervanes: harmful COVID19 pundits
President Biden, we know you can’t “end the pandemic” medically; we want you to end it socially.
Tracy Beth Hoeg, MD PhD: The Interview
We could have had less lockdowns, but we could not have had more
Omicron struck down vaccine mandates; Not the Supreme Court
CDC director almost admits their policy has failed
Vaccine effectiveness (against infection not severe disease) goes down the drain
Will Science do better post COVID19?
Does COVID19 cause diabetes in kids?
Dishonesty about masking kids results in insanity
Silly things people say about covid 19