Anthropologist, author, father, grandfather, Emory professor, MD/PhD, Brooklyn Jew, Eagle Scout
Atlanta, GA
Joined August 2010
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Mel Konner retweeted
Hello 🇺🇸
You just got over a wave of the most transmissible #SARSCoV2 variant the world has seen, with the highest level of hospitalizations in the pandemic.
Now you are facing a variant w/ 30% more transmissibility, w/o mitigation measures, low vaxx coverage, and gutting funding
Mel Konner retweeted
An inhaled, broad neutralizing antibody effective vs all variants to date cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092… @CellCellPress @justsaysinmice
Mel Konner retweeted
"Who today speaks of the Armenians?" Hitler (1939). Even if he didn't say it, he knew it. Countless murdered. Twenty years later: silence. If Turkey could get away with it , why not Germany? Bravo @POTUS for this long overdue action
#ArmenianGenocide
nytimes.com/2021/04/24/us/po…
Mel Konner retweeted
What doesn't track here is that although we may not have enough info to make a narrow restriction for certain groups, we *do* have enough to know a *broad* restriction *doesn't* make sense, i.e. the benefits of the vaccine clearly outweigh the risks for the population as a whole.
Mel Konner retweeted
How did I accept the vaccine without knowing ALL the long-term risks?
Well, to be honest, it did require a change in character
Because when my house was burning I made sure to get an estimate on the water damage before I called the fire department
Mel Konner retweeted
That we only vaccinated 292,552 Americans today, having been able to hit 800,000 Thursday (7 Jan), speaks to the lack of any 24/7 plan or ability to execute.
Emergencies don't take off weekends.
Mel Konner retweeted
Worst day of the US pandemic with respect to both the loss of Americans lives, more than four thousand of them (4,033),
and more than 266,000 new confirmed infections.
@COVID19Tracking
Mel Konner retweeted
“My wish is that this will provide a positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science, and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through the research that they are performing.”
- 2020 Chemistry Laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier.
Mel Konner retweeted
Trying to think of all the ways you can hurt people in a pandemic
1. Reopen prematurely
2. Demand schools reopen w/ extremely high rates of spread
3. Promote drugs with no efficacy and potential harm
4. Do nothing to prevent the spread
5. Give misinformation daily
6. Anti-science
Mel Konner retweeted
I couldn't resist: when💩hits the fan.
Here's the editorial
acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/…
Mel Konner retweeted
Wowza. Johns Hopkins University (with it's own world-class hospital) reverses course and will be going fully remote in the Fall. Says safe re-opening is impossible at least through the end of 2020. | @lindsayaellis c @dynarski chronicle.com/article/johns-…
Mel Konner retweeted
We're looking at the proverbial "the sky is the limit"
We were on a course of improvement; we know what can be done to achieve suppression of spread.
Lack of bold action weeks ago, no less now, just acquiesces to exponential runaway
Mel Konner retweeted
plans to resume classes at colleges and universities are proposals for human subjects experiments. shouldn't they have to go through an irb?
Mel Konner retweeted
Just read someone say B.F. Skinner is the Darwin of psychology... No, Darwin is the Darwin of psychology
Mel Konner retweeted
The focus on ~100,000 deaths of Americans misses 4 key points:
1. The real number is ~130,000, using excess mortality data
2. Most were preventable
3. Each life lost = ~11 years of life lost 👇
4. Many survivors are walking wounded vox.com/2020/5/8/21251899/co… @voxdotcom @LoisParshley
