Dirk Becker

@dirkbecker.bsky.social

Programmierer, meist für und mit InDesign, Illustrator früher Hamburger Hoheluft, jetzt Allgäuer Landluft Lese viel, poste wenig zu Politik, Medizin, Klima

Bin mir, weniger als Politiker, denn als Historiker wirklich nicht sicher, ob allen gerade klar ist, was dieser Tage politisch ins Rutschen gerät, was die CDU gerade aufzugeben bereit ist. Mir bereitet das sehr große Sorgen.

🧵An example of the shenanigans and junk science accepted in medical journals. In September 2023, JAMA Pediatrics published a ludicrously bad paper (quasi-retracted after much effort) claiming long COVID is "strikingly rare" in kids, supposedly vs the WHO definition. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

RETRACTED: Post–COVID-19 Condition in Children

This cohort study assesses the parent-reported incidence and resolution of post–COVID-19 symptoms among children aged 8 to 13 years.

jamanetwork.com

Europe has a lot to do to make sure we will handle the next pandemic well. With the situation in the US, we have to rely on ourselves: to grasp the first signals of something spreading in time, react quickly to them, have diagnostics ready (and reagents), develop drugs and vaccines….it won’t be easy