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Arthur Caplan

@ArthurCaplan

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Professor, medical ethics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

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@ArthurCaplan
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2 years
supreme court won't be putting up with that for long
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4 years
Mom mom 96 died tonite In her nursing home in framingham from covid19. Over half the deaths in Massachusetts are in nursing homes
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Philadelphia prematurely ended its quarantine from the Spanish Flu. Some 200K people lined the streets. Within 72 hours, Philadelphia's 31 hospitals filled & the city ended up with 4500 people dying from the flu or its complications within a matter of days. Learn from history
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when people pull rank on covid views on me. my mom died of covid, my wife is a long hauler, I go in for palliative care consults nor do I need to be told to go to see an icu when I have worked 50 years in health care settings.Disagree fine but try not to pull B.S. rank in debate
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4 years
Is any media outlet going to report on quarantine or infections among White House staff, security, cooks, butlers, servers, caterers, drivers. What is happening with those who are not GOP leaders
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3 years
So this week I did an interview with a woman who had breast, lip and butt implants and a lot of lipstick, makeup, earrings and tattoos. She is antivaxx because she doesn't want to put unnatural things into her body. Discuss.
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Attention bigots. Just finished first round of nyu med school admissions interviews. huge percentage of highly qualified non white men. Your doc will likely be female or person of color. If u value your life reexamine your prejudices
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I just want to say thank you for the thousands and thousands of condolences you are sending in response to my mom's passing from Covid19. They are a comfort to me and my family. I am resolved to keep trying to obtain better care and protection for our grandparents and parents.
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3 years
Pfizer approval means less hesitancy, more employer mandates, fewer legal challenges to mandates, more overseas use, and some off label booster prescribing. Your welcome!
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2 years
Call to my sister in law. Friends two aunts living in Arkansas. 68 and 70 something. Unvaccinated. got covid last week. Both dead today. Odd policy to permit elderly to die in the name of choice These 2 had no idea about vaccination beyond Fox News.
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3 years
Texas hospital suspends nearly 200 workers for refusing to get COVID-19 vaccine via @cbsmoneywatch Hang tough #methodist
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2 years
After careful & thorough consideration that included the perspectives of many stakeholders, both Dr. David Sabatini and NYU Grossman School of Medicine have reached the conclusion that it will not be possible for him to become a member of our faculty. Per Dean. (thank goodness)
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7 years
@AC360 i am a new yorker. here is how we talk. Lord you are a damn moron.
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2 years
Accepting the toll of the flu has been one of the great failures of public health. To use it as a measure for giving up on covid is simply inexcusable
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James T. Todd
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@ArthurCaplan @ConversationEDU I suppose you could say it’s “like” the flu. Then again, when I was 24, I spent four days in the hospital with the flu, three with temps above 105. I lost about 20 pounds and it took a year to fully recover. So, “like the flu” doesn’t comfort me.
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@ArthurCaplan
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3 years
Well anarchy or not I got my first shot this pm
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2 years
No vaccine, no French Open for Djokovic, says French Sports ministry | Sports News,The Indian Express. Vaccinate. Get more freedom as I have said for a year
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4 years
New York Times: Internal CDC documents warn full reopening of schools is 'highest risk' for coronavirus spread
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6 years
Fox spreading disease fears about immigrants is pure racist bullshit. If you are Irish, Jewish, Italian,Polish, Portuguese, Czech, Chinese, Hungarian, or Japanese American it was once said about your grandparents or greatgrand parents. Fox is reprehensible.
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4 years
Debunking the False Claim That COVID Death Counts Are Inflated - Scientific American
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3 years
Florida children’s hospitals see pediatric COVID cases soar amid delta variant surge antivaxxers. forget liberty blather. protecting children is your moral duty and priority. get vaxxed.
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4 years
Experts call for independent commission separate from FDA to review Covid-19 vaccines. Including me
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PSU football doctor: 30-35 percent of COVID-19-positive Big Ten athletes had myocarditis
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3 years
People Who Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine Should Be Held Financially Liable, Medical Ethicist Argues via @hereandnow @ArthurCaplan #unvaccinated #covid #vaccination
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2 years
woman with no scientific standing goes after giant of science
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Rex Chapman🏇🏼
2 years
This should disqualify Kari Lake from public office…
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3 years
People vaccinated. #Tucker Carlson #Marjorie Taylor Greene #rondesantis #MattGaetz Come and deny it if I am lying. Please retweet
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@ArthurCaplan
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9 months
The people of Puerto Rico beg to differ
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Ron Filipkowski
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Trump says what happened in Maui never would’ve happened if he was president, and Biden and the Gov of Hawaii won’t help and just want to blame global warming.
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2 years
keep getting asked should #Biden go to #WHCD ? Absolutely not. it is not an important event.His VP is already sick. He is high risk. #Fauci won't go. there is an alternative--zoom In fact, do the whole damn event by zoom. What sort of message is being sent by going?
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3 years
My pooch. Surveying her wintry domain
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3 years
time to admit moderna & Pfizer are 3 shot vaccines. immunity fades too fast after 2.why don't we set up programs for all to get 3rd shot and stop babbling about boosters? Fauci said 'the door is open to administering booster shots in the U.S. sooner than eight month' a
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3 years
Sadly the pause of J&J will likely create a tsunami of vaccine hesitancy Need to manage this risk right now. Messaging about pause needs clarity. Spillover fear to all vaccines risky. Huge challenge in face of ongoing covid plague
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2 years
Not a good day or american justice (sic)
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Molly Jong-Fast
2 years
Wait, wut?
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@PeterHotez Scotland. Women vaccinated years ago at 12 and 13. Zero. That is zero cases.
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3 years
kids and covid
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu promised another round of free at-home rapid Covid tests for residents after they snapped up the first 800,000 within a day — a sign of demand for a type of test that’s relatively rare in the U.S. Just gotta expand accessible testing asap!!
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2 years
Still waiting for my promised test kits--you?
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3 years
do we really need any more messaging on vaccination than this?
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center gives trans patient medical records to Tennessee Attorney General. Patient privacy exterminated in TN. Where is uproar from docs nurses hospitals
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4 years
Trump’s Coronavirus Vaccine Can’t Be Trusted
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Israel finds COVID-19 vaccine booster significantly lowers infection risk
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Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins spelled out the dire COVID-19 situation, saying that there are zero ICU beds left for children. # via @HuffPostPol
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Maui is most covid sensible place I have ever been. Masks and vaccines cards everywhere. Vaxx or quarantine ten days to enter. Amazing
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“One has a right not to wear a mask" - GOP's Larry Elder, who will become governor of California if Gavin Newsom is recalled. Well yes if one stays in quarantine and does not endanger others
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Communication reset proposal--every doctor and biological scientist must do a free talk this year on Covid at a church, synagogue, mosque, high school, Rotary, Kiwanis, 4-H, American Legion, VFW, Jr League, school board, etc etc. Time to go local. #covidlocal
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Preliminary indications from Israel, which used the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine almost exclusively, are that people who have been vaccinated within 6 months or have gotten a booster shot are protected against the COVID-19 Omicron variant. (Jerusalem Post)
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3 years
#warpspeed ???? why is FDA advisory committee not meeting until dec 10 to consider #pfizer data supporting an #EUA . why don't they meet sooner? how about a public meeting on #thanksgiving Day? Too many dying to wait til next month.
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"With a new wave of COVID upon us, we face this grim truth: You can’t surge a circuit that’s been burned out. For frontline providers, there’s simply no new fuse that can fix the fact that we’re fried," @Craig_A_Spencer writes:
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3 years
We need creative thinking to rollout existing vaccine supply. What we have so far is 70% of the supply in storage while we all took vacations midst a plague and states have no idea what they are doing to move vaccines quickly. Vaccines are useless in warehouses.
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3 years
a joke. don't give me crap. it is funny. An incompetent lawyer, an insurrectionist and a criminal walk into a bar. Bartender says, "What can I get you, Mr. Giuliani?"
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3 years
are we really going to have to disprove every bullcrap excuse for not vaccinated by athletes, firefighters and nurses? NFLQB Aaron Rogers testing positive for COVID after attempting to pass off homeopathic treatments to “raise his antibody levels” as equivalent of vaccination
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Arthur Caplan
2 years
when is a parent making an unethical choice --here is an example
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David Corn
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So this guy would rather have his 9-year-old daughter be by herself in a medical care facility than get vaccinated so he can visit her? Yeah, freedom.
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Scum forced to rise to surface
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Rex Chapman🏇🏼
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The mental gymnastics he’s going through here in real time are incredible…
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As I and many others have warned you can't restore the economy in the midst of a raging #plague
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In response I want to say that in my entire life u have rarely uttered a public phrase that was true, not bigoted or simply bonkers
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The Intellectualist
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"I wanna say this while I'm on the record that in my entire life ... I have never uttered a phrase that was either racist or antisemetic." — Robert F Kennedy Jr. testifying before the House Judiciary Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee
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3 years
got a mutation that may increase transmission. we can't ship much vaccine as it is. use what we have for first doses and make sure we push for second dose availability as best we can! feds bungling 2 dose supply. need a quick fall back as plague explodes
@DrEricDing
Eric Feigl-Ding
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4) this 1-dose is good question. @ScottGottliebMD thinks that if we have 40 million doses, we shouldn’t withhold half, but that we should just roll out 35 mil for everyone now. @ArthurCaplan also agrees. We should 1-dose vaccinate as many as possible.
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10 months
Note it is an mRNA vaccine. What say u antivaxxers Treat Cancer or ….
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NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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NYU Langone Health researchers have found an mRNA vaccine to be effective in treating cancer.
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2 years
given the access I have to biopharma activities, if I did what congress does I would be in jail and rightly so. the COI is blatant, the foot dragging is inexcusable.
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why we r lost. report from south jersey obgyn resident. 90% of pregnant women not vaxxed. say was too risky. all have covid. all willing to take risky meds to fight covid for themselves and baby. Swamping facility
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3 years
I know people may not want2 hear this but we need to be more forgiving of idiotic behavior in jr high and high school.Your brain is not fully wired, peer pressure drives your behavior, you have little confidence and often little worldly exposure. Be aware of the errors of youth.
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@bachyns @HealthTypes I do. I had polio at age 6 Was paralyzed for 9 months. Rehab 4 years. I ❤️vaccines and the good they do.
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Utter misreporting of death of #ColinPowell He did not die of covid despite vaccination.He died of cancer with a weak immune system that likely responded poorly 2 vaxx. Protection for cancer patients is for everyone else to be vaccinated! MSM/social media did plenty of harm today
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White House security official is gravely ill with COVID-19: Bloomberg | Reuters
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I will try to get ahead of this tragic story of the #submersible Vaccines had nothing to do with their deaths
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4 years
Facial Masking for Covid-19 — Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine | NEJM. Benefits of masks u don’t get as sick!
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Arthur Caplan
9 months
agree completely. if that happens that is my final block
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Alastair McAlpine, MD
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The ONLY thing that makes this hellsite tolerable is the ability to block. The minute that feature goes, so do I.
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5 years
Eliminating religious exemptions to vaccines just passed by state ny health assembly committee. Thank u for protecting New Yorkers
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2 years
False Claims of U.S. Bioweapons in Ukraine Shared by Russians, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald
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Arthur Caplan
4 years
Presidential medicine is not the same as your care or mine. His docs, if they see escalating symptoms in a high risk presidential pt are gonna gamble on novel interventions that they can readily access due to who pt is
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Arthur Caplan
4 years
Ok. Time for me to let u sleep peacefully. Biden wins electoral college. Plus 320. U heard it here. Good night.
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4 years
Tnx for birthday wishes. I was supposed to be in Hawaii but being alive in Connecticut is pretty nice
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Arthur Caplan
3 years
Six flights a damn day from England. COVID Mutation strain of unknown virulence but rapid spreader. Many nations shutting down all travel from uk. What is usa doing??? Nada Where is god damn trump. Can governors act. Cmon America. Vaccine isn’t here yet to save us. Gotta act
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Arthur Caplan
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that is true and banning DDT also got rid of dental cavities. And stopped an alien invasion
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