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Aaron E. Carroll

@aaronecarroll

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President/CEO of @academyhealth HSR-Researcher/Author/Pediatrician. I make videos/podcasts @HCTriage & write for @NYTOpinion . Tweets represent me and me alone

Indianapolis, IN
Joined March 2009
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
I’ve tried very hard to give the CDC the benefit of the doubt. But I’m increasingly frustrated that they do not comprehend how hard it is for organizations who are really trying to do the right thing in the real world to keep up with their guidance. And I’m a huge fan. Really.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
How do you explain to people that if their kid is just over 5 year old, they need a booster, but if they are just under 5 years old, they should get… nothing?
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
It can’t be said enough. We really need alternative guidance for mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic vaccinated and boostered people testing positive for Covid. Mandatory 10 day isolation is going to make things really difficult for essential services (and hard to enforce).
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Two years ago today, I wrote this email to one of my editors @nytimes . I think it was the first time ever I declined to write a column.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
Make antigen tests available and ridiculously affordable. Right now. You’re the US federal government. We have been saying this for many, many months. No more excuses. Do whatever it takes to make this happen.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Why is there any cost sharing at all for insulin? Serious question. We all know the rationale for deductibles and co-pays, but how does that square for a life-saving medication that is needed forever?
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Just stop right now and go read this, by Dr. Tracey Wilkinson. Seriously. Go do it. Dr. Caitlin Bernard Was Meant to Write This With Me Before She Was Attacked for Doing Her Job
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
It should go without saying, but it evidently can’t be said enough: good science communication matters. We are failing over and over and over again.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
Is this the worst chart ever, or the absolute worst chart ever? I cannot believe this is real.
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DCCC
3 years
Thanks, @JoeBiden .
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Can someone explain to me how news organizations are ok with reporters they employ holding back very newsworthy reporting for months or years so those reporters can put it in a book instead? Seriously asking. I don't understand.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
I've tried to stay quiet. I know Dr. Bernard. She's phenomenal. She cares so much for her patients. So many people should be ashamed of themselves for how they have vilified and attacked her without knowing the full story. I fear some are trying to cause her harm. It's shameful.
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Dr Caitlin Bernard
2 years
My heart breaks for all survivors of sexual assault and abuse. I am so sad that our country is failing them when they need us most. Doctors must be able to give people the medical care they need, when and where they need it.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
Protip: "Elective" care is not the same as "optional" care. Much of it is absolutely needed.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Someone just called my wife’s cell and then our house phone to complain about my last column and call me a “sack of sh!t”. Please don’t do that. I’m right here if you need to complain.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Who wants to tell her?
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Acyn
2 years
Greene: I have never seen the CDC coming out and saying you’ve got to get your second Polio shot, you gotta get your third..
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
"Schools are open and kids are safe—especially now that most can be vaccinated. We should celebrate that and stop holding these essential institutions to a standard that no other is even close to achieving." That's me @TheAtlantic
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
What a pleasant surprise! Never, ever, ever gets old.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
Irony died
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Jason S. Campbell
3 years
Dennis Prager: "During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users...had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would've been inconceivable"
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
I’ve seen enough. It’s finally infrastructure week.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Seriously, can we all just agree that the thoughts and prayers aren’t enough?
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
I’m all out of participation trophies. It’s time to get this right. What the administration, and the CDC, are doing is necessary yet not sufficient. Do better. Do more. The CDC Has New Covid Guidelines. This Is What It Got Wrong. via @NYTOpinion
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
I can’t decide whether to put this on a t-shirt or coffee mug.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
We don’t recommend you take a test. They’re hard to find, and they can be expensive. Oh, and the result can only make your life harder, not easier. But maybe take one if it’s possible?
@kaitlancollins
Kaitlan Collins
3 years
The CDC has updated its isolation guidance. They still don't recommend a rapid test after 5 days, but say if you take one and it's positive, isolated people should continue isolating for 5 more days. Those who leave isolation are urged not to fly on planes or eat in restaurants.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
There can’t be a more perfect creature
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
At this late date, why isn’t the United States using every option available to end the pandemic? Yes, Americans Should Get Free Tests
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
The only reason to put up her picture on national news is to try and put a target on her. I can't even. She was caring for a child who was raped.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
This isn't real. Is it?
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Texas GOP
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If you can wait in line for a covid test, you can wait in line to vote.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Well done.
@POTUS
President Biden
2 years
We’re launching the “Test to Treat” initiative, so people can get tested at a pharmacy and if they’re positive, receive antiviral pills on the spot at no cost.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
The disdain with which professional institutions and people on the coasts often hold for those in the Midwest is often staggering.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
I’m hoping there’s enough oxygen left in the room from Covid to point out that our health care system is still broken in many ways. Cost-sharing is one of them.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
This is excellent. The Omicron variant warrants attention. But it’s not time to panic, an infectious-disease expert tells @KatherineJWu :
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
12 gallons of milk a week?!?!?!
@brikeilarcnn
Brianna Keilar
3 years
"A gallon of milk was $1.99. Now it's $2.79. When you buy 12 gallons a week times four weeks, that's a lot of money." @EvanMcS goes grocery shopping with the Stotlers and shows us how badly inflation is hitting the middle class.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
I’m so deep into Peter Jackson’s Get Back, and I just can’t believe how talented the Beatles were. I mean… it’s just unbelievable.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
BITWMA
@CarlyRM
Carly Medosch, MBA
3 years
Walmart increased the price of the BINAXNow COVID tests from $14 to $19.88
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
There is no bottom
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Aaron E. Carroll
1 year
I haven't written a column in a while, because I've been noodling over a big question: Why are debates over reforming our health care system so unproductive? I think we've been focusing on the wrong things. Please read this guess essay in @nytopinion
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
I didn’t think it could get worse, but here we are
@kaitlancollins
Kaitlan Collins
3 years
The CDC has updated its isolation guidance. They still don't recommend a rapid test after 5 days, but say if you take one and it's positive, isolated people should continue isolating for 5 more days. Those who leave isolation are urged not to fly on planes or eat in restaurants.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
I don't normally post my Wordle, but this one needed to be seen... Wordle 433 2/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Our friends’ dog was found today after being missing for 11 nights, and it might be due to Facebook, and I’m forced to rethink my (occasional) belief that social media does no good. Dogs are amazing. We don’t deserve them.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
I’ve been at work since Sunday on Thanksgiving meal. I didn’t want to flood the zone too early, though. Started by making stock to be used all week…
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
Am I wrong here? I feel like I’m losing my mind, but I’m also quite exhausted.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
Current status
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
This is honestly hard to watch.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Once more, with feeling
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
It should go without saying, but it evidently can’t be said enough: good science communication matters. We are failing over and over and over again.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
This may be my favorite comment since someone called me “Marxist Welby, MD”
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
This. This. A thousand times, this.
@JoyceWhiteVance
Joyce Alene
2 years
If the generals were going to tell this story to the press at some point, which they obviously did since it's in this book, it would've been nice to have told it at impeachment, when the country could have been sparred the prospect of Trump running, and winning, again.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Part dog. Mostly angel.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
I’d love to know what changed between last week and this… This still won’t solve the problem that tests are (1) hard to find and (2) too expensive for many. Do more. Do better.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Whelp. I can’t get my labs drawn because “the order expired”. I get them drawn every three months FOREVER, by the way, so why must they “expire”? It’s a CBC and LFTs. Not that hard. Because I can’t get labs, I can’t get my meds refilled. So I will run out of meds.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
Spent the day on the bourbon trail with people I love and it was 💯
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
I can’t remember what a slow news day feels like
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Science communication is hard. And oh-so-important.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
This is the overwhelming sentiment of so many colleagues and Hoosiers. There are countless ways this is terrible for health and for Indiana. “Devastated” may be underselling it, though.
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Dr Caitlin Bernard
2 years
Indiana banned abortion in our state. I am devastated for the state I call home and for the countless people who will be harmed by this. How many girls and women will be hurt before they realize this must be reversed? I will continue to fight for them with every fiber of my being
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
This has been bothering me for some time, but it came to a head recently. Walling off those you’re trying to help is a terrible tactic.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
This is unfathomable
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Whelp, we now have two high school graduates. So proud!
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
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@nytimes
The New York Times
3 years
President Biden promised 500 million free coronavirus tests, but help is weeks away — if not longer. The administration hasn't yet signed a contract to buy the tests nor has it said how quickly they'll be shipped once they begin to be available next month.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Tracey is a rock star, and has been fighting for reproductive rights for adolescents and young adults for a long time, and I am just so grateful to get to work with SO MANY great faculty like her.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Absolute, unmitigated joy
@AlisonKriel
Alison Kriel 💙 #ubuntu #AntiRacist #ex-Labour
2 years
Nothing like a bit of Vivaldi played by The Goede Hoop Marimba Band to bring joy to any day #WednesdayMotivation
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
This is beautiful. You should read it. Anne Garrels: War Correspondent, Friend - The Atlantic
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2 years
Needless to say this truck was all by itself
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
I just do not have the energy to do another round of pretending there might be an actual "replace" in "repeal and replace". Can we just not?
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
Even if this was scripted, I'm not sure it could be improved upon.
@djtweets
Danielle Decker Jones
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This video is just amazing.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
@rachsyme I have never felt better about living in Indiana
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
I’m sitting in the parking lot tweeting so I can calm down before I drive. I wrote this in 2015. Every word is still true. Nothing has changed. Nothing is better.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
I have gone down a YouTube rabbit hole of videos of people hearing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time, and it is glorious.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
I can’t to it tomorrow because - work - and the lab closes at 5:30. They won’t let me write the order myself even though I work here. Best in the world, my ass.
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Aaron E. Carroll
1 year
Confronting personal challenges is tough, but it’s vital to break stigmas. Sharing something deeply personal to walk the talk. Please read and join the conversation. #StigmaFree #MentalHealthMatters 📖:
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Loki and his human. cc @darth
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2 years
Loki... does not like storms.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
I’m not sure why, but this has been stuck in my head all day.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
I literally cannot believe this
@nprpolitics
NPR Politics
2 years
NEW: The White House is warning it will have to wind down a program that pays to test, treat and vaccinate uninsured people for COVID-19 because the administration has run out of money for the program, which Congress failed to include in funding legislation.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Someone talk me down. Is this real?
@BriannaWu
Brianna Wu
2 years
This looks like Theranos level fraud. The last 16 years of Alzheimer’s research looks to have been built on deliberately falsified data. It’s why Alzheimer’s drugs have a 99% failure rate in trials. The thing they’re trying to fix isn’t the problem.
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
Here the final spread. Not pictures is the butter, purchased from the same farm that supplies Per Se. Expensive, but worth it.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Razor Crest, bag #1 done. #lego
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
I can't even
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
My colleagues will attest that I spend a large part of my day begging people to stay home while they are sick, regardless of antigen test results. We need to make sure everyone can do that. Stay Home While Sick? In This Economy?
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2 years
It’s hard work being this perfect.
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2 years
I think this means I win?
@igorbobic
Igor Bobic
2 years
Rubio suggests schools should adjust starting times if there are concerns with early-morning darkness under permanent daylight savings. “We start school in this country at the worst possible time for adolescents,” he says
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This is so important. Read it. Please. "What does the life and health of mothers mean? How could it possibly mean so little? What are we supposed to do?," writes @AnnieLowrey :
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Sweetest. Boy. Ever.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
How long until we get a Netflix/Hulu series on the last few weeks at Twitter?
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Aaron E. Carroll
3 years
My daughter is at a fancy donut shop. We suggested we review them for our TikTok channel. She’s a professional though.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
@BradleyWhitford I happened to be drinking one at that moment, and I immediately threw it out.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
This is remarkable
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Completely avoidable. Utterly tragic.
@arstechnica
Ars Technica
2 years
Measles outbreak jumps to 7 Ohio daycares, 1 school—all with unvaccinated kids by @BethMarieMole
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
We spend too much time fighting one another and not enough time fighting the pandemic. Every day we do so, everyone loses. Smart Policies Can Fight Covid Even if Masks Come Off
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Read this. Get angry. Then make sure others in medical school leadership read it. Black residents are forced out at far higher rates than white doctors - STAT
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
Also, many people are good. It’s easy to forget that, too.
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Aaron E. Carroll
2 years
I didn’t “respond” to a tweet in which I’m not even tagged, so I (and family members) should be hounded by any available means. 🙄
@Arlington_Dad
Arlington_Dad
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@aaronecarroll You don't respond to Twitter too, like Dr. Prasad's criticism of your obfuscations in your NYT OpEd
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