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elizabeth bennett
@ebennett74
pediatrician fond of birds and horses/obstinate, headstrong girl
Pemberley Manor
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Apr 13, 2022
    Typical clinic day now includes a 2-year-old who only has 5 words, an 8-year-old with new-onset obesity, and a preschool-age child with no social skills from being home bound. A disastrous avalanche of child health probs of our own making—not “from the pandemic.” @AmerAcadPeds
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Dec 25, 2021
    Healthy people with a sniffle are swamping and overwhelming ERs (including the one where I work). This is squarely the fault of hysterical, fear-mongering media and bad public health messaging.
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Sep 9, 2021
    Every doctor i know today got an email from their medical board threatening to revoke their license if they “spread misinformation” about COVID vaccines. The boards get to define “misinformation” however they choose. Is it “misinformation” to discuss known serious adverse rxns?😳
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Jan 20, 2025
    Replying to @justin_hart
    She probably loves Band Aids and no one had time to argue 😄
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Sep 18, 2021
    One of my patients has a severe facial dermatitis. His dermatologist refused to write him a medical mask exemption. He’s 4.
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Apr 29, 2022
    Today I had a new patient who was due for several boosters (toddler). The mom told me that due to PH dishonesty around covid vaccines, she no longer trusted other vaccines for her child. I told her I understood and referred her to safety data for the (noncovid) vaxes.
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Jan 11, 2022
    I must admit that pre-pandemic, I had no idea how fragile our civil liberties truly are. But as an MD, I figured it out in March 2020, because I could already tell by then that the level of danger didn’t come close to justifying the lockdowns and forced business/school closures.
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Nov 17, 2021
    I’m Gen X and somewhat ashamed to admit that pre-pandemic, I took our civil liberties for granted. I was skeptical that we even needed the Second Amendment. I will never make that mistake again.
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Jun 20, 2025
    So puberty is actually how your brain matures into an adult brain. Among other problems with “blocking” puberty is a significant, permanent loss of IQ points (demonstrated in studies). This is why pediatricians like me learned in training that puberty blockers should only be used
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    Nicholas Decker
    @captgouda24
    Jun 20, 2025
    I wish people would understand that puberty is an irreversible harm too. We shouldn’t privilege the ordinary progression of events.
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Apr 16, 2025
    As a pediatrician, it is difficult to communicate the extent to which adding yearly COVID boosters to the recommended childhood vaccine schedule damaged many parents’ trust in the rest of the schedule. It increased vaccine hesitancy to a degree I have not seen in over 20 years of
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    Alexander Tin
    @Alexander_Tin
    Apr 15, 2025
    A majority of @CDCgov's COVID-19 vaccines work group is now backing an end to "universal" recommendation for shots Instead, a new "risk-based" approach would focus on older adults and those with an underlying condition that risks severe disease cbsnews.com/news/cdc-covid…
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Nov 7, 2021
    When COVID is finally judged to be endemic rather than pandemic by The Powers That Be, there will be a lot of glossing over what was done to children. “We made the best decisions we could at the time,” etc. Do not buy that BS. And don’t forget the worst offenders.
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Feb 13, 2022
    If celebrities don’t need a vax passport to attend the Oscars, neither should a 5-year-old need one to attend a museum.
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Apr 29, 2022
    Replying to @ebennett74
    Oh and forgot to mention: an immediate family member had a post-COVID vax severe adverse reaction: myocarditis/pericarditis. I am out of the business of judging parents for vaccine hesitancy.
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    elizabeth bennett
    @ebennett74
    Jun 3, 2022
    None of my pediatric patients have come down with “Long Covid.” Many have come down with Long Obesity or Long Mental Health Problems during and after prolonged school closures and lockdowns. Pediatric Long Covid seems to be primarily an American media boogeyman.

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