a letter of apology from Tykocinski, came a day after The Inquirer published a story in which employees and others were critical of Tykocinski's "like" history
on his Twitter account, which identifies him as president of Jefferson and dean of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College.
"Two years after their introduction, the mRNAs Covid vaccines have proven to be what we all should have expected," said
a Dec. 11 tweet by Alex Berenson, once called
"the pandemic's wrongest man" by the Atlantic. "Another in a long line of overhyped, rushed, profit-driven Big Pharma flops with weak long-term efficacy and a lousy side effect profile. …"
That was among nearly 30 tweets by Berenson that Tykocinski liked in the last year. That tweet remained on Tykocinski's "like" list as of early Monday afternoon, though some of the others that The Inquirer reported Saturday, including
one calling gender reassignment surgery "child mutilation," were removed. Of Tykocinski's 539 "likes" that existed before the Inquirer story was posted, 348 remained by early afternoon. By midafternoon, it was down to 203.