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Rare opportunistic fungal infection taking advantage of pandemic-related health and environmental conditions in India amongst Covid-19 patients.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 11, 2021 Source:Mucormycosis: The ‘black fungus’ maiming Covid patients in India
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Study hypothesizes biologic mechanism of how gum disease could increase risk of Sars-CoV-2 access to the lungs. Interesting, but evidence points to aerosolized route as major source for contagion.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 10, 2021 Source:And now, some good news: Brushing your teeth may reduce risk of COVID-19(article found in the middle of the post) Reference:The COVID-19 Pathway: A Proposed Oral-Vascular-Pulmonary Route Of SARS-CoV-2 Infection And The Importance Of Oral Healthcare Measures
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Sunday House Call, #789, May 9, 2021: The Twinkle in this Star. A truly enjoyable interview with Stewart Reynolds aka @Brittlestar today. He and his family helping to make the pandemic a little more bearable with their honest observations and humour.
You my heard some of the clips we have been playing commenting on the risk calculus of taking the AstraZeneca vaccine and the one that you have just heard that are marvellous and creative examples plainly illustrating how we process information and many times incorrectly assess risk. Stewart Reynolds, also known as @Brittlestar on Twitter,…
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Jury still out on mixing and matching vaccines. Picture to become much clearer very soon with studies to come but assumption is that it should work given existing vaccines stimulate production of the spike protein with similar endpoint efficacy.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 6, 2021 Source:Giving 2 Doses Of Different COVID-19 Vaccines Could Boost Immune Response
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U.K. planning to give third Covid booster dose alongside the flu vaccine to people over 50 in the Fall. Studies looking at new variant-adjusted vaccine versus existing one to be used in this process.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 5, 2021 Source:All over-50s to ‘get a third Covid jab in autumn’ to stop third wave – so Britain never needs another lockdown
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Agree with @YoniFreedhoff & @dgardner on the latest NACI statement about the risk of AZ vaccine: “So many facepalms” & “If I were writing a chapter on risk communication, I would use what NACI has done to illustrate every possible mistake”, respectively.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 4, 2021 Source:NACI advice on ‘preferred vaccines’ for COVID-19 sparks confusion, anger
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The development of mRNA vaccine technology has the potential to expand to treat and prevent other diseases akin to the technological spinoffs seen with the Apollo space program.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May , 2021 Source:Why mRNA COVID-19 vaccines might unlock the key to treating cancer and other deadly diseases
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Sunday House Call, #788, May 2, 2021: “No Coke. Pepsi.” @brittlestar hits it out of the park.
An excellent video commentary by Stewart Reynolds. Allergic reaction from Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine is rare. Side effects are manageable and much less than what you would experience if you got sick from Covid. Phase 2 results of malaria vaccine achieve 77% efficacy crossing the WHO threshold of 75%. Why physicians need to stick to…
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Preprint study evaluated entire Scottish population and calls into question delaying second Covid vaccine dose up to 12 weeks. After first dose it noted a drop in preventing hospitalization from 84% at 5 weeks to 58% after the 7th. And after 16 weeks?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 30, 2021 Source:Scotland’s vaccine rollout suggests delaying the 2nd COVID-19 shot is a bad idea Reference:Effectiveness of first dose of COVID-19 vaccines against hospital admissions in Scotland:national prospective cohort study of 5.4 million people
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