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Dr. Barry Dworkin

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  • July 6, 2021

    Ontario study reports that one dose is good but two doses are better against variants. Keep on keeping on. #vaccineswork

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 6, 2021 Source:New Ontario study finds even one COVID-19 vaccine dose provides strong protection against variants

    tagged:

    coronavirus vaccine, efficacy, Variants
  • July 5, 2021

    Base rate bias misrepresenting and overstating Delta variant’s effect on vaccinated populations compared to the unvaccinated. @dr_kkjetelina has published an excellent explanation of this fallacy. #vaccineswork

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 5, 2021 Source:Israel, 50% of infected are vaccinated, and base rate bias

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    base rate bias, delta variant
  • July 4, 2021

    Sunday House Call, #797, July 4, 2021: You forgot the denominator!

    Base rate bias misrepresenting and overstating Delta variant’s effect on vaccinated populations compared to the unvaccinated. @dr_kkjetelina has published an excellent explanation of this fallacy. Your calls about: Cramping feet when exercising If both grandparents are double vaccinated, can they hold her 2-week-old grandchild? Is two weeks after the second Covid 19 dose considered to…

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    Based rate bias, Covid vaccinations, Cramping feet, heart surgery, Hernias
  • June 30, 2021

    Health Canada adds Capillary Leak Syndrome, as an extremely rare side effect of AZ and Covishield vaccine. Six people in Europe and UK reported had syndrome after vaccine out of 78 million doses given. One case in Canada reported to date. #FullDisclosure

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 30, 2021 Source:Health Canada adds warning of very rare, serious condition as potential vaccine side-effect

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    AstraZeneca, Capillary Leak Syndrome, side effects
  • June 29, 2021

    Much ado about coffee (another observational study about it, please make it stop) with apologies to the Bard. Let’s move on to a more relevant study that shows mRNA vaccines produce long-term persistent immunity. #VaccinesWork

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 29, 2021 Source:Drinking any coffee reduces the risk of liver disease, study findsPfizer and Moderna Vaccines Likely to Produce Lasting Immunity, Study Finds Reference:All coffee types decrease the risk of adverse clinical outcomes in chronic liver disease: a UK Biobank studySARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines induce persistent human germinal centre responses

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    coffee, immune response, immunization, liver disease, moderna, mRNA, Pfizer
  • June 28, 2021

    Immunocompromised people need our help to protect them from Covid infection. Although many have been vaccinated, many do not produce a sufficient immune response. Please step up, take a world view, and help others by deciding to get the vaccine.

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 28, 2021 Source:‘It isn’t over for us’: For those with weakened immune systems, COVID-19 vaccines don’t mean the end of the pandemic

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    Covid-19, immunocompromised, vaccine
  • June 27, 2021

    Sunday House Call, #796, June 27, 2021: The Deliberate Unvaccinated Cohort: The Variants’ Nirvana

    The decision to remain unvaccinated is one’s right do so. However, it does not come without consequences to society as a whole and societal responses to those who have made that decision. If there is a significant percentage of our population that remains deliberately unvaccinated, it provides much greater opportunity for coronavirus mutations that could…

    tagged:

    coronavirus, Earache, Hernia, misinformation, Thyroid nodules
  • June 25, 2021

    Latest CDC data indicates that COVID is rapidly becoming a disease of the unvaccinated. #VaccinesWork #GoScience

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 25, 2021 Source:Nearly all US COVID deaths now among unvaccinated people

    tagged:

    coronavirus vaccine, moderna, Pfizer
  • June 24, 2021

    Thoughts now turn to policies to protect children so they can safely return to school in the fall especially if vaccines have yet to be approved for their age group.

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 24, 2021 Source:‘The pandemic is far from over for children in Canada’: Vaccines unlikely until fall

    tagged:

    public health policy, schools, Vaccines
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