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Singapore MOH: Avoid strenuous physical activities 1 week after your COVID vaccine for fear that you will suffer a heart attack/myocarditis based on one incident of a 16 yo boy who was exceeding his weight lifting limit. Precautionary principle alert!
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 8, 2021 Source:Avoid swimming, jogging first week after COVID jabs, housework safe: MOH
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Reports of myocarditis in Ontario not exceeding expected background rate. Correlation to mRNA vaccines noted but causation yet to be verified. Public disclosure and transparency with risk in context is necessary even if uncertain. No one wants surprises.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 7, 2021 Source:Heart institute seeing patients with rare condition possibly linked to mRNA vaccines
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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