May 4, 2021 Health Policy 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.
May 3, 2021 Allergy/Immunology 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.
April 30, 2021 Clinical Research 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?
April 28, 2021 Clinical Research Hope? Sure, but tone down the touting of experimental Pfizer drug to treat early Covid that hasn’t completed its 60-person phase 1 trial. And Miami private school ban on Covid-19-vaccinated teachers enters the pantheon of the Bizarro World.
April 19, 2021 Health Policy AZ vaccine to be made available for everyone over 40 years of age. Fear understandable with media reporting on extremely rare blood clots but not mentioning lives saved from vaccine. Risk of harm from Covid infection causing clots is far greater.
April 9, 2021 Allergy/Immunology Will Covid vaccine mixing be adopted as health policy? They use different delivery systems carrying the genetic instruction set to produce the same spike protein, ergo ongoing studies are evaluating clinical outcomes to determine if assumption is true.
April 5, 2021 Clinical Research CDC study shows vaccines cut Covid infections and transmission. They will help get us out of the pandemic.
March 31, 2021 Clinical Research CDC releases study showing that mRNA vaccines perform almost the same in the real world as they did in the lab. Further indications are they prevent disease and its transmission.
March 30, 2021 Epidemiology It now does not matter that the AZ vaccine is safe, the multiple contradictory policy reversals may have irreversibly damaged the public’s confidence in it.
March 29, 2021 Epidemiology Canada’s decision to delay second doses of Covid-19 vaccines by four months may not result in the positive outcome expected for certain groups.