Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 16, 2021
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Omicron found to grow 70 times faster than Delta in bronchial tissue
Related posts:
- Initial Omicron data released. Small study from South Africa. Pfizer jumps in with theirs today. Many questions about clinical efficacy remain. Answers will come soon.
- PM Trudeau, your flouting of pandemic health policy rules demoralizes the country. Armchair “physicians”, stop flaunting cherry-picked preprint studies as “the” evidence HCQ works when there are just as many that refute it. That is why proper investigation and meta-analysis are required.
- 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?
- Retracted Canadian study that reported 1/1000 risk of myocarditis from mRNA vaccine weaponized by anti-vaccination websites despite data correction by the authors to 1/25,000. Review system worked to uncover error but damage now done.