Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 20, 2021
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California urges stop to 300K vaccines after some fall ill
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- Retrospective study finds that the flu vaccine has benefits against severe effects of COVID-19. How it does this remains unknown but if true, it will be fascinating and enlightening to figure out how our immune response works in this setting.
- 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.
- Reports of rare vaccine breakthrough infections show how well the vaccines work. CDC reports findings of <1/14,000. Ongoing evaluation will help develop future versions of the vaccine to respond to the variants.