Health Headlines Commentary for May 30, 2016
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When eating your veggies isn’t good for you
Related posts:
- Bacteria found to be at greater levels in raw chicken sold in farmers' markets compared to the grocery store. Does it matter? Only if you eat raw chicken (and live in Philadelphia)
- Cranberries in all forms do not prevent or treat urinary tract infections
- A post hoc ergo propter hoc moment: Quebec City care home outbreak after COVID-19 vaccination was not because vaccine did not work; it did not have enough time to do so. It also did not cause the outbreak; you cannot get Covid-19 from the vaccine.
- 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.