Dr. Barry Dworkin

Sunday House Call, #788, May 2, 2021: “No Coke. Pepsi.” @brittlestar hits it out of the park.

An excellent video commentary by Stewart Reynolds.

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Allergic reaction from Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine is rare. Side effects are manageable and much less than what you would experience if you got sick from Covid.

Phase 2 results of malaria vaccine achieve 77% efficacy crossing the WHO threshold of 75%.

Why physicians need to stick to reality and evidence and not promote pseudoscience, antivaccination, and misinformation. There is a different (higher) standard. Unfortunately Kenyan physician Dr. Stephen Karanja paid the ultimate price by ignoring the evidence.

Your calls about:

  • Nose bleeds
  • Vaccine side effects. Can you take an antihistamine for allergies and get the vaccine?
  • A 66 year-old man suffers from dizziness and cold sweats when he gets up out of bed at night to help his wife.

Related posts:

  1. Short-lived common side effects including fever, chills, pain, and headache after mixing AZ with Pfizer vaccine reported in @TheLancet. Immunogenicity results to be reported in June and if mixing is a viable option (likely but assumption needs evidence).
  2. Sunday House Call, #784, April 4, 2021: The world as we see it.
  3. NACI recommends second dose Pfizer/moderna vaccine for those who had AZ as their first dose.
  4. What should your #seconddose of #covidvaccine be if 1st was AZ? Factors include wait-time/availability, Delta variant prevalence, occupational risks, and study evidence. Answer seems to leaning to Pfizer or Moderna as 2nd dose of choice.