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@billcarrolltalk rightly points out that the unvaccinated will increase chance of more variant strains. Listener texts that he is “moronic” because it will mutate anyway in the environment. Not so. It needs a human host. It doesn’t mutate in the dirt.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 9, 2021 Source:Unvaccinated people are ‘variant factories,’ infectious diseases expert says
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Ontario study reports that one dose is good but two doses are better against variants. Keep on keeping on. #vaccineswork
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 6, 2021 Source:New Ontario study finds even one COVID-19 vaccine dose provides strong protection against variants
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Latest CDC data indicates that COVID is rapidly becoming a disease of the unvaccinated. #VaccinesWork #GoScience
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 25, 2021 Source:Nearly all US COVID deaths now among unvaccinated people
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Second dose of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine needed to reach maximum efficacy against variant from India.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 25, 2021 Source:Covid: Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs work against Indian variant – study Reference: Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against the B.1.617.2variant
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U.K. planning to give third Covid booster dose alongside the flu vaccine to people over 50 in the Fall. Studies looking at new variant-adjusted vaccine versus existing one to be used in this process.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 5, 2021 Source:All over-50s to ‘get a third Covid jab in autumn’ to stop third wave – so Britain never needs another lockdown
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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?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 30, 2021 Source:Scotland’s vaccine rollout suggests delaying the 2nd COVID-19 shot is a bad idea Reference:Effectiveness of first dose of COVID-19 vaccines against hospital admissions in Scotland:national prospective cohort study of 5.4 million people
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NACI stands by its four month dosing interval but does not provide further evidence that this will work well for all age groups and for those with complicating medical conditions. Hope the gamble works (truly, no sarcasm).
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 8, 2021 Source:Vaccine committee says extending dose interval would allow more essential workers to receive 1st shot
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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.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 31 , 2021 Source:Moderna And Pfizer Vaccines Prevent Infection As Well As Disease: Key Questions Remain Reference:Interim Estimates of Vaccine Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 COVID-19 Vaccines in Preventing SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Health Care Personnel, First Responders, and Other Essential and Frontline Workers — Eight U.S. Locations, December 2020–March 2021
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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.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 30, 2021 Source:New data shows COVID-19 pandemic now ‘completely out of control’ in Ontario, key scientific adviser saysProvinces suspend AstraZeneca shots for people under 55 after advice from national panel