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Clear public health guidelines are needed for people to know what restricted activities and actions will ease after receiving their Covid vaccine. Many erroneously assume that these changes can apply after the first dose.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 29, 2021 Source:What can we do after getting a COVID vaccine? Experts say clear guidance is needed
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Hope? Sure, but tone down the touting of experimental Pfizer drug to treat early Covid that hasn’t completed its 60-person phase 1 trial. And Miami private school ban on Covid-19-vaccinated teachers enters the pantheon of the Bizarro World.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 28, 2021 Source:Pfizer’s new at-home pill to treat Covid could be available by end of the year, CEO hopesPfizer Is Trialling The First Pill To Treat COVID-19Miami private school won’t employ teachers who get the Covid-19 vaccine Reference:Fact Check-COVID vaccines do not ‘shed’ from one person to another and then…
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Sunday House Call, #787, April 25, 2021: If you are pregnant, please get vaccinated.
Sunday House Call, #787 , April 25, 2021: If you are pregnant, get vaccinated. NEJM-published study of preliminary evaluation of the evidence study demonstrates that vaccinating during pregnancy is safe. More information available demonstrates that pregnant women are are much greater risk of harm if infected with SARS-CoV-2 compared to nonpregnant women. Your calls about:…
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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.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April , 2021 Source:Only 2 “breakthrough” infections among hundreds of fully vaccinated people, new study findsSo far, 5,800 fully vaccinated people have caught Covid anyway in US, CDC says Reference:Vaccine Breakthrough Infections with SARS-CoV-2 Variants
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AZ vaccine to be made available for everyone over 40 years of age. Fear understandable with media reporting on extremely rare blood clots but not mentioning lives saved from vaccine. Risk of harm from Covid infection causing clots is far greater.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 19, 2021 Source:Ontario to expand use of AstraZeneca vaccine to people 40 and older on TuesdayUnderstanding the blood clot issue behind the AstraZeneca vaccine and its safety Reference:News – Communicating the potential benefits and harms of the Astra-Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine
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Ottawa’s Associate Medical Office of Health reports that the COVID situation in the city is dire. Health care system at “significant risk” of breaking down as hospital admissions are doubling every 12 days.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 15, 2021 Source:Ottawa’s COVID situation ‘the worst that it’s been to date’
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CDC study shows vaccines cut Covid infections and transmission. They will help get us out of the pandemic.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 5, 2021 Source:Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. Vaccines Will End The Pandemic. 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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Quebec proposes one Covid vaccine for those who were previously infected without any substantive evidence to support such a policy change.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 21, 2021 Source: Quebec recommending just one vaccine dose for people previously infected with COVID-19
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Sunday House Call, #782, March 21, 2021: Bad science that sticks to your ribs.
The litany of discredited COVID-19 preventions, cures and treatments that never seem to go away. The Truth about Vitamin D and COVID-19Ivermectin, Convalescent Plasma and Hydroxychloroquine: One Year of Rotten Apples Your calls about: 80 year-old woman asks if she can get the Covid vaccine after pneumonia Covid vaccine recommendations if immunocompromised Vaccine side effects…