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There’s no demonstrated link between athletes collapsing on the field and Covid-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis, says Jeffrey Morris, PhD.
Why haven't medical schools achieved real diversity? Reason #1: We must shift away from an applicant-deficit lens and recognize that diversity failures result from deficiencies in our educational and (supposedly) meritocratic systems, say James Guevara, MD, MPH, and Penn colleagues.
As the lead interviewee in this podcast, Jeffrey Morris, PhD, discusses how safety events have been picked up via public reporting systems — which have been both a help and a hindrance — and how they are being further analyzed.
Hospitals in Philly are facing a bad blood shortage. During a pandemic, people still get into accidents and get cancer that requires transfusions, says Meenakshi Bewtra, MD, PhD, MPH.
Are breakthrough Covid-19 infections due to waning over time? Because the first to get vaccinated were elderly/otherwise most vulnerable? Because many occurred among healthcare workers — highly exposed and often tested? Because of highly transmissible Delta? All of the above, says Jeffrey Morris, PhD.
Jeffrey Morris, PhD, discusses how he dismantles false claims about vaccines — and he critiques some aspects of the Covid-19 public health response: “We don’t want to feed the anti-vaccine trolls, so we actively suppress clear scientific data.”
It’s frustrating when vaccine opponents use the government’s VAERS database to stoke false concerns about safety, says Susan Ellenberg, PhD, “especially when they interfere in such major ways with critical public health issues like the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. But overall," she adds, " I still think transparency is better.”
A data table shared on social media seems to show vaccinated Israelis are much more likely to catch the virus than unvaccinated people. The image ignores all case counts for people under 20, and fails to note that the rate of severe cases is 10 to 20 times higher among the unvaccinated, according to Jeffrey Morris, PhD.
The experience of a Covid-19 breakthrough infection can range "from being asymptomatic to feeling pretty lousy, but typically it’s a shorter course than what we’re seeing for COVID without the vaccine,” says Meenakshi Bewtra, MD, PhD, MPH.
A scientific task force recommends that we stop using a common measure of kidney function that adjusts results by race, providing different assessments for Black patients than for others. Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, comments.
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