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Jeffrey Morris, PhD, commented on how expanded reporting requirements and intense scrutiny of the hundreds of millions administered COVID-19 vaccine doses have driven record-high reporting of potential side effects to one of the government’s vaccine safety monitoring systems.
There's no good evidence that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines "dramatically increase" heart attack risk — contrary to claims circulated widely on social media. The claims are based on an abstract that skips important details and so is “impossible to evaluate,” per Jeffrey Morris, PhD.
“We may have underestimated our ability to pivot and change rapidly,” Peter Merkel, M D, MPH, comments about the many ways Covid-19 has reshaped the way we conduct clinical trials — and some of those changes could help democratize trials.
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.”
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