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Voices for Vaccines shares personal stories about vaccine-preventable diseases every month.
If you need any encouragement to get immunized, read firsthand why it's so important.
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In the 2010s, adult flu vaccine uptake never broke 50%. It's so predictable that we don't even make shots for 1/3 of the population.
A lot of that is because people don't take flu seriously. But folks, you should and I'll tell you why.
Here's the FULL case for flu vaccination🧵
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Last week, Florida became the only state to recommend against the
#COVID
vaccine in healthy kids.
We *strongly* disagree with this decision, and wanted to make clear why vaccination is important.
Here is a our piece, along with a quick summary 🧵
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Recently, a paper in Scientific Reports began circling that suggests mRNA vaccines may have yet undetected heart risks. The authors used EMS data in Israel looking at calls for cardiovascular events.
They also draw some conclusions that go beyond their data. A 🧵 (1)
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@BrandyZadrozny
"There are no vaccines that are safe and effective."
- RFK Jr., literally 13 days ago.
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One common objection to vaccination goes like: "I'm healthy. I'll overcome disease naturally."
People believe that because we evolved to deal with viruses, we don't need to immunize.
Turns out this isn't true. Today you face viruses a caveman would never dream of. 🧵 (1)
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Over the
#COVID19
pandemic, many people feared 'long-term' effects of vaccines.
Those are very unlikely. But ironically, warnings about long-term effects from disease were often downplayed.
We know *for certain* that infectious diseases can cause long-term effects... A 🧵 (1)
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RFK Jr. asks why babies need the HepB vaccine.
We answer him.
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Please note: this is not how school entry requirements work. Recommending vaccines makes them available in the Vaccines for Children program, get insurance to pay for them, and makes it easier for people to get compensated for possible injuries.
The CDC is about to add the Covid vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school.
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We eliminated measles by mandating MMR in schools.
Eliminating mandates will bring it back.
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1. Vaccines do not cause autism
2. Autism is not something to fear
3. Autistic people deserve acceptance
4. Everything we know about autism suggests it starts in the womb
5. Vaccines can't time travel to the womb
#vaccineswork
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What
#TuckerCarlson
got wrong about
#VAERS
. A thread.
tl;dr
#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesAreSafe
#TuckerCarlsonMustGo
#wecandothis
#ThisIsOurShot
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RFK Jr. attacks the WHO, without actually knowing what they do.
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For the past 23 months, we downplayed influenza 👎
The COVID motto has been "it's not just the flu." Now people are hoping it becomes like the flu (less bad).
And while COVID is more of a threat, the irony is that we didn't take the flu seriously enough before.
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Last week, Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis convened a panel of 'experts' to try and prove mRNA vaccines are unsafe.
We wanted to point out some key myths which illustrate how they continue to mislead people. 🧵
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@RealRedWill
@PeterHotez
Cervical cancer can occur in your 20s, so we’re already seeing a reduction from the vaccine IRL.
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You are thinking about
#COVID19
, but are you also thinking about
#measles
,
#diphtheria
, and
#polio
? Listen to the latest
#VaxTalk
episode where we discuss ROUTINE
#vaccines
and why they are critical during a pandemic.
cc
@PedsGeekMD
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Whether or not you plan to vaccinate your child under 5 for COVID, know this: there has yet to be a single age group for which primary vaccination is not a net benefit.
We've had drama with each new authorization yet vax has remained essential.
Trust 👏 The 👏 Pediatricians 👏
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If you are young and healthy, your eyes probably just glazed over.
That's sad 🙁 The social good that comes from vaccinating is actually incredible.
We don't put scientific capacity into worldwide flu monitoring for no reason. It's a disease that costs billions of dollars.
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The HPV Vaccine is already preventing cancer! Women vaccinated when it came out are now getting cervical cancer at lower rates. It's one of our favorites.
Fortunately you don't have to pick a favorite vaccine: kids deserve the full routine schedule.
#ImmunityCommunity
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For those who are over the age of 50 - especially those with heart disease - the risk gets a lot bigger.
It's so large that: "getting a flu shot can help prevent heart attacks and stroke as effectively as taking blood pressure and cholesterol medication.”
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It certainly seems that there are alternatives to traumatizing your child by using him as a prop to justify your pseudoscience.
A kid cries as he holds a goodbye note his classmates wrote in goodbye as he is kicked out of school in
#NewYork
by the
#bigoted
and ignorant
#democratparty
lawmakers bought of by
#BigPharma
, who repealed religious exceptions - This is straight up hate & discrimination.
#Vaccines
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Dr. Paul Offit explains why COVID probably had natural origins.
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We eliminated measles by requiring MMR in schools.
Eliminating school entry requirements will bring it back.
#ImmunityCommunity
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So this would be our 1st recommendation to you: get your flu shot because it's impossible to know how bad the season will be |
A recent study found that even a mismatched vaccine is highly effective against severe disease.
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Joe Rogan questions why babies need the Hepatitis B vaccine.
We answer him.
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RFK Jr. couldn’t name a single vaccine that he supports.
From
@scotthamkennedy
’s “A Shot in the Arm.”
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We are so grateful for the contributions of Vaccination Champion Dr. Peter Hotez.
#vaccinationchampion
#voicesforvaccines
#whyivax
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In the United States it is basically THE main disease epidemic for most people.
I'm not going to harp on the symptoms since you know them. I won't play them up either.
What I do want to do is convey the full burden of influenza so that we see it as something worth mitigating 💉
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How do you make sense of the politics and polarization of
#vaccines
? We probably don't have the answers, but we had some great conversations with
@thereal_truther
(& cohost
@PedsGeekMD
). Special nods to heroes
@PeterHotez
and
@BrandyZadrozny
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The second reason to get the vaccine is to slow transmission.
This isn't just a matter of protecting the elderly (bless their hearts). Your flu vaccine also protects infants and pregnant women.
1/222 babies will be hospitalized for the flu |
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Hospitals hit their limit during the Omicron surge. “Everyone I know in health care is dead tired,” says
@JohnRossMD
.
I reached out to doctors dealing with the crisis to understand it from their perspective. Here's why they still need our help.
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HPV vaccination literally prevents cancer. Yes: a few shots in your arm can actually prevent cancer. Really.
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Paul Offit: COVID is a much bigger heart risk than the vaccine.
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A bad flu can mean the end of functional independence. 1 in 33 say they never fully recover |
This is in part due to the effects of hospitalization, but mild illness can hasten decline |
The loss can be both mental and physical.
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When vaccines become an issue in the media, we often see people worrying that nothing is being done about hesitancy, but you know that many people have worked for a long time on creating vaccine confidence. Tag them in this photo so that others can find them!
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Let's start with a key fact about flu: it adapts very quickly ⏩
Influenza A - the more dangerous type - is a shapeshifting virus that has two key components.
One is an HA protein, and the other is an NA protein. There are 18 possible Hs and 11 possible Ns to combine...
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Older people's lives matter.
You shouldn't get to 65 and then be subject to severe infectious disease. Aging isn't a crime, and life doesn't end when you retire.
Get your flu shot to protect seniors 👵🏻
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How does COVID compare to other diseases in kids?
Does infection cause long COVID? How about diabetes?
Why can't we do off-label vaccination for kids under 5?
These questions and many more answered by Dr. Paul Offit! Check out our full length interview:
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And here's the rub: your flu shot also protects you, so it's not like it's some sort of sacrifice. The stats reveal remarkable benefits.
For one, the flu puts stress on your cardiovascular system which raises the risk of having your first heart attack 🫀
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Babies aren't vaccinated against it because their immune systems don't respond much. If more people were immunized, we could reduce that number 📉
Pregnant women are also at high risk. Those in their third trimester are 5x more likely to be hospitalized.
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While the correlation needs replication, it's not implausible. We're still looking for a cause for Parkinson's and viruses are a suspect.
We think that other viruses can cause degenerative disease. For instance, mono may cause multiple sclerosis.
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Even if you aren't, influenza has other risks.
For instance: researchers are actually trying to parse out if getting the flu can contribute to Parkinson's Disease.
A study of 61,626 people found that infection led to a 90% greater risk 15 years later.
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Thank you to everyone for telling us the inspiring reasons why you vax 🙏
If you haven't yet done so, we would still love to hear yours. Take a picture, say why vaccines matter and use
#WhyIVax
!
And if you haven't seen, a scroll through the hashtag is incredibly uplifting ❤️
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I worked in a nursing home during COVID and can tell you that decline is a sad thing.
The senior may isolate and spiral. They may lose control over their mood, thoughts and body. It's a sudden loss for friends + family.
If you can forestall this with a 💉, why wouldn't you?
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The strain is named after these proteins (eg H1N1) |
Two of these strains circulate regularly in humans: H1N1 and H3N2.
The severity of either varies. H3N2 is usually harsher, but H1N1 caused the Spanish and Swine Flu pandemics |
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The efficacy for seniors may be as low as half, and it wanes even faster |
For the 150,000+ seniors hospitalized there's a risk of serious decline.
Our media have conditioned us to see old people as sickly. In truth, many do quite well until falling ill.
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Influenza B tends to come at the tail end of seasonal epidemics. It's less severe overall, but more severe for children |
Flu B is made up of two strains called Victoria and Yamagata. This is why your yearly shot protects against four strains (Flu A + B).
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School entry requirements are done at the state level. CDC has no jurisdiction over which vaccines are required for school. In many states, adding vaccines to the requirements is a multi-year process.
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People who think no one cares about or notices this are wrong.
The systemic toll of a bad year is usually national news |
This makes complete sense since the difference between 10,000 and 50,000+ deaths is one of immense social consequence.
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If you plot cardiac events over time you see they align closely with the flu season. They specifically track onto peaks of disease, not the weather |
Some of the risks come from subtle cardiovascular changes which may impact otherwise healthy people ❤️🩹
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RFK & Co. struggle to explain how a study showing 90% reduction in cervical cancer actually proves vaccines cause cancer 😵💫
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The best way to protect them is to not get sick in the first place. If you are vaccinated and do get sick, you will be less likely to pass it on |
Moreover, flu vaccine efficacy is higher in young people. You can have an outsize impact on other's health.
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We forget how recently vaccines have had sweeping victories against disease.
In the 1980s, 20,000 cases of invasive Hib occurred yearly, mostly among young kids. It was lethal 4% of the time and ~13% of survivors had lasting neurological symptoms.
Post-vax: cases dropped 99% 📉
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Paul Offit: Healthy kids should get vaccinated for COVID.
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Is COVID a risk to kid's hearts?
Are there long-term cardiac risks from infection?
How do kids recover from vaccine myocarditis?
These questions and more answered in our interview with pediatric cardiologist
@drjhuang
. Here are some highlights ⬇️ (1/8)
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Each strain can vary widely in severity because they mutate (how flu re-infects us). The hospital burden is usually north of 300,000+ a year.
The qualities of each strain allows the flu to affect each age demographic differently from season to season.
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Given that heart disease is the number one cause of death for Americans, that alone is a damn good reason to take the vaccine. It doesn't even come with all the side of effects of medications.
Many people don't know they're at risk for a heart attack. Why take the chance?
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On top of that, we're coming to wonder whether "long flu" exists. This would be a syndrome similar to long COVID, which is what spurred on the inquiry.
A professor at Oxford studying long COVID found lower yet still significant rates of symptoms post flu.
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Years in which the flu is especially severe or infectious are a kind of event, not unlike a COVID surge.
The graph below shows how flu can go from uncommon to suddenly 1/12 doctors visits is for an influenza-like illness (ILI).
Recent seasons have seen more chaotic patterns 📈
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The COVID-19 vaccine was authorized over two years ago now. The amount of data we have on their safety has exhausted any conspiracies. No magic number of tweets or trending hashtags will change this.
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There's also early evidence that influenza may lead to mental health issues, including mood disorders.
The idea here is that low mood may be adaptive in the case of illness (leads to safe rest). But that response may sometimes go further than intended.
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It's time for
#VaxTalk
, let's talk to
@thereal_truther
about Twitter, misinformation, and the debate
@joerogan
only wishes he could have landed.
#vaccineswork
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Peter McCullough has moved on from just COVID vaccines to *all* vaccines.
He’s wrong about those too.
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And this is why vaccines such as HPV and influenza are recommended but not required in most states.
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"We've been using aluminum salts in vaccines since the 1940s. And we know that they're benign."
Dr. Paul Offit responds to recent claims about aluminum in vaccines.
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Polio is back in the US, in no small part due to misinformation.
@candid_kitten
has lived with the impacts of the virus since she was a child. The myths don't make it any less real to her.
#WorldPolioDay
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One myth about vaccines is that the schedule is ever-expanding, but in truth, a nine-year old today would not have received fewer vaccines than a baby born now. In fact, my sixteen year old got all these vaccines. See replies for more info.
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I reached out to Dr. Paul Offit for comment on this study. Here's what he said. (🧵/4)
1⃣ The drop in observed protection against infection is not surprising. When the 💉 was approved, 45% of kids in this age group had antibodies. Many more do now. So 💉 has a robust competitor.
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Anti-vaccine ideas have been used to mislead parents for decades. Yet at the same time, advocacy for science has also helped so many find their way out of that rabbit hole.
It's never too late to learn and change your mind for the better.
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Given arrhythmias are the
#1
natural cause of death it's a jump to say vaccines caused this.
In fact, a Nature study following 17 million doses showed the Pfizer vaccine did NOT cause arrhythmias.
COVID, however, increased the risk three to five fold.
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Paul Offit: "We're not going to be done with this for years. I think the most compelling reason to vaccinate kids is that kids grow up."
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Mood disorders are another issue where causality is ambiguous. We believe immune + inflammatory components play a role |
Some evidence: we give cancer patients immunotherapy. They often develop flu-like symptoms, and have ⬆️ incidence of depression.
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Vaccination is your
#1
shot at protecting against the effects of influenza. Whether it saves you a few days of misery or a stay at the hospital, it pays to be prepared.
#ImmunityCommunity
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The year is 2024.
Vaccines still do not cause autism.
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"It has been established that pro-inflammatory cytokines induce not only symptoms of sickness, but also true major depressive disorders in physically ill patients with no previous history..."
Many people are at-risk through no fault of their own. Vaccines may protect them 🛡️
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This thread is about a term we hear often, natural immunity 🍃
There's a certain ring to it as if getting sick is what your ancestors would have wanted.
And while it is true that we have an *amazing* immune system, the world is much, much different than it used to be. (2)
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The HPV vaccine has a 1 in 1,000,000 risk of causing Guillain-Barré syndrome.
But if you vaccinated one million people, you would prevent an estimated 3,086 cases of cervical cancer.
Check my math: 1 < 3086. Then
#GetVaccinated
💉
@SoniaBoender
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@Vaxyourfam
@PeterHotez
@JohnsHopkinsSPH
@PopSci
@healthychildren
@WomensHealthMag
Goodbye Hib! 👋
#ImmunityCommunity
We forget how recently vaccines have had sweeping victories against disease.
In the 1980s, 20,000 cases of invasive Hib occurred yearly, mostly among young kids. It was lethal 4% of the time and ~13% of survivors had lasting neurological symptoms.
Post-vax: cases dropped 99% 📉
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First, it should be noted that some people are saying this was published in Nature.
It wasn't. Scientific reports is a mega journal, publishing the largest # of articles in the world and specifically selects papers for their methods rather than their immediate importance. (2)
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Let's start with the obvious: correlation isn't causation.
The actual science of the paper is simply showing a correlation, without controlling for much.
We don't even know if this increase was among the vaccinated, and cardiac event incidence varies a lot month to month. (6)
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@RobertKennedyJr
Your website reports this as if it is fully verified, but this was a non peer-reviewed report, the validity of which has been challenged by multiple respected cardiologists. (one example ⬇️)
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One piece of misinformation floating about is that
#COVID19
vaccines are unnecessary for kids because COVID doesn't affect kids.
*ahem* we disagree. This thread will give you the numbers. 👇🏻🧵
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What's the basis for this? Other viruses are known to sometimes cause a syndrome called post-viral fatigue |
More data is needed to see if flu is a cause. But if nothing else, being sick for several days can decondition your body.
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Vaccine misinformation costs society way more than a million dollars. Thankfully you don't need a live debate to donate to charity:
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Let's put this
#VAERS
#vaccine
fear-mongering into perspective. J&J vaccines were paused over 8 people with blood clots. Raise your hand if you think
#FDA
and
#CDC
nerds are just ignoring thousands of deaths. RT this if you think
#TuckerCarlsonMustGo
for spreading disinfo.
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Because the flu begins to spread one day prior to symptoms, you can easily give it to co-workers |
Remember that flu spreads in outbreaks, rather than evenly across the population. Outbreaks can be disruptive to a business or institution for weeks.
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Deplatforming works! NVIC has long been opposed to anything vaccine-related, including scientific facts and the fight against disinformation. They are off of FB and Twitter now, and it's our turn to fill their void with good information.
#vaccineswork
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Vaccine myocarditis is usually a self-limiting condition that resolves quickly with light/no treatment. Contrast this with MIS-C which affects multiple organs and may have long-term effects.
Plus: in kids 5-11, there were only 11 verified cases of myocarditis in 8,000,000 doses.
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While the absolute number of children who died to the disease is low, this is true for most risks to kids.
We go to great lengths to prevent child mortality from other causes, such as cancer. It is much easier to prevent COVID deaths than cancer.
Kids account for <0.2% of cancer deaths in US
Kids account for <0.2% of heart disease deaths in US
Kids account for <0.3% of all deaths in the US
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Take for instance the recent surge at The University of Michigan. The CDC was called in because the school had 745 cases in 6 week |
On a macro level, this kind of disruption (+ medical expenses) costs us $90 billion a year 💵
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One could think of a number of confounders, given this is 1) national data and 2) a very unique period in human history as far as behavior goes, but that's all just context.
We actually have much better evidence that these vaccines are ❤️ safe. (10)
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Since the EUA for COVID vaccines for kids under 5, there have been some high-profile misconceptions about the recommendation.
It's an issue because this virus isn't going away and newborns have a chance at immunity before infection. So here's why we recommend the vaccine (🧵)
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Let's start with some facts. You obviously did evolve to handle a lot of exposures throughout your life.
We know this because even your average baby--with an immature immune system--fights off millions of potential microbial threats every single day | (3)
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The results ⬇️ show no correlation with heart attack or arrhythmia (ACS causes heart attack; arrhythmia causes CA). Authors looked for age-specific risks.
A similar US study came to the same conclusion for heart attacks, and was age stratified. (13)
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Tucker is still abusing VAERS, in the year of our lord, 2024.
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