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👩🏾🔬Response to the most common question I got today:
The new variant has a lot of mutations, what does this mean in terms of epidemiology & vaccines❓
🧬 short answer: to early to tell‼️
🔬Long, more nuanced answer: whilst having too many mutations, some of which are known to
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The new variant has a lot of mutations, what does this mean in terms of epidemiology & vaccines❓
🧬 short answer: to early to tell‼️
🔬Long, more nuanced answer: whilst having too many mutations, some of which are known to
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affect for instance how fast the virus replicates inside our cells or how it interacts with our immune system, it is difficult to say what synergistic effect all those mutations could have when put together, without functional assays coupled with real-world data‼️
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Analogy: some vegetables on their own taste quite meh, some combination of those vegetables put together could make an absolutely awful meal, but sometimes you add in a bunch of other ingredients & you get something that’s tolerable‼️
(Can you tell I don’t like vegetables 🙃)
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(Can you tell I don’t like vegetables 🙃)
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1-Today there was a big protest in Montréal by healthcare workers opposed to mandatory vaccination.
As a healthcare professional & a bioethics I want to underline a few points about #VaccineMandates for healthcare provides
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As a healthcare professional & a bioethics I want to underline a few points about #VaccineMandates for healthcare provides
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2-In bioethics, autonomy is no longer that centuries-old belief that the individual can or does somehow stand apart from their community, social circumstances & political environment. Also, autonomy has a different scope when intervention in question has implications beyond self.
3-Dr Nedelsky(osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty-and-st…) calls the belief that autonomy is isolated from outside influence a “pathology”: “If we ask ourselves what actually enables people to be autonomous, the answer is not isolation, but relationships—with parents,
teachers, friends, loved ones.”
teachers, friends, loved ones.”
