Today a colleague said: tro talks against the vaccine daily
the truth is: I RECOMMEND the COVID Vaccine daily…
Typical convo:
🗣“There is a lot we don’t know, but at this point we understand COVID risk of morbidity/mortality, age/comorbidites seem to drive those risks…
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🗣“young & healthy could be 0.05% risk of death, >70 w/multiple comorbidites could be a 10-20% risk of death
Treatments include steroids, vit D, in some cases remdesivir, antibodies, blood thinners, aspirin
There are experimental regimens w/ivermectin
There are vaccines”
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🗣”The vaccine seem to reduce risk for hospitalization by 50-95%
Each of these has more issues to discuss...
What are your thoughts, what do you want to do, what do you want to hear more about? “
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This is considered “anti-vaccine” in our modern world
Probably because I demand better trials, a better regulatory framework, demand more from our authoritarian central planners and demand that my patients autonomy by respected.
Seriously, the world has gone bonkers
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I saw a recent patient who came to me for weight loss & diabetes remission… he lost a significant amount of weight & his sugars improved but his lipids did not improve, an ensuing CAC showed a score of ~10, the patient was in his 3rd decade… I recommended a statin
I rarely prescribe statins in primary prevention but a confluence of factors leads me to believe this patients underlying dyslipidemia including high TG, low HDL & high LDL will not improve with lifestyle alone
Why do I bring this up?
🗣I believe the pharmaceutical industry is profit driven & wants the widest possible base to sell to
🗣I don’t trust medical organizations & verify guidelines myself including primary data
I’d like to formally invite @drjkahn and @gorskon to discuss the physician’s role in vaccine uptake on our podcast @LCMDPodcast which is consistently top 10 in medicine for iTunes
I’d be happy to have either guest but preferably both!
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So @gorskon is on a mission to weed out anti-vaxx sentiment.
Great.
But what about the countless doctors were RECOMMENDING vaccination BEFORE an EUA approval and BEFORE ever seeing FDA briefing docs or a label & then recommended to children BEFORE testing in their age group?
Everyone is after the anti-vaxx people
I think we should be going after THESE lemming parrots of doctors.
The doctors who would mandate EUA vaccination by law, the ones who believe everyone should get an EUA vaccine without outcomes studies
I’m worried about our profession’s ability to think.
Doctors believed they understood the vaccine, and yet we discovered myocarditis & VTE afterwards
Being cautious is quite reasonable for some
While still many others can’t afford to wait & should get vaxxd
Literally we had to eat mayonnaise and pita sandwiches b/c my parents were out working.
To ensure we had food, my family literally bought fast food sandwiches when on sale & froze them so we could eat if they couldn’t cook dinner.
I know my parents did their best for me. They worked tirelessly and they have done the amazing service of being an amazing example of sheer tenacity & hard-work
But this was the food environment that kept me trapped for years to come