Yazan Abou-Ismail, MD - د. يزن أبواسماعيل Profile picture
Hematologist @UofUHealth 🏥 hemostasis & thrombosis🩸medical illustrator & contributor @AJENews 📺 views=mine استشاري أمراض وأورام الدم ᴏɴʟʏ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ
Dec 18, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
ALWAYS refer to the original data source. Beware of misleading headlines. 🧵

A study by FDA’s Hui-Lee Wong et al is being referenced all over Twitter as:
“FDA now says Pfizer vaccine causes blood clots”.

This conclusion is inaccurate.
(Cont’d)
cc: @elonmusk Here’s the link to the original paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.vacc…

The authors used Medicare/Medicaid data to analyze 14 different adverse outcomes after 34 million vaccine doses in recipients age >65. The controls used for comparison were HISTORIC controls, pre-COVID & peri-COVID.