Equal parts puns, pediatrics, pop culture. I debunk vaccine myths like Spock & McCoy combined. Yes, I’ve read the inserts. Opinions mine, not employer’s.
Jun 21 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
RFK Jr. here is promoting a great example of a fundamentally flawed study clearly designed to make vaccines look bad and provide fodder for the antivax movement, but doesn't actually support the conclusions made.
The study looked at infants in the FL Medicaid database from 1991-2012. That's a pretty big (& important) time range. They look at patients who all got DTaP, Hib, & polio vaxes (all available in '91) & then those who also got some/all of rotavirus, pneumoccocal, & hep B vaccines.
Nov 3, 2022 • 25 tweets • 10 min read
You can't get far in a COVID discussion without someone claiming the vaccines don't "stop" transmission. So for reference, here's a non-exhaustive list of published studies & preprints that show being vaccinated against COVID reduces the likelihood of COVID transmission. 🧵
"Effect of Vaccination on Transmission of SARS-CoV-2" by Shah et al nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Nov 7, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
700 children dead from COVID-19 is not “statistically zero.” It’s statistically 700.
“700 dead children out of 70 million children is so small that there’s no statistically significant difference from zero dead children.”
LISTEN TO YOURSELF and take a stats class monster
May 6, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
A thread on VAERS reports of deaths following COVID vaccines.
VAERS is a system for reporting things that occur *after* a vaccine, even if not shown to be caused by one. Anyone can report to it. Drs, nurses, parents, lawyers, unrelated dudes on the web.
What is it good for? 1/
No, not "absolutely nothing."
But VAERS *can’t* show causation. When millions upon millions of vaccines are given a year, of course a lot of things will follow vaccines that are not caused by them.
