Adv Practice Neonatal Resp Care Practitioner, Sunnybrook HSC, Bunnell Inc, Research Echo, Boomerang Med, columnist, Neonatology Today. Views mine, not my emps.
Dec 26, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
mRNA vaccine safety is a hot topic. There are absolutely s/e w/ANY vaccine, some severe. HOWEVER, the incidence of severe a/e are VERY low. There are hypothesis that mRNA from vaccines MAY become integated into the cellular genome, but they have thus far not been observed. 1/
Additionally, the incidence of serious a/e reported w/mRNA vaccines is << than observed post C19 infection. ≈5.6 billion have had @ least 1 C19 vaccine shot, mRNA being most widely used. A retrospective study of 6,388,196 older US citizens found differences w/vaccine type. 2/
Oct 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
HIV wasn't discovered until AFTER people started getting rare diseases: CMV, Kaposi sarcoma, fungal infections,toxoplasmosis. Most were initially asymptomatic. Now↗️strep A, fungal infections, reactivated Shingles. All show Immune deficiency .1/
Also ⬆️in diabetes, cancer. Cognitive problems are being seen. Test scores ↘️. Ignore this "cold" at your peril!
Oct 19, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Lot's in the news of late about the current & worsening healthcare staffing crisis. It's not going 2 get better w/o major changes 2 the way staff r treated & compensated. $ is a start (I just got my whopping 1% "cost of living" increase), but there r other ways 2 improve.
Scheduling: shiftwork is hell & 12-hour shifts leave no time 4 anything but work. Scheduling can make it easier on the body. DDNN is physiologically the worst schedule 4 the body, yet it's the most common hospital schedule. Working blocks of Ds/Ns is less stressful 4 the body.