Our favorite vaccine expert is less than impressed with evidence to support the Omicron BA.4/5 "bivalent" booster shots now rolling out for everyone 12 and older. A must-watch deep dive into some science, here on Locals FIRST!
We also talk polio and monkeypox and flu 👍 Seriously, this interview 🤯
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Topics & Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
1:10 A brief history of the Covid vaccines, groups that benefit from boosting
5:12 Incubation periods and vaccination "goals," preventing infection vs. severe disease
10:54 Bivalent vaccine, the FDA's EUA approach, crucial dosing issues (ancestral strain vs. bivalent)
17:15 BA.4/5 booster immunogenicity data (or lack thereof), mouse data & vax safety profile
21:40 Why Paul himself would pass on the new booster, incubation periods, why Covid zero is a fantasy
24:28 Paul's "perfect" bivalent vaccine
25:37 Yearly targeted boosters, myocarditis and the Thai children's study
28:39 BA.4/5: MIS-C, boosters & long Covid, data from JAMA's Italian study
31:28 Comparing BA.4/5 & the yearly flu vax, timing of the yearly flu shot
38:45 Polio's resurgence, injected inactivated vs. live oral polio vaccines, the role of sanitation
48:05 Monkeypox and a history of smallpox vaccines
56:43 Reflection w/Dr. Offit: what he's gotten right, what he's gotten wrong and where to go from here
1:01:57 Final thoughts
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Axe throwing is SURPRISINGLY therapeutic for that recently discovered repressed anger.
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Today's interview with legendary vaccine researcher Paul Offit. Video version coming shortly!
🐾 Another patient admitted to The Dog's hospital. I swear this dog was a nurse in a past life - and she was THE GREATEST NURSE! 🤣
Nursing Shift Handover
Outgoing Nurse: Flash, RN (Border Collie)
Patient: Gerald, Lamb, Day 7 of life
FLASH: Right. Gerald. One-week-old male lamb. Here's your handover, try to keep up.
Personal care completed at 14:00 — full bed bath, skin integrity intact. I also performed an unauthorised facial hygiene intervention with my tongue. It was instinctive. I stand by it. Gerald's expression was neutral-to-positive.
Nutrition: bottle feed administered at 15:30, full volume taken, no issues. He did headbutt the bottle once but I've documented that as enthusiastic oral engagement.
Mobility: patient is now ambulatory. Four-limb weight-bearing achieved. Gait is — look, the word "gait" is generous, but he's upright and moving, which is the goal.
Elimination: bowels open, output noted and charted. Urinalysis — well. He did it on my paw. Colour was satisfactory. I ...
