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The Atlantic is at it again, $100,000 grant goes to "vaccine hesitancy" research, American immunologist on why he's not a fan of the latest Covid booster, and more!
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Annual COVID Shots Mean We Can Stop Counting
A couple of weeks ago, a friend asked me how many COVID shots I’d gotten so far. And for a brief, wonderful moment, I forgot.
“Three,” I told them, before shaking my head. “No, actually, four.” I had no trouble recalling when I’d received my most recent shot (September). But it took me a moment to tabulate all the doses that had preceded it.
By this point in the pandemic, a lot of people must be losing track. “I actually think this is a good thing,” says Grace Lee, a pediatrician at Stanford, and the chair of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Now that so many Americans have racked up several shots or infections, she told me, the question is no longer “‘How many doses have you gotten cumulatively?’ It’s ‘Are you up to date for the season?’”
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Paul Offit, Philly’s most vocal vaccine advocate, on science, truth, and why he’s not a fan of the latest COVID boosters
Philadelphia’s most prominent immunization expert isn’t planning to get the latest COVID-19 booster shot, and doesn’t think most others need to either.
Paul Offit, who is among the Food and Drug Administration’s advisers on which vaccines the public should receive, disagrees with the current recommendations of the White House, FDA, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that everyone over the age of 5 should get the new vaccine.
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Ruobing Li Receives Pfizer Grant for COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Research
Ruobing Li, an assistant professor of mass communication at the School of Communication and Journalism, has received a $100,000 grant from Pfizer to research COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
“The project will offer valuable insights for researchers and public health practitioners and help them better understand the causes and effects of vaccine hesitancy,” said Li. “This work can help to create more effective COVID-19 vaccine campaigns, with the ultimate goal of ending the pandemic and saving lives.”
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Board-Certified Obstetrician cries "STOP"
Dr. Thorp is a Board-Certified Obstetrician Gynecologist and Maternal Fetal Medicine Physician with over 43 years of obstetrical experience. While serving as a very busy clinician his entire career he has also been very active in clinical research with about 200 publications. Dr. Thorp is an extremely busy clinician and researcher. He has seen over 22,800 high risk pregnancies in the past three years.
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Big Tech, Media, Governments, Medical Boards Colluded to Suppress COVID Dissent: Study Confirms
Governments, medical authorities, media outlets, Big Pharma, and Big Tech colluded to censor medical professionals—with differing views on COVID-19 science—by deploying a range of tactics, including suppression of academic journals and online censorship, a new study confirms.
The study, “Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics,” found well-known scientists and doctors were forced to find ways to circumvent this censorship and get the word out.