At the heart of Covid Pandemic, I interviewed Heidi Larson.Vaccine Trust Projectand she surprised me. When it was clear to me that the vaccine was saving lives, even if it was impossible to prevent it from spreading and should not be mandated, it was clear to me, and it was for me It was when it was clear to me.
I was hoping she would climb the bandwagon of “misinformation” but she said she didn't like the term at all. The way to discuss vaccines is to ask how patients feel about it and go from there, to develop risk-benefit analysis that addresses and discusses patient concerns.
I couldn't agree any more. And one of the first questions I always ask is that the patient's response was to a previous vaccine. I discovered there was a pattern. Those who don't tolerate one vaccine may not be able to withstand another.
In fact, my friend, a doctor, believes that there are so-called vaccine families who are far more susceptible to vaccine injuries than the general public. She believes her relatives may have had neurological diseases after the vaccine.
Advances in genetic testing and artificial intelligence should be used to help drive out those at the highest risk of serious side effects from certain vaccines. This helps to have a Hey Dillerson type discussion of doctor consultations as doctors.
If we understand the risks of a patient better than protection against specific viruses and bacteria, we can discuss risks and benefits in a more sophisticated way.
Think of it as written by anyone other than Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett-Helair, co-developer of the Covid-19 vaccine and well-known viral immunologist at the Harvard School of Public Health.Opinion pieceLast June, he said that more empathy is needed for those who report experiencing long-term side effects from the Covid vaccine.
“People who talk about how they feel after taking a vaccine should not be assumed to be anti-vaxxers,” she wrote. “First of all, they deserve empathy from doctors and other healthcare providers, and those who set up vaccine policies and drive.”
Don't get me wrong, I strongly believe that vaccine use in the 20th and 21st centuries dramatically reduced death and disease, and saved hundreds of millions of lives, starting with natural PO vaccines that wiped away disease from the planets. The polio and measles vaccines have had a major impact on the lives saved.
Low-impact vaccines such as the flu and covid vaccines still reduce severity and emergency care and hospital visits in the United States annually with hundreds of thousands of cases.
Vaccines are not only a matter of personal choice, but also a powerful public health tool, with the goal of protecting communities from pathogens, including those who cannot take certain types of vaccines (live viruses) or who cannot mount them. is. Protection.
However, vaccines have side effects, and you need to consider who is more likely to have these side effects and who isn't. It doesn't fit all safety or efficacy. And now we are finally able to utilize technology that helps us begin to communicate the difference.
I wrote about 1976 Swine flu failurewhen 40 million people received the flu vaccine that was made quickly for the virus, it never settled, so it seemed to have won about one in 100,000 recipients. Gilanbale syndrome As a result.
The tragedy has shaken public confidence in the vaccine, resulting in far more research, transparency and vaccine registration to report potential vaccine injuries. But the key question that was not addressed (because technology didn't exist at the time) is why some people got GB, but others didn't.
Covid vaccines are very different because the virus was killing millions and the vaccines (to save millions) were desperately needed. However, the vaccines were pushed and mandated, and also helped to induce erosion of trust in public health.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a destroyer and reformer. But he needs to respect the amazing vaccine efficacy we have. At the same time, it is never a bad thing to seek more transparency and research, provided that public confidence in one of our biggest public health tools is restored rather than further erosion.
Mark SiegelMD is a professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health and medical director of physician radio. He is a medical correspondent for Fox News and the author of “.COVID; The Power of Fear Politics and Science. ”
