Unambiguous Science

This week’s installment of Vaccines Work, Very Well brought to you by hot off the press data from Ontario by the Canadian Immunization Research Network. Study by the Canadian Immunization Research Network on vaccine effectiveness against Delta and Omicron: 1- Booster doses significantly bumps up effectiveness against symptomatic infections even for Omicron. 2- Vaccine effectiveness

The risk of myocarditis in the 5-11 age group with a 3-week dosing interval is incredibly low. This most recent CDC data shows 12 case reports out of 8.5+ million doses with an incidence rate of between 2 per million after Dose 2 for females and 4.3 per million after Dose 2 for males. All

New NACI recommendations on when to get a vaccine after an infection. If you are infected BEFORE you received two-doses, wait (ages 5+): If not moderately to severely immunocompromised: 8 weeks after symptom onset or positive test If moderately to severely immunocompromised: 4-8 weeks after symptom onset or positive test If you had MIS-C: until

There is no doubt that influenza is a very troublesome virus. Children younger than 5 years old and those with certain risk factors are at a high risk of developing serious influenza-related complications. However, to claim that Covid-19 is less severe than influenza is a fallacy. Data proves otherwise. Covid-19 has caused a devastating number

There are still so many people trying to say that vaccines don’t work. Many of these people are using unadjusted numbers or other false information to make these claims. In today’s post I team up with Science Whiz Liz to address these claims with a few different data sets. The first two are summaries of

An epidemic is a rapidly increasing and actively spreading disease cases in a specific geographical area, such as a community, population, or region. It does not necessarily have to be infectious or contagious. An epidemic can progress into a pandemic if it gets out of control and spreads globally. A pandemic is an epidemic that

This strategy is not a sensible ones and for many reasons. Here are four of them: 1- Downstream sequelae 2- Hospital capacity maxed out 3- No guaranteed protection from future variants 4- Protecting the

I hesitated to post this, given the situation we are in across the globe. But given many seem to be in the ‘let it rip’ mindset, I really wanted to take some time to talk about other downstream impacts of Covid-19 infections other than MIS-C and Long Covid. Over the last few months, data is

PSA: Booster (4th doses) for those immunocompromised. In Canada, those who are moderately to severely immunocompromised and qualify for a three-dose primary series are eligible to receive a booster (4th dose), regardless of which vaccines they received for their 1st, 2nd or 3rd dose. In Ontario, they are eligible to get a booster 4th dose

The ’with’ or ‘because of’ Covid hospitalization argument is intentionally politicizing data. 1- If someone comes in with a pulmonary embolism two weeks after Covid, it’s caused by Covid. If an elderly person falls due to Covid related delirium and breaks a hip, it’s because of Covid. Or heart failure six weeks after Covid, it