Peter McIntyre
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Professor, University of Otago and University of Sydney. Medical Advisor, IMAC, University of Auckland. Member, Strategic Advisory Group of Experts of WHO
Dunedin City, New Zealand
Joined April 2012
RT @JAMA_current: Receiving at least 2 doses of wild-type BNT162b2 vaccine was associated with a reduced risk of emergency department or ur….
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RT @BurnetInstitute: While studies support the need to fast-track the development of interventions and therapies to prevent and/or cure lon….
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Very silver lining take on CDC study - VE for most dose numbers and outcomes was ~ 20% with CIs inc zero and limited to 60 day period. 12% controls any vaccine doses so v low population uptake. Vaccine works short-term (hopefully inc high risk) but policy? Flu vacc >> priority.
I do hope countries that deny vaccination to children <5 years take heed of this study and so many others showing vaccines protect young kids. Vaccine was 80% effective vs no vaccine in preventing emergency department or urgent care encounters. Bivalent vaccine more protective.
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Presented at WPRO TAG today - a great example from Lao of how careful consideration by a NITAG of an important scheduling decision arrived at a well-reasoned choice - of option 3
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This brief piece from Paul Offit justifiably criticises the basis for continued rejigging of COVID vaccines except for protection of population groups at greatest risk of severe COVID despite previous optimal boosting - ie adults >75. It’s time to critica…
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Interested to see evidence underlying these assertions. Hoping that it’s not primarily the flawed VA series of studies out of US
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Support here for a policy of restricting covid boosters to populations at risk of severe disease due primarily to age. This is a quite different paradigm to influenza and speaks to capacity of age-related capacity of immune system…
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Times are tough for data journalists - numbers, numbers but what do they mean? Wastewater surveillance only indicator reliable over time - hospitalisations by age group now next to meaningless, as is % of whole population & vaccine doses - need to see >60
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Just seen this magnificent production - in 2023 we have around half the US population in the grip of lies, hypocrisy and self-righteousness - instead of just the population of Salem Massachusetts
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Great interview with Salman Rushdie post attack on him. As a devotee of Rushdie’s writing I recommend Victory City and all previous but also Rushdies comment here that “when you’re young you have to fake wisdom, when you’re old you have to fake energy”
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The unanswered question from this - which is mainly saying covid deaths are under-counted - is (even if accept simplistic arguments underlying it) what is best response? Tern & friends want masks a la 2021 forever - this won’t work - 79 yr olds need boosters every 6m - period.
May 2023:.A seventy nine year old man in the UK feels seriously unwell. His daughter gives him an lft covid test, which is positive.
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No idea why Kerryn Phelps posted this nonsense promulgated by a UK cardiologist sponsored by an Australian anti vaccine lobby group. What is it about cardiologists- Peter McCullough from Texas also a denialist. No fan of Pfizer but this same old about their trials in 2020 is tosh.
British cardiologist calls for inquiry into mRNA vaccines | CW
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Clarification from Monica Gandhi that all the hype about the CDC meeting “outbreak” was just that - hype.
CDC OUTBREAK: Remember Provincetown outbreak in July 21 when most immunologists/scientists hailed the mild breakthroughs as a success of the vaccines? The infections at a CDC meeting were all mild, no one hospitalized, high rates of vaccination & 20% Paxlovid use for high-risk.
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If you look at the study cited as showing higher long covid after re-infection it’s apparent it shows no such thing and does not claim to - it is mostly about what initial symptoms are predictive of persistent symptoms - a case of confirming preconceptions on part of John Snow.
US NIH Study Finds Increased Risk of #LongCovid After Reinfection - John Snow Project.“Many people already believe COVID-19 is now no more serious than a cold or a flu, thanks to immunity derived from vaccines or prior infection, but this is not the case.”
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This is a very long read but worth it to get to the punchline about which naked baby she saw, sufficient to put her off motherhood at least then, who later became PM
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Very interesting graphic presentation from Canada showing how intensity of COVID infection has changed over time in a setting where virus present over full 3 year period using wastewater surveillance unaffected by diagnostic testin…
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This summary that “covid is responsible for almost all excess deaths worldwide” is simplistic. It is a high level analysis showing great uncertainty - yes multiple problems in post covid world but are they attributable to covid or to worsening inequity etc?.
C0VID & excess deaths: The last 3 years have seen a very big increase in total deaths in the world. As this analysis from The Economist shows, C0VID is responsible for basically all of it. 2022 worse than 2020. XS death rates still high in 2023.
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Impressive evidence - if no effect seen in Nordic countries then purported evidence elsewhere likely bias and risks clearly exceed benefits which are meagre at best
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