As you’ve seen in the news, there may be another safety signal to consider after the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) vaccine. Here’s the rundown. What happened? In the past 24 hours, the FDA published a press release and sent a fact sheet (here, here) to healthcare providers (
This is unrelated, but your thoughts/dissection of the news circulating about the children in the mississippi icu with delta would be really helpful. As a mom sending kids back in 4 weeks in the south with no virtual option this year, I’m panicking. Is Delta so dangerous we need to pull our kids from school? My kids can’t be re-enrolled in their school, it’s a lottery and they lose their spots if I remove them.
Thank you for adding the year to the dates on these posts. Substack does not automatically add the year (nor does it allow one to sort a search by year). Now that we are multiple years in, adding the year makes searching the archive easier. :)
Would you consider a post about participating in Moderna's trial (or any of the Covid trials) and specifically how placebo arm participants are handled? Obviously, any child who participates is 1. from a pro-vaccine family and 2. from a family hoping to vaccinate their child ASAP. Phase 2 of Moderna is rolling out for 7000+ children and my question is whether it is 1. safe 2. ethical for a family who strongly suspects they were in the placebo arm to get the Pfizer vaccine when it is approved.
Do you happen to know how long they typically follow Covid vaccine trial participants and how long it is until they are "unblinded"? I want to advance science of course, but I also want my own children to be vaccinated with a safe vaccine ASAP!
So if the rate in the general population is 1 in 100,000, and the rate in the vaccinated group is 1 in 125000, doesn't that mean that it is less common among the vaccinated? I'm no epidemiologist, but at first blush it appears that the vaccine maybe even provides a bit of protection against GBS. Is my math correct?
This is unrelated, but your thoughts/dissection of the news circulating about the children in the mississippi icu with delta would be really helpful. As a mom sending kids back in 4 weeks in the south with no virtual option this year, I’m panicking. Is Delta so dangerous we need to pull our kids from school? My kids can’t be re-enrolled in their school, it’s a lottery and they lose their spots if I remove them.
Thank you for adding the year to the dates on these posts. Substack does not automatically add the year (nor does it allow one to sort a search by year). Now that we are multiple years in, adding the year makes searching the archive easier. :)
Would you consider a post about participating in Moderna's trial (or any of the Covid trials) and specifically how placebo arm participants are handled? Obviously, any child who participates is 1. from a pro-vaccine family and 2. from a family hoping to vaccinate their child ASAP. Phase 2 of Moderna is rolling out for 7000+ children and my question is whether it is 1. safe 2. ethical for a family who strongly suspects they were in the placebo arm to get the Pfizer vaccine when it is approved.
Do you happen to know how long they typically follow Covid vaccine trial participants and how long it is until they are "unblinded"? I want to advance science of course, but I also want my own children to be vaccinated with a safe vaccine ASAP!
So if the rate in the general population is 1 in 100,000, and the rate in the vaccinated group is 1 in 125000, doesn't that mean that it is less common among the vaccinated? I'm no epidemiologist, but at first blush it appears that the vaccine maybe even provides a bit of protection against GBS. Is my math correct?