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5 stories tagged "covid-19"

Infectious Disease

Arizona State's AI Flags Healthy People as 'Weak' Vaccine Responders Without Reporting How Often It's Right

Arizona State's AI sorts roughly one in twenty healthy people into the 'weak responder' column. The clinical payoff, in the lead author's own words, is more doses. Nobody reported how often the model is right.

Investigations

Months Before Officials Told Pregnant Women the COVID Shot Was Safe, Fauci Privately Flagged a Theoretical First-Trimester Miscarriage Risk

Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul pulled the first messages off Fauci's government iPhone: a January 2021 chain in which he privately flagged a theoretical first-trimester miscarriage risk, months before official guidance told pregnant women the shot carried no such concern.

Autoimmune & Inflammation

Rare but Real: The Autoimmune Hepatitis After mRNA That VAERS Was Built to Miss

Twenty-seven biopsy-confirmed cases of autoimmune hepatitis after an mRNA dose, jaundice and an ALT of 1,092 that resolved on steroids. The disproportionality math found 'no safety signal.' It was measuring a reporting system, not the liver.

Infectious Disease

Against Omicron, a Second COVID Dose Added Almost Nothing for Kids Who Were Already Infected

In Austria's own registry, one dose protected previously infected people slightly better than two; in children against the omicron they actually faced, the second dose's benefit could not be told apart from zero. The guidance never moved.

Infectious Disease

Xocova clears the FDA. What it actually prevents is the smaller story.

The FDA approved Shionogi's ensitrelvir for post-exposure COVID prevention, citing a 67% relative risk reduction. Look at what the trial actually measured and a different story comes into focus.