Infectious Diseases doctor. Clinician-scientist. Officially the 1st person to use word COVID. Strictly my personal views only.
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For the record, I don't believe anyone should be forced to get a vaccine
A fundamental principle of medical ethics is autonomy...the right to make your own decisions about your health..even if it's a bad one
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Parents in the 1950s closed swimming pools and kept their kids home all summer because they were scared of polio.
Today's parents get their kids vaccinated and carry on .
That's progress.
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Measles is the canary in the coal mine.
When vaccine coverage slips, it's the first disease to come back.
Measles in the US..👇
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Side effects of MMR: a fever, a rash, a sore arm.
Complications of measles: brain swelling, blindness, death.
Choose.
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"Natural immunity" to measles comes with a risk of pneumonia, encephalitis, blindness, and a rare fatal brain disease that can appear years later.
The vaccine gives you the immunity without any of that.
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The paper that started the MMR-autism scare was retracted and its author was struck off.
The myth has outlived the fraud by more than 15 years.
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Humanity has outsmarted measles
As long as humans are smart enough to get the vaccine
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Measles is the most contagious virus known to man
Until it meets someone who is vaccinated
Then it's defeated
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Neil Stone retweeted
This remains one of greatest posts of all time and they didn't even realise
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"No one. Not one of us regrets not getting the Covid shot"
Except perhaps the millions of unvaccinated people who died from Covid
It's a pity we can't ask them
Ice cube turned down a $9 MILLION movie role in 2021 for not getting the Covid shot.
And he has no regrets.
“Your health is worth more than all the money in the world”
No one. Not one of us regrets not getting the Covid shot.
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E coli outbreak linked to raw milk
If ONLY we had invented a way to remove harmful bacteria from milk!!!'
abcnews.com/news/story/coli-…
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