Why do the observations and thoughts of Vinay Prasad raise major concerns?
This time, it is because of the way he misrepresents a large COVID vaccine safety study.
The Observations and Thoughts of Vinay Prasad Raise Major Concerns
A complete misrepresentation that prompted one of the authors to correct all of his false statements!
Now why don't all researchers do this, instead of relying on fact checkers to defend their work from anti-vaccine influencers?
Speaking of big errors...
"Second, this analysis does not stratify by demographic group. The increased risk of myocarditis you will see is ACROSS ALL AGES AND GENDERS. That is a big error, when we know it is a problem that plagues young men."
Vinay Prasad on COVID19 vaccines linked to myocarditis, pericarditis, ITP, Guillain Barre Syndrome, Bell's Palsy, ADEM, PE, Febrile seizures & more
Dr. Petousis-Harris had a ready answer for this "error" too.
So why are folks like Vinay Prasad criticizing this study?
"In this study including more than 99 million people vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, the risk up to 42 days after vaccination was generally similar to the background risk for the majority of outcomes; however, a few potential safety signals were identified."
COVID-19 vaccines and adverse events of special interest: A multinational Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) cohort study of 99 million vaccinated individuals
Because this very large study confirmed that COVID vaccines are safe, with few, very rare severe side effects.
Other Thoughts on Vinay Prasad
Has Vinay Prasad been wrong before?
- Vinay Prasad’s Nazi analogy is imbecilic, ignorant, and dangerous
- Quoth Dr. Prasad: “It would not be difficult” to do an impossible VAERS study
- Dr. Vinay Prasad embraces antivax “do not comply” messaging
- Dunking on a 7′ hoop, or: Refuting Dr. Vinay Prasad’s attack on medical skepticism
- Dr. Vinay Prasad whines about the “misinformation police.” Hilarity ensues.
- Dr. Vinay Prasad goes full Godwin over COVID-19 public health measures
- “Can colleges mandate Ozempic?” Clever or clueless analogy? You be the judge!
- Undermining the childhood vaccine schedule with EBM fundamentalism
- John Ioannidis and Vinay Prasad team up to lecture social media about “obsessive criticism”
- Dr. Vinay Prasad: “Public Health’s (Mis)Truth Problem”
- Dr. Vinay Prasad: It’s “Good” That Parents Who Want To Vaccinate Their Kids Against COVID Get Reported To Child Protective Services
Not surprisingly, he has...
His MO seems to be to minimize how serious COVID is to most people, especially children and young adults, and like most folks who are anti-vaccine, overstate the side effects of life-saving vaccines.
And like other anti-vaccine folks, he just had to bring up Hitler and the Holocaust...
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