Anti-vaccine activists will weaponise AstraZeneca suspension Even quick reversal of decision to suspend vaccine may not be enough to change public perception
Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 01:41 David Robert Grimes
In many parts of Europe, the decision to shut down vaccination programmes appears based on individual reports in insolation, contrary to WHO and EMA recommendations. This seems supremely reactionary and risks undermining public trust. Photograph: Thomas Kienzle/Getty Images
The slow but steady rollout of vaccines for Covid-19 across Ireland has led to renewed optimism about the future. The announcement on Sunday that the administering of one of the vaccines would be suspended pending a safety investigation has dented this optimism.
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On Friday, the World Health Organization said there’s no reason to suspend use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19. This statement follows the move by several countries to stop the vaccine’s rollout over fears of blood clots.
Host Tonya Mosely speaks with
Dr. Seema Yasmin, author of “Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them.”
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Hitting the Books: The continuing controversies surrounding e-cig safety Engadget 1/30/2021 Andrew Tarantola
Though more than a billion people worldwide still smoke cigarettes, folks who are looking to kick the habit have an ever-widening wide array of modern assistive techniques and technologies at their disposal. However, among the talk therapies and transdermal nicotine patches, no smoking cessation aid has perhaps had more of an impact in pop and mainstream culture than e-cigarettes. In
Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them, Dr. Seema Yasmin examines controversies surrounding the tobacco replacement technology as well as a host of other pieces of “common” medical knowledge. In the excerpt below, Yasmon recalls the months of 2019 when vaping briefly took a turn for the deadly.