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The dogma of routine double Gram- coverage has been debunked by decades of data: no added benefit, more toxicity. One active agent is enough once susceptibilities are known. This zombie dogma won’t die. Empiric double coverage can be a hedge vs resistance, but it’s not synergy.

Neil Stone I think the table is at 125 RCTs spamming 100+years and over 1.8M patients last I check

❌CLAIM 1: "97% of people on [ACIP] had conflicts of interest" ✅REALITY: Only 41% received any industry payments, mostly under $55k over 6 years This is flatly false. Reuters reviewed all 17 voting members of the outgoing ACIP panel: 6 received $80 or less TOTAL over 6 years

❌ CLAIM 2: "We've gone from 11 vaccines in 1986 to 69-92 vaccines today" ✅ REALITY: About 48-51 shots today (including annual flu). The "92" comes from creative accounting. The 1986 schedule: DTP x5 OPV (oral polio) x4 MMR x1 = 10 injections + 4 oral doses Today's routine

🎯 But here's the key question: Is having more vaccines available somehow bad? On the contrary. As a father of 2, I'm extremely grateful for these advances since 1986: Hib (late 1980s): Once the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in infants. Since vaccination: >99% reduction

❌ CLAIM 3: "The only vaccine that has gone through placebo-controlled trials was the Covid vaccine" ✅ REALITY: One of the most misleading claims I've ever seen a government official make on national television. EVERY childhood vaccine has been tested in placebo-controlled

❌ CLAIM 4: "Nobody has any idea what the risk profiles are" ✅ REALITY: We absolutely DO know the safety profiles. Here's how: Of the 274 RCTs in our dataset: 253 reported safety outcomes (>90%) Only 21 labeled "not reported" (mostly older trials) But trials are just the

❌ CLAIM 5: "Vaccines deregulate the immune system" ✅ REALITY: This isn't science; it's a scary-sounding buzzword. Vaccines don't "deregulate" anything. They educate the immune system through targeted antigen exposure so it can defend against real pathogens later. If

THE BOTTOM LINE: RFK Jr. went on national television and systematically misled millions of Americans with false claims about vaccines. But the real evidence is available. The studies exist. The safety data is public. Why this matters: I've seen many people die from

NO ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PREPROCEDURAL FASTING AND WITNESSED PULMONARY ASPIRATION A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS I want to bring to everyone's attention the publication of an article we have been working on for some time. Ever been annoyed by having cases cancelled because

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Excellent 🆕💫review article by 🌟 Aurélien Dinh Duration of antibiotic treatment for community-acquired pneumonia( CAP) #shorterisbetter sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Brad Spellberg ID:IOTS podcasting / idiots-pod.bsky.social Alí Sebastian Meza Josh Osowicki Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 Great table! Room for neuroborreliosis? 3 RCTs I am aware of:

Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 Okay but...most urine cultures on day 1 are useless too. Because the patient had no symptoms, and so a positive test is a false positive and a negative test is redundant information to lack of symptoms. So...basically stop ordering urine cultures daggumit!

Secretary Kennedy Pfizer’s COVID data isn’t hidden. It’s been reviewed by FDA, published in peer-reviewed journals, analyzed worldwide, and tracked in millions of people through real-world safety and effectiveness studies. Pretending otherwise is gaslighting, not “gold standard science.”

So the theory is that CDC, FDA, NIH, DoD, EMA, ECDC, WHO, MHRA (UK), Health Canada, TGA (Australia), PMDA (Japan), Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Germany), ANSM (France), Swissmedic (Switzerland), and regulators across Asia, along with NEJM, JAMA, Lancet, BMJ, Nature Medicine, Science,

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The Take 5 Campaign in urgent care showed success in shifting antibiotic prescribing to 5-day courses for common infections. Same efficacy, less risk of resistance. doi.org/10.1093/ofid/o… #AntimicrobialResistance #Stewardship

Patrick Harris UQ Medicine GAME CHANGER Trial UQ News The Lancet Infectious Diseases David Paterson That’s a pretty sad result for a drug that costs more than $5000 for a course.