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According to the Spanish newspaper, El País, Patrick Vallance is having serious second thoughts about giving people just one dose and waiting. The UK papers seem a bit more reticent so far.

It makes things even worse since it is presumably done as part of a money-making process. What shocks me is that thirty years ago no US physician would have bullshitted like this. US medicine used to be rigorous when it came to putting out material. Admittedly in those days it was in textbooks...

How can my colleagues have become so mindblowingly ignorant? Thirty years ago no US physician would have made themselves look such a fool. What happened to the other six classes of drug that reduce fatigue? What happened to the need for evidence?

Study with meaningless methodology shows that studies with meaningless methodology cannot be trusted - or does it? I seem to remember that there was a study that showed that people with osteoporosis who did extension spinal exercises had fewer fractures leading to kyphosis, and that those doing...

With due respect, anyone can be an expert and publish. The site does not look like a reliable source of anything. Everyone is entitled to recommend sites but others are also entitled to urge scepticism! The world is full of bogus information just now. This looks like more.

I think it is unlikely that if a vaccine reduces symptomatic infection it does not reduce transmission. If you make enough virus to cough around and infect others you almost certainly have made enough virus to feel ill. There is no certainty that the two will match but it would be surprising if...

I agree. I am afraid that there are too many unsubstantiated suggestions in this submission - which means it can be dismissed by the committee in its entirely. The S4ME submission is much more balanced and likely to be take seriously, at least by those members of the committee with open minds.

Yes, one may be too optimistic and the other too pessimistic. But if a vaccine does not prevent a person growing up enough virus to show up on PCR then it would be disappointing.

I certainly do not think the webinar should be posted. I suspect all of what Greenhalgh said was ill-informed. What I, and I suspect @Esther12 are asking for is for a transcript to be available in the context of a discussion such as here so that it can be established exactly what was said. It...

Yes, it has come out in various news outlets. There is a suggestion that for the vulnerable elderly a single dose of Pfizer vaccine is almost useless or at least gives only a few people protection. It does not surprise me. These vaccines are using new technology and we have no evidence for...

That's a very good point. I can think of lots of people with faulty beliefs who seem to do pretty well. Luciano Pavarotti had a faulty belief that he was not a very good singer, for instance.

It seems common over here - everyone feels a lot better after the jab, even if they hadn't been feeling ill. I a looking forward to it, although Israel seems to be saying that one dose doesn't work. I will have to make sure I feel better after the second dose.

It's what greater adjutant storks do on the rubbish tip at Guwahati.

Yes, it's a good thing that there are all these things to get annoyed about. Otherwise lockdown would get pretty dull.

A pity I had not been able to see this before answering questions at NICE committee - i.e. did I think CBT trials were just as rubbish in other conditions (shock horror). The fact that this review is unable to identify good quality evidence in anything and pick it out and has to bundle...

I agree. I think we should know what was said at this sort of level of medical propaganda.

This looks to me confused. Do we know that these readmissions and deaths have anything to do with 'Long Covid'. There are a number of reasons why people bad enough to go into hospital with Covid might be readmitted last a high rate and die, including pre-existing poor health and organ damage...

I think this might be an advert: One supplement the team had been developing specifically for “long Covid” patients had shown promising results, leading to faster recovery in some, Ng said. I am not sure what it would mean for 40% of Chinese to have 'dysbiosis'.

Is there any reliable scientific basis to this @Sandra? Sure, if you have a tendency to renal stones it may be sensible to avoid high oxalate foods but that is not an issue of sensitivity. A lot of that site looks like pseudoscience to me - do you think it has a real basis?

I have a feeling that Greenhalgh has boxed herself into a corner in various respects. The strident advocacy for LC together with the deafeningly silent approach to ME, when there is no doubt that they overlap to a very large degree will soon enough appear ridiculous. Denying the existence of a...