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Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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Recently-fired head of CDER @US_FDA | Via @MITSloan | Former team 🇺🇸 & 🇩🇰 runner | Physician epidemiologist | ☀️🏔️Views mine
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Aug 12, 2022
    One day, historians will look back on the pandemic & find what we did to kids in the name of Health was harmful, unethical & as Scandinavia showed us, unnecessary In many ways, it is still happening It's up to us to do better My piece in @Sensible__Med👇
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    Sacrificing children’s health in the name of Health
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Apr 22, 2022
    Massive Nordic study finds risk of post-vaccination myo/pericarditis resulting in hospitalization in males 16-24 of 380/million (1/2600) post pfizer-moderna combination This is 28x higher than the 13.7/million rate they found post-covid🧵
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    SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort Study of 23 Million Residents
    This cohort study conducted using nationwide registers assesses the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis after SARS-CoV-2 messenger RNA vaccinations in a combined population of 23.1 million indivi...
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Dec 6, 2021
    🇫🇮Finland officially not recommending vax for kids 5-11 w/o risk factors "Infections in children of this age are usually mild & severe disease is extremely rare. When the burden of disease is small in one’s own group, very few adverse effects are accepted" thl.fi/en/web/thlfi-e…
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Jan 16, 2023
    Post vax myocarditis vs post-Covid myocarditis It keeps coming up, so I'll retweet. Myocarditis post pfizer-moderna combo was 28x more common than post covid in 16-24 yo males in this massive Nordic study published in @JAMACardio @drdrew @contrarian4data
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Oct 21, 2022
    Was asked to review myo rates post vax vs post covid Using this Nordic study of 23 million For 16-24 yo males, post vax myo rates were 6 (pfizer-pfizer) to 28 (pfizer-moderna) x HIGHER than post covid Males 12-15 had 0 post covid myo cases See # s in 🧵 jamanetwork.com/journals/jamac…
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    SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort Study of 23 Million Residents
    This cohort study conducted using nationwide registers assesses the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis after SARS-CoV-2 messenger RNA vaccinations in a combined population of 23.1 million indivi...
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Jan 19, 2022
    🇳🇴👏:"Norwegian authorities believe 5-11-year-old children can be better protected against future coronavirus variants if they are infected naturally instead of vaccinated. Vaccination will be an option directed at the most vulnerable," says the major Danish newspaper @politiken
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    Politiken
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    Jan 19, 2022
    Norske myndigheder mener, at 5-11-årige børn kan være bedre beskyttet mod fremtidige coronavarianter, hvis de smittes naturligt frem for vaccineres. Vaccine bliver et tilbud rettet til sårbare. politiken.dk/indland/art857…
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Dec 12, 2022
    💯 👇 "Public-health officials have massively exaggerated long Covid to scare low-risk Americans as our government gives more than $1 billion to a long Covid medical-industrial complex" Thank you, Dr. @MartyMakary for telling it like it is
    The Exaggeration of Long Covid
    Opinion | The Exaggeration of Long Covid
    From wsj.com
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Sep 13, 2024
    How effective was the 2023-24 mRNA covid vax vs Covid infection? Below are data from Cleveland Clinic showing the unadjusted cumulative Covid incidence by vax status👇 Day 0=12/31/2023 🔵Vaccinated 🔴Unvaccinated Does this appear like an effective vax vs infection to you? 1/
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Dec 26, 2021
    🇬🇧 The research group at Oxford who compared myocarditis rates after covid to after the vax (nature.com/articles/s4159…) have just released a new analysis: In males 16-39, Myocarditis more common after Pfizer dose 2 & 3 & Moderna dose 2 than after infection medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Aug 8, 2022
    🇩🇰 Child vax rec from Denmark: "Children only very rarely get seriously ill from the omicron variant...from July 1st, it will no longer be possible for children <18 to get their 1st dose & from Sept 1st they will no longer be able to get their 2nd dose" sst.dk/da/corona/vacc…
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Feb 15, 2022
    Tragic but revealing report from Yale of 2 teenage boys who died of "acute myocardial injury" 3 & 4 days after Pfizer vax. Neither had typical cardiac symptoms, both found dead in bed. "may represent overly exuberant immune response & myocardial injury"
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    Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
    The Archives is the monthly, peer-reviewed medical journal of the College of American Pathologists.
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Jan 27, 2022
    🇸🇪 Sweden is not recommending COVID-19 vaccination of non high-risk children 5-11 "'With a low risk for serious disease for kids, we don't see any clear benefit with vaccinating them' Health Agency official Britta Bjorkholm told a news conference."
    A health worker vaccinates an elderly person with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccination clinic in a church in Sollentuna, north of Stockholm, Sweden March 2, 2021. Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency/via REUTERS
    Sweden decides against recommending COVID vaccines for kids aged 5-11
    From reuters.com
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Jan 5, 2022
    Just to make this crystal clear, data just released from Denmark (where 85% of infections are omicron) show no effect of the booster against being infected and no difference between 2 and 3 doses against severe disease except 3 doses better against severe disease for those >70.
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Jan 5, 2022
    🇩🇰Updated data from Denmark showing highest rates of infection in those who have received *boosters* who are >40 yo 🟢booster 🔵2 doses 🔴previously infected 🟠unvaccinated But see adjustment for test # s below Denmark now w/around 85% omicron @SSI_dk (covid19danmark.dk/#gennembrudsin…)
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Sep 3, 2024
    🎯 Having raised my kids, given birth & practiced medicine in both the US & Denmark, I am also fascinated by how many more vaccines the US gives to children than Denmark & most Americans I meet are shocked to learn: Denmark 🇩🇰 -does not give Hep B at birth unless the mother is
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    Retsef Levi
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    Sep 3, 2024
    The striking differences between the childhood vaccination schedules of the US & Sweden raise many questions: 1. What is known in the US & not in Sweden? 2. Are we over using vaccines in the US? 3. Why there is no research that compares outcomes (both cannot be optimal)?
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    Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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    Jun 26, 2022
    🇨🇦Ontario reporting the highest rate of post vaccination myocarditis I've seen: 1/1287 (777/mill) in males 18-24 if they received Pfizer then Moderna within 30 days Moderna >6x higher risk of myo than pfizer This & the new study from France discussed 🧵 jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
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