Sitemap - 2024 - Vinay Prasad's Observations and Thoughts

Covid shots don't need to be 'pulled' from the market, we just need to stop giving EUA to boosters without data

A San Francisco professor is glad to get Covid and wrote about it

The true story of the Samoa measles outbreak

An open letter to Harvard President, Alan Garber

The ENTIRE healthcare system is broken, not just health insurance companies. It is NOT HEROIC to assassinate insurance CEOs

The difference between the US childhood vaccination schedule and Denmark's

Will Biden Pardon Fauci?

How to judge federal nominees: Stories about bears, sex scandals, conflict of Interest... And what about their *actual views*? what is relevant?

Sabotaging RFK Jr's confirmation will increase vaccine hesitancy

Jay Bhattacharya is a superb pick for NIH director

Free lecture in San Diego - How to read trials

Marty Makary: Is the First Good Pick for FDA commissioner in a long time

A simple suggestion for RFK Jr to end corruption in medicine

Suggestions for a Practical Way of Responding to RFK, Jr: Reflections from an Infectious Disease Doctor

Does RFK Jr have a guiding philosophy or is he just spitballing?

Do other countries do it? A simple litmus test for RFK Jr's ideas

RFK Jr for HHS secretary!

Doctors criticizing RFK Jr. paved the way for his ascendency

Doctors migrating to bluesky is like Harris declining to speak with Joe Rogan

Will RFK Jr make it all the way to HHS secretary?

What does 'equity' mean?

What does RFK Jr mean for healthcare?

Why Did Trump Win?

More suggestions for FDA reform for a Trump presidency

What a Trump presidency can mean for health care

Medicine is becoming more corrupt

The National Academy of Medicine is only inducting COVID commenters who were incorrect

Vaccines are like drugs: Some are safe, some are effective, and some have benefits > harms, but not all

Questions graduating med students can ask on residency interviews, and some they shouldn't

Book 4: The Story of the Lost Child

Walensky wins the IDSAs Fauci Award

Public health should be distrusted

Lessons from Emory-- Masking Mistakes

5 Lessons from Stanford's COVID Conference

LIVE from Stanford

Let's take a close look at PARADIGM-HF

Is there a difference between Jay Varma for tecovirimat and Ashish Jha for Paxlovid?

Dr Jay Varma's sex parties are a metaphor for public health: Do as I say, not as I do

Does Molnupinavir reduce the risk of long COVID?

Doctors who advise a healthy child to get a 2024 fall booster are committing malpractice

An overdose of second opinions

Book 2 of Elena Ferrante's Neopolitan Series sizzles

Women have more strokes than men, but new European Guidelines remove 'women' bc it omits 'non-binary' & transgendered people.

A New JAMA paper shows: it is vaccine myocarditis PLUS covid myocarditis

Zuckerberg admits Biden administration pressured him to remove COVID content

The dishonest booster campaign

To work for the Harris campaign you have to be 'up to date' on unnecessary boosters

Price negotiation does not save money when keep you paying for drugs that don't work

Tim Walz's COVID policy as Minnesota Governor

Should Doctors Comment about Politics?

Trust in doctors and hospitals is down;

Vin Gupta for MSNBC

A new study in Nature Communications claims COVID vaccines decrease cardiovascular harms. Sadly, the study is not trustworthy.

When Oncologists Sell Out to Pharma

Doing whatever it takes to get ahead

When Deans Talk Politics

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante is the #1 book of the 21st century per the NYTimes

JAMA Network Open publishes observational study on topic JAMA published a meta-analysis of RCTs on: Why?

What is going on at JAMA Network Open?

Do not donate to the American Cancer Society, LLS, Johns Hopkins or Harvard.

What free medical school doesn't do

When the patient is in the room, stop typing your note

Ashish Jha's prior life: Other scientists are 'clowns,' not 'a serious player,' and he didn't want to sit next to the unvaccinated

The NYTimes should not cover Violet Affleck's Comments

3 reasons why I am pessimistic that Ozempic is the solution to obesity

Johns Hopkins Pancreas Cancer Screening Clinic Publishes Flawed Study to Justify their Unproven Medical Experiment

Ashish Jha says vaccine mandates "bred a lot of distrust and were harmful as well"

When doctors comment on Supreme Court Cases they don't understand

Fearful, biased scientists have created an annual tradition based on no data

Should doctors encourage patients to vote?

NEJM posts a perspective saying Stanford should have corrected Scott Atlas: Why? To look foolish? B/c Atlas was correct & his critics were wrong

Top Hospitals offer Long COVID clinics that appear, to me, to be little more than a scam to make money

"That's not my job" - an attitude I find troubling among physicians

Woodcock and Marks at FDA forced Krause out from vaccine products to ram through full FDA approval to justify the Biden vaccine mandates

During the COVID pandemic, the British Medical Journal massively published zero COVID zealot views & seldom the other side

What deficiency is the greatest concern in medical education?

Eric Topol promotes paper where GLP1 drugs prevent dementia-- but the effect is too fast to be plausible

New York Times reporters are biased

CT screening for lung cancer for homeless people: the new JAMA IM paper

Anthony Fauci, objectively, did a bad job: Media coverage of his book has fallen short of engaging with his actions/ words

Update on Cochrane Review of Masks

Paxlovid doesn't help long COVID; The Biden Administration Gave Pfizer 10 billion dollars for a bad drug

Who is correct about content moderation in public heath?

Rebuttal to comments from EconTalk

Why no one is right about UCLA medical school: Top schools can't settle for *average* grads & Reporters have to analyze data properly

Fauci actively hid his communications from the public on Lab Leak

University of Colorado's COVID vaccine mandate is defeated in the 10th circuit court

Francis Collins admits to major errors and lies to the House subcommittee

When Medical Evidence Expires

Observational studies of COVID vaccine efficacy are riddled with bias/ Not counting cases 14 days after dose 2 is a problem

Closing thoughts on Baker v. Jefferson

Stanford Prof. Criticizes Student's Reporter Dad, Student emails Prof; Prof Posts Student's Email, Internet explodes

COVID19 vaccines linked to myocarditis, pericarditis, ITP, Guillain Barre Syndrome, Bell's Palsy, ADEM, PE, Febrile seizures & more

The CDC is already mismanaging H5N1

Time 100 Health Care reinforces hypocrisy and errors

Exclusive Episode 32 of VPZD

Should you be worried about Bird Flu?

Why you should NOT get a whole body MRI

It is disappointing that the CDC is dishonest

Open concerns with recent RCTs for Maternal RSV vaccination

My comments at Friday's FDA drug advisory meeting

Unhelpful, inflammatory Jama Network Open paper suggests that people in Red states dream up vaccine injuries

Boycotting conferences in red states doesn't change laws

Thoughts on the Andrew Huberman profile in the New York Magazine & Huberman's science

Recent award winners & new journal editors

A flawed paper claims COVID19 vaccines prevent cardiovascular complications for a YEAR after the shot

Rochelle Walensky Gives SGIM Keynote

UCSF has match day outdoors & plans on contact tracing... in 2024

My enthusiasm for Chat GPT in medicine is down

If results are too good to be true, you can't exclude harms

The New York Times still won't cover covid honestly

Donating money to make medical school free just make rich doctors richer; It's the worst use of philanthropic giving

What is happening to medical students?

Why is Apoorva Mandavilli giving lectures on misinformation when her own articles require so many corrections?

Science may not be able to exist on controversial issues

Apoorva Mandavilli keeps making mistakes at the New York Times to exaggerate the risk of COVID to keep Americans scared

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Exercise helps long covid patients in a randomized trial

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

Does the kids COVID vaccine work? Does the XBB1.5 booster work? Test negative case control studies are prone to bias

Image duplication software is not the solution

Fraud & retraction at Dana Farber/ Harvard

Boosters do not work in people who have had COVID

Or are we crazy because of particulate matter?

Should we just stop talking about COVID19?

One more argument against Hospitals re-instituting mask mandates

Robert Califf the FDA commissioner is making inappropriate and irresponsible claims about vaccines and boosters on twitter

Harvard president resigns