[ed note: Michael Jorrin is longtime medical writer who has been sharing his thoughts with our readers as “Doc Gumshoe” for several years (he’s not a doctor, I gave him the name). He generally covers medical and health news and sometimes health promotions and hype, but he rarely opines about investments or specific stocks. All […]
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I was surprised and somewhat overwhelmed by the volume of comments about the Doc Gumshoe “COVID 19 Miscellany” post....
Yes, they estimate that the death rate was about 0.1% — but could be much lower, since the denominator is probably lar...
Thxs Travis, great as ever. Of course I went and read the article and true enough it does state that in US between 1985 ...
Why does Dr. William Thompson of the CDC,who has been promoted, & still works at the CDC, disagree with you about au...
can you guide me to where you got your "0.2% will die from measles" Prediction like the one they gave for this covid 1...
Your statement that covid deaths will be “much much higher” is relying on the medical models that have proven to be...
We have a measles vaccine because around 0.2% of cases will die. So do the math....
Doc gumshoe insinuates that parents who refused to have their kids vaccinated against the measles caused some other vacc...
Glad to see so many epidemiologists on this thread! : Mother has measles = baby is immune? UNTRUE Smallpox is rampant ...
Agree for the most part. However, the Salk polio vaccine (and the Sabin corollary) worked. As for measles, women who get...
All plagues come & go over history & Pre-history. Most plagues occurred before the first vaccine was invented; ...
We do need more censorship, & community (communist?) concern for our comrades. Thank you for no data refuting any o...
Ken, You have obviously spent a great deal of your life's capital coming to your position that the moneygrubbing medical...
https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/186-19/de-blasio-administration-s-health-department-declares-public-health...
Dear Kenk, You are citing several publications, would you care to either share a link or share a better citation (autho...
Well, lets just bury the stats on vaccines and believe they cause no harm. Do you know that if your child dies shortly ...
It makes sense that the outbreak of measles in California would somehow be connected to not inoculated coming across the...
yukonjack, I have never had the measles either, not any childhood disease, as mumps, measles, or chicken pox. Neither h...
Hey, when I was a kid waaaay back in the day, I had the (standard) trifecta: Mumps, measles and chicken pox. Hell, it ma...
"Doc" just to clarify your response to yukonjack, are you implying that if he/she was born prior to 57 they likely had t...
So make sure not to catch measles now! It's not a nice illness when you're a kid (except for getting to stay home from...
Assumptions are the mother of all disasters. I was born before 1957 and have never had the measles....
Tomorrow is our annual Indian Displacement Day. We celebrate when your nutty puritan Protestants came over and mowed dow...
Is English your primary language? How is your pronunciation? If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught ...
Being old school and a fatalist you gottta die from something. Growing up in the 50s the greatest fear was living in an ...
BTW: If ya really wanna do sommat.... adopt $ENUM; become the Gummy go to guy. That research process will teach you 99 w...
....And vive la difference! Interesting commentary from Nature, stuff I did not know I did not know. Infections re...
Actually, many people forget that measles is a potentially deadly disease. The mortality rate is 0.2%. .[4] Before immun...
I disagree, government men are not always right. These vaccinations should be optional based on cicumstance. I do warn p...
Calling 230 cases of measles in a state with a population of almost 40 million an "epidemic" is beyond hyperbole. Becaus...
Many thanks for all the comments. Re the vaccination schedule, yes, infants and toddlers get many vaccinations startin...
Re: cost effective medicine - Isn't there something wrong with mindset about "medicine" that you "have to take forever" ...
Ditto here Benny. I'm racking my brains to recall what sort of sicknesses my childhood companions had. Accidents, chic...
Yes, I am in a the small town of Ajijic, its very warm during the day and cool in the evenings. I enjoyed my earlier va...
Scorpio as a said earlier I do NOT disagree with you as to the need for government action to protect its peoples from d...
When I was a kid, we used to have measles, chicken Pox etc parties. As soon as a kid got a bug we were sent to to his ho...
If this anti-vaccine thing continues, then sure I mean it. Loving parents will vaccinate their kids. We're not just ta...
You cannot mean that! The emotional trauma to a child of being taken away from loving parents is immense - and just f...
Just saw a cartoon that showed a child with measles. It was captioned: "If you connect the measles, it spells out - my p...
Anyone have comments about ADMA which has enjoyed considerable insider buying. The following describes their lead produ...
A vaccine for malaria from Glaxo-Smith Kline maybe on it way soon http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/...
scorpio; Something I never see answered is,,,where did the unvaccinated child contract it. As I understand measles tra...
Speaking of Somalis and vaccinations (from a Dr. KSS thread months prior), "Measles outbreak traced back to a single unv...
Yes, kiddydoc, and the question is: Which natural consequence will parents choose? Clearly, the natural consequence ...
margaret, please check #502 above. below: a current result of non-vaccination! April 1 (Reuters) - The number of m...
HERE IT IS: RIGHT OFF THE PRESSES!!!!!!!! —————————————————————————...
HERE IT IS: RIGHT OFF THE PRESSES!!!!!!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------...
First, I'm a RN so I have done plenty of research. Against V..... you have a child who just happens to be healthy. My ...
Breaking: Courts discreetly confirm MMR vaccine causes autism by Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) You wo...
"why is everybody around me complaining about colds, fever, the flue, taking time off work because they don’t feel wel...
There's no twisted logic. You make a lot of suppositions. I never said 'the immunized are not out of danger.' I said it ...
For those not firmly in the science camp, and hovering toward the Myron camp, please take a look at this link. http://e...
It is important to note here, as has been alluded to, above, that herd immunity (vaccinated) protects the non-protected ...
All the anti-vaccine mob have links to their favorite little blog by some unknown doctor who is telling people big bad p...
Myron you certainly have your head in the sand, like a lot of other religious folks who hide behind a mythology and trus...
Travis: It would be interesting if we had reliable and honest statistics totally uninfluenced by monetary concerns comp...
When I was a child we got a small handful of vaccines. Some had three doses like polio. But we did not get twenty or t...
I'm not a doctor, but here's what I think: There is absolutely no question that for humanity as a whole, vaccines ar...
I have 15 years experience in the biotech field, a PhD in Immunology/Biochemistry and am strongly in favor of vaccines. ...
Got to love the anti-vaccine trolls that appear anywhere a vaccine is mentioned. Perhaps a few fractions of a % OF CHILD...