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Marty Makary MD, MPH
@MartyMakary
The 'natural immunity is unreliable' theory has done a lot of damage. It's OK to have a wrong hypothesis but public health leaders have pushed their theory way too long after data became overwhelmingly clear,yet remarkably clinging to their outdated theory
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Washington Journal: Dr. Marty Makary Discusses His Book, The Price We Pay, on Health Care System
Dr. Marty Makary, author of [The Price We Pay], talked about what he feels needs to change in health care as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health care system.
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Marty Makary MD, MPH
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The natural immunity is unreliable hypothesis was the opposite hypothesis many of us had last year given the observational data of doctors & nurses consistently saying "We are rarely seeing re-infections and when they occur they are not severe" Clinical wisdom that was dismissed.
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Marty Makary MD, MPH
@MartyMakary
Getting this wrong has resulted in tremendous avoidable harm: 1. Thousands of seniors died waiting for a vax when we were vaxing ppl w/ nat imm 2. Bad guidance to the world 3. Heart complications from vaxing kids w/ nat imm 4. Kids kicked out of sch 5. Distracting from vax effort
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Joel Chaffins
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Never understood this as well and only increases the distrust in politicians and public health. Had Covid last July with mild symptoms and have donated plasma each 5-6 weeks since. Been positive for Covid antibodies for 14 months. But guess I’m an unvaccinated threat. 🤦‍♂️
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Jenny Bishop
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The lab test that shows you HAVE covid (and the date) or that you’ve HAD covid should be able taken into consideration. Instead of “vaccinated” it should be “immune”.
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