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Creator of youcanknowthings.com | Emergency Medicine resident | R dataviz nerd | SciComm writer | posts my own views and not medical advice | #MedSky
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We want to save the NASA Ballooning Program! Help us here at www.change.org/p/save-nasa-...
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Here you go!
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Stay tuned for the next post in the series.
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I think we need a MAHA promoting junk food account
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In some studies there was no reduction, in others there was.
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Here are the CDC guidelines: www.cdc.gov/measles/hcp/...
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It's possibly confounded by that, but at least according to UpToDate (one of the most trusted summaries of evidence-based guidelines for physicians), vitamin A is recommended for cases of severe measles. There are limited data in resource-rich settings, probs causes measles is rare here.
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3. Vitamin A does not *prevent* measles, nor is it a sure cure.
4. Vaccines do prevent measles (97% effective).
5. It's possible to overdose on vitamin A, too much is toxic.
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low health literacy also likely plays a significant role, but the solution to that is to teach people, not call them stupid.
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Getting some comments about how this shows people are stupid, low IQ's, etc, and I really don't think that is it. This is driven by information bubbles and lack of trust. And calling people stupid will only make things worse.
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Criticizing peoples deeply held religious beliefs and calling them stupid for having is not a great way to show people they’re wrong about vaccinations.
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I don't think this is about IQ's, it's more about information bubbles.