News You Can Use – It’s All About Vaccines

Vaccine Results

By Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick
Twitter: @drnic1
Host of Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist – #TheIncrementalist

This month’s episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December 2020.

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As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. This month’s news is filled with the results of the US elections that we both correctly predicted the outcome (the winner and how long it would take for the results).

We discuss in detail the three vaccines that have now made it through Phase 3 trials (Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca) and showing positive results. we dive into the details of distribution, what the cold storage requirement means on the ground, and the challenge of tracking multiple doses that are timed differently dependent on what vaccine you end up receiving since you can’t mix and match.

Craig shares the background to the counter-intuitive details around the efficacy of the AstraZeneca vaccine that is more effective when the first dose is given at a lower dose and how they discovered this detail. Listen in to hear what this will mean in practical terms for our world and how people should process the continued emerging news.

This article was originally published on the Dr. Nick – The Incrementalist blog and is republished here with permission.