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Michelle has gone all in on TikTok—not just for fun, mind you, but because certain medical professionals have turned it into a surprisingly engaging resource for both other people in their field as well as the average layperson. This week, she invited the people behind three of her favorite accounts to discuss how they educate about COVID and vaccination while trying to tamp down on the myriad falsehoods surrounding those very touchy subjects.

 

Tyler (@thatsassynp on TikTok) is a pulmonary nurse practitioner who does both in- and out-patient work and who previously worked in the ICU as a registered nurse; over the last couple of years he’s become very interested in vaccines, how they work, and the disinformation surrounding them. Savannah (@rx0rcist) is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) who left her previous role as a retail pharmacist and discovered a massive need for evidence-based medicine in the process. Christina (@christinaaaaaaanp) is a nurse practitioner with an oncological focus who saw TikTok as an opportune platform to combat the myths surrounding COVID. 

In this episode, our guests lay out how mNRA vaccines are a “plug-and-play technology,” debunk some key anti-vaccination talking points, and explain why there are new variants of COVID-19.

 

 

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

 

Interview starts: 8:37

 

- What kind of work goes into making their educational TikToks?

 

- Who makes up the guests’ collective audiences on TikTok?

 

- How a “dumpster fire” can easily develop in the comments beneath even the most innocuous videos.

 

- Why these vaccines have NOT been rushed.

 

- The difference between “traditional” and mRNA vaccines.”

 

- Why Savannah finds the vaccine and certain people’s response to it to be so fascinating.

 

- The reason you should worry about being vaccinated if you’re pregnant or breastfeeding.

 

- The country whose vaccine rollout Tyler has been keeping a close eye on.

 

- Why you still need to get the vaccine even if you’ve had COVID.

 

 

QUOTES:

 

“It’s a human thing and a social media problem.”

 

“When you have a technology that’s been worked on for decades and you have this lovely pandemic to work with, it’s just like a recipe for perfection to establish and make a vaccine.”

 

“Instead of saying ‘Oh my god, why is it rushed?!’ it’s like ‘Oh my god, why have we never put this much energy and time into making vaccines?!’”

 

“It’s really promising for the future as well for mNRA technology and how it’s gonna be applied to future vaccines and how quickly we’re going to be able to get vaccines when the next pandemic hits us.”

 

“These committees don’t take this lightly at all.”

 

“Almost all clinical studies will have pregnancy as an exclusion criteria.”

 

“It’s a pandemic, not a light switch; we don’t just turn it off.”

 

“We’ve been at this for a year. We can keep doing this with some hope at the end.”

 

“You have to have a strong voice and you’ve gotta keep speaking.”

 

LINKS:

Tyler on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thatsassynp 

Savannah on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@rx0rcist

Christina on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@christinaaaaaaanp

 

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