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Medical misinformation has been brought to the forefront of the conversation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From the nightly news to social media, everyone is trying to figure out a way to lessen the damaging effects of harmful information plaguing the internet. But what about true scientific debate? How do we differentiate between medical misinformation that has the potential to truly hurt people and scientific debate that could test what we know and continue to improve upon the foundation of medical science?

In this episode, I discuss the importance of being able to distinguish between the two through two historical case studies. One shows the importance of challenging medical information with science in the name of progress, while the other showcases the danger of misinformation that goes unchallenged in the name of profit. 

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Disclaimer: All information discussed or provided by Jonathan Baktari, M.D. (“Dr. Baktari”) and/or his affiliates/guests are for educational purposes only. The information discussed and provided is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.  Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical concern or condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of any information discussed or provided by Dr. Baktari or his affiliates/guests!  If you think you may have a medical emergency, call 911 immediately.  All information concerning hospitals, physicians, insurers, and other healthcare-related companies is based on Dr. Baktari’s observations of the healthcare industry as a whole and do not reflect on any specific hospital, physician, insurer, or other healthcare-related company.

Due to their recent findings, Merck and partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to grant emergency use authorization for their new drug, Molnupiravir, to treat adults with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 who are at risk for severe disease or hospitalization. 

In today's episode, I use my biochemistry background along with my many years of experience in the medical field to dissect their study, what it could mean for the future of the Coronavirus Pandemic and explain just how Molnupiravir works. Is the COVID-19 pill a replacement to the mRNA vaccines? Is their a risk of Molnupiravir affecting your own DNA? Could this pill dramatically reduce the deaths from COVID-19? I go over all of these questions and more.  

Links to the resources I discuss in this episode:

Merck and Ridgeback’s Investigational Oral Antiviral Molnupiravir Reduced the Risk of Hospitalization or Death by Approximately 50 Percent Compared to Placebo for Patients with Mild or Moderate COVID-19 in Positive Interim Analysis of Phase 3 Study:
https://www.merck.com/news/merck-and-ridgebacks-investigational-oral-antiviral-molnupiravir-reduced-the-risk-of-hospitalization-or-death-by-approximately-50-percent-compared-to-placebo-for-patients-with-mild-or-moderat/

β-D-N4-hydroxycytidine Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Through Lethal Mutagenesis But Is Also Mutagenic To Mammalian Cells:
https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/224/3/415/6272009?login=true

Letter to the Editor in Response to Zhou et al:
https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiab362/6319402

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Disclaimer: All information discussed or provided by Jonathan Baktari, M.D. (“Dr. Baktari”) and/or his affiliates/guests are for educational purposes only. The information discussed and provided is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.  Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical concern or condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of any information discussed or provided by Dr. Baktari or his affiliates/guests!  If you think you may have a medical emergency, call 911 immediately.  All information concerning hospitals, physicians, insurers, and other healthcare-related companies is based on Dr. Baktari’s observations of the healthcare industry as a whole and do not reflect on any specific hospital, physician, insurer, or other healthcare-related company.

Pfizer released results from a NEW study on September 20, 2021 showing the COVID-19 vaccine is effective and safe for kids 5 to 11 years old: "In participants 5 to 11 years of age, the vaccine was safe, well tolerated and showed robust neutralizing antibody responses." In this week's episode, I use my many years of experience in the field of medicine as a Medical Doctor, Medical Director, Educator, and Vaccine Expert to break down the results of this new study and what this means for the Coronavirus Pandemic moving forward. 

Link to the Study:
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-announce-positive-topline-results

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Why should children get vaccinated? If you're pregnant, should you get the COVID-19 vaccine? Who should get the COVID-19 booster? If you've been infected with COVID-19, do you still need to get vaccinated? These are some of the top questions I get asked all the time concerning the Coronavirus pandemic. It's important to stay up to date on what the current recommendations are as new data and new variants come out. As a Medical Doctor and vaccine expert, I use my many years of experience to break down the most current information so you can make informed decisions to keep you and your family safe. 

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While it's true that all currently authorized and recommended COVID-19 vaccines are safe, effective, and reduce your risk of severe illness, there are new studies that show when compared with the Pfizer vaccine and Johnson & Johnson vaccine that: patients receive double the amount of antibodies from the Moderna vaccine , the Moderna vaccine has a higher percentage when preventing infection or hospitalization and the Moderna vaccine has a higher percentage in reducing breakthrough cases. What are the differences between the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines? Is the Moderna vaccine better than the Pfizer vaccine or the Johnson and Johnson vaccine? That answer has yet to be uncovered.  As a Medical Doctor who has spent years going over medical studies, I go over these three new studies and breakdown exactly what they mean so you can make an informed decision.

At this time the CDC does not recommend one vaccine over another. It is still better and recommended to get whatever vaccine is offered to you first.

The three studies showing this emerging data are:
1. Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Response Following Vaccination With BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273: 

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2783797?guestAccessKey=6ead80fe-bf08-4d53-8c5c-607249932480&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&utm_content=olf&utm_term=083021

2. Comparison of two highly-effective mRNA vaccines for COVID19 during periods of Alpha and Delta variant prevalence:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261707v2.full.pdf

3. Interim Estimates of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against COVID-19–Associated Emergency Department or Urgent Care Clinic Encounters and Hospitalizations Among Adults During SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant Predominance — Nine States, June–August 2021:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e2.htm?s_cid=mm7037e2_w

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Many physicians contemplate leaving clinical medicine but few know how to make the transition. Becoming a doctor requires a large commitment of both time and money and many doctors are not trained to do anything else. These are just some of the hurdles physicians face when trying to leave clinical medicine. In this week's episode I deep dive into the reasons physicians want to leave clinical medicine, the challenges they face after leaving clinical medicine, and my own personal story of leaving clinical medicine to become a healthcare CEO.

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While health officials are developing a plan to roll out COVID-19 booster shots to people in the U.S., many people are wondering who will be eligible for these booster shots. What exactly is a booster shot and how is the booster shot different from the first two doses of the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna? As a medical doctor and vaccine expert, I break down the COVID-19 booster shots starting with addressing common questions about the Delta variant and ending with what we can expect moving forward with the Coronavirus continuing to exist in our lives.

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The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine, officially named Comirnaty. On the 23rd of August, 2021, Comirnaty became the first vaccine under emergency authorization to receive such an approval for those 16 and over. The data gathered under the emergency authorization period was substantial and rigorously reviewed before it was handed in to the FDA for full review. 

Dr. Gregory Poland, Head of the Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group and Infectious disease expert was quoted as saying, “This is a spectacular human accomplishment. Think of this from 18 months ago or so when this was identified to having hundreds of millions, billions when you look worldwide that have received a vaccine and the speed at which the science has been able to move. Amazing."

Now, being a Vaccine Expert with 20+ years of experience in Pulmonary and Critical care, I explain what this information means for us now and well into the future. I discuss what the FDA approval means, how it addresses vaccine hesitancy, how it will impact the legal world and how this impacts what we can expect as the new normal.

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Most people have no idea what a hospitalist is even though it's the largest subspecialty in Internal Medicine. If you've ever been admitted to the hospital, you probably received care from a hospitalist. When did hospitals start using hospitalists and why? Well we're going to go over how in just 20 years internists, who were the doctors working in hospitals, were replaced by hospitalists. This was due to a combination of forces...

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What's wrong with the US Healthcare System? A lot. But the most important point is the transaction between Medical Doctors and Insurance Companies. In this close analysis, we take a look at the problems of the US healthcare system through the eyes of the Doctors, Health Insurance  Companies, and you, the Patient. How to fix the healthcare system in the US is a tough question to answer, but the underlying problems of the relationship dynamics between Doctors and the US healthcare insurance companies that employ them through incentives, restrictions, and more are integral in knowing why it doesn't work. Each of these parties play their part in the exchange and only when knowing the true issues with the American healthcare system can we begin to fix it... 

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