Buzz Hollander MD

Family physician, running a DPC practice with my wife.
Raising 2 girls & 5 hens in upcountry HI.
Dyed-in-the-wool centrist. Always skeptical, sometimes cynical.

[Buzz Hollander MD @buzzhollandermd]

@RxRegA @CovidConfusion @csmithsci @kevinnbass @RobertKennedyJr This very point drove me mad with the Rogan-RFK Jr. interview. Quite interesting to actually dig for examples, and, yes, many termed "placebo" in the Methods section are actually not inert once you get into the Supplement. But they exist, and RFK Jr. lied.
https://t.co/iXdDS22RLH

[Buzz Hollander MD @buzzhollandermd]

I get caught up rubber-necking sometimes, too...
https://t.co/iXdDS22RLH

[Buzz Hollander MD @buzzhollandermd]

@walidgellad It's painful to see smart, well-intentioned people get this sort of thing so very, very wrong.
https://t.co/66LyES3ZbE
(I don't have the same problem "holding back" that you do.)

[Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 @celinegounder]

New meta-analysis on risk of myocarditis from COVID infection & vaccination
https://t.co/zyzCE9Tvto

Risk of myocarditis in teens 12-17:
🔹after COVID💉vaxx was no higher than after other vaccinations.
🔹after COVD INFECTION was SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER than after COVID vaxx💉.

[Buzz Hollander MD @buzzhollandermd]

I can't stand MDs touting garbage studies like this.
The mRNA covid vaccines saved many lives.
They were a risk:benefit loser for young men.
It's okay to say that.
In fact, it *builds trust* to admit that.
Any MD should know better than to pump this study.
It's embarrassing. 9/9

[Buzz Hollander MD @buzzhollandermd]

This is the well-intentioned vaccine misinformation story that simply will not die.
https://t.co/2S9vWCT4ao
No, in the high-risk cohort for post-mRNA-vaccine myocarditis, covid-19 infection does NOT present a higher risk of myocarditis.
Let me count the ways... 1/9

[Tyler Black, MD @tylerblack32]

Hey, "science debaters," Vaccines cause less myocarditis than COVID does.

This meta-analysis shows clearly that COVID Vaccines's risk of myocarditis is far less than COVID's risk of myocarditis in 12 to 17 year olds by an order of magnitude.
https://t.co/ChW30v4amr

[Buzz Hollander MD @buzzhollandermd]

To bring the recent study into the realm of pure absurdity, they choose to highlight the safety of the mRNA vaccines re myocarditis by comparing it to the smallpox vaccine - a vaccine which causes myocarditis in young men at an even more alarming rate than the mRNA vaccines! 8/9

[Buzz Hollander MD @buzzhollandermd]

Interesting timing, though, with the US about to declassify a trove of documents about their investigation into WIV next week.
Perhaps some real insights will emerge?
But for now my lab-leak agnosticism remains. 4/4

[Buzz Hollander MD @buzzhollandermd]

I was sent via @MarkReardonKFTK's henchmen an article from London's heavily-read, center-right, "The Times," purporting that China/PLA was deliberately engineering SARS-CoV-2 at the WIV:
https://t.co/WfUTeytqXH
Pretty inflammatory stuff!
And the MSM is ignoring it over here. 1/4

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Investigators who scrutinised top secret United States intelligence believe the Covid 19 pandemic was the result of a leak from the Wuhan laboratory https://t.co/rxAgU82g73

[Buzz Hollander MD @buzzhollandermd]

For those wanting to dig deeper, here is a long thread from a lab-leak-friendly commentator:
https://t.co/bnYxTrYDhX
a short one from VF writer Eban: https://t.co/CDs5otItsO
and a debunk from an anti-lab-leaker:
https://t.co/H16fgVbme3
No one loves this piece. No one honest. 3/4

[Buzz Hollander MD @buzzhollandermd]

@notaproviderMD Dr Johnson - it’s worth reading the comments under her original post and re-considering your re-tweet. I refer to her statement about HPV. Over half of cases of HPV+ cancers are now NON-cervical cancer and they are unscreenable and a nasty mess to treat. An ounce of prevention…

[Buzz Hollander MD @buzzhollandermd]

@KrugAlli Whoa! Lifetime prevalence of HPV+ oral cancer in men is app 1%. IF this vaccine reduces that 80%, that’s a NNV of 125. Oral cancer! Do you really think adverse events worse than oral cancer are approaching a 1/125 rate??? This is not Pfizer’s covid vax in teen boys here…

[Buzz Hollander MD @buzzhollandermd]

@walidgellad I so need to have a proper visit to Pittsburgh. Preferably in autumn.
Which clearly begs the question:
What will happen first?
The Steelers win a playoff game; or
We get the results from the PANORAMIC Study, Paxlovid arm?
No pressure to answer. Only if you have insights.

[Buzz Hollander MD @buzzhollandermd]

@TracyBethHoeg @HedgeyeEEvans @akheriaty @KelleyKga @caseybmulligan @DrJBhattacharya @MartyMakary None, and that # is not easily found via google. This study with lifetime costs https://t.co/6RJYhzNofk
implies a rather similar ballpark; again, my wholesale costs for a lifetime of vaccines is ~$3000, close to these nmbrs (which incl more than just the vaccine cost as per VFC).