Chad Hancock

Husband, Father, Son, Brother, Researcher, Educator, Student and Sports Fan.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

Last night @SecKennedy defended the President’s claim that children receive vaccinations the size of a soda bottle. His explanation was that the President meant the cumulative volume of the whole schedule when he said he’d seen vaccinations “the size of a soda bottle being poured into a child.”

OK, then let’s do the whole schedule.
A vaccine dose is 0.5 milliliters. One tenth of a teaspoon. Every parent who has taken their kid in for shots has seen the syringe. It’s not a soda bottle. That’s absurd.

The biggest visit of a child’s life is the 2-month visit. Five injections, about 2.5 milliliters, half a teaspoon. Everything a baby receives by injection in the first 6 months of life adds up to roughly 2 teaspoons.

The whole schedule, birth through age 18, every recommended vaccine, including a flu shot every single year, comes to roughly 55 injections and under 30 milliliters. A shot glass holds 44. Eighteen years of childhood vaccines do not fill a shot glass.
A 20-ounce soda bottle holds 590 milliliters. That is more than 20 times the entire schedule, more than 200 times the biggest visit, and more than 1,000 times an actual dose. No version of this claim comes anywhere near a soda bottle. An executive order was signed anyway.

@SecKennedy also repeated that childhood vaccines were never tested in placebo-controlled trials. My colleagues and I have systematically reviewed every randomized trial of childhood vaccines back to 1940. Nearly all were placebo-controlled, every vaccine on the schedule was evaluated in at least one placebo-controlled trial, and close to half used plain saline or the equivalent. The mumps vaccine inside the MMR was proven against placebo in the 1960s. The first hepatitis B vaccine was proven in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1980. The 1954 polio trial randomized roughly 600,000 children to vaccine or placebo, still the largest medical experiment ever conducted.

So here is where we are. The President described something that does not exist and could not exist, a soda bottle of vaccine poured into a child, the same instinct as suggesting people inject disinfectant. And when the Secretary of Health and Human Services was asked a simple yes-or-no question about whether it was accurate, he couldn’t say no. He defended it. The nation’s top health official either doesn’t know what a vaccine dose looks like or won’t say so, and I honestly don’t know which is worse.

Nobody around this president will correct him, even about a syringe, even with children’s health on the line. So the fantasy stands, the executive order stands, and parents are left frightened of something that was never real, in the middle of the worst measles year since 1991, with over 2,500 cases and counting.

The arithmetic takes five minutes. The fear takes five seconds. That’s the whole strategy.

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

When the WHO has to issue a warning about a new U.S. policy on health, you know we’ve truly gone off the rails. But that’s how ridiculous, absurd and dangerous Trump’s new E.O. on childhood vax policy looks to anyone with even an iota of science education.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Vaccines have changed the course of human health.

In 2025: Zero polio. Zero diphtheria. Zero rubella. Zero smallpox.

Vaccines work.

[Nick Krontiris @nick_krontiris]

In this study, mechanical stimulation via percussive massage promoted targeted skeletal muscle metabolic adaptations during muscle disuse, but was insufficient to mitigate overt structural remodeling and prevent disuse-induced functional decline.

[Chad Hancock @chdhan]

@NutritionNerd @BYU Glad to have you! Thanks for coming.

[Chad Hancock @chdhan]

@JaysonGifford I am sure you wished your family was with you, but you were in a much more magical place. I love that area.

[Chad Hancock @chdhan]

Congratulations to @ErikDMarchant on having this review on heat stress and mitochondrial adaptations published. https://t.co/0nz81KmIsd

[Chad Hancock @chdhan]

@catgyoung I had never heard of that before.

[Chad Hancock @chdhan]

Amazing! Tremendous leadership Keoni! Truly making a difference!

[Keoni Kauwe @PrezKauweBYUH]

98% of the entire BYU–Hawaii 'ohana has been vaccinated. Congratulations, Seasiders!
Thanks for your efforts to ensure that we can continue teaching, learning, and living in a safer environment. @byuhawaii @nomihealth

[htw @heniek_htw]

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[Chad Hancock @chdhan]

@BYUCardioLab

[Chad Hancock @chdhan]

@MitochondriaNe1 @mito_papers @MitoResearch
Check out this case study on twins from our research group. A 100km ultramarathon causes reduction in skm mitochondrial respiration and it appears to be fully recovered 2 days later.
https://t.co/znKHgv6S4S

[Chad Hancock @chdhan]

@DJJazzyJody View of Utah valley from Sundance with my 11 yr old daughter.

[Chad Hancock @chdhan]

@DJJazzyJody View of Timp from Sundance earlier this year.

[Chad Hancock @chdhan]

@DrFrazierSays @DJJazzyJody Another one in Birch just a couple of weeks ago.

[Chad Hancock @chdhan]

@HumbleHerper It seems pretty clear, at least from the early months of this outbreak, that the covid deaths were undercounted. Pneumonia and Influenza deaths charted here. https://t.co/XS4vtdcq2U

[Russell M. Nelson @NelsonRussellM]

Today I joined with friends and leaders from the @NAACP to publish an op-ed about racial equality. We call on people everywhere to join us in a journey of understanding and overcoming.

https://t.co/sAjJp0pkfV

[Chad Hancock @chdhan]

@bpilk10 @avery_abe He did :)

[Paige Geiger @PaigeGeigerPhD]

Dr. Holloszy would love this confirmation of his hypothesis about Glut4 pools post-exercise! He is surely smiling down on this now.

[Thomas E. Jensen @tejensen23]

Unlike a high‐fat diet model, mitochondrial ROS production does not appear to contribute to bed rest‐induced insulin resistance https://t.co/xCmVF2xhyp