Helen Petousis-Harris @PetousisH Twitter profile

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

NZ had higher vaccine coverage than most of these countries and lowest excess deaths. Go NZ! 🇳🇿🖤❤️🤍

Bemused medic

@NicotineLozeng

5 months

@tylerblack32 LOL

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

1 year

Covid mRNA vaccines do not increase risk of death in young people but SARS-CoV-2 infection does. Data from England on all deaths 12-29yrs.

Risk of death following COVID-19 vaccination or positive SARS-CoV-2 test in young people in England

Nature Communications - Rare but serious cardiac disease side effects have been linked to COVID-19 vaccinations, especially in young people. Here, the authors find very little evidence of an...

www.nature.com

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

7 months

COVID-19 vaccines do not increase the risk for all-cause mortality. They decrease it. To conduct a good study you need good data AND time AND appropriate expertise. Here are some studies on all-cause mortality after COVID-19 vax. 1/7

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

What these thieves have done to NZers is reprehensible. You have to be a sanctimonious self absorbed degenerate little cockroach to be to carry out an act like this. Much aroha to all the victims.

12,000 Kiwis being contacted after personal data leak

12,000 Covid-19 vaccinators have been identified as victims of the data leak.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

7 months

@nzherald I assess the safety of vaccines for a living and am lead investigator on several NZ covid-19 vaccine safety studies, along with top epidemiologists. There is ZERO evidence for increased risk for mortality after vaccination in NZ. ZIP, ZILCH,ZERO,0.😡😡😡🤮🤬

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

🧵1/8 The Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) is thrilled to announce the publication of the largest vaccine safety study ever conducted, covering 99 million vaccinated individuals. A monumental effort in #VaccineSafety research. 🌍💉

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

8 months

So important for so many reasons. Thank you @PeterHotez and loving your new book #thedeadlyriseofantiscience

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

@PeterHotez

9 months

Many thanks again to the ⁦ @latimes ⁩ for rolling the dice with me on this opinion piece and standing up for science. Not long ago we took this for granted, but tragically for the nation this is no longer the case.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

7 months

Just addressing the lies stating I had 'unfettered access' to health data in regard to covid vaccine safety and promised to publish and never did. Also claims I would not get another dose of vaccine. Facts and links below 6/6: 😀

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

Remarkable how, when provided with an exceptional piece of research that does not say what they want it to say, all the grifters and trolls manage to come up with is "conflicts of interest". This is a logical fallacy called the Ad Hominem attack. Lame.

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@PetousisH

5 months

Harder to count people who didnt die than did but this paper does just that. 1/7

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@PetousisH

7 months

Some anti-science folk appear convinced that the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is causing Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS). They claim I have lied and then they lost their shit when I said it does not. Let’s look at some evidence. 1/10

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

2 months

1/7 Response to Vinay Prasad's misunderstandings @han_francis . Vinay’s comments on the GVDN observed over expected study of adverse events of special interest post covid-19 vaccination are based on a litany of false premises and cherry picked information.

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@PetousisH

7 months

There are many others and all consistent. Hence why scientists are calling bollocks to claims of increased mortality associated with covid vaccines. More likely to stay alive in the vaccinated group. 7/7

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

My latest blog on How COVID-19 Shots Slash All-Cause Mortality and Outshine Misinformation.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

1 year

mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are associated with a small risk for myocarditis BUT NOT associated with more risk than COVID-19 disease. Useful explainer on misrepresented data claiming otherwise. Thanks for the study @anders_hviid and co. 👌👍

Myocarditis study misrepresented to fuel vaccine claim

A Facebook post claims research has found COVID mRNA vaccines cause many more cases of myocarditis than the virus itself.

www.aap.com.au

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

@HopeRising19 consider checking your facts before amplifying misinformation. Do you know the definitions of adverse events and adverse reactions? Do you understand what passive reporting is and what it is for? Do you know what background rates means?

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

7 months

US Cohort Study Compared 6.4million vaccinated individuals (with Pfizer, Moderna, or Janssen vaccines) and 4.6million unvax. Vaccinated had lower non–COVID-19 mortality risk than unvax. 2/7

COVID-19 Vaccination and Non–COVID-19 Mortality Risk ...

This report describes lower non-COVID-19 death rates among COVID-19 vaccinated people.

www.cdc.gov

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

1 year

This is encouraging. Early initiation of metformin in covid-19 infection reduced long covid 🥳Also, vaccinated people were much less likely to develop long covid. 1.8% boosted developed long covid compared with 10.5% unvaccinated. omicron era.

Eric Topol

@EricTopol

1 year

Very good news Metformin significantly helped prevent #LongCovid in a placebo-controlled randomized trial, a 42% relative reduction by @BramanteCarolyn and colleagues

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

7 months

Europe. Faster-vaccinating countries had significantly lower mortality rates compared to slower ones. Slow booster rates were linked to higher mortality during Omicron BA.1/2 dominance. 6/7

Frontiers | Comparison of vaccination and booster rates and their impact on excess mortality during...

AimTo evaluate the effect of vaccination/booster administration dynamics on the reduction of excess mortality during COVID-19 infection waves in European cou...

www.frontiersin.org

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

7 months

Argentina: 663,602 aged 60 and older evaluated impact of COVID-19 vaccines (rAd26-rAd5, ChAdOx1, and BBIBP-CorV) on all-cause mortality. Significant reduction in all-cause death, COVID-related death, and infection with any dose. 3/7

Evaluation of a COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign and SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Mortality Among Adults Aged...

Is pragmatic, large-scale use of rAd26-rAd5, ChAdOx1, and BBIBP-CorV COVID-19 vaccines associated with reduction of morbidity, all-cause mortality, and COVID-19–related mortality in a population of...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

Like @JaninePaynter says… and we do our research ethically with integrity and in collaboration with an expert multidisciplinary team. Then we offer it up for peer review. Stuff these peddlers of woo omit.

Janine Paynter ⌛🔥🌡

@JaninePaynter

5 months

Today @PetousisH and received another OIA request. I'm hoping this sets a record for OIA requests being met....it begins...for the record I'm a Senior Research Fellow not a professor (soundtrack for that comment; The Lady is a Tramp- Ella Fitzgerald does a marvellous version).

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

🧵8/8 Our focus shifts to the critical next steps of ensuring ongoing international research into vaccine safety and effectiveness. Understanding rare adverse events is key to protecting public health worldwide. #ScienceForAll 🌏💉

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@PetousisH

2 months

7/7 Vinay seems not to understand the hierarchy of vaccine safety studies. Observed overExpected are hypotheses generating studies. They are followed by hypothesis testing (association studies). He does not mention those. Omission.

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@PetousisH

7 months

Hungary: Investigated the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in preventing all-cause mortality among adults during the third wave of the epidemic. Vaccine was associated with reduction in mortality in vaccinated cohorts. 4/7

Different patterns of excess all-cause mortality by age and sex in Hungary during the 2nd and 3rd...

GeroScience - It is well accepted that COVID-19-related mortality shows a strong age dependency. However, temporal changes in the age distribution of excess relative mortality between waves of the...

link.springer.com

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@PetousisH

2 months

2/ 7 First, he asserts that the benefits of covid-19 vaccination are small. This is contrary to scientific fact. The benefits have been huge, even in younger healthier populations. Eg:

Benefit–Risk Assessment of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Children Aged 6 Months to 4 Years in the...

AbstractBackground. There is no risk and benefit assessment of COVID-19 vaccination for children younger than 5 years using a single health outcomes scale.

academic.oup.com

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@PetousisH

7 months

6/6 Claims that I was not getting another dose of vaccine have been misrepresented and several fact checkers have addressed this. For the record I have had 4 doses, age appropriate.

Vaccine expert injects some truth into U-turn claim

Facebook users have latched onto a blog which says a vaccine expert has backtracked on her COVID jab advice.

www.aap.com.au

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@PetousisH

7 months

Hungary: All-cause mortality in 6.4mil vax and nonvax groups during epidemic and nonepidemic periods. Adj for the healthy vaccinee effect, all 6 COVID vaccines used (incl Pfizer) effective in reducing all-cause mortality. 5/7

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

1 year

Well F*! Could not have come up with a better measles plot. Buckle up.

nzherald

@nzherald

1 year

#BREAKING | Imported measles case in NZ confirmed - the first since 2019, various exposure sites confirmed

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@PetousisH

2 months

6/7 He claims there was no accounting for age and gender. This is not true. The analysis is age-sex stratified.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

Exactly.

Jean Fisch

@Jean__Fisch

5 months

NZE is the only country in the world with high vax, good death data and vax happening before and not in parallel with covid It saw no excess in the<60, which is not attributable to covid This de facto kills any claim of high vax deaths made elsewhere, let me explain⤵️

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@PetousisH

4 months

My interview with ⁦ @PeaseRoland ⁩ on biggest vaccine safety study ever

Science In Action - Largest ever covid safety study - BBC Sounds

A monumental study of 99 million vaccinated people shows how rare adverse effects are.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@PetousisH

5 months

🧵2/8 This comprehensive study, published in Vaccine, along with interactive data dashboards, marks nearly three years of collaborative work aimed at enhancing our understanding of COVID-19 vaccine safety. A milestone in public health communication! 📊🔍

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@PetousisH

5 months

🧵3/8 By examining 13 neurological, blood, and heart-related conditions, the study offers unparalleled insights into the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. It's part of the broader Global COVID Vaccine Safety Project. #PublicHealth #COVID19

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@PetousisH

7 months

5/6 claims of 'unfettered access' are utter bullshit. The team have ethical approval and no one has access to identifiable data, ever. And for the record, I do not personally have any access to the data, the epi and biostats team do.

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@PetousisH

7 months

@mayer_maree @SeanPlunket They funded a meeting in Jan 2019. They do not fund me or GVDN. And even if they did, it does not change the science. Shoot the message, rather than rely on ad hominem attacks.

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@PetousisH

2 months

5/ 7 He seems not to understand there are other types of studies to test hypothesis. "'Association studies’ use a very different methodology, sometimes with reviews of patient records. An example that investigates the ADEM signal.

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@PetousisH

5 months

🧵7/8 Special thnks to lead author Kristýna Faksová and team at the Dept of Epi Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, and all collaborators on The Global COVID Vaccine Safety (GCoVS) Project. 👏🔬

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@PetousisH

7 months

@mayer_maree @SeanPlunket I am not funded by Gates, though not for lack of trying.

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@PetousisH

2 months

4/7 He uses red herrings to bamboozle like the problems with hospital coding. and claims this is an issue for the study – it is not, the study is designed to detect a change in pattern to assess causality.

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@PetousisH

5 months

🧵5/8 Also highlighted are possible safety signals for transverse myelitis after viral vector vaccines and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after both viral vector and mRNA vaccines. Further investigation has been done here. 🔬📝

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@PetousisH

7 months

There is a very good reason why use of these data sets is restricted to ethical expert researchers who actually know what they are doing. No relevant epidemiologist will concur with K1r5ch's 'findings' because they are bogus. Why is he doing this do u think?

nzherald

@nzherald

7 months

Te Whatu Ora says a staff member has threatened to release private health information online.

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@PetousisH

5 months

🧵6/8 GVDN’s interactive dashboards make this data accessible for public review, emphasising transparency and engagement in vaccine safety discussions. Check out the dashboards here: 🖥️✨]

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@PetousisH

5 months

The study also highlighted that Māori had lower vaccination rates than Europeans, and if the rates were equal, up to 26% of Māori deaths might have been avoided. Making sure everyone has equal access to vaccines should be a priority. 7/7

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

6 months

Some common sense and advice. 👍

Marc Veldhoen

@Marc_Veld

6 months

COVID-19 health for 2024 First the bad, but, most importantly, there is much good news. 1/10

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@PetousisH

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3/7 He conflates an observed over expected study with a hypothesis testing study. Observed over expected studies are hypothesis generating. They are designed to be sensitive, we do not want to miss a safety signal.

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@PetousisH

5 months

🧵4/8 Key findings include pre-established safety signals for myo and pericarditis post-mRNA vaccines, and Guillain-Barré syndrome and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis post-viral vector vaccines. Important data for ongoing vaccine safety monitoring. ❤️🧠

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@PetousisH

5 months

Not only was all-cause mortality lower that would normally be predicted but the country experienced one of the lowest death rates from COVID-19. This is inconsistent with the claims on social media made by Young and Kirsch and supported by evidence from other countries. 3/7

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

7 months

10/10 There is more but point made. So, given the body of evidence on the table to date about Pfizer mRNA covid-19 vaccine and GBS, had I agreed that the vaccine caused GBS, then I would have lied, because I was aware of this research that said otherwise.

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@PetousisH

5 months

NZ an excellent country to examine COVID-19 mortality and COVID-19 vaccines as it is one of only a few places that remained largely free of the virus until most of the population had been vaccinated. 2/7

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@PetousisH

1 year

@MackayIM @KMTechie @Ian_HKU So important to be able to present risk-risk for each age group. Balance still favours vaccine in young males. This chart is quite cool. .

newsGP - Vaccine and infection myocarditis risks contrasted

A new Immunisation Coalition chart illustrates the much higher myocarditis risks following COVID-19 infection compared to vaccination.

www1.racgp.org.au

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@PetousisH

7 months

@knutNZ Fair call @knutNZ . Here is one from the Aussies. Definitely prefer to be in the vaccine group.

Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination against COVID-19 specific and all-cause mortality in older...

Few studies have examined effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against COVID-19 and all-cause mortality across different pandemic periods in 2022.

www.thelancet.com

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@PetousisH

7 months

4/6 We have also conducted this work in collaboration with multiple other countries and you can view by country on this snazzy interactive dashboard.

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@PetousisH

6 months

Burden of proof 101.

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@PetousisH

7 months

1/6 In 2021 my team finally secured a contract to develop the normal background rates of potential adverse events of special interest post COVID-19 vaccines - and posted outputs on our website for all to see.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

By comparing different ‘what-if’ scenarios, the research suggested that vaccinations prevented about 6,650 deaths and stopped 45,100 hospital visits in an 18-month period. The number of lives saved might be even higher if we consider the effects of antiviral drugs. 6/7

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

7 months

2/6 Background rates provide information about the normal incidence of health events by age, gender, and ethnicity so we know what to expect by chance after a vaccine is deployed. Ideally they are prepared prior to vaccine launch

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@PetousisH

7 months

3/6 We provided our report to the funder and popped it on our website. Here is the link.

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@PetousisH

1 year

@RawiriTaonui She should have been declined entry IMHO. Why do people defend her right to free speech while overlooking the other human rights which she infringes upon. Too many using free speech as a veil.

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@PetousisH

5 months

However, we didn't have clear numbers on how much this helped overall health. To help figure this out, researchers used a detailed computer model that considered different levels of vaccination in various age and ethnic groups. 4/7

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

1 year

Encourage our hapu mamas to get vaccinated against covid, flu, and pertussis. Thank you @VikiLovesFACS your comms are always greatly appreciated.

Viki Male

@VikiLovesFACS

1 year

Before discouraging people from receiving a COVID vaccine or booster as a routine part of their antenatal care, I think it's important to understand why professional bodies in obstetrics recommend it. I have put this information to Naomi Wolf...

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

6 months

So proud of our 2017 study @JaninePaynter showing an OMV meningococcal vaccine could protect against kissing cousin gonorrhea. UK now recommending 😀👍

Effectiveness of a group B outer membrane vesicle meningococcal vaccine against gonorrhoea in New...

Exposure to MeNZB was associated with reduced rates of gonorrhoea diagnosis, the first time a vaccine has shown any protection against gonorrhoea. These results provide a proof of principle that can...

www.thelancet.com

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@PetousisH

4 years

We need to prepare to monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines intensively on deployment.

Janine Paynter ⌛🔥🌡

@JaninePaynter

4 years

Testing the safety of any new covid19 vaccine as it is rolled out will need global co-operation and consistent data structures @PetousisH and colleagues have worked hard to set up this fine network of vaccine research pros

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@PetousisH

3 months

@c_plushie @joerogan @nealbrennan @JohnBerman @jacindaardern @SiouxsieW So let me get this straight. 🧐The entire global medical and scientific community, with the exception of a very few 'special ones', recommended people take a vaccine that didn't work because they are all part of a massive cover up.😱 Oh come on!

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@PetousisH

5 months

Zombie myth 🧟‍♀️ ‘vaccines cause infertility’ goes back forever despite the fact that vaccines protect fertility and pregnancy. Nice article.

David Gorski, MD, PhD

@gorskon

5 months

So, an article by @aetiology and me about antivax myths about vaccines impairing fertility was just accepted last week.

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@PetousisH

1 year

Pleased to see the report from Taskforce that addressed the dismal NZ Immunisation situation. It is damning and it needed to be. If the recommendations are truly implemented our inequitable and shameful infectious diseases burden will be corrected.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

2 years

Nice study on post vaccine carditis from @Ian_HKU and colleagues in Hong Kong - low but real absolute rsk of carditis after Pfizer vaccine of 0.57 per 100,000 doses, an increase of 0.26. Not after CoronaVac. Thanks for this valuable contribution.👍

Carditis After COVID-19 Vaccination With a Messenger RNA Vaccine and an Inactivated Virus Vaccine:...

Background: Case reports of carditis after BNT162b2 vaccination are accruing worldwide. Objective: To examine the association of BNT162b2 and CoronaVac (Sinovac) vaccination with carditis. Design:...

www.acpjournals.org

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@PetousisH

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This model also took into account new factors like the introduction of antiviral drugs and changes in hospital data. The findings were used to guide the NZ government's decisions in 2022 and 2023. 5/7

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@PetousisH

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Nice piece from Melbourne colleagues that highlights the normal background rates of health conditions in the absence of vaccines in Victoria. Forms the basis for safety monitoring after deploying new vaccines. 1/2

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@PetousisH

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4/ 10 Now we can look at the risk of GBS both with and without exposure to the Pfizer vaccine and also other brands. The self-controlled case series (SCCS) method or similar is probably the best approach. Here are the results of some of these studies:

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@PetousisH

5 months

Yep! Just JAQing off. Logical fallacy based on a false premise.

Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

5 months

Countering Antivaxx Disinformation A common technique by antivaxx disinfo spreaders is to "just ask questions" ("JAQing off"), whereby they ask a question but leave the IMPLICATION that the "vaccine is the answer." Of course, it takes EFFORT to rebut, but let's, shall we? /1

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@PetousisH

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Hannah and I wrote a little piece about the looming infectious disaster we anticipate. #Perfectstorm via @ConversationEDU

Low vaccination and immunity rates mean NZ faces a harsh whooping cough winter – what needs to...

One in three infants is not immunised against pertussis. For Māori babies, more than half are at risk from the potentially deadly infection. But there are relatively simple things we can do.

theconversation.com

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

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9/10 Nested case control study from Israel in a cohort of over 3million patients looking at GBS associated with infection and vaccine. Infection increased risk with odds ratio of over 6, mRNA vaccine DECREASED risk.

Association Between Guillain-Barré Syndrome and COVID-19 Infection and Vaccination | Neurology

Background and ObjectivesExisting data regarding occurrence of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and vaccination are inconclusive. We aimed to assess...

www.neurology.org

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@PetousisH

5 months

@BioinfoTools Right! I mean it is as lame as it gets.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

Excellent explainer on mortality in NZ🙏👍

Jean Fisch

@Jean__Fisch

5 months

As I show below, any claim of major vaccine mortality is invalidated by the New Zealand data I hadn't realized that New Zealand had released its death by cause data so I had a deeper look The result is even fewer signs of vaccine mortality but a few things requiring analysis ⤵️

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@PetousisH

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@RawiriTaonui Proud to be in your company @RawiriTaonui ! Keep doing your mahi... I am apparently off to Valhalla or the Elysium Fields.

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@PetousisH

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3/10 Then we can frame a research question “Does administration of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine increase the risk of the onset of GBS?” Keep in mid this condition is very rare, here are the background rates for different countries.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

6 months

Important report for those interested in mortality trends.

David Hood

@Thoughtfulnz

6 months

The OECD have released their own Age Standardised Mortality Rate report, basically confirming all the criticisms people have had of the deaths / average deaths 2015-2019 measure. Other countries than NZ did better than expected, NZ just best of the best.

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@PetousisH

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6/10 SCCS study from England in over 17million persons. Viral vector vaccine associated with increased risk of GBS, Pfizer mRNA vaccine associated with no increased risk of GBS.

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@PetousisH

7 months

7/10 SCCS study from Denmark in 1.7million persons looking at the bivalent Omicron mRNA formulation. No increased risk of GBS.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

10 months

First publication from Global Vaccine Data Network. This work helps us to understand what rates of certain adverse events we normally see in populations. Ideally done before introducing a new vaccine. 197 million diverse people and 1.2 billion people years!

Anders Hviid

@anders_hviid

10 months

🚨New study out🚨 from the Global Covid Vaccine Safety project on background rates. 🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇮🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇼🇦🇷🇦🇺🇨🇦 197 million participants! 1.2 billion person-years of follow-up! Variability between sites and periods is important to consider! @SSI_AEF @SSI_AEF @PetousisH 🧵

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

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@GKneeIss It is per million population, noted top of graph.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

“And all hell broke loose”

Jean Fisch

@Jean__Fisch

5 months

A quick update on mortality in Western Europe as most countries have reported their weekly deaths up to end 2023 (only exception: Not Italy, Sweden😅) First aha: In Q4 2023, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands have the highest ASMR , not countries I would have on my radar 1/

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

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5/10 SCCS study from Italy looking at multiple different covid-19 vaccines and GBS among ~16million persons. Risk for GBS was increased after viral vector and Moderna but not after Pfizer mRNA vaccines.

Post-marketing active surveillance of Guillan Barré Syndrome following vaccination with anti-COVI...

Background Case reports of Guillain Barrè syndrome (GBS) following the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines administration have been reported. This study investigated the risk of GBS after...

www.medrxiv.org

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

7 months

2/10 First let’s state their hypothesis “Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is causing Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)”

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

3 years

Kids, COVID vaccine and myocarditis. Here is an expert. Paediatric Cardiologist Bryan Mitchelson. Thanks for your kōrero Bryan!

The COVID-19 vaccine and our rangatahi. | Today Dr Bryan Mitchelson,...

Today Dr Bryan Mitchelson, Paediatric Cardiologist at Starship talks about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine for our rangatahi.

www.facebook.com

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

I remember those fun school days when we were about 6 or 7 and learning about numerators and denominators. Who would have thought fractions and % would be so useful 🙄🤪😂

G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿

@BioinfoTools

5 months

The main "massive" thing here is how stupid and awful these strained attempts to "make" something true are😠😠 Spreading them relies on people taking the claim in the text at face value. (Some readers will note Barry is aping a grifter here, too.) 1/n

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

3 years

Hey @nzherald , How about fixing that disinformation headline, the vaccinologist called the buyer selfish, not the seller - big difference.

'Unbelievably selfish': Expert slams people who paid man to take 10 vaccine shots in one day

The Ministry of Health is not saying where the incidents took place.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

4 years

COVID-19 vaccine safety - a primer. How we can do it super well, but most countries need to get their A into G.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

1 year

At the beginning of every disaster movie there is a scientist being ignored. Hope everyone is ok. Not over yet.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

1 year

Saw this covered on the telly last night. They said it was only a specific garlic but glossed over the in vitro bit,

Jason Wood 🗿

@jasonwoody

1 year

@thereal_truther Heard some brand new nonsense today!😂 Claims that an Australian study found garlic is highly effective at treatment or prevention of COVID-19. I looked into it and put my findings on Misinformation Wiki:

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

1 year

Lamentable MMR coverage. 😢Multiple public exposures. NZ coverage @ 18mos is dismal 67.6% ...but for Maori in Counties Manukau it is 36.3%. TARGET is 95%

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 months

Blog by Karin and I about Observed over Expected studies. These studies help identify potential rare adverse events after immunisation by comparing what is observed with what is normally expected. Signals can be followed up with association studies.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

7 months

8/10 Prospective surveillance study from South Korea on over 35million doses of viral vector and mRNA vaccines. Overall incidence post vaccine 1.42/million. After viral vector incidence 4.49/million, after mRNA 0.8/million

Real-world data on the incidence and risk of Guillain–Barré syndrome following SARS-CoV-2 vaccina...

Scientific Reports - Real-world data on the incidence and risk of Guillain–Barré syndrome following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: a prospective surveillance study

www.nature.com

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

1 year

@deborahjonesnz Covid infection is considered a boost. Therefore, unlikely to be benefit from another vaccine dose. No evidence to support risk-benefit and the risks from repeated immunological boosting with the same SARS-CoV-2 antigen is not well established.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

7 months

@AlastairMcA30 As a vaccine safety scientist who has to jump through a million ethical hoops to do a transparent and ethical vaccine safety study using de-identified data this just makes me sick.🤮😡 'Whistleblower' my arse. "Winston" betrayed us all.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

4 months

@DellAnnaLuca @PeaseRoland In this type of study the control is the period prior to vaccination. Here is a log on OE studies

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

5 years

For anyone interested in things that improve immunisation coverage. The power, peril and promise of targets

The power, peril and promise of targets

The measles crisis has thrown into sharp relief how publicising targets reached – and targets missed – can affect the healthcare all of us receive, writes Carl Shuker.

thespinoff.co.nz

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

1 year

@Thoughtfulnz I find it hard to believe that there is not a massive amount of pertussis in the community based on historical patterns (including post H1N1 pandemic), and immunisation coverage. Need more convincing that the much anticipated pertussis epidemic is not actually raging around us.

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

8 years

Vaccine has new upside - safer sex via @nzherald

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Helen Petousis-Harris

@PetousisH

1 year

What a fantastic illustration. Many folks like absolutes despite that the only certainty in life is that life is a temporary arrangement.

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