Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "Dr. Fauci responds to Tucker Carlson's vaccine remarks" video.

  1.  Don Nwzad  Read his resume (If you can.)
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  2.  S C  How long ago did you take the vaccine? And how do you know that you wouldn't have headaches even if you had not taken the vaccine? Maybe your headaches are being caused by something else. Look up the "post-hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy.
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  3. Heparin is contraindicated because besides having clots, these patients also have low platlet-counts. These two results appear contradictory, because platelets cause normal clotting (in wounds). Since platelets are already low, the worry is that heparin on top of low-platelet count could cause runaway bleeding.
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  4.  @rhondamcmiller-diop2996  A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
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  5.  @tonifonseca9178  It's not that the anticoagulant would cause problems with the vaccine. The danger is that low platelet count means that the patient is in danger of NOT CLOTTING ENOUGH. That's the paradox about this: the patient is having blood clots (too much clotting) but also has low platelet count (which usually causes too LITTLE clotting). So giving heparin may reduce the blood clots, but, since the patient also has low platelet count which usually means too little clotting, giving heparin to reduce the clotting even more may risk uncontrolled bleeding with no clotting at all (like in hemophiliacs). It's very weird, but the weirdness comes from having blood clots and low platelet count at the same time. Usually they are opposites.
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  6. Yea, all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, but, we still must cultivate our gardens.
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  7.  @rdelrosso2001  The point is, if your platelets are already low, then you are already at risk for prolonged bleeding, and, thinning the blood further, by whatever means, increases the danger. Using anticoagulants is dangerous. That's why, if you are on blood-thinners for some good reason (like, for instance, an artificial heart valve, or a history of stroke), it's so important to avoid overdosing. You don't want internal bleeding in, say, your brain.
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  8. You mean, you won't be able to get on with your normal life YET. You ask when WILL we be able to get on with normal life? The answer is: when enough people are vaccinated that the likelihood of enountering someone who is infectious gets very low. The vaccine isn't perfect, but it's quite good, so your risk of passing the virus on to someone else, if you have it, is lower if the someone else is vaccinated. When enough people are immune, it benefits the non-immune people too, because they are less likely to get exposed. Eventually, the recovery rate will be faster than the infection rate, and the virus will recede. And THAT, my friend, is what we mean by "herd immunity": when so many members of the population are immunized that the virus spreads more slowly than it dies, so it recedes and leaves us (mostly) in peace. THAT'S when we will all be able to resume normal life. (I understand that this is more than one sentence, and you will have to focus your attention on it for more than ten seconds in order to understand it, which may be difficult or uncomfortable for you, but there's really nothing I can do about that. Epidemiology is complicated. That's why we have experts: they learn how to think about this stuff so you don't have to.)
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  9. The decision to pause J&J's vaccine is wrong from the scientific point of view, but right from the public-relations point of view.
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  10.  @ST-LA  Look up the term "95% confidence interval".
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