Comment by taylor-swift-enjoyer on 29/01/2025 at 23:34 UTC

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View submission: B.C. provincial health officer Dr Bonnie Henry champions kindness on 5-year anniversary of 1st COVID case; calls recent Alberta covid task force report embarrassing misinformation

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Another disgustingly biased report by CBC

Watched a CBC segment last night about the report.

They interviewed two doctors who described it as dangerous misinformation.

They interviewed nobody who authored the report.

They didn't say "we reached out to the authors of the report but they didn't get back to us."

Par for the course here.

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Comment by Dr_Pooks at 30/01/2025 at 13:59 UTC

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"To have a report like this is really, in some ways, embarrassing," Henry said.
"We know so much about the vaccine, how effective it is, how safe it is, how it works and how long it works. We have the consensus of science."

I watched an interview of the lead author, Dr. Davidson, with True North.

His hot take was that you can't just declare a new treatment "safe and effective" by chanting it as an empty mantra.

You have to back the "'safe & effective" claim with actual sources and literature, even if your citations are weak or later get overturned.

He also mentioned that it's just common sense that there are zero medical interventions that lack any potential harm, which was commonly understood before COVID ideological shifts.