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Jonathan Laxton on Steve Kirsch's lie that Celine Dion was disabled by a known side effect of the COVID vaccine. https://t.co/Vp9kYAKzxy
— KittyPooh (@KittyPo80176717) December 17, 2022
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This Substack really bothers me – as both a gay and Canadian physician because 1) it is not factual and 2) it's so hateful to come for one of my divas. However, it is very illustrative of a Kirsch post where he makes wild extrapolations based on abysmal data. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/QfF92YwbfH
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC (@dr_jon_l) December 17, 2022
It has never been directly related to vaccination, but Steve's first line of evidence is that it is in the list of AESIs in the Pfizer documents. pic.twitter.com/ajfsWcTSRP
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC (@dr_jon_l) December 17, 2022
In fact, I searched PubMed and could find no studies linking Stiff-Person syndrome to any vaccine. Reviewing the Brighton definitions – it is clear it is monitored as a theoretical risk. I also used the old term "Stiff Man Syndrome" and "Vaccination." pic.twitter.com/S0QYqxAHIA
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC (@dr_jon_l) December 17, 2022
Next, he does a bizarre dumpster dive into VAERS, where his calculations really fall apart. Arriving at a 99.6% chance Celine's SPS is from the vaccine (nope) pic.twitter.com/oVR9UkWHsu
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC (@dr_jon_l) December 17, 2022
There have been over 600 million doses of COVID vaccine in the US – giving a rate of 0.027 cases per million, far below the background rate of 1 per 1 million. pic.twitter.com/V2TTPnIliF
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC (@dr_jon_l) December 17, 2022
Even if you use the 8x URR and the US population that has received any dose (265.6 million), you get a rate of 0.5/1,000,000 – which is below the background rate of 1/1,000,000.
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC (@dr_jon_l) December 17, 2022
Such an event could be a tonic seizure or syncope (occasionally can be tonic, usually flaccid). 2) It is biologically implausible for an autoimmune disease to set on this quickly after an exposure. https://t.co/53IJ6HjBi4
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC (@dr_jon_l) December 17, 2022
Guillain-Barre, a known infection and rarely vaccine side effect, usually occurs 4-12 weeks after the infection or immunization. So this claim is just ridiculous.
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC (@dr_jon_l) December 17, 2022
This is literally what Kirsch does – finds an adverse event, dumpster dives into VAERs, does inappropriate calculations from a tiny sample and then inappropriately extrapolates it to the vaccinated population.
— Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC (@dr_jon_l) December 17, 2022
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