Vaccine Curious

With the new presidential administration in the US, more focus has been brought to the United States’ approach to public health - including their recommended vaccination schedule. Christine Stabell Benn and Tracy Høgh have done a series of podcasts over the last year and a half, which have brought specific attention to the way the US childhood vaccination schedule differs from that in Denmark. In this podcast Christine and Tracy Høgh summarize the insights gained from those discussions. and pr

Ram Duriseti, MD, PhD, was part of the recent reanalysis of the phase 3 trials of mRNA vaccines to children, and also a strong voice of reason in California during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here he joins Tracy Beth Høeg and Christine Stabell Benn to talk about his experience as an Emergency Physician during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ram also explains why he mostly stayed out of research prior to the pandemic despite his PhD. We move on to discuss the reanalysis of the phase 3 trials of mRNA, its res

Vaccination of Adults, Vaccine Safety, Non-Specific Effects of Vaccines, Gender Differences in Vaccine Responses, and New Malaria Vaccines... Sitting in the airport on the way back to Denmark, in a conversation with Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg, Dr. Christine Stabell Benn shares her impressions from the World Vaccine Congress, which took place in Washington DC from 1-4 April 2024. PS: We apologize that the sound quality is not perfect.

What does this mean, how did this happen and what next? In this episode of "Sensibly curious about vaccines", Christine Stabell Benn, MD, PhD and Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD invited Joshua Guetzkow, PhD and Retsef Levi, PhD to talk about what they discovered in relation to the changes in the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing process that happened in the fall of 2020. We talk bias and lack of regulatory oversight from the FDA and EMA, what Pfizer may not have disclosed about the vacci

A "Sensibly curious about vaccines"-podcast – with @TracyBethHoeg and @StabellBenn. We discuss the latest evidence from Phillip Buckhaults' lab of DNA contamination in COVID-19 vaccines, more data on the new monovalent XBB COVID-19 vaccine and the current evidence landscape for the hepatitis B vaccine in infants & how the US and Europe disagree on recommendations. Links to the papers/talks we are discussing: A review on the use of aluminium as a vaccine adjuvant: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.g

A "Sensibly curious about vaccines"-podcast – with @TracyBethHoeg and @StabellBenn. We talk about studies about COVID-19 vaccines' effects on the immune system & Influenza vaccine efficacy data and recommendations by country. Links to the papers/talks we are discussing: A review of the beneficial and negative non-specific effects of live and non-live vaccines: https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/laninf/PIIS1473-3099(19)30742-X.pdf TEDx with the tennis analogy: https://www.ted.com/talks/c