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Oct 20, 2021 • 32min

Covidiots Vs. Covidians? An Alt-Middle View

We're more divided than ever it seems. How can we reconcile a COVID thesis and antithesis into an Alt-Middle synthesis? A deep dive.Here's the piece I mentioned from Peter Limburg of The Stoa.Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/covidiots/Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 15, 2021 • 51min

Joe Rogan Vs. Sanjay Gupta? A Doctor's Alt-Middle Take

Social media is blowing up with stories about each of these guys schooling the other. But is that really what this is about? Here's my take (aired LIVE Oct. 14th on YouTube). Video: https://zdoggmd.com/rogan-gupta/Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 11, 2021 • 58min

The Truth About Myocarditis, Kids, Boosters, Natural Immunity, & More (w/Dr. Paul Offit)

COVID vaccine answers, straight from Dr. Offit (vaccine co-inventor and member of the FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee) 🔥.Watch all our episodes with Dr. Offit here!Full video with transcript.Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Kids and COVID: current epidemiology 3:59 Vaccine for kids: dosing, data, risks, a polio rant 9:48 Myocarditis risks, kids 5-11 vaccine data 11:48 Single dose for kids? 12:52 Mechanism of myocarditis, is it due to accidental intravenous injection? MIS-C & MIS-A 16:46 Sweden’s Moderna pause for young people, understanding risk 19:46 Booster vs “third dose”: preventing severe disease, inducing B and T memory cells 25:58 Breakthrough Infection is a terrible term: an epic rant 30:17 Israeli booster mandates and data, explained 32:56 Would Paul get a booster for himself? 34:17 Spacing out the second dose, Paul’s thoughts 35:15 Measuring antibody levels 36:47 Natural infection, dissected 40:58 Psychological reactance to mandates, trust, Scandinavia vs US 43:34 COVID vaccine in pregnancy 46:13 COVID vaccine in autoimmune disease 46:57 Do mRNA vaccines cause clotting 47:40 Long COVID and vaccines 48:45 VAERS explained 51:22 Molnupiravir from Merck as a therapeutic, Ivermectin etc 53:08 Novavax 53:55 Flu, Flu shot and timing with COVID vaccineVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 10, 2021 • 40min

Testing For Coronavirus, RSV, Influenza, & More (w/Dr. David Persing)

Cepheid's chief medical and technology officer returns to talk PCR testing for COVID, flu, RSV, and future variants & viruses not yet discovered.Watch our other episodes with Dr. David Persing here and learn more about molecular testing at Cepheid here.Video with transcript hereClick here for easier navigation through this show's key topics.0:00 Intro 1:27 What happened to flu (influenza) last year (viral exclusion, innate immune response) 3:20 Nasal vaccines and innate immunity 5:10 How SARS-CoV2 evolves to replicate more efficiently 8:33 Do variants evade PCR testing? Experience with H1N1 flu 12:09 False positives and PCR 14:22 How deep do you need to swab? 15:09 PCR vs. Antigen testing 18:41 Four-In-1 PCR testing: flu component, will flu be back? 20:23 RSV update in kids and adults 23:53 The “FluVid” COVID/Flu A + B/RSV 4-in-1 test 26:21 Future proofing testing for new pandemics 29:33 Will SARS-CoV2 become endemic, and how? 32:25 The role of vaccination, breakthroughs, transmission 34:01 Natural infection and vaccination, how long does it last, boostersVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 8, 2021 • 51min

Delta's End, Kids & COVID, Natural Infection vs. Vaccine, & More LIVE

We're talking delta's end, kids and COVID, natural vs. vaccine immunity, Moderna and more, LIVE 🔥Here's a Kaiser Health News piece on natural vs. vaccine immunity. Here's an interesting Scientific American piece on why kids are so resistant to COVID's bad effects. And here's a piece on how the risk to kids from COVID compares to other dangers. Video hereVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 3, 2021 • 14min

A Pill For COVID? Molnupiravir, Explained

Promising early results for an oral therapeutic for SARS-CoV2. Here's what we know and what it may mean.Here's the topline data from Merck so far.Video with transcript hereVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 28, 2021 • 18min

Fire Unvaccinated Healthcare Workers? An Alt-Middle Perspective

Are we really going to fire healthcare workers who won’t vaccinate…during a pandemic? Here’s my Alt-Middle take.Here’s a New York Times article on the subject.Full video with transcript.Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 26, 2021 • 1h 21min

Live COVID Update w/Dr. Z & Dr. Marty Makary 9/26/21

We're talking LIVE with Dr. Marty Makary about all things COVID!We covered MANY COVID-related topics, including natural immunity, mandates, vaccine spacing, gain of function viral research, managing coronavirus risk in different age groups, and much more. Check out Marty Makary's other episodes with me here.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/marty-makary-7/Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 24, 2021 • 1h 20min

Second Dose Spacing, Natural Immunity, Lab Leak, & More (w/Dr. Marty Makary)

Our COVID science should be much better than it is. Here's a breakdown on spacing doses, natural immunity, gain of function research, therapeutics, healthcare worker burnout & much more.Dr. Marty Makary is a Johns Hopkins physician and editor-in-chief of MedPage Today. Here are all our past shows!Full transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/marty-makary-6/ Topics & Timecodes:0:00 Intro2:35 NIH spending & COVID research7:53 Herd Immunity, was Marty wrong, clickbait headlines11:02 Menstrual changes and vaccines13:08 Boosters and booster mandates16:45 Rabies Diffr’ent Strokes rant18:54 VAERS surveillance21:44 Tinnitus23:32 Spacing second vaccine dose, Johnson & Johnson booster29:34 Natural immunity and a failure of messaging32:40 Silencing debate and heterodox voices36:49 Bullying and shaming in healthcare and nursing shortages44:29 Treatments for COVID at home49:15 Understanding risk51:43 NIH gain of function virus research54:26 Moderna, BARDA, and profit motives in vaccines57:36 Marty’s thoughts on cloth masks and kids1:06:04 Nikki Minaj & Marty1:11:36 9-11 commission for COVIDVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 19, 2021 • 19min

The FDA Vaccine Booster Vote

The FDA advisory committee voted this week to reject approval of COVID Pfizer vaccine boosters for healthy people 16 and up. Here's what's up with that, and how we can better understand the booster question for the healthy and those at higher risk. Here's an interview I did with Dr. Vinay Prasad that touched on this. And here's another discussion that features boosters with Dr. Monica Gandhi.Video & Transcript HereVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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