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This podcast investigates vaccines and does so with curiosity.
Whether it be from a medical or a personal angle each guest offers different perspectives on what we know about vaccines.
Your host is professor in global health from University of Southern Denmark, Christine Stabell Benn.

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Coronapandemien har stillet skarpt på, hvad vi ved om vacciner, og hvad en nål i skulderen betyder for den enkelte, for samfundet og for forskningen. Spørgsmålene stilles af professor ved Syddansk Universitet, Christine Stabell Benn.

Vaccine Curious Christine Stabell Benn

    • Science
    • 4.8 • 70 Ratings

This podcast investigates vaccines and does so with curiosity.
Whether it be from a medical or a personal angle each guest offers different perspectives on what we know about vaccines.
Your host is professor in global health from University of Southern Denmark, Christine Stabell Benn.

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Coronapandemien har stillet skarpt på, hvad vi ved om vacciner, og hvad en nål i skulderen betyder for den enkelte, for samfundet og for forskningen. Spørgsmålene stilles af professor ved Syddansk Universitet, Christine Stabell Benn.

    With Ram Duriseti, on the reanalysis of phase 3 trials of mRNA vaccines to children, and much more

    With Ram Duriseti, on the reanalysis of phase 3 trials of mRNA vaccines to children, and much more

    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 results, and its implications. Many new mRNA vaccines are underway for different pathogens. We all agree the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were not sufficiently tested for their potential non-specific effects. The new mRNA vaccines will provide new opportunities for this but the FDA and EMA are unfortunately unlikely to require these types of studies for approval. Finally Ram discusses losing his clinical position at Stanford due to the booster mandate. Link to the reanalysis paper (preprint): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.07.23298573v3.full.pdf (https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.medrxiv.org%2Fcontent%2F10.1101%2F2023.12.07.23298573v3.full.pdf&data=05%7C02%7Ccbenn%40health.sdu.dk%7C7b719e429efb43d8350808dc57d6ef2a%7C9a97c27db83e4694b35354bdbf18ab5b%7C0%7C0%7C638481827855417971%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=izSH9pk6aP59gha1LXehjH8WUskc2C9ZqufxCdGX9%2FA%3D&reserved=0)

    • 1 hr 15 min
    What’s new on the World Vaccine Congress 2024

    What’s new on the World Vaccine Congress 2024

    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.

    • 35 min
    The COVID-19 mRNA vaccines given to the public weren't those studied in the clinical trials

    The COVID-19 mRNA vaccines given to the public weren't those studied in the clinical trials

    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 vaccine contents, what we know about the contents and safety of the "process 2" batches that the public received, the history of harms from vaccines rolled out with inadequate safety testing, the importance of transparency and how independent research, uncensored discussion and legal actions may offer solutions.Links to relevant literature:Drs. Guetzkow and Levi's BMJ rapid response about process 1 and 2: https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o1731/rr-2.Dr. Guetzkow's Twitter thread on the process switch: https://x.com/joshg99/status/1658421192326365185.Dr. Guetzkow's blog post on the CDC's safety signal analysis: https://researchrebel.substack.com/p/cdc-finally-released-its-vaers-safety.On the higher frequency of adverse events in process 2 batches: https://dailyclout.io/pfizer-process-2-vaccine-had-2-4-times-adverse-events/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email. The Ontario Preprint showing SV40 promoter in Pfizer mRNA vaccines: https://osf.io/mjc97/ A good timeline of the events: https://geoffpain.substack.com/p/production-of-the-pfizer-biontech.Dr. Guetzkow's project on censorship and suppression of scientists and doctors who raise safety concerns about vaccines: https://researchrebel.substack.com/p/suppressing-scientific-discourse and his paper on censorship and suppression of COVID-19 heterodoxy: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11024-022-09479-4.

    • 1 hr 31 min
    DNA contamination of COVID-19 vaccines and should infants get hepatitis B vaccines?

    DNA contamination of COVID-19 vaccines and should infants get hepatitis B vaccines?

    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.gov/30139653/Cochrane review of RCTs of hepatitis B vaccine in infants: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD004790.pub2/fullLandmark NEJM study (RCT) on hepatitis B vaccine in high risk adult males 1980: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198010093031501A study of the overall health effects of hepatitis B vaccine from Guinea-Bissau: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15626943/

    • 53 min
    COVID-19 & Influenza vaccines

    COVID-19 & Influenza vaccines

    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.pdfTEDx with the tennis analogy: https://www.ted.com/talks/christine_stabell_benn_how_vaccines_train_the_immune_system_in_ways_no_one_expected?language=enThe systematic review of the randomized trials of influenza vaccine in pregnancy: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/12/1452

    • 58 min
    Diphtheria-tetanus-whole-cell-pertussis vaccine: Is it true that it is killing girls in Africa?

    Diphtheria-tetanus-whole-cell-pertussis vaccine: Is it true that it is killing girls in Africa?

    A "Sensibly curious about vaccines"-podcast – with @TracyBethHoeg and @StabellBenn.Here with an intro to what was learned from studying overall health effects of vaccines in Guinea-Bissau.Link to the article that we are discussing: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/robert-f-kennedy-jrs-comments-our-studies-vaccine-benn

    • 55 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
70 Ratings

70 Ratings

Missspo ,

Vigtige refleksion i en tid hvor politik fylder mere end videnskab

Som menig borger har det været en fornøjelse at lytte til de emner der har været diskuteret i et sobert og afslappet Forum. I sidste afsnit får man også i indblik i den kommunikation som man som sundhedsmyndighed har brugt. Det at være klar i mælet så flest muligt tager en vaccine som i sidste ende ikke opfylder den betingelse om at mindske smitte i samfundet. En betingelse som vaccinerne tilsyneladende har solgt sig selv på og som nu bliver udfordret i EU.

Ha!Ri!Je! ,

Oplysende og udogmatisk!

Vaccineproblematikken, som vi har oplevet den i hele Covid-19 perioden, belyst og debatteret fra vidt forskellige vinkler og med deltagelse af erfarne forskere og fagfolk!

Stine R ,

Virkelig spændende

Fantastisk at der endelig findes en vaccinepodcast, der ikke taler ned til befolkningen. Spændende emner, spændende gæster. You ROCK, Christine! 🙌

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