About that tetanus shot…

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There been a lot of chatter recently about the efficacy of tetanus shots. This doctor feels they are unnecessary. Official CDC recommendations say that proper wound care, including cleaning, is essential, but vaccination remains the cornerstone of tetanus prevention. There are typically fewer than 50 cases reported in the US each year.

“Having studied vaccines now for four years, I could not reliably recommend any vaccine to anyone, particularly the DTaP, or even tetanus.”

Board-certified specialist in pulmonary diseases, internal medicine, and critical care medicine Dr. Pierre Kory describes for Mark Bishofsky how he can not “reliably recommend any vaccine to anyone.” Kory notes that while he used to think that vaccines were “the greatest blessing to modern medicine,” after four years of study, he has entirely reversed his position.

“What I’ve learned about vaccines first of all, what I know about vaccines now compared to what I knew before COVID is, they don’t even compare.

I knew nothing about vaccines, except that they were the greatest blessing to modern medicine. That’s…what I thought they were,” Kory tells Bishofsky. “Having studied vaccines now for four years [however], I could not, reliably recommend any vaccine to anyone, particularly the DTaP, or even tetanus.”

“You know how you treat tetanus?” the physician asks rhetorically. “You clean the wound. That’s it. And also, tetanus is so exceedingly rare. It is so rare that even if you thought that the vaccine could prevent you getting tetanus, the risks of that tetanus vaccine, I think, would still outweigh the very small chance you got tetanus. I would just open, irrigate, debride, you know, sterilize that wound immediately. And I think that’s just the general approach you would [take with] anybody.”

Where do you stand?