Dr. Joseph Fraiman

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522 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 4 Sep

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There, you know, it's been recommended on a public health level.

So saying that it's going to reduce hospitalizations and reduce death from the flu.

Yet we didn't, we still to this day do not have trials showing Tama flu is reducing death and and hospitalization.

I know there's a large meta-analysis that looked at at this question for hospitalization, saying, no, we don't see.

there's not clear evidence that it's reducing hospitalization, a a clinical trial is needed.

So I think that you know when we're saying before what is public health and their purpose because Tamouflu, what we do know it does is it

It seems to reduce symptomatology for symptoms for, you know, a small difference in symptoms.

tra it's a trade off.

You know, you get a a shortening of your seven hour seven day flu, maybe by sixteen hours.

That seems pretty

Pretty real.

It does reduce your symptoms.

Trade it's a trade off for a risk of diarrhea.

And vomiting.

So so like there's two different things when we think about a a thing like Tamaflu.

One is like, do you w are you taking this drug to feel less icky?

Or are you taking this drug to prevent hospitalization and death?

And and I don't I I feel like these things can't sometimes be mixed together and those aren't the same question.

And you know, we we as physicians.

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