Better than Fiction
Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhDWelcome. I'm a Danish-American dual citizen MD, PhD epidemiologist and interventional sports & spine physician. I am the former head of FDA CDER (2025-2026), mom of 4 and former Team Salomon, Team USA & Team Denmark athlete (long distance trail running).
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New Information Disclosed: 10 Deaths in Children found by FDA Career Staff to be Probably or Possibly due to COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination
Intro added 6/22/2026- there are a lot of new readers coming to this Substack and I want to provide relevant background: I was head of CDER at FDA from Dec.15, 2025-May 15, 2026. Prior to that, and staring March 27th, 22025, I was Special A...
Grateful to have been part of meaningful work at the FDA
On Friday night, I read about Trump’s executive order to realign the US’s core vaccine recommendations with those of best practices from peer, developed countries and I felt proud of the work Martin Kulldorff and I did, along with many othe...
The Child Immunization Schedule in the US vs Denmark: Why is there such a big difference & how can we use the next four years to improve our evidence base?
With the new presidential administration in the US, more focus has been brought to the fact that the United States’ approach to public health - including their recommended vaccination schedule - differ substantially from Europe’s.
We have...
A well-written summary of our paper in Open Forum Infectious Diseases about mRNA COVID-19 vaccination of adults in the setting of natural immunity
Below is an outstanding summary by Justin Hart of our research group’s most recent publication in Open Forum Infections Diseases.
A very talented, curious & hard working group of scientists from Austria as well as the amazing John Ioannid...
Discussion with Ram Duriseti, MD, PhD
Ram Duriseti, MD, PhD, joins Christine’s and my podcast today. He was part of the University of Southern Denmark’s recent reanalysis of the phase 3 trials of mRNA vaccines to children, part of Urgency of Normal and a strong voice of reason...
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Physician epidemiologist. Former Head of CDER-FDA via Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Sloan School of Management & U of Southern Denmark. Interventional Spine & Sports Doc. Former Team \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 &\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddf0, Team Salomon ultra/mountain runner
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