#Vaccines

Jonathan Engler 😀

jengleruk

Genuine question:At https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download it can be seen that in relation to the Pfizer vaccine:The 95% effectiveness is based on:162 cases / 22k receiving placebo with mild symptomatic Covidvs8 cases /

Rajeev Venkayya MD

rvenkayya

Great question, but not a simple answer!I’m not a QA/CMC/manufacturing expert but I oversee those groups. You can’t separate QA from manufacturing, so first some general background on vaccine manufacturing

Military Meowsketeer

KatAtDisney

Let's talk about the flu shot and mercury. Some people avoid the flu shot because of mercury. It is important to understand the types of mercury, the impact it has

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Today's announcement of ~95% efficacy in the @moderna_tx #COVID19 vaccine trial is amazing, auspicious news. 1/8https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/16/modernas-covid-19-vaccine-is-strongly-effective-early-look-at-data-show/ This coupled wi

Stephen Goldstein

stgoldst

With so much attention deservedly focused on the apparent achievements of @pfizer and @moderna_tx, I want to highlight that underlying these are critical foundational academic research that's dependent on federal

Alison Stop The EXPERIMENT

akm1373

@POTUS your actions with regard to abortion reflect a desire to protect life. To protect the lives of citizens who have already been born please, please, please recall the warp

Sarah Blagden

sarah_blagden

Some of our cancer patients have been refused COVID vaccines. I thought I'd summarise guidance (taken from UK chemotherapy Board, Thames Valley Haematology and PHE guidelines) that applies to Oxford

Rich Severin DPT, PhD(c), CCS

ptreviewer

I don’t know who needs to hear this but messenger RNA (aka mRNA) does NOT change your DNA. Thread #COVID19 #Vaccines #sciencetwitter mRNA is a code that gets sent to

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

My colleagues & I are debating an issue with implications for funding covid R&D. Question is whether SARS2 will become ENDEMIC or whether it will be ERADICATED. This question has

Rhea Boyd MD, MPH

RheaBoydMD

Just read Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine is 66% effective against moderate COVID and 85% effective against severe disease (to compare Moderna is 95% effective against moderate and severe COVID) -

Crystal moth

Prolapsarian

End of the year COVID thread (take 2): Ok, you got the message about the failure of public health. Now let's talk about COVID in the coming year and the

Uri Shalit

ShalitUri

In recent days two new pieces of evidence have come out of Israel about the effect of the vaccination drive, showing good news about both individual-level and national level effects.1/7

Philip Ovadia

ifixhearts

The highest risk of bad outcomes in COVID is in individuals who are exposed to the virus, infected by the virus and metabolically unhealthy. Therefore, there are 3 potentials areas

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

Let's talk about the US's vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS), with emphasis on its misuse by bad actors. VAERS is a self-explanatory system. I mean that literally: it tells

Viktória Serdült

viktoriaserdult

1/10 Hungarian authorities have so far authorized 5 different coronavirus vaccines in the country (AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, Sputnik V, Sinopharm). Let's see how the vaccination campaign is going in a

AltFDA

alt_fda

This is an excellent Monday question so let’s work out the answer. #Thread #Covid19 #AntiVaccine https://twitter.com/cracramama3/status/1358761668570976262 First the full pic of what we are discussing here. Is that true

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