#Vaccines

Mohal Joshi

MohalJoshi

Thread:With US having vaccinated 9M+ and India starting it's vaccination plan soon (Jan 16th) some have started scaremongering about vaccines via alarmist WhatsApp forwards, FB/Twitter posts and other social media

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

Good morning! I have some updates! Preliminary data from our studies indicate our vaccine along with Pfizer’s will likely be effective against the Coronavirus variants and ALL of their associated

Isabella Eckerle

EckerleIsabella

A few explanations why I'm worried: The dynamic of #SARSCoV2 #B117 in the UK is concerning, taking over other strains at rapid speed even though incidence is high. Found in

Isaac Bogoch

BogochIsaac

1/ @nature asked over 100 scientists if they felt that #COVID19 was going to become endemic & circulate on earth for years to come. ~90% felt this was a likely

Nathan Chomilo, MD, FAAP

ChomiloMD

This is a really well done piece by @DrLeanaWen that lays out how we can, & must, strike a balance between speed & equity.We made a mistake in MN this

Glen McGregor

glen_mcgregor

Procurement minister Anita Anand on Friday: “the numbers that we've provided take into account a number of vaccines, not only the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.” And today...https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anita-anand-covid-19-vaccin

Ferrus Ignis

sovereignAK

If a manufacturer rolled out a medical device (like a pump, stint, or catheter) that resulted in 2 deaths in a million, it would be considered a candidate for revision/scrapping

Isaac Bogoch

BogochIsaac

1/ What is the #COVID19 situation like in Canada now?Cases are down & the situation is improving in much of the country, but we still have a long way to

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Getting a lot of questions about vaccines and variants and why @moderna_tx is developing a booster based on variant discovered in South Africa if vaccines are thought to protect against

Justin Ling

Justin_Ling

The state of the debate around vaccinating federal inmates is embarrassing. Doug Ford has joined the chorus, arguing that Ottawa is vaccinating inmates instead of long-term care home residents.This is

Andrew Lilico

andrew_lilico

On the current MRC model IFRs, once we have vaccinated the over-70s the IFR falls to 0.15%-0.19% (upper bound assumes 30% higher lethality of new variant) if vaccines eliminate 90%

Marc-André Argentino

_MAArgentino

1/ I've been laying the ground work in my research to explore how the anti-vaxxx community will be evolving as there is more and more news about promising vaccines and

The Plastic People

barkstonplastic

The UK crossed a grim milestone yesterday with over 100,000 tragic deaths. Our thoughts are with all those who have lost a friend or loved one to this virus. We're

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

I think an explanation is needed. Here goes.https://twitter.com/theousherwood/status/1334090216446046208 The UK is still entirely within the EU medicines regime. Under that regime, licensing of the Covid-19 vaccines is reserved to the

Tyler Shandro

shandro

Having a Canadian-made solution to vaccine production is a positive step forward, but having to wait until the end of 2021 isn’t going to cut it. Canadians, including Albertans, need

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update December 16: Why you won’t hear me use the phrase “anti-vaxxer.” 1/ First let me tell you my opinion of vaccines. If they hadn’t been invented we would

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