#Efficacy

David Nunan

dnunan79

Lots of folk already commented on “1 or 2 dose”. One thing that comes up often is “efficacy”, followed by numbers like “80%”, 95%”. In many cases, it reads as

Tom Bouthillet 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪

tbouthillet

THREAD: 1/ I would like urge all of my colleagues in EMS to become vaccinated for COVID-19 as soon as possible. Here are some basic talking points. You are welcome

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

There are some good and bad hot takes about the Oxford/AZ vaccine going around - I'd like to add my view which I hope is more light than heat. Context:

BBN

BigBiteNow

1/7I'm still shocked by the lack of excitement around yesterday's update.Just 2 months post therapeutic Affimer discovery, #AVCT have achieved a deal that will see an Affimer therapy taken through

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

A thread discussing recent evidence on longer gap dosing with Astra/Oxford, Pfizer, current gaps in our understanding of impacts, as well as the possible impact of new variants on vaccine

Dr. Jake Becraft

DrSynbio

Let's be clear about what the data from @moderna_tx today tells us. In their study, 95 people (so far) have contracted Covid (90 in the placebo group). Efficacy: 94.5%, a

Alan U. Kennington

kennington_u

AZ vaccine 70.4% efficacy for #COVID19 means:−log₁₀(1−70.4%) = 5.3 dB case reduction.P/B and M vaccines 95% means:−log₁₀(1−95%) = 13.0 dB case reduction.So AZ effectiveness is only 40.6% of P/B and

Philip Ball

philipcball

I'm puzzled by the response to the fact that Moderna had its vaccine candidate ready just days after the coronavirus sequence was known. "It took just *two days*?!! So we've

Priya Sampathkumar

PSampathkumarMD

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 VACCINE UPDATEThread Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, have applied for @US_FDA Emergency Use Authorization for their mRNA based vaccines. Here is what we know about the Pfizer vaccine and what

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Safe & effective vaccines are a powerful tool in fight against #COVID19 virus.WHO welcomes announcement on the efficacy results of @pfizer @BioNTech_Group vaccine candidate - especially on its effectiveness in

fleetstreetfox

fleetstreetfox

A note on government promises to vaccinate 15million people by February: It is complete bollocks. 1/threadhttps://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/covid-vaccine-rolled-out-over-23335512 2/ They're already behind where they need to be to h

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

The @pfizer BNT162b2 vaccine data released today as part of the upcoming @US_FDA meeting are simply incredible. Still open questions, but this really is as good as it gets for

Michael Lin, PhD-MD

michaelzlin

1/nExciting findings on the AZN vaccine:1. big trial (17k)2. tested 1 dose vs 2 doses (assessing 1-dose efficacy correctly, unlike Pfizer), and short vs long delay to dose 23. first

G Kang

GKangInd

Plenty of descriptions of what participation in trials involves, but there seems to be a lot of confusion about what happens if the trial you are in or some other

Liz Szabo

LizSzabo

@DrPaulOffit tells @JAMA_current he was totally surprised that both mRNA vaccines have 94-95% efficacy. In January, he said, "no one would have thought this was possible."#JAMAlive In his live interview,

dwai banerjee

dwai_banerjee

To friends in India. Based on my decade of research on drug regulations and safety in India, here's my takeaway on the two Covid vaccines available. if you can get

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