#VACCINE

Yinon Weiss

yinonw

A 90% effective vaccine would be great. Keep in mind that its main benefit is in the 75+ age group. Risk wise:A vaccinated 60 year old is equivalent to an

Uri Shalit

ShalitUri

I’m seeing many discussions about the evidence for vaccine effectiveness in Israel. This is a thread with my thoughts on what we know and don’t know at this point. First

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I'm personally not aware that any evidence about the efficacy of the AZ vaccines in people >65 years has been released to date. The Lancet paper definitely didn't report any.1/https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-67

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. Thrasher, jouRNAlist

thrasherxy

This is an example of why I use a framework of the viral underclass. If a magic wand could be waved to make a virus, any virus (HIV, SARS-CoV-2, influenza)

Antonio Regalado

antonioregalado

The George Church selfie of him taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine. This picture is a classic This is the thread to go with it. Today @techreview reported on an independent

Elad Ratson

EladRatson

Israel is leading the world in #COVID19 vaccinations with over 150K new people per day. Many wonder how Israel managed to secure from @Pfizer millions of #BioNTech dosages while richer,

Dave Keating

DaveKeating

Update from MEP @PeterLiese, health spokesman for the largest party in the EU Parliament (thread):He maintains #AstraZeneca is treating people in EU as "2nd class citizens" and that doses have

Łeah Gilliam, MD

DrGRuralMD

Example of how systemic racism plays out in healthcare: I had not heard that our health department had opened up vaccines to patients over 75 until a patient called at

Dan Larremore

DanLarremore

Updated preprint: Model-informed COVID-19 vaccine prioritization strategies by age and serostatus. Smart suggestions from formal/informal review mean that the paper still asks how demographics, contacts, vax efficacy, & seroprevalence a

The Atlantic

TheAtlantic

1/ A harsh winter is only just beginning as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. Here’s what happened this week—starting with Wednesday, when the United States broke 100,000 coronavirus hospitalizations for

AltFDA

alt_fda

This Monday, I got word my vaccine was pushed back a month and I’m pissed! A #Thread on how OWS has fucked us all. For this thread, I will be

joe

JoePoutous

A THREAD. THE GOOD DR'S ADVENTURES WITH THE SECOND MODERNA SHOT.Yesterday at 7:30 am, my girlfriend got the second vaccine shot. 1/ After getting the vaccine, she stopped and picked

͏hark the herald angels sing

angelmendoza___

that post-vaccine life is gonna hit so good me and the homies having our first outdoor kickback after 10 months of quarantine

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

The best thing you can say about the start of France’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign is that it can’t get any worse. France had administered 516 doses of Pfizer’s vaccine as

Neil Lewis, Jr.

NeilLewisJr

This thread shares a timely example of what I'm teaching about today in research methods: how seemingly minor details in how we construct our studies and measure things can affect

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