#Vaccines

Carleigh Krubiner

CKrubiner

Disappointing to see the UK take such a strong & overly precautionary position against vaccinating pregnant and lactating people (incl. requiring pregnancy tests) with the recently approved Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. A

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

"severe restrictions ... closures of businesses and in-person school, mobility restrictions and curfews, quarantines, limits on group gatherings, and mask mandates... did not significantly change the typical pattern or damage

Bansi Sharma

bansisharma

Other than Trump, there is nobody on planet earth who would have made it possible to have a successful vaccine developed in 9 months. It was deemed impossible by none

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

“#Covid19 is an uneven pandemic”, says @DrTedros at @WHO press conference on #sarscov2. “70% of cases and deaths are in just four countries.”(Number seems wrong to me, though general point

Andrea Lausell

AndreaLausell

The fact that myself & a few people I know were going to get our vaccines in this next few weeks & yesterday we were all denied even tho we

Dave Keating

DaveKeating

Explosive. Sky News reporting that UK ministers are saying their unpublished #AstraZeneca contract “commits the pharmaceutical company to delivering UK doses first”.That could amount to an EU contract violation.https://news.sky.com/stor

Stefan Marciniak

Prof_Marciniak

The Background 1860s: nucleic acids discovered 1940-50s: the concept that “DNA makes RNA makes protein” is developed (& is called the central dogma)1960s: messenger RNA discovered 1/n Path to the

Dr Adam Aneevit

DrAdamAneevit

They locked you in your homeThey stopped you seeing loved onesThey took away your livelihoodThey banned you from funeralsThey made you cover your faceThey want to enter your homeThey want

Soutik Biswas

soutikBBC

THREAD: In 1894, Waldemar Haffkine, a Russian Jew trained in Paris, travelled to Calcutta armed with a cholera vaccine. The slums were battling an outbreak of the disease. The 33-year-old

Miya Shay

miyashay

After covering the #covid19 vaccine rollout for the past 48 hours, the main thing I’ve learned is this: outside of frontline medical personnel, hospital system VIPs, & the separate federal

Rajeev Venkayya MD

rvenkayya

THREADThere’s much debate around the UK's recommended use of the AZ vaccine with a two-dose schedule and flexible timing of second dose. Some thoughts on the AZ recommendation (not Pfizer)

Rep. Neal Collins

collins_neal

1/ For those who like long, data-driven updates (290 days since 1st positive)(30 days since last COVID data post):Opinion:1. We have 2 huge issues affecting us: (a) 2021 is lost

Paul Carnahan

pacarnahan

Clearing out a pile of ancient screenshots on my iPad and came across this classic from the undisputed Prince of Pish: And this, from the ever-oblivious Lil’ Loco: And remember

Emilia C Skirmuntt 🦇🧬🦠

ESkirmuntt

(Thread about COVID vaccines) More and more countries are rolling out their vaccination programmes. It is an amazing triumph of science that we have been able to efficiently introduce vaccines

Dave Keating

DaveKeating

The UK took a calculated risk by opting for early emergency use authorisation rather than conditional market approval like EU. There's less data and gov will be liable.So far that

James Krellenstein

jbkrell

The @Dereklowe piece sort of misses the point. Yes, there is no idle mRNA vaccine production capacity in the pharma industry that could simply be repurposed to make more COVID-19

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