#Vaccines

while it’s great to hear some good news re: the development of a vaccine, I am super wary about people believing this to be a magic bullet and subsequently finding
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The start of the Oxford/AstraZeneca rollout is excellent news and will provide reassurance to so many. AZ’s chief executive has said they can produce up to 2 million doses a
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I'm thinking more about the Pfizer vaccine (and grateful for those who have clarified some key points). First, I agree that early efficacy (right after the second injection) prevents infection
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OPERATION WARPSPEEDIt is no secret that Donald Trump initiated Operation WARPSPEED which is cloaked in systematic covert military organisation & secrecy despite the fact with live in peace time. What
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Other day in Walmart, I was in line. Behind me was a whole family: mom, older daughter, cart full of kids.And they wouldn't stay back from me.I took a few
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Short version: Here’s a visualization for what’s going on in the northern latitudes that have seen Spring and Fall spikes each followed by drastic reductions:Seasonality suppressed Covid in the Spring/Summer
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THREAD: Extending the #SARSCoV2 (#COVID_19) updates I started on Feb 2nd (when U.S. had only 5 cases). Each thread has a final post linking to the next.Slow motion train wreck.Click
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Taoiseach Micheál Martin has held discussions with Ursula von der Leyen amid deep unhappiness in the Irish government at the use of Article 16 -- seen as "completely unnecessary" with
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The UK Government is incompetent on travel restrictions, a #thread laying out arguments why. "When you get a chance to lead, lead." That's always been the simplest and best advice
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Vaccines are rolling out across the US. That’s great news. The bad news: it’s not going nearly fast enough (at least here). I said that on Monday, and I said
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1) The low efficacy of the Novavax vaccine candidate against the B.1.351 is concerning. However, the data is also reassuring in many ways. First, the vaccine itself worked very well
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A lot has been already said today on @liammannix piece on call for a pause to #AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine roll out in Australia from @ASImmunology (Please see the clarification here
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Somehow even 12 months into the pandemic, people are saying "yes but how many of those 100k UK deaths were due to Covid and how many were due to lockdowns?"Time
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1/n Israël. Ca me chagrine mais il faudrait qu'on m'explique ce mystère. 90% des décès et environ 80% des hospitalisés en réanimation ont plus de 60 ans, une réduction de
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Much talk on @BBCWorldatOne about "acceptable level of COVID deaths". Can someone explain how you maintain a level of anything when it changes exponentially and you are always dealing with
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The Pandemic War is an actual war we must fight and win. the virus is surging, and evolving. we must surge back, and evolve faster than the virus. here's my
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