#Vaccines

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

How well do various vaccines reduce severe COVID disease & death? Awesome @YaleMed students, @dariusdariusdar, @ChaneyKalinich, @Larson_HaleighT & Caroline Valdez put together summary tables from vaccine trials. Remarkable ability o

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

RAPID ANTIGEN TESTS WILL DETECT THE VARIANT STRAINS(Has quickly become the most frequently asked question....The epitopes targeted are not under selective immune pressure) A bit more nuance. Most rapid antigen

Sarah Cobey

sarahcobey

Lately I've seen people say that deviations from "ethical queues" for vaccination are NBD, that we should focus on getting the vaccine into as many arms as possible as fast

Lazarus Long

LazarusLong13

I've run into the 10,000,00 post-lockdown Wuhan study being misused, so let's dive in.Between May 14 and June 1, Wuhan, China, 9,899,828 people had nucleic acid screening done.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w First

deonandan

deonandan

Despite what Rand Paul says, you can't "throw away your mask" once you've received the COVID vaccine, for *at least* four reasons (thread):1) It takes a couple of weeks to

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

REINFECTION & VACCINE SENSITIVITY—the concern is now growing very very real. This piece highlights the big S Africa CDC report I shared earlier, where antibodies from previously infected don’t

Lumpy Louise - Reluctant Curling Enthusiast

LumpyLouish

There are a few things that disabled people have concerns for that may not be understood by abled-bodied people:-We have to keep fighting for chronic pain sufferers to get opioids

Eric Meyerowitz, MD

EricMeyerowitz

1/ Key question right now is how much SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will decrease transmission.Data from Regeneron mAb cocktail prevention press release may help us think about thishttps://investor.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/reg

Justin McElroy

j_mcelroy

A short thread on the rising number of #COVID19 deaths in British Columbia, and what is reasonable to expect in the weeks ahead. Apologies in advance for the grim nature

Oxfam International

Oxfam

UPDATE: Rich countries representing just 14% of the world’s population have bought up OVER HALF of all #COVID19 vaccines so far.Billions of people in the poorest countries could miss out

Tom Bollyky

TomBollyky

US officials compare #COVID19 vaccine allocation to oxygen masks dropping on depressurizing plane: Put yours on first, then help othersMajor difference, of course, is the oxygen masks do not drop

Sara Sasse

waytoosasse

Let's talk about pediatric vaccines. Not COVID-19 yet (soon, @synapse2000 !), as I am waiting to hear back from some folks in the know, but a pediatric vaccination 101 for

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

I'm writing a tweet thread on what I think COVID in Canada in 2021 will look like. Short version: the next months will be much worse than anything yet--we are

Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, MSc

KimberlyBlumen1

1/ OK so 1 week after UK #COVID19Vaccine allergy was described, I need to reorient you to my world, the world where #drugallergy is the best field of #MedTwitter #AIMedEd

Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦

AntibioticDoc

I can see why this seems odd but: available data suggests that once vaccinated, YOU are likely protected from severe COVID VERY quickly, from symptomatic COVID19 at all by the

Alicia Zhou

ay_zhou

1/ It’s been a big week in #covid19 news: Pfzier-BioNTech’s SARS-CoV-2 vaccine got the official FDA EUA green light and the first UK patients got vaccinated. Let’s break down what

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