#Vaccines

Just Kidding Jeez

justkiddingjeez

THREAD. @PatToomey SUBJECT: Enjoy your retirement.Dear Senator Toomey,I will be very glad to see you go. You were a complete disappointment to me as a Senator, especially as I believe

Spies Like Us

RealStealthSpy

1. Humanity is being shut down again.Firstly, let me say - there is a virus.I won't explore WHAT authority believes it can mandate that healthy people cannot move around!I won't

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

The AstraZeneca/Oxford (AZ) COVID vaccine (ChAdOx) results in South Africa are concerning. * The AZ vaccine had 75% efficacy against mild COVID through October 2020.* But only 22% efficacy more

Clara Jeffery

ClaraJeffery

Since manifesting trust across all demographic groups is essential to a successful vaccination campaign, I hope Biden camp will figure out ways to have COVID-responsible Republicans like Romney be a

Tim Heming

Timheming

Radio has long been my favourite medium but I try and avoid anxiety-inducing phone-ins as much as possible. However, last night I caught a few minutes of one on BBC

James

agoodfireburns

So that’s both Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines reporting less effect against the South African variant. I’m sure they’ll work it out, this time. Best hope there’s no further major mutations

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

In 2003's Pattern Recognition, @greatdismal discusses the role of "apophenia" - finding patterns where none exist - in paranoid thinking. We are a pattern-matching animal, prone to seeing faces in

Lawrence Gostin

LawrenceGostin

This Thread explains the controversy around delayed 2nd doses of #Covid19vaccines or lowering the amount in each dose. The debate really boils down to what science tells us about maximum

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Many discussions about #COVID19 boil down to wether the virus is 'just like the flu' or 'nothing like the flu'. As such, I felt it may be useful to provide

Dr. Devon Greyson

DevonGreyson

Something I learned about in my 3y as a social scientist embedded in a vaccine research ctr is AEFIs: Adverse Events Following Immunization. Lots of things happen after we’re vaccinated

The Professional

science_cited

Let's do a deep dive on coronavirus DNA vaccines. This long thread looks closely at DNA vaccines, and will specifically address their potential to edit the human genome. If you

Cathy Newman

cathynewman

Lots to digest from the man who led Oxford jab team Prof Sir John Bell: he tells me South African/Brazil #covid variants are a “big problem” bc “changes are pretty

MaReQ⭐⭐⭐

Mareq16

The UK approved Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, the first Western nation to give it the green lightLooks like Pfizer wanted UK to have the honor, downplaying US role ~anonhttps://www.businessinsider.com/pfizer-and-biontech-covid

Darrell Bricker

darrellbricker

A few tweets on vaccines. Too much emphasis has been placed on hesitancy and anti-vaxers. True anti-vax population is small. Certainly less than 15%. Hesitant group is bigger but positive

Mason 🏃‍♂️✂️𐃏

webdevMason

If you wanted to make sure that rapidly expiring vaccines distributed in 10-dose vials end up in the trash, this is how you'd do it Reminder that this guy is

Helen Branswell

HelenBranswell

2. The J&J vaccine showed an 85% efficacy at protecting against severe #Covid19 — in multiple settings around the world, including in South Africa. It was 100% effective against hospitalization

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