#VACCINE

Danny Altmann

Daltmann10

Thoughts from my piece in BMJ today about SPUTNIK #vaccine : Need the best, safest, most durably protective vaccines. Can’t identify these unless we have a transparent, peer-reviewed comparative evaluation

Sarah Manavis

sarahmanavis

Is this real. Is the vaccine really called Chadhttps://twitter.com/CathGreenLab/status/1253391333739433984 4chan coronavirus stans are absolutely going to pop off if this is fucking real As a Stacy, I welcome our new

Jenni Byrne

Jenni_Byrne

THREAD: Trudeau dragged his feet and now Canada lags behind every other G7 country in terms of when the vaccine will be available to our citizens. Canada will have a

Laura Elliott

TinyWriterLaura

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

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

My take—I personally think the Oxford AstraZeneza #COVID19 vaccine at 90% efficacy (with its half-then-full dose regimen) simple refrigeration vaccine that costs $2.5-4/dose is superior. Cheaper + much easier to

Carl Zimmer

carlzimmer

Big morning for updates to the @nytimes coronavirus vaccine tracker. In fact, I need a thread! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.html 1/9 #covid19 First up: Oxford scientists publish their first cl

ian haydon

ichaydon

*deep breath*So, I had a bit of an issue after getting my 2nd injection of a candidate COVID vaccine. It was the highest dose — 10x what some others got.

Eric Topol

EricTopol

This will go down in history as one of science and medical research's greatest achievements. Perhaps the most impressive.I put together a preliminary timeline of some key milestones to show

Alexander Gaffney

AlecGaffney

NYTimes reporting that the White House has blocked the release of the FDA's "EUA+" vaccine guidance on the standards for it to grant an emergency authorization for a vaccine. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/politics/coro

Chief Health Officer, Victoria

VictorianCHO

THREAD: With over 350,000 cases of COVID-19 reported daily in India, it's clear that the pandemic is far from over globally. The true *daily* figure is probably over two million.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

DrSidMukherjee

1/n The AZ vaccine adverse effects are seriously concerning. First, since public money flowed into the project through OWS, we need to have access to the data to figure out

Fiona Russell

Fiona_M_Russell

Risk: benefit of AstraZeneca vaccine vs being struck by lightning or dying in an accident. In Australian context risk of shark attack about 1 per million. Heartening to hear young

Jennifer Gunter

DrJenGunter

The idea that we will have a coronavirus vaccine within 2 years seems unlikely to me. I think mumps was the fastest and it was identified in 1963 and the

Los Angeles Times

latimes

The pandemic has underscored many inequities in society. One in particular involves weight bias and flaws in healthcare. We explain:https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-08/analyzing-covid-vaccine-inequity-through-obesity-lens T

Dr.Saima khan

DrSaimakhan3

Covid vaccines Myths DebunkedSo much misinformation,so little timeMyth 1: The vaccine causes infertility-●This is not true.Someone claimed that because the covid virus has a very short amino acid sequence (building

SY Investing

syinvesting

#COVID19 Promising study of a purified inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virus vaccine induced SARS-CoV-2-specific neutralizing antibodies in mice, rats and non-human primates.These antibodies potently neutralized 10 representative SARS-CoV-2 strains.Pre-print: