#VACCINES

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ Apologies for not posting this sooner. I've been tied up juggling multiple jobs (Bellevue + media + congressional testimony + other), but I think it's important to get this

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Almost every day, I am asked about the Russian vaccine.Lots of questions of whether we should "take it" or not.My answer has been -- no idea -- haven't seen the

André van Delft️ 🍌🍌🍌

AndreVanDelft

It is a very long session and I do it in stages, but if you are critical about vaccinations then you really have to watch them. The founder of vaccinations

Rajeev Venkayya MD

rvenkayya

More exciting vaccine news from Oxford/AstraZeneca. These would normally be considered very good results. Would be cautious about early comparisons to mRNA, given that we haven’t seen full datasets and

Andrew Stroehlein

astroehlein

At the current rate of vaccination (about 300,000 doses a week) and with some 14.2 million jabs still needed to reach estimated target herd immunity of 70% in a population

SFWhite✝🇺🇸

Pax1sw

1) Speaking before Italy’s parliament, Deputy Sara Cunial blasted Bill Gates’ push for global vaccinations, and called for Italian Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte to seek Gates’ arrest.https://www.facebook.com/saracunial.camera/posts/52

vanessa beeley

VanessaBeeley

1. Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna V granted emergency use authorisation. 12/20202. Trials still underway for next 2 yrs, to collect adequate data to determine if safe enough to be licensed by FDA.

Nirmala Sitharaman

nsitharaman

1/ Hon. CM of West Bengal @MamataOfficial has written to the Hon @PMOIndia seeking exemption from GST/Customs duty and other duties and taxes on some items and COVID related drugs.My

•Otunba Gbejo• ✹

YoungBangalee

CANINE PARVOVIRUS!Despite widespread vaccination for canine parvovirus, it remains a common life-threatening infection in puppies and young dogs. Canine parvovirus is shed in the feces of infected dogs in very

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

Big takeaway from sobering Whitty/ Valance press conference - this is serious, have to stop weekly doubling of infections, don’t misunderstand the currently low hospitalisation rates - vaccines are on

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

As a virologist, I find it deeply concerning that some are proposing to expose healthy people to low doses of #COVID19 to make them immune. The public should know that,

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

Thread 1/5: I suspect the reasons behind the POTUS Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for plasma Rx may have an ulterior motive: They are working to lower the bar for EUAs

Jake Snow

snowjake

NEW: Our analysis suggests that CA's equity algorithm may leave millions of needy Californians without additional vaccines because of one choice: using ZIP codes rather than census tracts to allocate

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Let's talk B117 and why I don't think this variant is going to deter our progress. What are 3 things you worry about with a variant? 1) Increased transmissibility; 2)

Kâplan

KaplanBen_Fr

Étonnamment peu de relais dans les médias français de la présence comme invité vedette lors de l'énorme manifestation des anti-masques de #Berlin du 29/8 de la présence de Robert Francis

David Frum

davidfrum

First they came for the liar who defamed the grieving parents of murdered children, and I did not speak out becauseThen they came for anti-Semites in the days immediately after