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🔬Samantha Yammine, PhD (aka Science Sam)
heysciencesam
Let's take a look at the updated NACI recommendations for the AstraZeneca vaccine...Thread based on Appendix E, analyzing benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine (preventing ICU admissions & deaths from COVID)
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Dr. Alexander Wong
awong37
"Hey Alex, why is the government experimenting with us by changing the dose intervals for #COVID19 vaccine?"In early March, as 3rd waves across Canada were emerging quickly, NACI provided guidance
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Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)
jeremyfaust
Two highly concerning papers now live in the New England Journal of Medicine regarding the adenovirus-based AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine.A small number of patients appear to have had serious clotting events with
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Guy Gadboit
gadboit
This is a closeup of the AZ vaccine, straight out of the bottle. The two big blobs near the bottom are adenovirus particles. All the other crap is probably not
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Kai Kupferschmidt
kakape
Like everything in this pandemic the science around the rare clotting disorder seen in AstraZeneca vaccinees has moved at an incredible pace. As the link has become clear, hints for
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Samir Gupta
SammyG_MD
1/Re. NACI’s recent communications. No one is saying to hide info from the public. What people are concerned about is the way that info is being conveyed (and to some
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Vincent Rajkumar
VincentRK
Astra Zeneca vaccine & blood clots. Summary.Rare form of blood clots plus low platelets. ~60% involve veins of brain. Almost all after 1st dose. Risk (UK MHRA): 1 in 250,000
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🇨🇦 Bill Comeau Crush the Curve 📉
Billius27
Let me try and convert the NACI guidance on the Astra Zeneca #vaccine to something understandable. I took the worst case of 1 blood clot (VITT) case per 100,000 and
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Ryan Imgrund
imgrund
I want to respond to this thread, respectfully disagreeing with @ASPphysician that we should no longer use AstraZeneca in Canada.Aside from a critical math error, there is an assumption which
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Ruth
just_to_join_in
Trying to talk about ongoing, persistent headache that *isn’t* VITT but started after the AstraZeneca vaccine is hard. Either you get your words used by anti-vaxxers, or you get assumed
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Menaka Pai, MSc MD FRCPC
MPaiMD
So you read today’s NACI advice - AZ ok if you’re 30+! Unless you can wait for mRNA ! And then you read the MANY hot takes from experts, non-experts,
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Dr. Krishana Sankar (she/her)
KrishanaSankar
Perhaps experts publicly sharing their takes on AZ #CovidVaccine can consider a DM group chat. Remember your discourse on this public platform is open to everyone incl. non-experts who are
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Dr. Fiona Mattatall
FionaMattatall
This morning's grand rounds were an update from University of Calgary Reproductive Infectious Diseases (Drs. Kuret and Castillo)This was a comprehensive review of both Canadian data on #COVID19 cases in
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Daniel Sinclair
_DanielSinclair
“The federal government will stop administration of the vaccine at all federally run vaccination sites.”https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/us/politics/johnson-johnson-vaccine-blood-clots-fda-cdc.html If I recall correctly, J&J uses
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#MaskUp Dr. Haryax Pathak
HaryaxPathak
COVID-19 Vaccines: What We Know So Far!- By Dr. Vipin M. Vashishtha, MD @vipintukur The Global Scenario: Ten different Covid-19 vaccines have shared their Phase III data.2 based on mRNA,4
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Sabina Walker 😀 Master Appl Science (Neuroscience
SabinaWalker18
1/x Platelets Can Associate With SARSCoV2 RNA and Are Hyperactivated in C19 (17/9/2020)Quoting,“...HYPERCOAGULATION and THROMBOSIS contribute to lethality of [C19].Platelets are chiefly implicated in thrombosis.[platelets] CAN interact wi
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