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1. More than 1B doses of #Covid19 vaccine have been administered worldwide, the Bloomberg tracker reports. One might be tempted to think 1 in 8 people have received a dose,

1. I'm covering ACIP's meeting on J&J's vaccine. Won't have time to tweet a lot. @CDCgov vaccine safety expert Tom Shimabukuro is up now. Going to present new data on

#Covid19 thread: So the global death toll — which is certainly an underestimate — has topped 1M deaths.10 months ago we had no inkling a new coronavirus was soon about

1. #Influenza experts from around the world have been meeting virtually with WHO experts over the past week or so to decide which flu strains ought to be in the

Brett Giroir, asst secretary at HHS, just told a Senate committee that recent declines in #Covid19 cases & deaths could reverse "if we don't continue to follow the national plan."There's

1. Terrific piece on how @WHO was overcome by #Covid19, by @betswrites & @drewfhinshaw. WHO has taken a boatload of criticism for its handling of the pandemic. This piece explains

1. China gives first emergency use approval for a #Covid19 vaccine, allowing CanSino's adenovirus vectored vaccine to be used by the military. There is already evidence this vaccine may not

1. #Ebola thread: The situation in DRC looks quite dangerous. Just days before the 20-month long North Kivu outbreak was to be declared over, a new case was diagnosed. Now

1. @WHO weighs in on the "to mask, or not to mask (the public)" question. "...there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask ... by healthy persons in the

1. An #Ebola-by-the-numbers thread about where things have gotten to with the DRC outbreak & why huge gains are now at risk.First numbers: 1 & 0, the number of cases