Thread by @eileeniorio, Harvard scientist and colleague of Dr. Fauci slams Moderna vaccine press release [...]

Harvard scientist and colleague of Dr. Fauci slams Moderna vaccine press release w/out data, affecting share prices. He questions Fauci's judgement and FDA recommendations for Remdesivir. He criticizes the Oxford vaccine study results where 100% of monkeys in trial had the virus.

"Private companies, governments and research institutes are holding news conferences to report potential breakthroughs that cannot be verified... it is damaging trust in the fundamental methods of science and medicine." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/19/rush-share-good-news-covid-19-drugs-is-undermining-science/

Opinion | Moderna’s claim of favorable results in its vaccine trial is an example of ‘publication...

Without the underlying data, promising vaccines and treatments are impossible to evaluate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/19/rush-share-good-news-covid-19-drugs-is-undermining-science/

100% of the monkeys in the trial got infected but...
"Immunity to the new coronavirus is uncertain and so the use of vaccines unclear. The U.S. deal allows a late-stage - Phase III - clinical trial of the vaccine with 30,000 people in the United States." https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/930914

US Secures 300 Million Doses of Potential AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine

The United States has secured almost a third of the first one billion doses planned for AstraZeneca's experimental COVID-19 vaccine by pledging up to $1.2 billion, as world powers scramble for...

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/930914

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