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Dr. Angela Rasmussen
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Well @edyong209 has another amazing, deep dive about the pandemic out today. It's a thoughtful and nuanced look about the COVIDization of science, and both the tremendous achievements we've made
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I don’t think you’re being disingenuous. But challenge trials wouldn’t have sped this up for a few reasons:1. They would be limited to a small subset of low risk people.
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I hate to break it to you but challenge trials would have done approximately nothing to speed up vaccine approvals and using that approach or not has zero to do
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I had an amazing, thoughtful, long conversation this week with @kurtstreeter @nytimes about the disaster that has been this @nfl season. Here's his great piece (also with insights from @EricTopol)
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Here's some more good news. Pfizer/BioNTech's phase 3 trial has concluded after reaching its primary efficacy endpoints, and saw a boost from 90% to 95% efficacy. And this press release
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Another week started with good COVID-19 news: Moderna reports 94.5% efficacy in their interim data analysis from their phase 3 trial.https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/modernas-covid-19-vaccine-candidate-meet
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I'm seeing this making the rounds this morning. I have issues with it, specifically two of the claims.1. It's never been shown whether re-positive patients are contagious or not. (It
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This article contains some really bad advice.There's no need to cancel Thanksgiving...within your own household or quarantine pod. But "playing it safe" means canceling the holidays with relatives beyond that.https://apnews.co
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This is reason for cautious optimism but...it’s still data by press release. We need any vaccine as soon as possible, but I’m pretty skeptical that this vaccine is going to
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I see a lot of scientists and physicians getting excited about the election results, and I don't want to throw cold water on that because I'm excited for leadership that
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So you may have heard concerns about the mink variant of #SARSCoV2 that was discovered in Denmark and is leading to the decision to cull all farmed minks in the
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Earlier this week, I tweeted that the headlines around the antibody study from the UK were misleading, and that the study doesn't actually suggest that immunity is waning.https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1321093259351961600 I
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