#Acip

Charlie Camosy

CCamosy

#ACIP committee did better by our elders in a plan they just passed: they included people over 75 in a plan which just weeks ago abandoned them. However, the plan

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

I am sorry to be a broken record, but it is completely indefensible that ACIP presents data like this showing that age is a FAR bigger risk factor for dying

Liz Szabo

LizSzabo

LIVE: A @cdcgov advisory committee is meeting right now to recommend who should get first covid-19 vaccines when they're available. Here are the work group members.https://www.ustream.tv/channel/VWBXKBR8af4 LIVE: A @CDCgov advisory

Emily Kopp

emilyakopp

The explanation is pretty simple:The ACIP and National Academies were concerned the vaccine would be less effective in people 65+ (often the case with flu shots). The DRAFT recommendations were

Jen Kates

jenkatesdc

NEW: The #COVID19 “Vaccination Line.” Our review of state priorities (w/@joshmich, JenTolbert):*States are increasingly diverging from CDC guidance and each other;*Timelines vary across and within states;*It's a vaccine roll-out lab

Josh Barro

jbarro

ACIP has taken another crack at recommending vaccine priority after healthcare workers. Instead of essential workers before seniors, it’s 75+ together with the most exposed workers, followed by 65+ with

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

The @CDCgov ACIP move toward priortizing frontline workers is premised on "only slightly" more deaths compared to prioritizing by age &/or comorbidity. But that finding depends on the vaccine blocking

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ As of Friday afternoon, @CDCgov had already learned of 3,150 people who'd received the vaccine had already been "unable to perform normal daily activities, unable to work, [or] required

Helen Branswell

HelenBranswell

1. I am listening to #ACIP again today & will tweet about the discussion today about who should be next in line for vaccine after health care workers & nursing

Ed MD

notdred

I know who needs to hear this but I’ll say it out loud anyway: you vaccinate health care workers first because hospitals fall apart in a surge, not because you

LeonardJamesAkaar🧢

LJAkaar67

@NoahRFeldman @MichelleM_MelloDisappointed in Vaccinating America, may have been poor timing, I'd like to hear Prof Mello on this weekend's controversy over ACIP desire to vaccinate 80M younger, healthier essential workers

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia

BhadeliaMD

Some good resources from the @CDCgov ACIP meeting yesterday which may answer a couple of Pfizer vaccine questions out there. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6950e2-H.pdfhttps://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slid

the Arkivist

the_Arkivist

1) Some troubling questions arise from today’s ACIP presentation on the Covid vax where they found NO signals to worry them (of course). Report link at the end. 2) the

Ed Belongia MD

EdBelongia

1/5 The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met today and had an excellent session on #COVID19 vax development and prioritization. ACIP makes evidence-based recommendations on vaccine policy. Here

Michael Hobbes

RottenInDenmark

Weird how everyone with expertise in epidemiology, the CDC or the "damning" slide presentation in question doesn't agree with this account of events.https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1341866668528717824 This is the slide

Donna Young

DonnaYoungDC

#CDC #ACIP now getting underway on allocation of #COVID19 #vaccines https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/index.html Webcast here: https://www.ustream.tv/channel/VWBXKBR8af4 https://twitter.com/SPGMIHealthcare/status/1333360463854383107 #CDC #A

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