#Acip

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

okay, moving on from my contention that poverty, job loss, business loss, loneliness, food/housing insecurity, harm reduction should all figure in our public health recommendations from now on, the CDC’s

Trevor

trevorjtweets

I mean look, Nate Silver did himself no favors with the tone of his tweets, but1) In basically all other policy areas, e.g. economics and foreign policy, we have no

Emily Burns😊 #SmilesMatter DM’s OK

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1/n10 mos ago, we shut down the world because of a virus we thought would overwhelm our hospitals, kill 1.1% of the people it infected, and infect more than 60%

Zoë McLaren, PhD

ZoeMcLaren

I feel compelled to respond to @MattYglesias post "Give the vaccine to the elderly" in which he misinterprets ACIP objectives, pushes for simplicity over saving lives, and draws conclusions that

Helen Branswell

HelenBranswell

1. I'm listening today to ACIP (CDC advisory committee) as it assesses the Moderna #CovidVaccine.Moderna reports that side effects after vaccination are lower among people who had antibodies to SARS-2

Lauren Westafer, DO MPH MS

LWestafer

New safety info on #CovidVaccine via @CDCgov ACIP meeting https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-01/06-COVID-Shimabukuro.pdf~1 in 12 People registered for vsafe & checked in at least 1x>15K Pregnant people r

Jen Kates

jenkatesdc

The #ACIP meeting is starting. It looks like they have revised their 1b recommendation (still to be voted on) to be those 75+ and frontline essential workers.https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-12/slides-12-20/0

uché blackstock, md

uche_blackstock

Keep in mind that a significant number of people are walking around with undiagnosed chronic medical conditions, like diabetes and high blood pressure. While ACIP guidelines will prioritize them, how

James Surowiecki

JamesSurowiecki

1. My semi-informed opinion is that it's a good thing ACIP changed its mind, and gave older adults higher priority for getting the Covid vaccine. But my informed opinion is

Govind Persad

GovindPersad

Thread on interconnected #bioethics problems in #COVID19 vaccine allocation: (1) the Stanford med center allocation debacle, (2) Rupert Murdoch, and (3) high-profile calls for age-only (“oldest first”) allocation policies. If

Emily Burns😊 #SmilesMatter DM’s OK

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1/nMeet Jo. Jo is a 20-something MPH who works for the CDC. Jo’s model is being used to decide who gets vaccinated in the U.S. Jo is a proud American

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

But in addition to age, race/ethnicity are a strong factor in predicting death from #COVID19 in the US. It's just the facts. 23/ So if you wanted to frame vaccine

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

OK. I may get slaughtered here, but there is a kind of pundit who doesn't know what he doesn't know. I'm not talking about ordinary people on @Twitter who shoot

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

KBibbinsDomingo

Out today in @JAMAInternalMed our study led by @ch272n looking at excess mortality in CA in the first 6 months of the pandemic.Excess Mortality in California During the COVID-19 Pandemic,

AltFDA

alt_fda

This is an excellent Monday question so let’s work out the answer. #Thread #Covid19 #AntiVaccine https://twitter.com/cracramama3/status/1358761668570976262 First the full pic of what we are discussing here. Is that true

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

The other key point here (as @mattyglesias pointed out in his newsletter today) is that both "pre-existing conditions" and "essential workers" are highly amorphous categories that will be gamed (especially

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