#Acip

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

And when young people die? They are often again from African-American, Latino communities. This is what the data shows. So discussing racial equity in health isn't a conversation about affirmative

Informed Choice Michigan

InformedMI

Live virus vaccines have been known to "shed" their viruses. This means the vaccinated host can be asymptomatically infectious, leading to outbreaks. Some vaccines like the DTaP vaccine, have still

M. Jeffres

PharmerMeg

@RealTimeCOVID19 clinical call notesSummary from Jay Butler MD and Amanda Cohn MD after ACIP meeting1. Separate monoclonal antibody and vaccine, at least 90 days 2. No switching between vaccines 3.

Tom Bollyky

TomBollyky

Interim results on Pfizer vaccine are promising But getting safe doses to those who would benefit most depends on reversing a trend that has defined this pandemic:to quote Isaac Asimov,

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

What sends Ross off the deep end is that racial equity is being raised in the vaccine allocation discussions. Once we talk race, then it's politics for Ross, and he

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

Let's talk about the US's vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS), with emphasis on its misuse by bad actors. VAERS is a self-explanatory system. I mean that literally: it tells

David T. Rubin, MD

IBDMD

Here are my thoughts and a few updates about #SARSCoV2 vaccines, and also about implications for our #IBD patients. A tweetorial in 20 parts. 1) Development of multiple #SARSCoV2 vaccines

Anne Sosin

asosin

What do you mean by vaccine equity? And why does it matter for population health? This is the question that I’ve been asked all week. Here’s a short explanation: Thanks

Andrew Junkin, MD

Dr_Junkin_MD

Seeing as the COVID-19 #vaccine will be an extremely limited resource initially, should we consider testing each potential recipient for SARS-CoV-2 IgG positivity before administering the vaccine in distribution Phase

Vicky

vickyintheuk

Here's a thread for those just waking up to the scamdemic or for you to pass on to help people see this for what it is. Let's start with the

Jerome Adams

JeromeAdamsMD

This week @cdcgov’s advisory committee on immunization practices met to discuss who should get a #COVID19 vaccine 1st- & it sparked some new questions. Here’s awith some info on key

Karyn Schwartz

KarynLSchwartz

While Medicaid will cover the COVID-19 vaccine during the public health emergency with no cost sharing, some adults w/Medicaid don’t have coverage for other vaccines. Why? Because vaccines aren’t in

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

There's a really dangerous misinformed claim going around relating to COVID-19 vaccines.A while ago there was a trendy idea that part of the hypercoagulability from COVID-19 was because of endothelialitis

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

drsanjaygupta

With Pfizer’s vaccine being granted authorization in the UK and the prospect of a Covid-19 vaccine EUA here in the US, I wanted to take a moment to answer some

Kelsey Piper

KelseyTuoc

When I started researching this piece I was going to write why to vaccinate the elderly next (after frontline healthcare & nursing homes). But now everyone agrees on that, so

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

Despite the unfortunate title, let me state emphatically, the scientists stand with the teachers. There’s no daylight between us. We are scientists in part because of our K-12 teachers. There’s

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