#Dose

Kenny Mathieson

KennyMathieson

8 Simple Reasons Why Giving a 2nd Pfizer Dose After 12 Weeks Will Be a Public Health Disaster:1. An assumption has been made that the 90% efficacy reported in the

Neil Stone

DrNeilStone

My first reaction to the UK delaying 2nd dose of Pfizer vaccine was to be completely against it.But after hearing carefully reasoned arguments, I'm coming round to the idea.Listen. Learn.It's

Walid Gellad, MD MPH

walidgellad

The question here is not whether the gov't gives everyone only 1 dose in order to vaccinate more people.The question is, to increase # vaccinated *sooner*, should gov't take some

Florian Krammer

florian_krammer

1) If we want to generate difficult viral escape mutants in the lab (e.g. for epitope mapping), we subject the virus to low antibody pressure and then slowly move up.

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Agree! One dose = 2x people vaccinated The math is plain & simpleApproach is broken. We do not do what makes sense: w/ rapid tests or making single dose vacc

F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE

fperrywilson

Seeing an interesting question coming up here - should we just give as many people as possible dose 1 of the Pfizer vaccine and not worry so much about dose

Psyber Attack

PsyberAttack

This is good news, but Brits may be reading too much into it. I've been eyebleeding it and the impact seems pronounced after the 2nd dose, (looking at the 40-60

Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦

AntibioticDoc

A thread about COVID19 mRNA vaccine second dose timing controversies:Basically I think it’s honestly a good move to have a flexible (out to 6 week) second dose (and was lobbying

Natasha Loder

natashaloder

From the UK chief medical officers: For both vaccines, data provided to MHRA demonstrate that whilst efficacy is optimised when a second dose is administered both offer considerable protection after

Janice Hahn

SupJaniceHahn

Thanks to everyone who joined our Vaccine Telephone Town Hall with @RepBarragan last night. We got a lot of questions, and I wanted to take the time to answer some

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Remember when you hear talk about people being "vaccinated" that in the main we're still talking about people receiving only one jab. For the full benefits, they'll need both. For

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Out in @TheLancet, results from the Oxford/AZN trials, including more detail on the low dose results. Notably, the low dose recipients "received their second dose after a substantial gap." Only

Zavén Sargsyan

sargsyanz

Folks always confuse 1:1,000 vs. 1:10,000 epinephrine, when you're supposed to use which, what the dosing is, etcHere's what helps me remember/teach.Thread 1/9 There's two main indications for epi -

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

B.1.1.7 variant first seen in UK will be dominant by end of MarchIf we do our job, we can vaccinate everyone over 65 by then And every teacherAnd all school

James Heilman

WikiDocJames

In the near term I support one rather than two doses. Here's why: 1) We know one dose works at least somewhat 2) We know we do not have enough

Charlie Haynes

charliehtweets

Some good news: it looks like the Oxford vaccine may both substantially reduce transmission AND reduces symptomatic infections in people who've had just a single dose for 3 months -

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