#Effectiveness

Liz Lemon, MD

babbymd

Flu vaccine thread time!“Why should I get the flu shot?”- Influenza is a virus that:1. Causes millions of Americans to miss work or school2. Hospitalizes hundreds of thousands of Americans

Julia Belluz

juliaoftoronto

Have a new story out about the scientific reasons why the UK (B.1.1.7) and South Africa (501Y.V2) variants are so deeply concerning, even for vaccine protection. A short to summarize:https://www.vox.com/22213033/covid-19-mutation-variant-va

David Paton

cricketwyvern

Restrictions were imposed to stop health services being overwhelmed.Govt policy on reopening now seems to be based on an assumption that opening 1 thing inevitably increases transmission & so something

M. Azeem Khan

mazeemkhan74

1/After 9/11 attacks whole world faced severe terrorism started under umbrella of Al Qaida.IN Xinjiang there were several camps operated by ETIM-a terrorist group established in collaboration with Al Qaida

Kert Viele

KertViele

(1/n) A few weeks ago I noted that if you expecting vaccine efficacies in the 30-70% range, knowing an interim says “continue” doesn’t say much. With Pfizer’s very optimistic 90%,

Audrey D. Zhang

AudreyDZhang

Happy @US_FDA #VRBPAC briefing material release day for those crazy people like me who celebrate:https://www.fda.gov/advisory-committees/advisory-committee-calendar/vaccines-and-related-biological-products-advisory-committee-december-10-202

Danilo Leandro Trisi

TrisiDanilo

If you’re interested in long-term poverty trends by race & ethnicity, check out our new paper.Govt policies reduced poverty substantially over the last 5 decades, but more needs to be

Ian Mulheirn

ianmulheirn

How quickly might life get back to normal? Would faster vaccine rollout speed it up? Our new @InstituteGC paper looks at what the government's plan might mean for easing restrictions,

Dr. Jana Lasser

janalasser

A thread about COVID in schools. This recent nature piece summarizes the situation from a research perspective well: we still do not know enough about the biology of the virus

Margaret McCartney

mgtmccartney

Testing students in universities/colleges in Scotland; what happened ? 43,925 lateral flow (the fast ones done out of a laboratory) tests were done between 30th Nov and 12th Dec. (most

Stickfigureme

stickfigureme

For close to a year now, with only a few exceptions, I have my grocery and household supplies delivered.Everything is wiped down once inside. Please consider doing the same to

Nick Selby

fuzztech

$5.5M. 36,000 trained can now answer the quiz a little better. Impact on arrest demographics? Zero. Claiming the root cause of X is Y, then dogmatically applying solution Z in

Ambika Satkunanathan

ambikasat

1/ The term ‘death row’ has been used frequently in public discourse during the past week due to a person sentenced to death taking oaths as MP. Since manner in

Corey A. DeAngelis

DeAngelisCorey

Mike Pence argues for school choice by saying "competition makes everybody better.""We've seen evidence of that here in Wisconsin." He's right. School choice competition leads to better outcomes in district

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Thread on the recent report on the possible risk of increased death associated with the new UK variant (B117)- with a discussion of the evidence around this, and what this

Peter Cook

_Peter_Cook

I fear the death toll from the side effects of the world's reaction to COVID-19 may actually do more harm than the actual virus.https://twitter.com/aginnt/status/1327416457307824128 Taking precautions like masking and social

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