#Efficacy

Emilia C Skirmuntt 🦇🧬🦠

ESkirmuntt

(Thread about COVID vaccines) More and more countries are rolling out their vaccination programmes. It is an amazing triumph of science that we have been able to efficiently introduce vaccines

Ben

bennyoutrageous

For my non-scientist followers: this is a preprint, so it hasn’t been reviewed yet. But essentially the vaccines, both Pfizer and Moderna are significantly less effective against these highly transmissible

Nina Jankowicz

wiczipedia

Just as a PSA: no one — literally no one — who believes in the efficacy of increased societal resilience in response to disinformation thinks we should sit back and

PriyankaPulla

PriyankaPulla

A good discussion on vaccines, with several viewpoints, but Dr Jacob John makes a couple of statements from 44 min onwards which are rebutting, because they explain why he has

Kodama Mama

CaseyExplosion

It's hard to feel sympathy for The Guardian as a trans person, when they commissioned a study on the efficacy of "sex change" surgeries that deliberately fudged it's interpretations of

Josh Barocas, MD

jabarocas

Really important work going on for the emerging epidemic within the pandemic: methamphetamine use disorder. Brief Study for some efficacy of bupropion + naltrexone (13.6%) v placebo (2.5%). @NEJM. (Brief

Drew Armstrong

ArmstrongDrew

There were two VERY big pieces of vaccine news out in the last 24 hours:1)J&J's vaccine (one shot, easier to store) had 66% efficacy at preventing moderate/severe infections. 2) Novavax

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Vaccine efficacy in blocking infection & transmission(I think) We can now estimate the (minimum) reduction in transmission from the Moderna vaccine.Threadtl;dr Moderna vaccine blocks >90% (87-93%) of infections & 91%

Jane

janeelisabethh

Listened to a podcast yesterday on abstinence + physical boundaries where the host suggested women stop shaving their legs because “When you’re not feeling good about how you look, you’re

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

The AstraZeneca/Oxford (AZ) COVID vaccine (ChAdOx) results in South Africa are concerning. * The AZ vaccine had 75% efficacy against mild COVID through October 2020.* But only 22% efficacy more

COVID Perspective

covidperspectiv

* Short thread & thoughts on the vaccine news *The news is undoubtedly good news. 90% efficacy is well above expectations (50% was the bar for FDA approval, 60-70% the

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Oxford-AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine just approved for use in UK. Moreover, the vaccine campaign will now shift to giving as many people as possible their first dose—aim will be to give

Jr nsam 57 ~ ✌

_Sm1ttyjr

1/ This is a crime against, and an abuse of humanity as a whole.Politicians are complicit. Media is complicit. Mega-corp execs, many health workers, scientists, and LE, also complicit.Read these

Rupert Pearse

rupert_pearse

Some interesting news here from @remap_cap that #Tocilizumab may improve patient outcomes for COVID-19. Understandable that the team are eager to announce this but given the limited detail and small

Jamie Triccas

TricckyLab

Interesting article from @liammannix and @aishamae today, a lot to unpack, time for a little thread! #COVID19Aus Scientists call for pause on AstraZeneca vaccine rollouthttps://www.smh.com.au/national/scientists-call-for-pause-on-astrazenec

Midas Mulligan

MidasMulligan6

$ONCT - Now that #biopick2021 submissions have been announced, I would like to share the reasons why I do not agree with the $ONCT bull thesis (NOTE: I do not

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