#Efficacy

Carly Weeks

carlyweeks

We don’t even have a #COVID19 vaccine & so many have already declared they will never get one when available. This isn’t a surprise, given how much anti-vaccine sentiment has

Resus Cric Superstar #BLM

RozehnalMd

Oh for the love of petri dishes Paper is here and it's very, uhhhh, preclinical.https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/01/22/science.abf4058 With the caveat that I'm very dumb, nearly always wrong, and only capable of com

Pippa Crerar

PippaCrerar

Deputy CMO Jonathan Van Tam insists the new vaccine trials will be thorough regardless of the urgency.He tells a No 10 briefing: "Standards are no lower despite this being a

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 237Didn't plan to tweet today, but can’t resist a few quick takes on @pfizer vaccine news https://tinyurl.com/yygwoxwf 90% efficacy is far better than even most optimistic projections.

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

Casey Ayers

caseyayers

You’ve probably seen the early word from Pfizer of 90% efficacy for the COVID-19 vaccine developed in coordination with BioNTech. I’d like to talk to you about it this morning,

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Tens of thousands of people have already been vaccinated as part of Covid clinical trials. We haven't seen any significant safety concerns so far, and the FDA just gave an

BonoPox

hyupthebog

I have to call bullshit on some commentary floating around on this. The Irish Times are reprinting a Merrion Street press release and some in the Green Party actively misrepresenting

Eric Topol

EricTopol

The impressive reduction of mortality achieved during the pandemic for patients admitted to the ICUFrom UK @ICNARC @CebmOxford data https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/08/22/when-covid-19-becomes-a-chronic-illness The 10 t

ThisBarbara Loves 2021

ThisBarbara

I'm seeing a lot of calls to discount the Pfizer announcement because it hasn't been published/peer reviewed yet - little thread about that just to explain. (I don't work for

Thomas Christie Williams

Williams_T_C

with Scotland due to start vaccination next week with the Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 coronavirus vaccine, what do we know about it? a threadhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54984390 first of all, what type of vaccine is

Shreyas Karanth

shreyas94

1/n @thenayanasuri and I were recently discussing the efficacy of LinkedIn v/s Twitter. While I was unequivocal about my support for Twitter, I had to articulate the reasons why I

Alex John London

AlexJohnLondon

1. I’m not persuaded by this. Some reasons are specific to this case others apply more generally to arguments of the form—if we deviate from practices that are supported by

Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, MSc

KimberlyBlumen1

1/Brief #COVID19vaccine allergy update: LARGE LOCAL REACTIONS! These all were after #Moderna. Itchy, swollen, erythema, edema. Comes on late (>5 days) and can last weeks .Tx is symptomatic: antihistamine (e.g.,

Sumanth Raman

sumanthraman

UK,USA,UAE,Canada Bahrain,China,Russia hv already started #Covid vaccination.Singapore &7 EU countries start next week.Not only does India not know when we will start vaccinating but we also do not know which

Gabrielle Colleran

GColleranMD

A thread about vaccine efficacy & why we can’t get complacent We have great vaccines: PFizer vaccine efficacy is at 95% 7 days after the second doseDoes that mean life

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