#Moderna

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

INOVIO's COVID-19 vaccine is based on its DNA medicine platform: INO-4700 against MERS-CoV, a related coronavirus, into evaluation in humans in a collaboration with GeneOne Life Science & the Walter

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

Good mRNA vaccine news this morning! Ben Osborn, the UK head of Pfizer, said they do not expect to have to change their vaccine to handle SARS-CoV-2 variants B.1.1.17 and

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) At the current rate Quebec is vaccinating against #COVID19, it could take up to 8,522 days to achieve collective immunity against the #coronavirus in the province. In this thread,

Palli Thordarson

PalliThordarson

How are mRNA vaccines made? A chemist’s perspective. TL;DR A DNA plasmid is used as template for the in vitro transcription of DNA to mRNA which is then packaged in

Florian Krammer

florian_krammer

1) The biggest worry for vaccines about the new UK variant is the N501Y mutation in the receptor binding domain. This is also a mutation that appears when SARS-CoV-2 is

David Leonhardt

DLeonhardt

Right now, public discussion of the vaccines is full of warnings about their limitations, like: They’re not 100 percent effective. And: Even vaccinated people may be able to spread the

Yoong

yoongkhean

Ku Li should read about how vaccines work before releasing statements like this, which can be damaging if public refuse to get vaccinated or have vaccine hesitancy.First, any vaccine’s aim

Joanne Chianello

jchianello

Officials are about to give a technical briefing for @ottawacity's vaccination plan. Councillors expected to have many questions. #ottnews Mayor @JimWatsonOttawa begins, and says we need to "manage expectations."#ottnews More

Alice Barsoumian, MD

AliceBarsoumian

Did you know I was reluctant to get vaccinated at first but changed my mind?A As an ID physician I was skeptical that making a #COVIDvaccine could be

The Intercept

theintercept

World faces Covid-19 “vaccine apartheid” https://interc.pt/2Ldfemo by @fastlerner Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, and Turkey — all countries that hosted vaccine trials — will have to be satisfied with Pfizer’s gratitude,

Luke McDonagh

DrLukeMcDonagh

This is not surprising. Vaccine supply is limited by the capacity of the patent-holding & trade secret-owning companies (Pfizer, Moderna, etc). That other companies are not being enabled to manufacture

WuidQ: Washington University ID Questions

WuidQ

57/M completed Pfizer COVID vaccine 4 weeks ago. He now goes to a commercial lab to get serologic COVID testing (test detects nucleocapsid IgG). His test comes back positive. He

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

THREAD ON UK VACCINATION PROGRAMME: TLDR: At 3 mill doses/week expect a big slowdown in *first* doses in April/May. But then summer ramp up to vaccinate all adults by early

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Ok, let's do thought experiment. Why is #COVID-19 terrible and wreaked havoc? Because it can cause severe disease in some (vulnerable) unlike its cousins- the coronaviruses that cause colds. Say

Dr. Nelly Yatich

YatichN

LONG THREAD. Received questions in my DM about Pfizer vaccine and will attempt to explain based on available info. Early readout of the Phase III clinical trial of Pfizer’s mRNA

David Doney

David_Charts

THREAD: How much vaccine can the U.S. expect to have available over the course of 2021?Pfizer and Biontech have pledged to deliver 200 million doses, enough for 100 million people,

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