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VKJudit

VKJudit

Around early December I started writing a lot about problems w the EU vaccination strategy. Judging by the reactions, it felt like it was the most controversial opinion I've ever

Eugene Gu, MD

eugenegu

Russia is now starting mass coronavirus vaccinations of its population with the Sputnik V vaccine. They are doing this without robust safety data from Phase 3 clinical trials. That really

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

Jeff Zients and the @WhiteHouse #COVID19 team presented a status report this morning. First, from @CDCDirector Walensky, good news that the holiday surge in new cases, hospitalizations & even deaths

Nipun Chopra, PhD

NipunChopra7

Understanding why the mRNA in the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines cannot change your DNA, explained to diff audiences:(1) Young kids: DNA and mRNA are kept in separate parts of the cell.(2) High

Greg Callus

Greg_Callus

On the figures, Health Secretary says 100 vaccination sites has now become 400, and 350,000 vaccinated by Friday morning. But Tier 4 may persist until it is largely rolled-out. How

Jim Edwards

Jim_Edwards

Hello! Here's my occasional thread on coronavirus stats globally, with a focus on vaccine delivery.Today:- The US has delivered 23.54m doses- China: 15m- UK: 7.33m- Israel: 4.15m- UAE: 2.03m- Everywhere

Alan U. Kennington

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AZ vaccine 70.4% efficacy for #COVID19 means:−log₁₀(1−70.4%) = 5.3 dB case reduction.P/B and M vaccines 95% means:−log₁₀(1−95%) = 13.0 dB case reduction.So AZ effectiveness is only 40.6% of P/B and

James Elliott

Jandelliott

Saturday thoughts on Canada's COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, from a person who studies global health and is active in the global access to medicines fight. tl;dr it's not going wellA thread

Russell Brown

publicaddress

The person did not work "in close proximity to the border" but offsite and apparently not close enough to even be covered by mandatory testing. She wouldn't have had even

Bijan Salehizadeh

bijans

Spent some time today going through late-phase protocols and reported data for major COVID-vaccine programs trying to understand primary/secondary endpoint definitions. Summary: great consistency in definitions of mild/moderate/severe but..

Robert Peston

Peston

The EU is arguably playing a self-harming game in potentially restricting vaccine exports to the UK as a tit for tat for the inability of AstraZeneca to supply the 80m

Chris Murphy

ChrisMurphyCT

Due to Trump's petulant, delusional, democracy-smashing refusal to accept the election results, his Administration is refusing share details with President-elect Biden's team about their vaccination distribution plan . 1/ A

David W. Higgins

higginsdavidw

I have made a weekly vaccination model to estimate:- How many vaccines we have in Ireland each week?- How many can/are we vaccinating each week?- Are we keeping pace with

Mark Wallace

wallaceme

As the EU continues to lash out at AstraZeneca and others, rather than examine its own errors, it's worth reading this piece on how Brussels got it so wrong. Maybe

Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions

mynamesnotgordy

What I learnt on the Twitter this week:1. Doug Ford says if Pfizer doesn't step up, he'll drive a tractor-trailer full of firecrackers down to Kalamazoo to talk ying-yangs with

Reshma Ramachandran

reshmagar

@ZLThill & I are in the @thenation today, calling on our healthcare colleagues not only to post their inspirational photos of receiving the #COVID19 vaccines, but also to call them

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