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David Fisman
DFisman
One last tweet for today...But I don't think the conceptualization risk-benefit with vaccines has ever been stated more clearly than by Ben Franklin. He had a son (Franky Franklin) who
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PoliMath
politicalmath
My newsletter today is has NOTHING to do with the election!Instead, it's a look at the rhetoric and strategies of COVID eradication and how that rhetoric inherits from the strategies
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🖋Jo Mungovin 🔎
mungotalks
#OTD 21 January 1799 Edward Jenner's #smallpox vaccination was introduced. In 1872 #Leicester was one of the most completely vaccinated towns in the kingdom owing to the alarm of several
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Ubaka Ogbogu
UbakaOgbogu
THREAD: One key message in Justice Kirker's decision today is that courts have no jurisdiction to assess the "effectiveness" of government health policies. This was in response to the argument
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Openly Black Mikki Kendall
Karnythia
Humans now are living longer than we ever have courtesy of modern medicine & sanitation. If Covid-19 had struck even 30 years ago the death tolls would be staggering. It
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Dr Suzanne Moss 🌱🏳️🌈
DrSueMoss
Person of the day: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.ACTUALLY the first person to introduce inoculation to Britain.Everyone always talks about Edward Jenner (who was awesome), but Lady Mary had a good
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Kai Nagata 🇨🇦
kainagata
Canada became a country in 1867. Here's what happened in the five years prior (just in B.C.)Smallpox arrives in Victoria. Colonial authorities refuse to vaccinate local Indigenous people. Instead they
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Mark D. Levine
MarkLevineNYC
In April, 1947 New York City faced a terrifying smallpox outbreak. 23 days later the City had vaccinated 6 million people.We need to massively ramp up our COVID-19 vaccination. We
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Dr Jenner’s House
DrJennersHouse
"Inoculation" is just another word for "vaccination", right? Although we now use the words interchangeably, historically they had different meanings. So if you see a reference to inoculation in an
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Andrew Lee
andrewleedr
One of the fears some members of the public have about vaccines is the erroneous idea that there are too many vaccines being given and that it would overwhelm a
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You Dont FQQl Me ❤️🇳🇿🥝
wiggley_dale
#vaccine and inoculation history. Newspapers in 1913. What was really happening outside of the “The Science is settled” script?Here is a newspaper article from December 17,1913 (over 100 years ago)
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💧😷Kate Hayford 朱晓韵, Unquiet Australian 🇦🇺 🇱🇹
democratie_kate
1/True story to put COVID-19 quarantine in perspective: In 1727, 11 natives of the isle of Hirta, Scotland, were ferried out to a nearby rock stac to collect eggs. The
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Andrew Wehrman
ProfWehrman
Bostonians in the 18th century did not specifically close down churches during epidemics. They didn't have to. They didn't have germ theory, but with smallpox their system of close watch
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Jay Hulme
JayHulmePoet
When did the anti-vaxx movement really start to take off?With the measles outbreak in 2019?With Wakefield’s discredited paper in 1998?Nah, it was in 1853, when smallpox vaccinations were made compulsory
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Kai Kupferschmidt
kakape
I suspect we can all use a tiny break from refreshing our browsers and since we’re thinking a lot about vaccines and vaccine delivery these days, let me share sth
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Linda McQuaig
LindaMcQuaig
PM admits Canada no longer has vaccine production capability. That's because we privatized Connaught Labs—which contributed brilliantly to medical advances, incl development of polio vaccine. (see my book “The Sport
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