#Vaccinate

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

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1/ New COVID variants are emerging:- B.1.1.7 from the UK: more transmissible, possibly more virulent. Even if not more virulent, more transmissible = more infections, more disease, more hospitalizations, more

Amy Maxmen, PhD

amymaxmen

So many stories on reaching vaccine herd immunity! But there's a massive dilemma. Here's a on what I mean...About 50 countries have fewer than one nurse per 1000 people. Israel

Alex Boyd

alex_n_boyd

A question I've gotten a lot while I've been writing about the COVID-19 vaccine is, how do we make sure they work for seniors?https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/11/13/seniors-have-borne-the-brunt-of-covid-19-how-do-we-make-sur

Ice Princess³³º¹

zaptrapped

FAQs and debunk myths (no mRNA will not alter your DNA.) The FDA is going to approve the Pfizer Covid vaccine when they meet on December 10th. Moderna vaccine will

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Perfect except most of the victims of this disease in the US are either the elderly, who are very susceptible to severe outcomes, or poor people and minorities who have

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

The BioNTech/Pfizer data is out—NEJM & FDA report. I understand this wasn't in the design & the long-term protection from single dose is open question. But given this sharp drop

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

Very encouraged by the moves forward this week in the US vaccination effort. An average of 1.2-1.3M doses a day being administered across the country now (up from 700k-800K 2

Sara Mauskopf

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0/ I usually do these on Fridays but I've been on vacation (aka taking care of 3 kids fulltime) for the past 1.5 weeks and a lot of news has

Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎

suilee

China's vaccines were supposed to be a win for Beijing. Instead, countries are complaining about a delay in shipments and other citizens are asking why their govts have chosen to

Ant Stanley #BLM

IamStan

Asking the NHS to be ready is hardly planning. Distribution of the vaccine is a mammoth task in it's own.https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1326063409092235265 Obviously the German's are already on it. They've already got

Prathit Kulkarni, MD

PrathitKulkarni

List of the most common questions I am getting regarding #CovidVaccine. Here's a shot at answering them. Hope they are helpful! Many answers I got from recently available @CDCgov material.

Blood Cancer UK

bloodcancer_uk

Yesterday, the Medicines and Health Regulatory Authority (@MHRAgovuk) and Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) held a press conference setting out their advice for Covid-19 vaccination. Here’s what

Dr Eilir Hughes freshair.wales

hughes_eilir

Faster ways of vaccinating our communites: threadAs we approach completing the top 4 categories for vacciations the hope is that the vaccine supply will increase, but the numbers in the

Tara Moriarty

MoriartyLab

Feb 121 of every 39 #Canadians with #COVID19 has died since Mar 20201 in 57 BC1 in 73 AB1 in 75 SK1 in 35 MB1 in 43 ON1 in 27

ONE UK

ONEintheUK

THREAD Today’s news from @pfizer @BioNTech_Group and @DHSCgovuk is an important step towards the end of the pandemic. To reach this point within a year of #COVID19 being identified is

Kelly Grant

kellygrant1

I did some back-of-the-napkin calculations. This is enough to vaccinate 1.2 million people (both require two doses.) That's more than enough for every LTC worker and resident, retirement home resident,

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