#Vaccination

Race and the vaccine; not a race for the vaccine.I don’t understand how people could be against receiving this vaccine…well, actually I can; but not for the same reasons as
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There were two VERY big pieces of vaccine news out in the last 24 hours:1)J&J's vaccine (one shot, easier to store) had 66% efficacy at preventing moderate/severe infections. 2) Novavax
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A (long) thread on Bharat Biotech - ICMR's #Covaxin vaccine.1. Type of vaccine: #Covaxin is a whole virion INACTIVATED vaccine.In such vaccines, the whole #sarscov2 virus is inactivated to make
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To really understand what is going on we have to start with this tweet of 6 months ago:https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1264146918927667200 What this means, is that ~ 50% of the population, with regional
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7. at any time. Today Covid-19, tomorrow rhinoviruses, the day after tomorrow perhaps malaria or a "biological warfare" attack.The never-ending "war on terror" has been extended by the "war on
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Generally I don't think feel-good stories belong in newspapers. The point of a newspaper is to convey the news, not make you feel good. But this feel-good story is an
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"Covid is killing Native Americans at a faster rate than any other community in the United States, shocking new figures reveal."https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/04/native-americans-coronavirus-covid-death-rate "Am
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How to talk with vaccine-hesitant people: a thread for epidemiologists & humans in general, on what the research suggests, and what has worked for me in the past. 1. Start
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Scenario Z: Covid is never brought under control, mutates too much every season to be managed like the flu, and goes endemic with higher base fatality rate and is too
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Latest @PHE_uk COVID surveillance rpt out, covers 28th Dec to 3rd Jan, will start to capture Christmas mixing.It's devastating reading. Please do everything you can to comply with lockdown, and
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New podcast alert! Could curbing international travel prevent future pandemics? Nope, only delay a little and at staggering cost, say @m_clem and @ThomasGinnDC in the latest episode of Moving Beyond
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Vaccinating all teachers and safely reopening schools in April: @JReinerMD posted this tweet earlier in the day on the idea to use the first batch of the Johnson & Johnson
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What's suppressing Ontario's "second wave"? Cases (positive test results) are still at record highs despite weeks of new restrictions, yet ICU occupancy and daily new deaths are low.Signs point to
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My first tweet of 2021 is going to be about 1 dose vs. 2 dose vaccine. I have tweeted in the past of the immunological advantages of a 2 dose
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"...biological warfare occurred in 1763, during Pontiac’s rebellion. At this time, the French had been defeated and Amherst was commander-in-chief of all British forces in N. America."https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/05/19
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End of the year COVID thread (take 2): Ok, you got the message about the failure of public health. Now let's talk about COVID in the coming year and the
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