4rewa - vaccines - general - mar 2021 Oxford/AstraZeneca/CoviShield All your questions about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine answered https://amp.scroll.in/article/988683/all-your-questions-about-the-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-answered 6 mar 2021 "The important thing to remember is that all the authorised vaccines are safe and offer very good levels of protection against Covid-19. If you are offered any vaccine, you should take it." "It looks like delaying the second dose to 12 weeks after the first is actually a good idea. The protection from the first injection seems to last, and if you have the second vaccine 12 weeks later, rather than four weeks as originally proposed, that seems to generate a stronger immune response." https://amp.scroll.in/article/988683/all-your-questions-about-the-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-answered 6 mar 2021 Study Suggests Pfizer, Oxford Vaccines Reduce Severe COVID-19 in Elderly - The Wire Science https://science.thewire.in/health/study-suggests-pfizer-oxford-vaccines-reduce-severe-covid-19-in-elderly/ 3 mar 2021 Vaccine Efficacy, Statistical Power and Mental Models Immune System is Not a Sea Wall With a Fixed Height -- Zeynep https://zeynep.substack.com/p/vaccine-efficacy-statistical-power 3 mar 2021 "This is false, but it is understandable if one's mental model of immunity is like a "sea wall" that gets washed over by a tsunami wave—like the Fukushima plant—and if we don't consider how *statistical power* effects trials. My lengthy post on all that: https://t.co/m2D5sInuoz https://t.co/o7TlTfjci5" -- zeynep tufekci https://mobile.twitter.com/zeynep/status/1367301169052270595 4 mar 2021 Risk Compensation and COVID-19 Vaccines Annals of Internal Medicine https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-8251 2 mar 2021 Why COVID vaccines are so difficult to compare "Despite the widespread roll-out of several vaccines, it could be months before they can be ranked." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00409-0 23 feb 2021 The myth of 'good Covid vaccines' and 'bad Covid vaccines' https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/17/the-myth-of-good-and-bad-covid-vaccines-why-false-perceptions-overlook-facts-and-could-breed-resentment/ 17 feb 2021 COVID-19 Vaccine Passports Are Useless. https://blog.xot.nl/2021/02/17/covid-19-vaccine-passports-are-useless/index.html 17 feb 2021 Vaccine efficacy - When covid-19 vaccines meet the new variants of the virus | Briefing | The Economist "A lot depends on blocking transmission not just disease" https://amp.economist.com/briefing/2021/02/13/when-covid-19-vaccines-meet-the-new-variants-of-the-virus 13 feb 2021 How do different vaccines work? https://amp.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/02/09/how-do-different-vaccines-work 9 feb 2021 A Third of US Adults Skeptical of COVID Vaccines in AP-NORC Poll https://www.snopes.com/ap/2021/02/10/third-of-adults-skeptical-of-covid-vaccine/ 10 feb 2021 'Getting COVID-19 Vaccine Isn't Just For Yourself, But Also For A Cause' "I would like to emphasise that the vaccination effort is not a sprint. We have to brace ourselves for a very long and arduous marathon." https://www.indiaspend.com/amp/indiaspend-interviews/getting-covid-19-vaccine-isnt-just-for-yourself-but-also-for-a-cause-720612 Aren R. LeBrun on Twitter: "Capitalism is when a vaccine to a deadly pandemic exists but we can’t create or distribute enough of it because two pharmaceutical conglomerates refuse to lose out on shareholder profits by sharing the patent information." Thread. https://mobile.twitter.com/proustmalone/status/1356624726102167552 2 feb 2021 Eric Topol on Twitter: "A really good, concise summary of what we know and need to know on the vaccines, by none other than @NIAIDNews's @BarneyGrahamMD, Tony Fauci and colleagues @NIH https://t.co/sTxwiaJ4kQ @AnnalsofIM https://t.co/k3tUYgEdSv" https://mobile.twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1351696238874296326 "A single-shot J&J Janssen COVID19 vaccine phase 3 results summarized in one table. Great news! Imagine being 💯 protected from death 28 days after a single shot, and 💯 protected from severe disease after 49 days - against all variants. https://t.co/gGCcDbMglr https://t.co/gPCDgG8oNJ" https://mobile.twitter.com/VirusesImmunity/status/1355149007220310019 29 jan 2021 Novavax says its Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective in late-stage trial https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/28/novavax-says-its-covid-19-vaccine-is-90-effective-but-far-less-so-against-one-variant/ 28 jan 2021 "VACCINE EFFICACY 101: A biostatistician's primer Ten tweets to cover: - How is vaccine efficacy calculated? - Distinguishing between infection, disease, & severe disease. - Measuring reduced infectiousness. - Vaccine efficacy vs. effectiveness!" https://mobile.twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1310613702476017666 28 jan 2021 COVID-19 Vaccines Won’t Stop All Infections - The Atlantic mar 2021 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/03/vaccine-breakthrough-cases/618330/ Vaccine acceptance expert weighs in on AstraZeneca saga "how to communicate risk without unnecessarily sowing fear." STAT 19 mar 2021 https://www.statnews.com/2021/03/19/vaccine-acceptance-expert-weighs-in-on-astrazeneca-saga/ Drug Lobby Asks Biden to Punish Countries Pushing for Low-Cost Vaccines "Big Pharma is fighting for tight control over Covid-19 vaccine production, limiting availability worldwide while reaping billions." 3 mar 2021 https://theintercept.com/2021/03/03/vaccine-coronavirus-big-pharma-biden/ * CDC Guidelines List Activities Safe for Vaccinated People "... people who are fully vaccinated are less likely to become infected and also 'potentially' less likely to spread the virus to others ..." "... everyone — even those who are vaccinated — should continue to follow recommended guidelines in public settings, including wearing masks. ... everyone should continue to avoid nonessential trips, regardless of vaccination status." https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/03/08/974783644/cdc-says-its-safe-for-vaccinated-people-to-do-these-activities 8 mar 2021 "It is observed that the protective levels of #COVID19 antibodies generally develop 2 weeks after receiving the 2nd dose of #COVID19Vaccine. As per the article, the #COVIDVAccine beneficiary had taken the 1st dose on 16th Jan and was tested #COVID +ve on 2nd Feb." ** protective levels of COVID19 antibodies generally develop 2 weeks after receiving the 2nd dose of COVID19 Vaccine.** Small thread, link. https://mobile.twitter.com/CovidIndiaSeva/status/1369530960379670530 10 mar 2021 Is Choice Always Worth the Anxiety? -- Zeynep More compare part 1: https://zeynep.substack.com/p/vaccine-efficacy-statistical-power https://zeynep.substack.com/p/is-choice-always-worth-the-anxiety 8 mar 2021 The Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson Vaccines, Compared - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/pfizer-moderna-and-johnson-johnson-vaccines-compared/618226/ Six of one - New data show that leading covid-19 vaccines have similarly high efficacy https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/03/06/new-data-show-that-leading-covid-19-vaccines-have-similarly-high-efficacy 6 mar 2021 "Seeing stories of vaccinated folks getting COVID? Yup. Not news How common is this? Quick math says pretty common Probably 60-100 fully vaccinated folks getting infected daily So infections no surprise We should instead focus on hospitalizations and deaths" which shows that vaccination does work: to prevent severe illness. -- Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH https://mobile.twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1361163051630739456 15 feb 2021 Lakota Man: "The Pfizer vaccine is also showing efficacy against COVID mutated variants. Having received both Pfizer inoculations, I’m cautiously optimistic, so I will continue to comply with all CDC safety protocols as if my life depended on it—you should too. #MaskUp 😷" Thread. https://mobile.twitter.com/LakotaMan1/status/1362172910819893253 18 feb 2021 Rishi Goel: "Key take-home messages: 1) SARS-CoV2 recovered people don’t benefit from the 2nd dose by multiple parameters. Might be ok to skip/delay 2nd dose. 2) Age is something to keep an eye on… 3) Memory is important! Especially w/ variants that might escape initial antibody responses" Thread and link. https://mobile.twitter.com/rishirajgoel/status/1368541921770143745 7 mar 2021 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations - Statistics and Research - Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations retr 5 mar 2021 'Getting COVID-19 Vaccine Isn’t Just For Yourself, But Also For A Cause' 31 jan 2021 https://www.indiaspend.com/indiaspend-interviews/getting-covid-19-vaccine-isnt-just-for-yourself-but-also-for-a-cause-720612 What to make of AstraZeneca's vaccine data — and debate around them 26 mar 2021 https://www.statnews.com/2021/03/26/what-to-make-of-the-astrazeneca-vaccine-data-and-the-surrounding-controversy/ Four reasons why we need multiple vaccines for Covid-19 21 jan 2021 https://wellcome.org/news/four-reasons-why-we-need-multiple-vaccines-covid-19 You can still contract the virus once vaccinated. The vaccine is intended to mitigate a severe or fatal reaction to catching the virus. I thought we’ve already been over this. Thread. https://mobile.twitter.com/trisquire/status/1374463879045017603 24 mar 2021 Sometimes I feel like I might be the only person on earth who knows this. People keep acting like the vaccine makes everything a get out of jail free card. Thread https://mobile.twitter.com/profblmkelley/status/1374711494701502465 24 mar 2021 -- 0 --