#Doses

Mark Horowitz

markhoro

How to taper antipsychotic medication to minimise withdrawal problems: more slowly than you think, down to fractions of usually used doses. Might need liquid versions, pill cutters. Thks Robin Murray,

Jerome Adams

JeromeAdamsMD

This week @cdcgov’s advisory committee on immunization practices met to discuss who should get a #COVID19 vaccine 1st- & it sparked some new questions. Here’s awith some info on key

Chana

ChanaMessinger

As requested, a thread of go-to sites with notes:Best site: Mt. Sinaihttps://www.mountsinai.org/about/covid19/vaccine-information/scheduleHearing very long waits at some, secondhand hearing smooth at others. The site is the easiest to use.

Abdullah Alsultan

a3bdu3

Regarding the FDA letter to revoke the EUA/HCQ for COVID, it was partially based on the drugs clinical pharmacology/dosinghttps://www.fda.gov/media/138945/downloadFDA concludes that current dosing would produce concentration well below EC50

Johannes Haushofer

jhaushofer

Here's what I think it means that the new @pfizer/@BioNTech_Group vaccine has an effectiveness of 90%. They define effectiveness as VE=100*(1-IRR), where IRR is the infection rate ratio, i.e. the

covid19indiaorg

covid19indiaorg

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

Robert Peston

Peston

This is important. AstraZeneca expects to be able to supply 2m doses of the Oxford/AZ vaccine to the NHS every week by the second half of January. This week the

Rick Smith

RickSmithShow

Dr. Kelly Sennholz: The medication Regeneron is like a sponge & sucks up the virus. There are less than 100,000 doses out there, last time I saw. Giuliani's use of

COVID Perspective

covidperspectiv

* Short thread & thoughts on the vaccine news *The news is undoubtedly good news. 90% efficacy is well above expectations (50% was the bar for FDA approval, 60-70% the

katrina mulligan

NatSecMulligan

The Trump administration has touted vaccine development as a major accomplishment in its covid-19 response. Let's review what "credit" the Trump administration deserves (and does not deserve) for getting us

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Okay, some real vaccine side effect data from a concerned physician with access to a big database (10000+ patients under 65). He compared ER visits of people in the

Diane Marie

DianeMariePosts

There are no missed milestones. Vaccine producers committed to x-number of doses per quarter, Q1 being January 1st to the end of March. It is mid-February, aka halfway to the

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Agree! One dose = 2x people vaccinated The math is plain & simpleApproach is broken. We do not do what makes sense: w/ rapid tests or making single dose vacc

Jim Al-Khalili

jimalkhalili

1/3 This report from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is useful(https://www.cas.mhra.gov.uk/ViewandAcknowledgment/ViewAttachment.aspx?Attachment_id=103741). In summary... 2/3 Published efficacy between doses of Pfi

Greg Angel

NewsGuyGreg

COVID19: BY THE NUMBERS Analyzing the most recent CDC data, here’s how FLORIDA & STATES RANK in various respects to COVID19 and the response to the pandemic. (THREAD)

Sheyna Gifford, MD

humansareawesme

The #Modena trial. Sample size = 30,000 volunteers. 2 shots, 28 days apart. No deep freezer needed. Effectiveness claim: 94.5%. Let's look at how they got that. Reportedly, there were

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