mRNA technology is easier to tweak in case dangerous variants emerge and it's less susceptible to production problems than other vaccine technologies. Vaccines are public goods, and we must scale up manufacturing globally—especially of mRNA vaccines.
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) April 16, 2021
Alternative headline: “vaccine thought to be 98% effective turns out to be 99.993% effective.” https://t.co/vPIjX66ig7
— Patrick Fanelli (@PatFanelli) April 15, 2021
The UK faced variants and understood distancing essential, in addition to vaccination. Parts of the US didn't get that, didn't distance. Result: US has 5x case and death rates of the UK. Vaccines are fantastic, but only masks and distancing can crush the epidemic curve quickly. pic.twitter.com/GQlJiDK0yM
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) April 18, 2021
Half of adults in the US have now been vaccinated.
— Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉 (@ASlavitt) April 18, 2021
And tomorrow all the restrictions to get vaccinated will be lifted for everyone over 16.
Two months ago India confirmed 11,300 cases per day.
— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) April 18, 2021
This shows the rise of confirmed cases since then.
A straight line on a logarithmic axis tells you that you are looking at exponential growth with a constant growth rate.
Now India confirms more than 200,000 cases a day. pic.twitter.com/JOnJpTxdEW
I'm not a cyber-expert, but this paper blew me away: Detailed analysis of who is behind #COVID19 #vaccine disinformation executed by tracing all postings of #AstraZeneca over "blood clot" time frame. The brown below are bots, not humans.https://t.co/UY6fzugWrZ pic.twitter.com/L6jw3X4wY2
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 17, 2021
My guess was that crystal-clear evidence of the partisan vaccine-hesitancy gap wouldn’t show up in the real world data until May.
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) April 17, 2021
I was wrong.
The red-state vaccine gap is already here. https://t.co/s548rJu3Qs pic.twitter.com/tj8cpwKCL3
