One of two firms making cholera vaccines has stopped production amid awful cholera outbreaks in Haiti, Syria, Lebanon, Nigeria, Malawi & Ethiopia.
Sanofi had transferred the tech to Indian firm Shanchol & says its not making enough profit to continue. ☹️ https://t.co/EcRaSXqtXS
Female scientists at NYU feel utterly betrayed today, myself included. Where does Title IX start and end?
If you’re willing to support the women at NYU, we would appreciate if this were spread far and wide.
#WomenInScience#WomenInSTEM@NIH @HHMINEWS #Cancer#Science
On the left is Germany newspaper @rheinpfalz with a headline “The Virus from Africa is with us.”
On the right is a Spanish newspaper @TribunaAlbacete with a cartoon saying black South Africans are coming to Europe on a boat with Omicron Covid-19 variant.
This is racism in 2021!
African leaders denounced the inequity of vaccine distribution at the U.N., with Namibia president Hage Geingob calling it “vaccine apartheid.” The leaders want intellectual property rights waived so more countries can produce COVID-19 vaccines. https://t.co/9sR91NbNIP
🚨 Twitter now has a tool for REPORTING COVID-19 MISINFORMATION. How it works:
1) Report tweet
2) Choose “It’s misleading”
3) Choose “Health”
4) Choose “COVID-19 information”
If we don’t start focusing on the collective instead of the individual, the vulnerable instead of the privileged, and the long-term instead of the short-term, we’re going to continue making bad decisions that prolong this mess.
(Piece from June): https://t.co/AZ0koQls7A
A pharmacist in Brooklyn had 200 unused vaccine doses that "were just sitting in the freezer." So he went and vaccinated 50 people at a senior housing complex, and another 150 at a public housing complex, illuminating a new way to reach vulnerable groups. https://t.co/vX8VUUJVXu