The world needs to quickly roll out safe and effective #COVID19 vaccines to accompany other pandemic control measures. #VaccinesWork#VaccineEquity Support @WHO
We need #VaccineEquity now. No one is safe until everyone is safe.
Check out this link for data and to see how policy makers can improve vaccine equity:
https://t.co/lZxP5sxwQQ
2/ “Testing, contact tracing, quarantining contacts and isolating infected people are fundamental to the public health response and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future, even as vaccines are being deployed.” https://t.co/8Mudezh3BN
Hearing from colleagues around the world about breakthrough infections, some serious, from variants. The best time to have started creating vaccine hubs for mRNA technology would have been a year ago. The second best time is today.
We need to meet people where they are and make it easy to get vaccinated. Convenience outweighs reluctance.
In rural communities this means getting vaccines into doctors’ offices, outside supermarkets, churches, and restaurants.
https://t.co/ZMIdDhW1yE
In a matter of weeks, some parts of the globe have gone from trying to get enough vaccines, to now having them and trying to convince people to take them. https://t.co/rkLaDxF2Kj
C'mon Idaho
Your vaccination (35%) is among the lowest in the US
Your positive test rate of 6.3% is an outlier, more than double the US average (2.9%)
https://t.co/xStmHRzwg2
Well put @OksanaPyzikUCL. Patent waivers during the pandemic are the right move, but regardless, vaccine production is the great challenge, in poor and rich countried alike. We are sadly far behind the curve.
And second, the data we do have on people being infected with B.1.617.2 after receiving the vaccine is — despite claims to the contrary — very reassuring.
Even among the most vulnerable populations, infections are not turning into severe illness or death https://t.co/v3HDeBkg1I
A US milestone today
>250 million vaccine doses administered!
added 2.4 million doses
>45% of Americans with at least 1 dose
That's nearly 150 million people
We’re excited to announce we have signed an advance purchase agreement with @Novavax to purchase 350 million #COVID19 vaccine doses on behalf of the #COVAX Facility! https://t.co/XuHUi4lAXO
@CEPIvaccines | @WHO | @UNICEF
Vaccines don't just work. They work across all the variants, providing protection from illness, hospitalizations, and deaths.
Summary including today's multiple updates.
(and we're damn lucky)
The answer isn't only sharing a scarce supply of vaccine doses, even if that is still important
It's also vital to build capacity globally so that there's enough doses for everyone
A win-win
#ICYMI The #COVAX portfolio is expanding! We’re delighted to have signed an advance purchase agreement with @moderna_tx for up to 500 million doses of their #COVID19 vaccine! https://t.co/nJgDqHAOcH @WHO@CEPIvaccines
And in one recent case, a scare-story about immune-escape from the Indian variant turned out to be precisely the opposite: it strongly suggests the vaccines are working against this variant, too https://t.co/lCbsRrhr69