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For a lot of vaccines, two doses are required to establish what is called a “memory” response. This ensures that your immune system has at least one opportunity to recall the virus that it has learnt to recognize, thereby driving home the lesson. (6/6).

Delaying the second dose (UK, Denmark and some other countries are already doing this): .There seems to be high efficacy after the first shot for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, but none of the trials evaluates how long that efficacy would last. (5/6).

Therefore, at least for now, Dr. Fauci and the FDA advise to focus on getting the existing 21 million doses to the people. (4/6).

Moderna Phase 2 clinical trials showed that half dose (50mcg) did seem to generate a promising immune response comparable to the full dose (100 mcg). However, that doesn’t always translate to vaccine efficacy. (3/6).

Halving doses of Moderna vaccine: While it is an important option to explore, we don’t have solid data on whether halving the dose still preserves the efficacy of the vaccine. (2/6).

Hi everyone! You might be hearing conflicting reports about whether halving vaccine doses or delaying the second dose is worth it. Here's a Nat Geo piece capturing the different points of view: Summary of this article in thread: 1/6.

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Here's the leadership of Operation Warp Speed sharing their progress and "what's next?" for COVID-19 vaccine development and deployment. Quite a bit of thought and effort has gone into the process.

Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University, has created this wonderful resource to track COVID infections in schools: The aim is to help parents, schools, and policymakers make informed choices.

Alina Chan, a scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, is one of the few people scientifically investigating the question of whether COVID-19 came from a lab. Here's her balanced take on allegations in a recent report by Li-Meng Yan et al.

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