2022年12月末で運用停止。 日本の国立大学で働くバイオ系の基礎研究者(非医療従事者)です。新型コロナワクチンに関して、サイエンス、エビデンス、客観性を重視した情報発信を心がけます。Japanese scientist interested in biotechnology and COVID-19 vaccines
Israel: Impressive vaccine results
*** with caveats, below ***
~60% reduction in infections among 60+ years old 13-23 days after first dose
Main caveat: People from cities with lower infection rates tend to get vaccinated more:
>>
via
@KalksteinNir
At the close of the blinded phase of the mRNA-1273 vaccine trial, the efficacy in preventing
#COVID19
illness was 93.2% and against severe disease was 98.2%.
#IDTwitter
Israel:
1.8 million vaccinated (~21% pop.)
~72% of all 60+ years old
~80% of all 70+ years old
This week we expect to see the effect of the vaccines, by a drop in the relative number of 60+ years old out of the critically ill patients. Our projection is the blue dashed line
This is great
From Federation of State Medical Boards (folks who oversee physician licensing)
Physicians who spread misinformation about COVID vaccines are risking their medical license
Its a very small group of Docs who do this
Yanking their license makes sense
Excited to contribute to this extremely important
#SARSCoV2
study by
@GreningerLab
that provides first direct evidence that neutralizing antibodies are a correlate of protection against
#COVID19
in humans! (1/9)
Meanwhile in Israel: Continuing to crush the curve despite a nearly fully open economy
From the peak of mid-January:
96% fewer cases
90% fewer new daily critically ill
85% fewer deaths
Daily cases (weekly avg) now at 327, hasn't been this low since June 2020
We are continually working to make the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine as accessible as possible. Today we shared new data demonstrating the stability of the vaccine when stored for 2 weeks at temps more commonly found in pharmaceutical freezers and refrigerators.
Pfizer also sharing new data on a 3rd dose of its original vaccine against delta: antibody levels up 5x among 18-55 year olds, 11x in 65-85 year olds compared with post 2 doses.
In Israel, study of 1.79 million vax-recipients:
- effectiveness of the
@pfizer
#vaccine
^ed starting at 12 dys after the 1st dose & then plateaued at 35 dys
- 2 wks after 2nd dose, got 91% protection against infection & 99.3% prevention of disease. 🎇😃
Israel reported only 13 new COVID cases on Saturday, the lowest number in about a year, with only 0.1% of 9,236 tests conducted yesterday coming back positive.
FDA preprint on VAERS: “Reporting rates for death events among COVID-19 vaccine recipients were substantially lower than expected all-cause mortality rates…These findings do not suggest an association between vaccination and overall increased mortality."
Anti-Vaxxers Misuse Federal Data from VAERS to Falsely Claim COVID-19 Vaccines Are Dangerous. It's not the first time. Thank you
@annamerlan
and
@shayla__love
for this!