As Mario Cuomo said “we should not be embarrassed or chagrinned” to stand up for our contractual rights to vaccines. My piece w @SHamiltonian in @smhhttp://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-is-within-its-rights-to-stand-up-to-europe-on-vaccines-20210308-p578o1.html?btis …
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Replying to @AndrewHayen @profholden and
Agreed Andrew, strongly. A bizzare claim.
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Replying to @K_Sheldrick @AndrewHayen and
Herd immunity is both possible and desirable. There’s no iron law that says the one, single goal must be to prevent deaths and hospitalizations. You guys just made that one up so as not to scare the horses.
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Replying to @SHamiltonian @AndrewHayen and
OK I have no idea who "you guys" is meant to be, but alleging some sort of conspiracy to mislead the public is sort of a big deal. I have done no such thing and hope you will withdraw that. 1/
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Replying to @K_Sheldrick @SHamiltonian and
Secondly, herd immunity is not easier to achieve in countries without circulating disease than in countries with high point prevalence? I'm not sure who told you that or where you read it, but if anything the opposite is true. 2/
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Replying to @K_Sheldrick @SHamiltonian and
If country x has 20% previously infected and immune and country y has near 0%, in fact achieving herd immunity with vaccination is going to be easier in country x, regardless of circulating levels of the virus. 3/3
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Replying to @K_Sheldrick @SHamiltonian and
Yes it's a somewhat odd thing to claim. By definition a country with a higher level of infection-acquired immunity will have to vaccinate fewer people to achieve herd immunity
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I'm also confused at the statement that deaths/hospitalizations are a "made up" outcome. If we do not care about hard clinical endpoints such as these, what do we care about? If a disease doesn't cause ill health, is it really a disease?
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