First doses of Pfizer/Moderna vaccines are 90%+ effective after 14 days. Most high risk lives will be saved by giving all these limited early supplies of vaccine as first doses - second doses can be given later if first dose effectiveness wanes or when supply improves
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Replying to @findingpneumo @michaelmina_lab
These vaccines have been rushed to the public with unprecedented speed. Now you want to ignore the protocols put in place by the people who developed them because your opinion is they didn’t really mean it when they said we need 2 shots for full effectiveness?
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Replying to @aislinntlc @findingpneumo
You’re writing this tweet to one of the foremost vaccine experts who has spent his whole career advising vaccine programs globally, running huge trials and thinking about public health optimizations. It’s a lifetime of understanding vaccines. Not some one-off opinion.
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Indeed.
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