Interrupting your doomscrolling with more good news. As most had expected, the vaccines continue to work well against the new variants. Our problem remains producing enough of these amazing vaccines and getting them out there in arm. They are so good that we have a lot of buffer.https://twitter.com/KizzyPhD/status/1353703580679761922 …
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Plus, mRNA vaccines have a really fast turnaround time—if and when we need to update. I'm seeing so many people with high anxiety over things that are not really happening or are not our actual problems. Our bottleneck is logistics and justice: producing enough for the world.
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There is a concept in sociology about institutional inertia: as things get better, it's really hard for people whose job was to work on making it better to adjust to the improvement. That's very human, and also not a bad thing: their job is to worry on our behalf. And be ready.
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For most of us, the best thing is to stop doomscrolling over detailed discussions about what drops in neutralizing antibody titers etc. mean from Twitter threads. We gotta get through the grim winter—up your cautions— but the news about the future has been really good for months.
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Seriously. Don't do this to yourself. The news, as it pertains to the future, has been *excellent* for months now. Up your cautions *now* to get through the worst of it—the winter—and let's work on increasing production and distribution of the vaccines. https://twitter.com/robo_tabby/status/1353714525309198336 …
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I'm seeing *a lot* of this doom interpretation. Really, stop it. Sterilizing immunity is not something we absolutely need from our vaccines and it's something that's not that clear cut and this interpretation (that we know there's none) isn't even true. https://twitter.com/HabberleySteve/status/1353721920362074115 …
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I know people are tired but needless anxiety isn't helping us. Let's focus on getting through these months—better masks if indoors with others, more strict attention to our precautions—and the real problem: making more of thee amazing vaccines quickly & getting them out there!
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Barney Graham, MD, PhD
Yesterday was the one year anniversary of when Dr. Corbett got the plasmids! Just two weeks after Chinese scientist Yong-Zhen Zhang defied authorities and posted the genome in an open depository! Amidst the tragedy, a lot to be amazed at and grateful for.https://twitter.com/BarneyGrahamMD/status/1353462892301934592 …
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Replying to @zeynep @FrankBednarz
Do we know what’s become of Dr. Yong-Zhen Zhang?
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He is fine. In fact, he never "defied authorities" or got punished
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"Also, Zhang’s lab was probed by Chinese authorities for “rectification,” an obscure term to imply some malfeasance." His lab was shut down. Yes, we are very lucky that his significance was recognized and he's allowed to continue working.
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'Maybe they couldn’t understand how we obtained the genome sequence so fast,” says Zhang. “Maybe they didn’t fully believe our genome. So, I think it’s normal for the authorities to check our lab, our protocols.”'
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'Yet Zhang denies reports in Western media that his laboratory suffered any prolonged closure, and instead says it was working furiously during the early days of the outbreak. “From late January to April, we screened more than 30,000 viral samples,” says Fan Wu (...)'
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