We need to think harder the takeaway from the trials, as well as reporting on the variants and Nab titers etc. For the virology and immunology people, of course those details matter as they plot the (future) boosters. For the rest of us, the really key question is disease burden.
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along with the hush hush near-certainty that an infection after vaccination will be less infectious
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Robert Williamson
I don't understand why we are still stuck at this messaging, as if we have zero idea about this and it's equally plausible that there is absolutely no reduction in infectiousness. This exact message is everywhere, and has been since December.https://twitter.com/jbobwilliamson/status/1356764479435005954 …
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Have heard simone gold argue that if it doesn't impact transmission, there's no reason for low-risk young people to risk harms of getting vaccine. Messaging has been harmful
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It’s all over antivax forums and pops up independently all the time. I heard it in my own social circles!!! “No effect on transmission”.
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Funny to see the same data that were in the lancet paper a month ago and minimized/ignored now make headlines. Maybe some movement on thishttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/us/astrazeneca-coronavirus-vaccine.amp.html …
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https://twitter.com/aaronrichterman/status/1349003759507152907?s=21 …https://twitter.com/AaronRichterman/status/1349003759507152907 …
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So frustrating. We had preliminary but clear signal from Moderna, too, in December! Expert messaging tried to be equipoise (despite some evidence) but ended up being heard as "no effect"—because that's how absence of evidence is interpreted in normal language unless clarified.
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Remember the "we don't know if there's immunity" even if you tested positive and have antibodies era? So many articles like that I saved from last spring/summer. Expert tried to suggest equipoise (why? This isn't HIV?) and ended up communicating "no immunity" to the the public.
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Like this. This is an attempt to say "we don't know if a previous infection rules out re-infection" but for an ordinary person, and from the headline, it is heard as "no immunity". This is messaging failure.https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/27/who-says-jury-is-still-very-much-out-on-whether-coronavirus-antibodies-provide-immunity.html …
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