If 50% of 65+ folks have at least one shot—and most of it last month? (50 million had at least one shot. It's mostly elderly plus health-care workers. US has about 50 million people over 65). Barring something really unexpected, things should look very different in one month.https://twitter.com/WHCOVIDResponse/status/1365099233171410945 …
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There are many categories of problems where informed and thoughtful anticipatory action is crucial, and we've been bad at that. Just check what many people (media/social media/authorities) were saying in February of 2020. The same thing can play out for the end phase as well.
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Pfizer expects to *double* it's weekly US production and deliver 120 million doses just in the next 6 weeks. We have 600 million mRNA doses scheduled by end of July. J&J VRBPAC meeting today. Things can go wrong, but it's time to talk about and act on *new* challenges we'll face.
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I mean, alternatively we can repeat February of 2020?
Wait till problems do hit us with their full-force, when they are much harder to address as opposed to timely, early action and planning? Total fingers crossed we won't of course, but these things happen if we act, not wait.Show this thread -
The point here is that, yes, things will get much better for many—and sooner than we seem to have internalized—but there will also be very real but different challenges, too, and will play out under a very different political and epidemiological climate.https://twitter.com/iansmcleod/status/1365328779388743681 …
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It's too early to be "blindly optimistic". Now is the most important time to be careful, guarded, and make informed decisions guided by the science not the politics.
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@zeynep could you elaborate on that? Obviously there will be lots, just wondering where the focus should be. Personally I feel like I'm stuck in limbo while the vaccine/variant debate rages on.
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"stuck arguing over things no longer as relevant." Such as?
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