Look, the US will release these vaccines we clearly won't use—eventually. They won't be approved in time here. The only question is timing. My point is we should do it NOW, especially with more transmissible variants spreading. A vaccine today is worth more than one in a month.
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Not so burdensome, but it'd be awesome if the "how dare you propose to dump an inferior vaccine elsewhere" people could directly duke it out with the "yes we have enough and those aren't approved but what if we ever need those great vaccines here?" folk.
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The number of people who claim it's bad to call for releasing vaccines approved by large number of countries around the world and have been administered *checks notes* mostly to people in UK, Canada & Europe is amazing.https://twitter.com/DannyAlberta77/status/1372567922497908739 …
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Yes, folks, we're all aware some European countries have paused for a day to investigate reports of clots and AZ vaccine. If they find anything negative, of course the vaccine will be suspended everywhere. Otherwise, it will continue being administered in Europe, UK and Canada.
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And two great updates! European Medical Agency's Safety Committee studying AZ clotting reports says they "found no evidence of a quality or a batch issue”, says to continue vaccination. And US starts to release our stockpiles (that we will not get to use!)https://twitter.com/jeffmason1/status/1372576853341442051 …
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Thrilled to hear that US is releasing (can't otherwise be used) vaccines to Canada & Mexico. We must do *everything* we need to do to increase the supply. Nobody, anywhere, should have to wait until 2022 to be offered a safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19. We can do this.
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Release them! Yeay! There is more AZ in a Baltimore facility, too, I believe, and we should produce as many vaccines as we possibly can including other ones (J&J is using Merck facilities to produce more here!). Everyone who wants a vaccine should get one in 2021. It’s possible.https://twitter.com/noahweiland/status/1372643037403357194 …
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So happy that my piece is already slightly outdated! (Doses—that we cannot use here—already being released to Canada and Mexico. More should go. Plus, later in the year, we’ll have more of an excess when we get even more supply!)https://twitter.com/NYTHealth/status/1372752903115472898 …
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Two more articles,
@ryanlcooper in The Week and@dandrezner in Washington Post. Both argue that it helps US "soft-power" to help vaccinate the rest of the world. If that moves the gears, let that move the gears, too.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/03/18/most-important-foreign-policy-decision-2021/ … and https://theweek.com/articles/972786/biden-wants-make-america-global-leader-again-start-vaccines ….pic.twitter.com/RrdaXhAOz4
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The last thing the pharmaceutical companies want is a reasonable model of how to give away vaccines.
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Considering that the AstraZeneca roll-out has been, and will continue to be, disastrous in the EU. An idea would be for the EU to donate all 400m doses to Covax and continue with the Biontech vaccine, the roll-out of which has been competent
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