To folks saying AZ is an inferior vaccine so we shouldn't give it away even if we can't use it. "Not approved yet because US trial not concluded" doesn't mean inferior. Novavax looks spectacular (from trials elsewhere) but also not approved here because trial not concluded...+
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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So happy that my piece is already slightly outdated!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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Could be the same people, like the EU countries who insist it's an inferior, flawed and dangerous vaccine while trying to sue AstraZeneca for not delivering enough of it!
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Me, a European who's already written off the summer and doesn't expect to see any vaccine until 2022: please let me take the damn thing, just give me half a warfarin and I promise I won't try to shave my legs
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It's hard not to come to the conclusion that the rest of the world is an afterthought to many Americans.
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'Afterthought' might be exaggerating the amount of attention paid by many Americans to the existence of the rest of the world.
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