Unpopular opinion We should give away the millions of doses of stockpiled AZ vaccine What? Don't I care about vaccinating Americans? By time AZ is authorized by FDA, we'll have LOTS of vaccines The time to use AZ here would have been in January By May, we won't need it
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The other concern was: how come it's good enough for "them" if it is not good enough for us? I tried to explain the difference there, and some of it is more concern about "optics" which can be solved imo.
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But there is also "you want to give inferior vaccines to poor countries" argument that I find, if anything, somewhat colonialist if you excuse my language, and and not much to do there to budge people. "We" shouldn't allow Mexico to decide what they approve? Don't get it.
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Beyond giving away the 30m or so doses on hand, seems like a bigger benefit might be for the US + EU to work together to enable (or force) ramping up of production around the globe, even if it means stepping on IP toes. What do you think on that subject?
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Whatever it takes, for sure, though I am not confident on what would it take to most quickly ramp up supply. (If stepping on IP toes is enough, let's do it yesterday but I'm not well-versed enough in the details of manufacturing and supply chain to make that case either way).
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My other, countervailing question is how much an FDA approval now of this cleaner Phase 3 readout could contribute to better uptake of the vax in Europe or elsewhere. E.g.: "See? The data now look great, the efficacy disparity is answered, no safety issues, the FDA is satisfied."
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Yes. That's why I supported waiting for this trial to conclude here. The world needed this. That said, I'm waiting for their paper, to be honest, after the last round of announcement-by-press-release by Oxford/AZ turned into "oh yeah also that dosing thing" etc. But looks good!
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It’s not an amazingly scalable solution, but vaccine finder groups are able to get appointments for nearly all eligible populations. People are really asking: why can’t I go to my doctor or local CVS for a walk-up appointment, and that’s a different question.
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Every person who has told me "I can't get an appointment!" has been redirected to their local vaccine finder group, and has gotten an appointment. The problem is the heterogeneity of the vaccine sites, the thousands of small, disparate locations, and the lack of one scheduler.
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