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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Replying to @ashishkjha
Wouldn't really say it's unpopular... I don't think I've seen a single person on twitter arguing for the opposite
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Replying to @notdred
I argued for giving away stockpile couple of weeks ago and got LOTS of pushback And lots of pushback in many circles including Congress So yup, may be in certain circles of Twitter, its not unpopular But in the broader population, not so popular while demand>supply
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Replying to @ashishkjha @notdred
zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
There is a lot of pushback! Even on Twitter! (Ask me how I know, lol and see link below). But I've been (on purpose) actively engaging the pushback as time allows, and I find most people are actually fairly conceivable once you walk through their concerns.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1372164756648423431 …
zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepTens of millions of AstraZeneca vaccines that won't be approved here soon enough are languishing in US depots. Our supply already exceeds the number of Americans. Less than 1% of Africa has been vaccinated. President Biden: Let our surplus vaccines go—now. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-vaccine.html … pic.twitter.com/XSOCKKVjKkShow this thread2 replies 5 retweets 49 likes -
One concern is "I can't get an appointment yet". (I get it). But I found walking people through the authorization timeline *and* (a crucial *and*) the importance of using the vaccines now (explaining exponential threat) rather than in a month... People seemed a lot more open.
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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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So how would you deal with the optics?
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Give the doses back to COVAX is best, I think. It's great we turned some over to Canada/Mexico immediately (they both need it *now* and are facing surges) but the problem with direct transfer is, indeed, optics and values. Let them go to WHO/COVAX and join the global effort.
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