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 …
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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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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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Thanks. If any folks listening have more knowledge about this, I'd love to hear it. As would folks in Brazil! :)
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