Fuming. I supported a US trial of AstraZeneca so it could undo the *unnecessary* damage to vaccine confidence from their botched initial rollout. Yesterday, I was cautious because, again, press release, no data. Turns out AZ is botching this rollout, too.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1374060809144438785 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Kai Kupferschmidt
The level of irresponsibility on display here is unforgivable—especially since their vaccine seems fine! It's delivering in the real world, and the actual trial results are excellent! But they keep screwing around with confidence with their callous hubris.https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1374338061157421057 …
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Kai KupferschmidtVerified account @kakapeFauci: “It really is unfortunate that this happened. You know this is really what you call an unforced error, because the fact is, this is very likely a very good vaccine and this kind of thing does as you say do nothing, but really cast some doubt about the vaccines …"Show this thread9 replies 65 retweets 439 likesShow this thread -
The short of it is the AZ final trial results look fine, but for some unfathomable reason, they did a press release on *earlier* results instead of waiting 48 hours to release latest ones (which may have a few more negative events, but are still great).https://www.statnews.com/2021/03/23/astrazeneca-may-have-used-outdated-information-in-announcing-covid19-vaccine-results/ …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted
Yes, exactly this. There will likely be no accountability for a series of terrible and completely unavoidable actions. Next time we blame people for falling for misinformation, remember the role they played in contributing to this environment of mistrust. https://twitter.com/mathnegative/status/1374351913341231111 …
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Can't describe how angry I think we should be at AstraZeneca right now. I hope for an investigation on the whole thing from start, including what if any role/involvement Oxford had on the botched side of things. The vaccine is fine! People in charge need to face accountability.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted atlantic triangle
Yes. In my view, US institutions have generally been doing an excellent job with the vaccine trials. Credit/recognition where due.https://twitter.com/atlantictriangl/status/1374359120472649729 …
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The tragedy is this all could have been avoided if AstraZeneca waited 48 hours and released a paper along with their press release, and had not called essentially outdated results "interim" (they had newer results at hand!). Repeated unnecessary missteps damaging a good vaccine!
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That would be ideal. But isn't there a regulatory issues here? ie As a publicly listed company AZ has to release as soon as possible after it knows trial results - to avoid insider trading. Admittedly that 'something' doesn't have to be this.
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If there was any stock manipulation concern, it would run, I'd hope, towards not releasing outdated results without noting they were outdated. Baffling.
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