These things are tough! Understandable that some expressed reservations about this while other leading scientists supported the dose-sparing strategy. But holding off on declaring such disagreements to be “not following the science” might help. Dose sparing was not unprecedented.
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(Folks yes I know, weekend stats. I put the seven-day rolling average on screenshot for a reason.). Forget the edit button I want to put footnotes to my tweets
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I thought the below wouldn’t need to be said after a whole year of explainers on herd immunity but please do note simultaneous vaccines vs lockdowns isn’t analytically that separable. (Sensible to accelerate both to get stronger exponential decay!) (Adding due to many comments.)https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1384203573068591112 …
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Twitter EDIT button: When the UK decided last December to delay boosters to speed up coverage, it faced denunciations that it wasn't "following the science"—not just that people could disagree with it, but that it was unscientific. Today, UK deaths are much lower. See thread
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Hey Zeynep! Can you please do a thread on India and give us some context on where we are headed? It's terrifying right now. Your insights can really help
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Whilst you're right of course about the trial, UK position was unscientific in that first, it was only based on basically a week's reading of the phase 3 results while ignoring immune response warnings - and second, didn't exempt *any* vulnerable groups, disasterously!
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ugh this is such a relief to see...we are delaying boosters here (in Ontario and I think across Canada?) for 16 weeks and I've been okay with it but also worried
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it can be both the right call and not reason for divergence as Europe’s wave seems to be driven by ‘Kent variant’. We had our massive surge through Christmas.
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So UK did not take an unscientific step. But that does not seem to support comparison to Florida.
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