Disagree. We should be honest. IT IS A ZERO-SUM GAME. Vaccine manufacturers are not able to meet demand. Production is already maxed out. If we hoard or have vaccines expire rather than share, that doesn't make it a non zero-sum game, it just makes us morally bankrupt.https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1438103141216575490 …
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I'm not disagreeing that boosters may well be indicated for the elderly and the immunocompromised. J&J needs a booster. But, let's not lie to ourselves. SUPPLY IS LIMITED. A third dose here is a first dose denied to someone else. Whatever we choose, that is just plain reality.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Lúcás Meier
Yep. That is not the case whatsoever. Look, I understand nations make such choices. There are groups for whom a third shot can provide a measurable benefit, and I'm not begrudging any individual at risk wanting one. Of course. But it *is* a zero-sum game.https://twitter.com/cronokirby/status/1438115186813063173 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Diego Bez.
I've been writing, begging whatever little I can do since the beginning that we should do *whatever* we can do to increase supply—waiving patents is "thoughts and prayers", not enough—and to be serious about dose sparing and prioritizing. But here we are.https://twitter.com/Diegobez/status/1438117288331431950 …
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Diego Bez. @DiegobezI wish we don't see the vaccine supply as an inevitably-limited supply.I'd like to see more effort in increasing that supply. It's "just" a (not huge)money problem, a problem that should not be left to private company's decision. It's a public health matter, live or die decisions https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1438115805342932997 …5 replies 18 retweets 172 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Chase W. Nelson 倪誠志
Yeah. Even countries with money can't find vaccines to purchase. Honestly, I think vaccine manufacturers have increased supply as much as they can, and it's not really patents that are the key bottleneck. We needed government-level global action. Tragic.https://twitter.com/chasewnelson/status/1438117742209495043 …
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Govind Persad Retweeted William F Parker, MD, PhD
I agree that the claims of “no tradeoff” between boosters and global vaccines are unsupported. Yet, the tradeoff isn’t inevitably 1:1. We’ve argued in
@BostonGlobe that tradeoffs could be mitigated (not totally eliminated) by fractional dosing, mix&match, longer booster intervalshttps://twitter.com/WF_Parker/status/1436005665529647105 …Govind Persad added,
William F Parker, MD, PhD @WF_ParkerLater today Biden is going to announce a new strategy to fight the COVID crisis@GovindPersad,@ZekeEmanuel, and I argue in order to offer boosters to healthy Americans and vaccinate the world the administration must grab some low-hanging fruit
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No disagreement. I have argued for every one of those since last year, and got a huge amount of "Follow the Science" shouting at me—including from people who should know better—and very few people with the right PhDs spoke up and said exploring dose-sparing is urgent and right.
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Thank you! I’ve been immensely frustrated that, eg, those who claimed the 3-wk US Pfizer dosing interval, as opposed to longer
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ones, was “the optimal way” have not been been asked—or admitted—that this may have been both near- & long-term suboptimalhttps://www.aamc.org/news-insights/canada-took-risk-delaying-second-covid-19-vaccine-doses-now-its-vaccination-campaign-one-best-world …2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
There is little to no accountability for anything so why start now. Dose-sparing was an urgent consideration from day one but the few of us bringing it up early just got yelled at—even for the obvious things like, hey, three-weeks is unprecedentedly short and likely non-optimal.
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