The world needs to quickly roll out safe and effective #COVID19 vaccines to accompany other pandemic control measures. #VaccinesWork #VaccineEquity Support @WHO

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New article out from our Task Force! Global public health security and justice for #COVID19 #vaccines sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @timothysheahan @UNC @ProfHeidiLarson @LSHTM @PeterHotez @ISGLOBALorg @ShohamTxID @HopkinsMedicine @Yadav_supplychn @CGDev @oergonul1

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We need #VaccineEquity now. No one is safe until everyone is safe. Check out this link for data and to see how policy makers can improve vaccine equity: data.undp.org/vaccine-equity…
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In this article we provide 17 recommendations for a wide range of stakeholders to better include marginalized populations in vaccination programs in the fight to eliminate #COVID19 nature.com/articles/s43856-0… @sanidadgob @immunization @ISGLOBALorg #VaccineEquity #VaccinesWork
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2/ “Testing, contact tracing, quarantining contacts and isolating infected people are fundamental to the public health response and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future, even as vaccines are being deployed.” academic.oup.com/inthealth/a…

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24 May 2021
What ingredients are in a vaccine? And how are vaccines developed? @WHO explains➡️bit.ly/3fgEQvr
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Hearing from colleagues around the world about breakthrough infections, some serious, from variants. The best time to have started creating vaccine hubs for mRNA technology would have been a year ago. The second best time is today.
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We need to meet people where they are and make it easy to get vaccinated. Convenience outweighs reluctance. In rural communities this means getting vaccines into doctors’ offices, outside supermarkets, churches, and restaurants. ow.ly/JbYN50EPES3

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13 May 2021
In a matter of weeks, some parts of the globe have gone from trying to get enough vaccines, to now having them and trying to convince people to take them. s.pri.org/rzS9vbI

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12 May 2021
C'mon Idaho Your vaccination (35%) is among the lowest in the US Your positive test rate of 6.3% is an outlier, more than double the US average (2.9%) newsnodes.com/us
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Well put @OksanaPyzikUCL. Patent waivers during the pandemic are the right move, but regardless, vaccine production is the great challenge, in poor and rich countried alike. We are sadly far behind the curve.
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2/3 We are risking reinfection loops as VOC import threat rises w/ ⬆️global cases. Trickle down vaccine donations does NOT build LMIC self-reliance for production. Leaders have made empty promises while eyeing 💉supply for 3rd doses & jabbing teens before reaching COVID hot spots
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And second, the data we do have on people being infected with B.1.617.2 after receiving the vaccine is — despite claims to the contrary — very reassuring. Even among the most vulnerable populations, infections are not turning into severe illness or death x.com/DevanSinha/status/1390…

15 cases of B1617.2 (🇮🇳 variant) in care home in London a week after 2nd dose of Oxford/AZ- likely too soon for full effectiveness 0 deaths. Chance of this outcome without vaccine was ~ 1 in 800 (0.12%) theguardian.com/world/2021/m…
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6 May 2021
A US milestone today >250 million vaccine doses administered! added 2.4 million doses >45% of Americans with at least 1 dose That's nearly 150 million people
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5 May 2021
Vaccines don't just work. They work across all the variants, providing protection from illness, hospitalizations, and deaths. Summary including today's multiple updates. (and we're damn lucky)
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The answer isn't only sharing a scarce supply of vaccine doses, even if that is still important It's also vital to build capacity globally so that there's enough doses for everyone A win-win
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#ICYMI The #COVAX portfolio is expanding! We’re delighted to have signed an advance purchase agreement with @moderna_tx for up to 500 million doses of their #COVID19 vaccine! bit.ly/337sQFN @WHO @CEPIvaccines

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And in one recent case, a scare-story about immune-escape from the Indian variant turned out to be precisely the opposite: it strongly suggests the vaccines are working against this variant, too x.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/13…

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