#Mrna

Jade Ealy

jadeealy14

A thread of information about the biochemistry & biology of COVID-19 that I learned in my molecular biology course as a junior biochemistry major at UT: The SARS-Cov2 virus (COVID-19)

WheatNOil

WheatNOil

What to do if you got the AstraZeneca vaccine:A thread 1) Celebrate!This is a very good vaccine! The UK is crushing COVID using a huge amount of AZ with extended

Dr. Mika

trans_icon_mika

It’s certainly not lost on me, a queer person, that a global pandemic that affected “everyone” spurred the development of an mRNA vaccine in *record time* and that that mRNA

† Ady Betambeau

adybetambeau

I've been saying since operation warp speed was launched, and the race to make a vaccine in record time begun that this vaccine would be used to harm people.I wasn't

Andrew Morris

ASPphysician

Why am I now opposed to any further AstraZeneca vaccine being used in Canada? I want to walk you through the math we have available.First, I am using some risk-benefit

James Surowiecki

JamesSurowiecki

Moderna has already said it won't enforce its patents. That's not the barrier to duplicating its vaccine.https://twitter.com/ElsTorreele/status/1386414933672292352 There's a lot of fuzziness in the way people write about the que

Matt Hall

cispt2

So ⁦@pfizer⁩ INTERIM ANALYSIS of their mRNA vaccine looks promising. Article indicates 94 people in study have been infected - breakdown of placebo/dose@not@disclosed by#ut “90% effective” is better than anticipated.

gutwat

gutwat1

mRNA vaccine manufacturing issues and concern.1/ How hard is it to make these things? Isn't it like just putting a drug in an IV bag and you're good to go

Joanna Poole 💙

Jopo_dr

What is an mRNA vaccine? One that instructs the human host cell to make isolated viral proteins (not the whole virus just a surface protein!) so the immune system learns

Jennifer Zeng 曾錚

jenniferatntd

1. Important analysis and conclusion by a Chinese expert: the #CCP could already have the #coronavirus strain as early as Sep 2019!Main points:1) Although a #CCP expert was using the

Jason Crawford

jasoncrawford

“Patents are not the problem. All of the vaccine manufacturers are trying to increase supply as quickly as possible. Billions of doses are being produced–more than ever before in the

el gato malo

boriquagato

um, did you miss this little gem from the study:the vaccine actually made more than half the people who took it sick and was nasty in higher doses.100% had systemic

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Before you read headlines along the lines of “the mRNA vaccines don’t work against variants in the real world OMG WE ARE DOOMED!” read this thoughtful thread by an author

Sam Wang

SamWangPhD

This has been a bizarre year, but let me pause to say that a bloody amazing thing happened this year:Duirng a global pandemic, several companies took the idea of making

Michal Elovitz MD

DocElovitz

Calling on the brilliant twitter minds on #vaccine #pregnancy #placenta #mrna #immunology #fetalLet's talk SarsCOV2 vaccine and pregnancy 1/ it is acknowledged that pregnant and lactating people were NOT included

James Krellenstein

jbkrell

So this is a common question to ask -- if Moderna has pledged to not enforce their patents, why can't we start production everywhere? Three reasons:https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1389712036410626053 The 1st, Moderna doesn't