LIVE: Operation Warp Speed's Moncel Slaoui said @modernatx vaccine has efficacy of 94.1% overall, 87% efficacy in preventing moderate disease in adults over 65, 100% effective at preventing severe disease in all ages. #HHS#OWS
LIVE: Slaoui says we should be able to vaccinate 100 million people by end of February, protecting most of the higher risk people. #ows#hhs
LIVE: Gen. Perna says OWS has shipped 6.4 million doses of @pfizer vaccines to states, territories, major cities, and 12.5 million doses for @modernatx. They're shipping first doses only, to avoid sending more than states/clinics can store. #ows#hhs
LIVE: Gustave Perna commends @CDCgov for "remarkable work they are doing...Really proud to be a part of the collaboration w/ them." Once vaccines are shipped to cities/states/territories, "jurisdictions and governors quite frankly will decide where they want them to go.” #OWS
LIVE: Gen. Gustave Perna says the job of Operation Warp Speed is to enable jurisdictions to carry out their own vaccination plans. #ows#hhs
LIVE: Gen. Gustave Perna on being vaccinated against covid-19. "I just ask everybody to really educate yourself... Don't allow one headline to determine what you are going to do." #ows#hhs
LIVE: Slaoui says #OWS will ship covid-19 vaccines for 20 million people in December, another 30 million people in January, additional 50 million by February. If Jansen vaccine is authorized, could have more vaccine doses in February. #hhs
LIVE: General Perna said that after the initial pushes to deliver covid-19 vaccines, there will be regular weekly shipments as they're available. #hhs#ows
LIVE: General Perna of #ows notes people will need 2 doses of covid vaccine, says states will get one dose of vaccine at a time, followed 3-4 wks later by the second dose. "Our responsibility is to make sure we have the second dose in hand before we send out the first dose." #hhs
LIVE: Can people who've had asymptomatic covid-19 still get vaccinated? Moncef Slaoui says 5-10% of participants in clinical trials were sero-positive, although no one who was actually sick was included. #ows#hhs
LIVE: Vaccine allocations are going out to 64 jurisdictions and 5 federal agencies, Gen. Perna said, based on population. #ows#hhs
LIVE: Moncef Slaoui says @AstraZeneca's vaccine data may be available in January, potentially for an emergency use authorization. #ows#hhs
LIVE: Gen. Perna: In addition to 64 jurisdictions, vaccines will also ship to 5 federal agencies: the departments of Defense and State, Veterans Affairs Department’s Veterans Health Administration, the Bureau of Prisons and Indian Health Service. #hhs#ows
LIVE: Gen. Perna says federal agencies have their own vaccination plans, and the job of Operation Warp Speed is to support them. #ows#hhs
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@DrPaulOffit tells @JAMA_current he was totally surprised that both mRNA vaccines have 94-95% efficacy. In January, he said, "no one would have thought this was possible." #JAMAlive
In his live interview, @JAMA_current debunks some myths about covid-19 vaccines that are really important. A doctor friend texted me and wanted me to ask @DrPaulOffit about it for her! Instead, read this slide.
LIVE: @DrPaulOffit tells @JAMA_current that it's extremely encouraging that both mRNA vaccine got the same results, even though they use different doses and have other technical differences in the way they're put together. #CovidVaccine
LIVE: A @cdcgov advisory committee is meeting right now to recommend who should get first covid-19 vaccines when they're available. Here are the work group members. ustream.tv/channel/VWBXKB…
LIVE: A @CDCgov advisory committee will vote on recommendations for allocating the first covid-19 vaccines. Health care personnel and nursing home residents are getting top priority in the discussion.
LIVE: Nursing home residents make up less than 1% of the population but account for 40% of deaths. @cdcgov#acip
Epidemiologist @michaelmina_lab is giving a free online lecture through MIT about covid-19. The decline of covid-19 cases in the summer may have misled people into thinking it had gone away. It didn't. The decline may have shown the "seasonality" of virus. web.mit.edu/webcast/biolog…
LIVE: Epidemiologist @michaelmina_lab is doing a pilot study to test blood, looking for antibodies, to reconstruct introduction of virus into U.S. He asks, "Could we have early warning system for viruses like we have for hurricanes?"
LIVE: Epidemiologist @michaelmina_lab says widespread antibody testing can be a better way to know what's going on in an outbreak than PCR testing, providing slightly faster answers.
Among other achievements, Dr. Tony Fauci was one of the architects of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (created under Republican President George Bush). PEPFAR has saved millions of lives.
Fauci said if we ALL do these five things, we can reopen the country.
Masks and social distancing
Avoid crowds
Outdoors is better than indoors
Washing hands
Stay away from bars
FAUCI: An AIDS vaccine is very very different than covid-19.
If you have a disease in which the body's natural response to the virus is inadequate, it is very very hard to make a vaccine... You've got to do better than natural infection to get a vaccine for HIV>
@khnews asked Dr. Anthony Fauci about reports that antibodies to covid-19 fade after a few months. If true, would that mean that vaccine protection would wear off after a few months? He said, “If we don’t get as long a response as we want, we can always give a booster shot.” 2/
Leading covid-19 vaccine candidates are based on new approaches that have never resulted in a licensed vaccine. Moderna, a relatively young company, has yet to produce any approved vaccines.
“Even more so than usual, as we create vaccines, we’re sailing in uncharted water.” 3/
Correction: Fauci just said that crowds of any kind put you at risk of transmitting coronavirus. He did not say protesting is dangerous. Although @Jim_Jordan pressed him about whether we should ban protests or arrest them, Fauci refused to say that.
@RepRaskin asked if children are "almost immune" to covid?
Fauci says no. @RepRaskin: Will covid magically disappear?
Fauci: It is unlikely that it will disappear. @RepRaskin: Is covid-19 a hoax?
Fauci: No.