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4 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
MIT study: Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and other vaccines may not do as well covering people of Black or Asian genetic ancestry as they do for white people

zdnet.com/article/mit-ma…
"Preliminary results suggest that, on average, people of Black or Asian ancestry could have a slightly increased risk of vaccine ineffectiveness," one of the study's authors wrote.

zdnet.com/article/mit-ma…
"[The] weakness [of the vacines], the MIT report contends, which is that they do not use a sufficiently diverse set of viral particles to stimulate the same level of immune response in all people in the population, depending on genetic makeup."

zdnet.com/article/mit-ma…
MIT release has finer point: Asians least likely to respond to covid vaccines.

"people whose cellular immune system is not predicted to robustly respond to the vaccine ranged from [<.5%] of white participants to nearly 10 percent of Asian participants."

csail.mit.edu/news/mit-study…
Prof. Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology at Yale, explains why this should not be a cause for alarm:

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3 Nov
Will never forget Election Day 2016, wandering down to the White House with @swin24 to get some last color around 2 a.m., pressed up against the fence. These were those scenes: ImageImage
@swin24 I'll be back in front of the White House tonight, all night, with @MEvstatieva as we contribute to NPR's live coverage. I hope you'll tune in!
Differences between tonight and 2016: no one is allowed into Lafayette Square up to the White House fences.

And I'm carrying a trauma kit this year when four years ago it would have been considered unthinkable and unnecessary
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9 Oct
This is a smart story that I wish I had written.

And it highlights that this election the threat for disinformation may be less foreign misinformation, and more of domestic origins
Continuing along that line of thought, the disinformation that affects us in and around Election Day may be what we Americans subject ourselves to.

Hysteria and rumor around an already tense and fraught polling day could lead to an explosion of untruth
I've been thinking a lot about the DC Blackout, which happened in the wake of the George Floyd protests in DC

This rumor emerged on June 1 that all comms in DC were being jammed and it spread like wildfire
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3 Oct
The president's physician obfuscated when asked at least 3x about this by reporters this morning, which is very disconcerting -- why would he be doing that?

Conley said that Trump had not been on supplemental O2 today or yesterday
The credibility of the president's physician is being shredded in multiple ways -- and it has been just two hours since his briefing with the press

Yet another correction:

Dr. Conley meant to say it’s Day 3, not 72 hours, a WH official said. Has not been 72 hours since president was diagnosed, which was Thursday night

Regeneron was administered Thursday night, not 48 hours ago as Dr. Garibaldi had said, WH official said.
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3 Oct
Totally inconsistent with the normal range vitals that the president's doctor told the press about just this morning.
One issue here is that the president's doctor revealed a snapshot of the president's vitals but without any context: is his spO2 increasing or decreasing? Was his pulse elevated earlier?

So are we getting a reassuring snapshot or an out of context and misleading snapshot?
If it was Mark Meadows giving this statement you have to wonder how much weight to give to his medical interpretation skills

The background source may have said "vitals" are concerning but may have meant that the president's "condition" was concerning

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17 Sep
A story in Australian press caught my attention, one about Australian forces liberating prisoners at a Japanese forced labor camp in New Guinea during WWII

Video shows liberated children celebrating, including one prisoner, now 96-year-old: Tim Mak

sbs.com.au/news/survivor-…
The Australians did not evacuate ethnic Chinese from these camps, and left him there. But in 1945 they returned, put Tim Mak in uniform and recruited him as an interpreter.

sbs.com.au/news/survivor-…
Tim Mak met Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies after World War II.

Menzies asked: "Where did you learn your English?"

Mak replied, "This bloody school called Wesley College in Melbourne."

Menzies had gone to the same school.

sbs.com.au/news/survivor-…
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6 Aug
FIRST ON NPR: The New York Attorney General took action today to dissolve the National Rifle Association after an 18 mo probe that found evidence the org was “fraught with fraud and abuse.” Full details:
npr.org/2020/08/06/899…
I've got all the details. Take a read through my story here:

npr.org/2020/08/06/899…
NY AG claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday that she found millions in fraud, contributed to a loss of more than $64 million to the NRA over a three year period.

npr.org/2020/08/06/899…
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