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
"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.
"[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."
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:
@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
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
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
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
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.