Thread by @MonicaGandhi9

I am confused by twitter flurry. Let me message very clearly. Only healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities (and not all) will be mass vaccinated soon. After vaccination (3-4 weeks after 2nd dose), what two vaccinated people do around each other

is unlikely to be dictated by public health (safe). The vaccinated person (e.g. a health care worker) should mask/distance from their unvaccinated patients and out in public until mass vaccination is achieved for those unvaccinated. This is why getting more and more vaccinated

is the more important thing we can do right now. Nothing else is this important. Yes, the Moderna phase 3 trial data (Table S18, NEJM paper) and the Aztrazeneca/U of Oxford data (LD/SD group, Lancet paper) shows decrease in asymptomatic transmission, as does Israel real-world

data of how mass vaccination is decreasing cases in a very substantial way (even after one dose). No public health department will be spending their precious resources on mass testing for asymptomatic infection once herd immunity reached. Now that vaccines here, masks/distance

is a temporary state; an end is in sight; feel heartened. Please let's not message inappropriately, but message hopefully & with optimism okay? But now that these mRNA vaccines moved so fast, optimism is here. Okay anyone want to volunteer at a vaccination site??