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12 Feb, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Start your morning/end your week with a bit of good news.

More Than 300 Holocaust Survivors Get Vaccinated At Pop-Up Site In Bensonhurst via @WNYC / @Gothamist

✍️:@sydneyp1234
📸@s_nessen
gothamist.com/news/more-300-…
The single-day event was organized by the Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, @UJAfedNY, and @MobileHealthInc.

They had just days to contact some 800 mostly Russian-speaking survivors to coordinate time slots and transportation for those in need gothamist.com/news/more-300-…
“This is a humongous victory for us." - Alex Budnitsky, the executive director of the Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, which locals call the “J.”

His staff had spent weeks trying to find vaccine appointments through the normal channel. gothamist.com/news/more-300-…
Organizers said 318 received a shot on Thursday, including Zoltan and Mera Matyash.

Zoltan is a survivor of Auschwitz. gothamist.com/news/more-300-…

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South Africa halted use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford coronavirus vaccine on Sunday after evidence emerged that the vaccine did not protect trial participants from mild/moderate illness caused by the South African variant. nytimes.com/live/2021/02/0…
Re the evidence:
Presentation of the new data by SA health officials/researchers h/t @rcr_pereira
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NYC Reveals White New Yorkers Have Received Lion's Share Of COVID-19 Vaccine Doses

White NYC residents are taking about three times as much COVID-19 vaccine as Blacks and Latinos

✍️:@sydneyp1234, @jakedobkin, and me via @WNYC/@Gothamist
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The disparity holds when you look at the overall number of doses administered (👇) and when you adjust for the population makeup for the city. gothamist.com/news/white-new… via @WNYC/@Gothamist
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Saying the quiet part out loud:

While the J&J and Novavax vaccine trials show solid protection against the original strain, both struggled to contain the SA variant, suggesting the clock is ticking on their usefulness.

✍️: Me via @WNYC / @Gothamist
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Early estimates suggested COVID vaccines need to be about 75% effective against infection to establish herd immunity, but Dr. Fauci recently said the mark could be closer to 90%.

If these two vaxs block viral spread at a similar rate as disease, then they may be too weak.
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A short reader on what the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine findings tell us about the variants.

Spoiler: We need to roll out as much of authorized vaccines as possible, as fast as we can.
The basic takeaway via @nataliexdean
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