Some thoughts on a lot of the news today - first, I’m grateful that we continue to evaluate vaccines throughout the changing nature of this pandemic (and have so many efficacious vaccines). It’s hard to address any of this w/out acknowledge the privilege of it all (1/n)
I entirely agree w/@IDSAInfo about this being a partnership with ensuring global vaccine access/distribution for low and middle-income countries. None of this can be done in a silo. (2/n).
We will need more data to drive vaccine decisions and while the US faces its 4th surge, it’s hard not to feel the pressure to do something. I worry though, the issue stems from earlier scicomm failures (3/n)
Early on we treated the COVID vaccines as this end-all, elimination tool. The messaging, the emphasis - all of it. They are a complimentary tool (one of the best) to our NPIs like masking. So in some ways it seems like we dropped the complimentary aspect of this (4/n).
I hope now more than ever, we see this as a reminder that COVID is not gone, we have a lot of privilege that requires serious responsibility globally, and that we fundamentally need to keep up (and sustain) pub health interventions (5/5)
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