Thread by @MonicaGandhi9

Yes, it is true that an attenuated virus (led to more mild symptoms) did help end the 1918 influenza pandemic as Dr. Friedland said; we will keep watching Omicron variant but important observation

https://twitter.com/Alicia_Smith19/status/1466820411287552016

I would like to add a comment as a long-standing HIV doctor & researcher. Many of us have worked with South African doctors & infectious diseases epidemiologists for decades; this verified by conversations with SA colleagues; amazing doctors, researchers, scientists; we are lucky

And many of us were in touch with Indian researchers, scientists and epidemiologists at the start of the delta wave there and this was not at all true; it was terrible (4% vaccination rate); so let's all keep watching; ambiguity hard; let's wait & see

And finally, I don't think anyone needs to hear this but a 23% vaccination rate in S. Africa when the first EUA for vaccines in the US was Dec 14, 2020 is so wrong; neighboring countries; nothing more important than global vaccine equity