Investigation by our @serenatinari on @BMJ_latest The @EMA_News Covid-19 vaccine leak show that some early commercial batches of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine had lower than expected levels of intact mRNA, prompting wider questions about how to assess this novel vaccine platform 1/4 @EMA_news was victim of a cyberattack, the material delivered to journalists and academics. EMA was concerned about manufacturing not producing vaccines to the specifications expected, and unsure of the implications of low mRNA integrity on the vaccine safety and efficacy. 2/4
Feb 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
1/3 Just out: @RecheckHealth analysis and commentary Der seltsame Fall / le cas étrange / the Strange Case of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force @SwissScience_TF. Open access in Deutsch / Français / English. re-check.ch/wordpress/fr/s…2/3 @SwissScience_TF is a group of scientists acting as a consultant to the Swiss authorities on #COVID19. Only his president should be talking to the media; is it really the case? And what are the rules of engagement of this very special board? @RecheckHealth
Care to kick off the New Year with a TWEETORIAL? Our humble homage to @VPrasadMDMPH will walk you through the evidence on #HPV vaccines and what @Cochranecollab made of it. Let’s first agree on one thing: RCTs are superior to observational studies
On HPV vaccines many observational studies published and hyped Randomized Controlled Trials on #Gardasil#Cervarix failed to demonstrate the expected efficacy though. It is sad, true and rarely discussed. Let’s have a closer look. @garyschwitzer@HealthNewsRevu@senseaboutsci