Scientist exploring big data in public health 👩🏽🔬 👩🏽💻PhD, Medical BioPhysics.🇰🇪🇨🇦🇦🇺She/Her/Dr 💉 mastodon: prital@datasci.social
Jul 11, 2021 • 24 tweets • 8 min read
Under 40 in #Australia & considering the #AstraZeneca vaccine but unsure whether you should wait for Pfizer? This thread is for you.
Goal: Provide resources so that you can make an informed decision based on YOUR risk tolerance
Let's go.
PS: More resources at the end #COVID19nsw
1st, why consider the AstraZeneca now
👉 The Delta strain is here. It is highly transmissible.
👉On Jul 9, in NSW we had 43 cases in hospital (10 people in intensive care, 4 requiring ventilation).
👉14 people below 55 in hospital (7 under 35).
👉 2 under 40 in ICU
Apr 2, 2021 • 23 tweets • 13 min read
@AdelineBlue1@WHOKenya 1/ Hi, Thank you for your concern. It may seem like this vaccine is "pulled off the market", but this is NOT true. Places like Canada & Europe (currently rolling out this vaccine) have 2 stringent safety guards in place before any therapeutic is approved.
@AdelineBlue1@WHOKenya 2/ The vaccine must: A: Undergo thorough review of clinical trial data by independent review bodies (e.g. Health Canada). People on these bodies are independent of pharmaceutical companies and have decades of medical and scientific experience to look for red flags.
Dec 10, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Curious about how mRNA vaccines like Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech work? I teamed up with dad (my lay audience) to create this easy to understand, free of scientific jargon explainer. Hope you enjoy it!
mRNA vaccine photo by @dsgoodsell
