Mastodawn

[1] Last day to submit a #PublicComment on the #fda's policy to limit #covid #vaccine accessibility to those who are 'one or more risk factors that put them at high risk for severe Covid-19 outcomes' or who are 65 and older. Here is the policy document published in NEJM (1).

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929

It's published in a reputable journal and it sounds fine on paper, right? We want to protect those who are at the highest risk. So then what is the problem?

#publichealth #Science #research #researchfunding #antivax #immunizations #CallToAction #covidvaccine #vaccines

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Danni Storm 🇺🇦 🇺🇦

[4] Thirdly, as a computational infectious disease modeler I spend a lot of time infecting fake populations in order to more completely understand #disease #transmission. Vaccinating high risk people alone cripples the protection this policy claims to desire. I could stand on a soapbox for months, but I will spare you and instead direct you to a great tool surprisingly published by #nyt (7 -gift article link).

#transmission #infection #modeling #statistics #dataisbeautiful