It is quite disconcerting (albeit my take is that it's the standard "if it bleeds it leads" drive from the news media. Bad news gets more clicks and attention than good news, so slant … (View Post)

My mental model of what happens, which is very possibly completely wrong because immunology is a strange and complex discipline that causes problems for even those who have studied it for years and I… (View Post)

We do know the Novavax and J&J ones are true for that. And that while the AZ one wasn't investigated for that in this (statistically very underpowered) SA study, it uses very similar technol… (View Post)

All vaccines (including the AZ one) still seem to protect near-perfectly against severe illness and provide some protection against mild or moderate illness (bear in mind that the AZ trial in SA used… (View Post)

More crunchy data here, including confidence intervals (spoiler: huge) https://twitter.com/mugecevik/status/1358540001051627522 (View Post)