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Stephen Reicher. (2021, November 26). 55.1% of the worlds population has had one dose of Covid vaccine. 29% in South Africa 10.1% in Africa as a whole Only 6% of Africans are fully vaccinated So is it any surprise new variants are arising from Africa? What doesn’t go around (as vaccine) Comes around (as Covid). Https://t.co/0X0vZ6flmc [Tweet]. @ReicherStephen. https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1464202267196858380

News updates from November 26: Coronavirus variant concerns send global stocks lower, nations restrict travel from southern Africa, Black Friday sales grow as shoppers return to stores. (2021, November 26). Financial Times.

BNO Newsroom. (2021, November 26). South Africa reports 2,828 new coronavirus cases, an increase of 258% from last week, with a positivity rate of 9.1% [Tweet]. @BNODesk. https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1464280278197846025

Meaghan Kall. (2021, November 26). B.1.1.529 in the UK • Designated a Variant Under Investigation (VUI) VUI-21NOV-01 • No cases in the UK 🇬🇧 to date • Enhanced case finding & rapid assessment is underway https://t.co/0DGvlgvdPR [Tweet]. @kallmemeg. https://twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1464210457795907588

Wise, J. (2021). Headlines play down the gravity of covid-19 in children. BMJ, 375, n2826. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2826

Mahase, E. (2021). Covid-19: Vaccine uptake during pregnancy has increased but deprived areas lag behind, data show. BMJ, 375, n2932. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2932

Kit Yates. (2021, November 26). European centres for disease prevention and control has designated B.1.1.259 as a variant of concern. Fast work. Https://t.co/f6JiWVvjJC [Tweet]. @Kit_Yates_Maths. https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1464285136137170947

That's ironic. That's exactly what the vaccine-pushers are doing: over-reporting the danger of the Covid virus.

The speaker points out that covid-19 is perceived as a more immediate threat, while climate change is less directly perceivable as a immediate threat. It takes place graduallyl over time. Climate change is a tragedy of the commons because a lot of individual leaders choose to free-ride.

SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation. (2021). 45.

Johnson, T., Moultrie, T., Gonsalves, G., & Hassan, F. (2021, October 12). An inconvenient truth: The real reason why Africa is not getting vaccinated. Bhekisisa. https://bhekisisa.org/opinion/2021-10-12-an-inconvenient-truth-the-real-reason-why-africa-is-not-getting-vaccinated/

Lovett, S. (2021, November 15). UK threw away 600,000 vaccine doses after they passed expiry date. The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-vaccine-doses-astrazeneca-donations-uk-b1958000.html

Laurent, C. de S., Murphy, G., Hegarty, K., & Greene, C. (2021). Measuring the effects of misinformation exposure on behavioural intentions. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2xngy

Asch, D. A., & Allison, K. C. (2021, November 26). The pandemic is deeply affecting many people with eating disorders. STAT. https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/26/pandemic-deeply-affected-many-people-with-eating-disorders/

Variants that show reduced sensitivity to NAbs don't necessarily mean mRNA vaccine failure

New variants may emerge that show reduced sensitivity to NAbs.

This may not result in vaccine failure because:

1. The mRNA vaccines induce such a strong NAb response, there will be enough spare capacity to deal with the virus.
2. The mRNA vaccines also induce other virus specific protection such as helper T cells and cytotoxic T cells, which may not be affected by the reduction in NAb sensitivity.

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, November 23). query: Https://unherd.com/2021/11/the-lefts-covid-failure/ “Is there really no progressive criticism to be made about the quarantining of healthy individuals, when the latest research suggests there is a vanishingly small difference in terms of transmission between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated?” 1/2 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1463146737804140558

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, November 23). query: Https://unherd.com/2021/11/the-lefts-covid-failure/ “Is there really no progressive criticism to be made about the quarantining of healthy individuals, when the latest research suggests there is a vanishingly small difference in terms of transmission between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated?” 1/2 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1463146737804140558

Prof. Christina Pagel. (2021, November 24). Meanwhile AY.4.2 (Delta grandchild) continues its very slow path to English dominance. Makes life a bit harder by being a bit more transmissible but luckily doesn’t seem any worse than Delta in any other respect. Https://t.co/kB0V0Z66GT [Tweet]. @chrischirp. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1463508172941967365

Weale, S., & Campbell, D. (2021, November 23). Covid jab wait for 12- to 15-year-olds in England could be up to five months. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/23/covid-jab-wait-for-12--to-15-year-olds-in-england-could-be-up-to-five-months

Yang, M. (2021, November 23). Seven doctors contract Covid after attending Florida anti-vaccine summit. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/23/florida-doctors-covid-coronavirus-bruce-boros

Adler, M. (2021, November 24). Scarborough-born VaxFacts “movement” battles COVID-19 vaccine misinformation with trust and respect. The Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/local-toronto-scarborough/news/2021/11/24/scarborough-born-vaxfacts-movement-battles-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-with-trust-and-respect.html

Seth Trueger. (2021, July 21). If seatbelts work so well why do we have airbags crumple zones speed limits licensing road signs traffic lights road safety engineering ambulances EMTs trauma centers brakes https://t.co/6x29wCOlwp [Tweet]. @MDaware. https://twitter.com/MDaware/status/1417680529160294401

Claims about changes to Pfizer vaccine for children miss important details. (16:48:08.203282+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/online/claims-about-changes-pfizer-vaccine-children-miss-important-details/

Nurses’ mental health: “Most people in the NHS, they are sad.” (2021, November 23). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-59104738

Castle, S., & Landler, M. (2021, November 24). A Claim of Herd Immunity Reignites Debate Over U.K. Covid Policy. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/world/europe/uk-virus-herd-immunity.html

Chise 🧬🧫🦠💉🔜 MFF. (2021, November 21). If you’re wondering what difference a booster makes. Https://t.co/858ZpST7Kh [Tweet]. @sailorrooscout. https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/1462441020948459525

Charles #GetCovered-ba 🩺. (2021, November 13). America 2021 in one image. Https://t.co/SuTCkCp2Pm [Tweet]. @charles_gaba. https://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1459565881214836743

Gaba, C. (2021, November 17). RED SHIFT: How Trump’s attempt to let COVID-19 destroy Blue America reversed itself, animated [Text]. ACA Signups. https://acasignups.net/21/11/17/red-shift-how-trumps-attempt-let-covid-19-destroy-blue-america-reversed-itself-animated

Paul Mainwood. (2021, November 18). Holy guacamole. Https://t.co/mIcWJMHdHJ [Tweet]. @PaulMainwood. https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1461337249950404625

Gearoid Reidy. (2021, November 22). Tokyo coronavirus case count for today is just 6 Previous two Mondays: 7, 18 7-day average: 17.1 Serious cases -1 to 8 Newly reported deaths: 1 https://t.co/RMcui7EaZf [Tweet]. @GearoidReidy. https://twitter.com/GearoidReidy/status/1462694865964175361

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European Commission 🇪🇺. (2021, November 23). Data shows us that the higher the vaccination rate, the lower the death rate. #COVID19 #VaccinesWork https://t.co/mORrrQOPsj [Tweet]. @EU_Commission. https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1463119478099693571

The Left’s Covid failure. (2021, November 23). UnHerd. https://unherd.com/2021/11/the-lefts-covid-failure/

SPIEGEL-Umfrage: Große Mehrheit für Impfpflicht in Coronakrise. (2021, November 22). Der Spiegel. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/corona-in-deutschland-grosse-mehrheit-laut-spiegel-umfrage-fuer-impfpflicht-a-efa74ee2-1229-44f9-b07a-a113ad547088

Reardon, S. (2021). Cuba’s bet on home-grown COVID vaccines is paying off. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03470-x

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Le Page, M., Wilson, C., Hamzelou, J., Wong, S., Lawton, G., Vaughan, A., Quilty-Harper, C., Murugesu, J. A., & Liverpool, L. (2021, November 22). Covid-19 news: Austria goes back into lockdown. New Scientist. https://institutions.newscientist.com/article/2237475-covid-19-news-austria-goes-back-into-lockdown/

Gebre, M. S., Rauch, S., Roth, N., Yu, J., Chandrashekar, A., Mercado, N. B., He, X., Liu, J., McMahan, K., Martinot, A., Martinez, D. R., Giffin, T., Hope, D., Patel, S., Sellers, D., Sanborn, O., Barrett, J., Liu, X., Cole, A. C., … Barouch, D. H. (2021). Optimization of Non-Coding Regions for a Non-Modified mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine. Nature, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04231-6

Manning, W., & Dush, C. K. (2021). COVID-19 Stress and Sexual Identities. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/69gjs

Rattner, N. (2021, October 28). Some 5% of unvaccinated adults quit their jobs over Covid vaccine mandates, survey shows. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/28/covid-vaccine-some-5percent-of-unvaccinated-adults-have-quit-their-jobs-over-a-mandate-survey-shows.html

Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D. (2021, August 22). Right-wing talk radio host Phil Valentine just died of COVID-19. He promoted vaccine skepticism until he himself got sick with the virus. Https://t.co/YTdzN7yyKw [Tweet]. @RVAwonk. https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1429244778374443011

Jeffrey-Wilensky, Jaclyn, and Caroline Lewis. ‘NY Nursing Homes See Overnight Surge In Employee COVID Vaccinations Thanks To State Mandate’. Gothamist, 1 October 2021. https://gothamist.com.

Benjy Renton. (2021, November 16). New data update: Drawing from 23 states reporting data, 5.3% of kids ages 5-11 in these states have received their first dose. Vermont leads these states so far in vaccination rates for this age group—17%. The CDC will begin to report data for this group late this week. Https://t.co/LMJXl6lo6Z [Tweet]. @bhrenton. https://twitter.com/bhrenton/status/1460638150322180098

Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D. (2021, September 14). Right-wing radio host Bob Enyart—A staunch anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-abortion, anti-gay “firebrand” who used to mock the deaths of people with AIDS — just died of COVID-19. He is the 5th right-wing radio host to die of COVID in the past 6 weeks. Https://t.co/NlKodFEKNB [Tweet]. @RVAwonk. https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1437634022469996550

West Country Bylines. ‘Covid-19: 2 Months since “Freedom Day”, but Where Are We Now?’, 1 October 2021. https://westcountrybylines.co.uk/covid-19-2-months-since-freedom-day-but-where-are-we-now/.

Blake. (2021, November 11). Wie ungeheuer peinlich das ist. #impfpflichtjetzt #Neuinfektionen #Corona #Impfung https://t.co/DvIdDhOocM [Tweet]. @BlakesWort. https://twitter.com/BlakesWort/status/1458794747082989574

(20) James 💙 Neill—😷 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🔶 on Twitter: “The domain sending that fake NHS vaccine consent hoax form to schools has been suspended. Excellent work by @martincampbell2 and fast co-operation by @kualo 👍 FYI @fascinatorfun @Kit_Yates_Maths @dgurdasani1 @AThankless https://t.co/pbAgNfkbEs” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved November 22, 2021, from https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1442784873014566913

Sett, S., Ribeiro, C. dos S., Prat, C., Haringhuizen, G., Avšič, T., Batten, C., Beato, M. S., Bourhy, H., Caro, A. D., Charrel, R., Coutard, B., Drexler, J. F., Drosten, C., Fooks, A. R., Klempa, B., Koopmans, M., Klimkait, T., Günther, S., Manuguerra, J.-C., … Scholz, A. H. (2021). Access and benefit-sharing by the European Virus Archive in response to COVID-19. The Lancet Microbe, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00211-1

A_thankless_task. (2021, September 27). @judysimpson222 @KatyMcconkey @beverleyturner Just for anyone interested in why this is a piece of crap. Https://t.co/2XmuuImYzy [Tweet]. @AThankless. https://twitter.com/AThankless/status/1442586893502140417

Bristol University makes masks compulsory for staff and students indoors. (2021, November 16). ITV News. https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2021-11-16/bristol-university-makes-masks-compulsory-for-staff-and-students-indoors

Kit Yates. (2021, September 27). This is absolutely despicable. This bogus “consent form” is being sent to schools and some are unquestioningly sending it out with the real consent form when arranging for vaccination their pupils. Please spread the message and warn other parents to ignore this disinformation. Https://t.co/lHUvraA6Ez [Tweet]. @Kit_Yates_Maths. https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1442571448112013319

Holder, Josh. ‘Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World’. The New York Times, 29 January 2021, sec. World. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html.

France-Presse, A. (2021, November 17). Pfizer strikes deal to allow generic versions of its Covid pill for world’s poor. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/nov/17/pfizer-strikes-deal-to-allow-generic-versions-of-its-covid-pill-for-worlds-poor

Covid cases highest in younger children in England. (2021, November 18). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59336666

Choi et al. showed that a Beta-targeted booster shot broadened antibody-based immunity and boosted protection against circulating variants, the neutralizing response against the Beta variant was only slightly better.

@gerdosi thinks this points to Original Antigenic Sin.

Tania Bubela. (2021, November 17). New resources on #COVID19vaccines & #pregnancy from the fantastic group @CDCofBC Indigenous Knowledge Translation Working Group. @HarlanPruden working to meet knowledge needs of Indigenous communities in ways that are meaningful. @ScienceUpFirst take note! @SFU_FHS @CaulfieldTim https://t.co/oK3WJUj9p6 [Tweet]. @bubela_tania. https://twitter.com/bubela_tania/status/1460776956379557889

Meyerowitz, E., & Richterman, A. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Prevention in the Era of the Delta Variant (SSRN Scholarly Paper ID 3964247). Social Science Research Network. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3964247

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Borisov, A., & Lewis, J. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on Transport Crime. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/7e3fn

Ozernov-Palchik, O., Olson, H., Arechiga, X., Kentala, H., Solorio-Fielder1, J. L., Wang, K. L., Torres, Y. C., Gardino, N. D., Dieffenbach, J. R., & Gabrieli, J. (2021). Implementing Remote Developmental Research: A Case Study of an RCT Language Intervention During COVID-19. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/k9632

Gallagher, J. (2021, November 14). Covid vaccine ‘waning immunity’: How worried should I be? BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59260294

Andrews, N., Stowe, J., Kirsebom, F., Gower, C., Ramsay, M., & Lopez Bernal, J. (2021). Effectiveness of BNT162b2 (Comirnaty, Pfizer-BioNTech) COVID-19 booster vaccine against covid-19 related symptoms in England: Test negative case-control study [Preprint]. Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.15.21266341

‘A Small Number of Fully Vaccinated People with COVID-19 in NSW Have Died — Here’s Why’. ABC News, 28 September 2021. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-29/why-a-small-number-of-fully-vaccinated-people-have-died-of-covid/100497770.

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, October 13). RT @StevenTDennis: This is 100X the yearly U.S. death toll from measles before we crushed it with vaccines. [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1448333888992858120

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Scott, Jake, Aaron Richterman, and Muge Cevik. ‘Covid-19 Vaccination: Evidence of Waning Immunity Is Overstated’. BMJ 374 (23 September 2021): n2320. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2320.