Amazing news. Our team @JennerInstitute are so pleased to see this!

A few quick responses to some pointing out it could be even better (more/cheaper/single-dose) 1/

The Ox/AZ/SerumInst deal is incredibly radical- Ox opted out of £££ to make a brand new product available around the world not-for-profit. Please judge imperfections by comparison to Pfizer/Moderna, not vs an imaginary ideal or a company which hasn’t yet delivered any doses.
Quibble #1: ‘It needs 2 doses’. Ox/AZ haven’t done as good a PR job on this as J&J, but the vaccines are similar. Published Ox data shows substantial single dose efficacy if you read tables carefully. Further analysis will be done soon. 2/
And I think all vaccines incl J&J will need boost for optimal long-term effect. 3/
Quibble #2: ‘But Serum Inst are charging more to SA than AZ are charging others’. Firstly, the product remains cheaper, I think, than anything else in market, or many older vaccines which haven’t had the recent R&D costs. 4/
Second, Serum have done an amazing job setting up what may be the best manufacturing operation in the AZ network. Serum have invested aggressively to go really big, really fast. Their start-up costs have been substantial. Materials imported to India may cost more than in EU/US 5/
Quibble #3: ‘it’s not enough’. We know this. We knew there was going to be scarcity. We’ve worked flat out all year to make as much as poss as quick as poss. More is coming, to SA & elsewhere, as quick as humanly & technically possible. 6/
I don’t think any other vaccine development programme has strategically prioritised low/middle income supply as we have. (Yes, I know there are gaps, but it’s the best we could possibly manage) https://t.co/eKOFWiDHZ9
Can’t say how proud I am of our team @JennerInstitute without whom set up of manufacturing in India wouldn’t have happened- especially Adrian Hill, @adamjohnritchie & Carina Joe. Probably the most important thing any of us will do in our lives.

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Tomorrow, January 6th, MAGA chuds, Proud Boys, and white supremacists are planned to descend on Washington D.C. to contest the election. Among them will be NSC-131, a New England based neo-Nazi organization. Let's welcome them by saying hi to one of their members, Eddie Stuart!


Edward Stuart, from Chester, New Hampshire, has been a member of Nationalist Social Club (NSC) since the very beginning and is a staple participant in their actions. He is known in NSC chats as "Carl Jung" and is well connected in the New England Nazi scene.
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NSC-131 is a neo-Nazi group that was started in Massachusetts in early 2020 by Chris Hood. You can learn more about NSC and it's members in these threads:


Eddie describes his ideology as "Esoteric Hitlerism" which is an occult form of Nazism that literally worships Adolf Hitler as a god, or, specifically, as an incarnation of the Hindu God Vishnu. Here is Ed holding the RigVeda with some of his occult Nazi pals. Interesting Ed!
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Much of this ideological insight was gained from Eddie's Twitter, where he originally used his "Carl Jung" persona and reposts explicit neo-fascist content and racist memes. In one edited picture, Eddie can be seen at an NSC event in late June 2020 holding a Nazi Sonnenrad flag
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