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'Wildly misleading' headlines are creating a panic over a new study on vaccines and the B.1.351 variant first identified in South Africa

Variant panic-porn has been turned up to 11 after a new study out of Israel found that the B.1.351 variant first identified in South Africa can “break through” the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

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Here’s a sample of the headlines flying around tonight:

Except, the tone of these headlines is all wrong. The study they’re reporting on is “actually excellent news” and there appears to be a misconception on what vaccine resistance really means.

From The Atlantic’s Zeynep Tufekci:

Here’s the summary from the study:

These results overall suggest that vaccine breakthrough infection is more frequent with both VOCs, yet a combination of mass-vaccination with two doses coupled with non-pharmaceutical interventions control and contain their spread.

But these bad headlines are everywhere:

And:

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These articles could just have as easily been titled, “Zero cases beyond 14 days after the second dose”:

Again for the national media accounts behind the “wildly misleading” headlines, “THAT STUDY WAS EXCELLENT NEWS OVERALL ON THAT ASPECT”:

Full thread from the researcher here:

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