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Latest #TexasCovid19 deaths: Mr. President the nation needs you to lead a #COVID19 response. It's actually not that difficult. With a concerted evidence-based effort we can bring the entire nation back to containment mode in a few weeks, then open schools, colleges, even the NFL Image
There's really no alternative Mr. President, if you don't take bold action and lead, the numbers will rise to the point where every American will know someone sick or dying in the hospital with #COVID19, the economy will collapse, and our nation will become vulnerable. Image
#COVID19 has become an urgent national security issue. I'm happy to help you...this is very doable. It's just some RNA stuffed inside a little fat with spike proteins. It's an old school problem in virology, we can do this. But if we don't take action now the nation will tank

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More from @PeterHotez

Apr 29
1/n This is antivaccine conspiracy nonsense. The facts + supporting documents:

1. Covid 19 the virus = a thromboembolic virus and cause of coronary heart disease

2. Staying up to date with your Covid vaccinations/boosters = an important way to protect your heart health.
2/n from @NaturePortfolio nature.com/articles/s4416…
@NaturePortfolio 3/n @nyulangone nyulangone.org/news/study-hel…
Read 8 tweets
Apr 26
1/n update on Covid in U.S. first some good news, latest from CDC shows we’re now at about our lowest levels of new COVID hospitalizations since the beginning of the pandemic… Image
2/n also Covid wastewater numbers looking pretty good, so as I said a few weeks ago, it looks like we might a low Covid spring or at least May. Good for HS or college graduations Image
3/n the concerning trend is one @EricTopol and others pointed earlier today namely these newer FLiRT variants, if and when they go over 50% will the numbers rise again?
Read 6 tweets
Apr 23
1/n I’m seeing on social media and popular podcasts, awful nonsense and false claims about Covid immunizations in pregnancy causing autism in newborns. This is dangerous health disinformation at multiple levels. Here is the real story.
2/n First the adverse health impact of Covid on both pregnant mother and new baby is undisputed, it’s devastating for both, especially high maternal morbidity and mortality
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
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3/n moreover the health benefits of Covid vaccinations for both mother and newborn are also indisputable and life saving. This from @LancetDigitalH thelancet.com/journals/landi…
Read 14 tweets
Apr 22
1/n Latest from ⁦@IHME_UW⁩ and their new Global Burden of Disease 2021 data for COVID19 excess mortality in 2021. A few things: First, it helps dispel the myth that LMIC nations on the African Continent were spared the ravages of Covid. A reason…

thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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2/n a reason is low vaccination rates. My view: the overemphasis on speed or new technologies and innovations, there were insufficient mRNA and particle vaccine doses made in 2020-21, and these were bought up quickly by high income countries.
3/n I believe if our @TexasChildrens vaccine group received more international assistance we could have moved faster to help LMICs in Africa. As it is even without that help (or very modest help), at least 100 million doses of our low-cost, patent-free Covid vaccine administered
Read 6 tweets
Apr 13
1/n Some good news, according to CDC we’re almost at the lowest number of new Covid hospitalizations in the U.S.since the beginning of the pandemic… Image
2/n also good news no completely new variant accelerating, at least ones that the new XBB annual immunization from last fall (2023) can’t handle Image
3/n but if you are eligible get another booster as recommended by CDC/FDA
Read 8 tweets
Apr 13
1/n Nuremberg 2.0 is a QAnon far-right fantasy that the Covid vaccine scientists & virologists will be tried at some sort of military tribunal similar to those following WWII. It’s an excuse to invoke Nazi imagery, designed to intimidate scientists, portray us as public enemies
2/n I report on this in my recent book with @JHUPress amazon.com/Deadly-Rise-An…
@JHUPress 3/n the use of Nazi imagery to intimidate scientists has a historical basis, which I wrote about in a paper last year @ProjectMUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/902035…
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