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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD Profile picture
@PeterHotez
Jul 11, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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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Dec 29, 2024
H5N1 not a reason to be terrified. We know a lot about zoonotic flu, have been preparing for it 20 yrs (unlike when COVID began), + we have candidate vaccines, antivirals, diagnostics

Only 3 things can negate this:

policy failures
pandemic denialism
antiscience disinformation
It was actually the leadership of the W Bush Admin that prioritized a national response to zoonotic flu in 2000s, recruited my mentors, like DA Henderson, Maj Gen Phil Russell, Stewart Simonson, WI Gov. Tommy Thompson, Mike Osterholm, Bruce Gellin, Peggy Hamburg, to name some
So we can defeat H5N1, but it will need to be made a national priority
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Nov 10, 2024
Another reminder: in U.S. we must now expect a regular cadence of pandemic threats: SARS in 2002, SARS-2/Covid in 2019, likely SARS-3; avian flu; Nipah; Ebola 2014, 2019; Zika 2016, soon dengue, YF. So we can’t screw around, the Trump Admin needs serious players for CDC, FDA, NIH
The Trump Administration and the Republican-led Congress must take this seriously. If we’re going to have a chance vs this onslaught of pandemic threats - and they are coming - we cannot waste time with ideologues, lightweights, propagandists, and antivaccine activists
In his first term in office: they missed the entry of the SARS-2 virus into NYC from Southern Europe bc they focused on travel from China, couldn’t organize testing and tracing, lost time and lives bc of fake hydroxychloroquine cures that didn’t work. We can’t do that again
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Sep 24, 2024
1/n I’m concerned: the health disinformation empire has begun accelerating with this new RFK Jr GOP partnership, also worried about the muted/invisible response from our U.S. HHS agencies, health professional societies/academic health centers. Troubling pics in this thread… Image
2/n …and this Image
3/n …and this Image
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Sep 21, 2024
1/n Tomorrow or soon, I will do a Tweet X thread on how the antivaccine, health & wellness, nutrition supplements industries joined forces with far right American politics to generate “crisis of chronic illness” propaganda. It’s an interesting story 25+ years in the making
2/n This is a slide from a PowerPoint I made years ago, looking at how the antivaccine movement has evolved (or devolved), it ends with "Chronic illness", which is really a desperation measure from the antivaccine movement after the scientific community debunked everything else Image
3/n I call it “moving the goalposts” or “whack-a-mole” and it stems from my Rachel book written in 2018. What happens is antivaccine groups make an outlandish assertion about a vaccine(s), we debunk it, and so they just make up something else, we debunk again and repeat… Image
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Sep 17, 2024
1/n Pediatricians 'exhausted' as vaccinations drop in DeSantis' Florida.

As I sometimes say, this situation was both predicted and predictable. My papers attached. I’m so concerned about our fragile vaccine ecosystem both in U.S. and globally tallahassee.com/story/news/loc…
2/n my 2022 article in @Nature @NatRevImmunol nature.com/articles/s4157…
@Nature @NatRevImmunol 3/n my 2023 article in @Health_Affairs

healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…
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Sep 5, 2024
1/n Texas has an economy/population roughly the size of Canada. However there were 50,000 Covid deaths in Canada vs 100,000 in Texas. The reason: widespread COVID vaccine refusal in TX, 40,000-50,000 victims of a national/political health disinformation campaign. Paper attached
2/n I call this “The Great Texas COVID Tragedy” here’s my article in @PLOS @PLOSGPH written 2 years ago journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…
@PLOS @PLOSGPH 3/n Here’s the situation on Covid deaths in Canada statista.com/statistics/110…
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