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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD Profile picture
@PeterHotez
Sep 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
What would I say (as someone who has been a lead target of anti-science disinformation campaigns around vaccines, and has a front seat to their nefarious activities)? What we see from Wash DC + White House in 2020 exhibits the key elements of a similar disinformation initiative
As we recently stated in our @TheLancet Commission on #COVID19, what's happening in Wash DC, also resembles the elements of disinformation in #Brasil #Philippines...

covid19commission.org
...political leaders “simplifying the pandemic by downplaying its impacts or touting easy solutions or treatments, spectacularizing their responses to crisis, forging divisions between the ‘people’ and dangerous ‘others’, and making medical knowledge claims to support the above"
"the wearing of face masks has become increasingly politicised in several countries in Europe and the Americas, with some protesters demanding the freedom to dispense with the use of face masks"
I believe the source of that quote is tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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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
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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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Mar 26
1/n Our ⁦@TexasChildrens⁩ laboratory is rapidly accelerating a new human hookworm anemia vaccine for LMICs.

Fyi hookworm, malaria, yellow fever, dengue once common in East Texas (and in some cases returning). Here’s a hookworm map from early 1900s. Even Harris County, Image
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Mar 19
1/n There have been several papers out in the last few months examining or reviewing the PEDIATRIC disease burden of Covid + the benefits of vaccination, will summarize some of the key interesting ones from 2023-24 here in this thread, in some cases also a popular article on it Image
2/n pediatric covid deaths @JAMANetwork jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
@JAMANetwork 3/n article about that study from @UniofOxford ox.ac.uk/news/2023-01-3…
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Mar 12
1/n Well he's right about one thing, follow the money. And he will find out how we develop low-cost neglected disease vaccines for global health. I think in my 40 years of this I've made less than $3,000 from our vaccines, nothing from interviews/podcasts...but guess who has?
2/n from @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02…
3/n from @WalkerBragman @RollingStone rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
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Mar 9
1/n Trump Getting DESTROYED on Truth Social Over His Vaccine Post - ⁦@MeidasTouch⁩

To help people understand this phenomenon, it might be useful to look at each of the three major waves of COVID disinformation from 2020-2024. Will break it down…
meidastouch.com/news/trump-get…
2/n V.1.0 began in 2020 when health disinformation was used to avoid stay at home orders from governors + prevent oil prices from collapsing. That’s when the Trump WH/Fox News pushed the hydroxychloroquine nonsense + Great Barrington Declaration at AIER exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/22/how…
3/n V.2.0 began with CPAC Conf in Dallas TX July 2021 pushing up against vaccine mandates (“first they’ll vaccinate then take away your guns/bibles”) + members of the House Freedom Caucus and 2 U.S. Senators falsely discredited the vaccine safety efficacy esquire.com/news-politics/…
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