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17 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I’ve made it very clear we don’t need vaccine mandates, and we don’t even have the vaccines for it. This is nothing more than dog whistles from antivaccine groups aligned with the far right. They will attempt to equate vaccine advocacy with fake “health freedom” violations
It’s one of the reasons I appreciated going on @newsmax yesterday to speak with @Tom_Basile. I was able to defuse immediately the vaccine mandates dog whistle. Will keep reaching out to conservative news outlets
As I point out about antivaccine groups: they don’t care about you or your family. They desperately seek relevancy, monetizing the internet. Aligning with far R political groups has worked for them for the last 5-6 years since 2015, now enabled by members of the US House Senate
Critical to delink the GOP from this self-defeating Antiscience obsession. I see it as the reason they lost the 2020 presidential election, and will cause further declines. Remember: National Academy of Sciences, NASA, PEPFAR were all created in Republican Administrations

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1/5: This week the US will reach two terrible milestones: 25 million confirmed cases (which means about 100 million actual cases) and 400,000 lives lost (the number of American GIs sacrificing their lives in WWII) nytimes.com/interactive/20…
2/5: How did we get to this point? First, the deliberate decision by Trump White House + HHS agencies, especially CDC, to not put the US Federal Govt out in front, an insistence that the states must be in the lead. Even when it was obvious this strategy was failing they dug in
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1/3: Unless we implement a national #COVID19 vaccination plan and strategy, by mid-late spring the number of #COVID19 deaths in America could reach 640,000, equivalent to Americans who died in the 1918 influenza pandemic
2/3: The plan must have at least 3 elements: 1) massive expansion in vaccine hubs, high throughput vaccinating 2 million Americans/d 2) liberalize unnecessary restrictions, make it easy 3) more vaccines, we won't get there with mRNA vaccines alone - we need the 3 additional types
3/3: We have no other choice: We've squandered every opportunity to contain this virus. This current administration left us with only a single arrow, and this time we cannot fail. It has to be our national priority.
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10 Jan
I want to say this is one of the largest mass #COVID19 vaccinations to date. Congratulations @SylvesterTurner and sincere thank you @HoustonFire @houstonpolice @RODEOHOUSTON @astros and to the volunteers. Hope it becomes a new model for the nation.
I’m glad this happened here in #Houston. Given our national failures in containing COVID19 in 2020, our backs are against the wall: Vaccinating our way out is our last hope. For it to happen mass immunizations like this must become the new normal
Increasingly I hope we can pivot away from fussy and confusing 1b 1c restrictions and open up the nation to vaccinations. We won’t vaccinate the necessary 2-3 million Americans per day by dissecting lunch checks and asking who ordered the salad nicoise and who had the turkey club
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4 Jan
Going to a single dose would undermine the last remaining credibility of OpWarpSpeed. If you look at the published data it’s only 2 doses for both mRNA vaccines that provide reasonable virus neutralizing antibodies. And it’s only 2 doses that protect apple.news/AM61Z3Q8wTyuym…
Asking the American 🇺🇸 people to compromise their safety and protection because no one thought that we needed a health system to provide high throughput vaccinations is unacceptable. We have to stop being so mediocre, and do hard things. Under Trump we became a nation of wimps
We now need to implement a health system that can vaccinate 1.5 million Americans every day from now until the fall. We need leaders who welcome challenges and like to roll up sleeves. Not lazy feckless ones who are frightened by science textbooks
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1 Jan
This may be the right direction, in fact our recombinant protein vaccine might be a great booster. Problem is this: Zero experimental evidence. While it’s something I’ve suggested in lab meetings, zoom calls, without actual data in hand it’s a non-starter nytimes.com/2021/01/01/hea…
Op Warp Speed delivered vaccines, but they went heavy in the direction of new technologies oblivious to a reality that we don’t have a health system in place to deliver them high throughput. We’re opening 40 million IKEA boxes, just now reading the “assembly required”stickers
It’s why we pushed for our low cost, easy to deliver recombinant protein vaccines now being scaled for production and tested across India 🇮🇳 , a 40 year old well tested technology, safe for use in kids.
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Texas hospitals have received over 600,000 doses yet only about 100,000 vaccinated so far? These aren’t bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon. We don’t need age vaccines, are we overthinking this? Texas 1b lots of adults with underlying conditions, vaccinate them houstonchronicle.com/news/article/T…
There’s no reason to hang on to vaccine stocks (except for second doses), just move them out and get people vaccinated ASAP. More vaccine is coming
Maybe I’m too subtle. So here it goes: 1. In 2020 we royally messed up COVID19 control, failing to launch a US strategy causing 350,000 deaths 2. By failing, we backed ourselves into a corner 3. Our last hope is to now vaccinate our way out of this. 4. Ignore antivax conspiracies
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