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7 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The American people are smart but we are not mind readers: Now might be a good time to communicate the anticipated public health impact of the variants, the timelines for their emergence based on epidemiologic modeling, and detail the roadmap to vaccinating ahead of the variants
We went through piecemeal, one-off sound bites, 3-4 minute opinion-filled cable news interviews with in the last administration, this administration needs to find a way to communicate in a more substantive manner.
It's not complicated: It requires a single individual to summarize the current status, the biggest concerns in the coming months, what happens if we do nothing, what is being done to correct it. It's what I ask of my first year doctoral students.
To contextualize: Things are 1,000X better in this Administration than before. The antiscience disinformation campaign is gone, we are no longer told lies, we have really good people in place. I get that. We now face a new looming crisis, need a full explanation of what's ahead

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9 Feb
Don’t believe it: I promise you the 10 leading antivaccine Antiscience hate groups who target me, family, will still be operating as usual. FB, Twitter, Amazon, Instagram do the least possible, while creating an illusion of corporate social responsibility forbes.com/sites/rachelsa…
I can also promise: in a single high level zoom call with the leaders of FB, Amazon, Twitter, Instagram, immediately followed by 10 clicks for each organization, I can de-monetize and cripple the antivaccine and Antiscience movement in America
And they already know this
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7 Feb
Wow, did @FoxNews @IngrahamAngle and the Murdoch Family give a prime time slot to the guy that publicly calls me on his Instagram the “OG Villain” (I had to look it up, it means the “original gangster”) and knowingly gleefully places me and my family in a daily path of threats?
They really do aspire to amplify Putin’s Russian systematic program of weaponized health communication designed to destabilize the US. I can’t remember when I’ve seen such deliberate contempt for America 🇺🇸
Fox must make a clean break with this nonsense. Otherwise they’ve abandoned all conservative values, or any awareness of how the greatness of our nation was built on science. If they don’t make change and unload the hate and antisemtism they are just in a race to the bottom
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6 Feb
1/10: My latest thinking after speaking with several important people on our current vaccine dilemma.
2/10: Right now, we just don't have sufficient vaccine supply to go around, and we need to clarify our goals. Later on as vaccine becomes available we can open it up to everyone but for now I think it helps to establish some national priorities.
3/10: Among the priorities:
1. Maximize reductions in hospitalizations and deaths, OR
2. Maximize reductions in community transmission, OR
3. Open the economy
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5 Feb
30 million doses by April? 100 million by June? I thought the whole point of Op Warp Speed was to “manufacture at risk”? It was supposed to be ready to roll out on the day of authorization. American taxpayers supposedly paid $billions, what am I missing? nytimes.com/live/2021/02/0…
Same with Novovax. Now we’re not supposed to get that until summer as well? And mRNA in the fall? What’s going on? With the variants arriving we need these vaccines now. Our vaccine is available
Since the beginning of Op Warp Speed I've said need to balance their portfolio. Too much emphasis on innovation, we need more "old school" vaccines that we know we can make at scale. We needed a recombinant protein vaccine like ours + whole inact virus. We can still do this...
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31 Jan
As we head towards 10% of the US population vaccinated: could we create a #covid HIG (hyper immune globulin) program to harvest IG from a pint of blood from fully vaccinated volunteer donors. A gap program for those awaiting vaccinations in US or globally? Clinical trials?
Some hyper immune globulins like RIG (rabies immune globulin) or RhoGAM can be administered as a simple intramuscular injection
Every fully vaccinated volunteer who agrees to donate a pint of blood for preparing a national stockpile of #covid HIG will receive a $100 gift certificate from Amazon, which has profited enormously from this pandemic google.com/amp/s/www.broo…
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30 Jan
Actually no, the research for our vaccines is supported exclusively by nonprofit foundations and the @NIH. We receive zero pharma dollars or industry support.

The antivaccine lobby, that’s another story, follow their PAC, industry, special interest funding, how they spend it
It will make your head spin
For example: google.com/amp/s/www.wash…
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