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22 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Many thanks ⁦@AlisynCamerota⁩ ⁦@JohnBerman⁩ for hosting me ⁦@NewDay a little bit to smile about given we now have about one-half of the US population partially immune either from a single vaccination or recovery from previous infection, also good news from AZOx
It's now likely AZ will file for EUA with our FDA, that's important not only to have a 4th COVID19 vaccine in the US, but it's reaffirming for use of the vaccine globally. Remember we are depending on this one to become a workhorse vaccine for Latin America, possibly Africa.
In the meantime, our COVID19 numbers are not coming down due to the rise of the B.1.1.7 variant and the fact that America is traveling, 1 million people this weekend in airports, spring break, governors prematurely lifting restrictions. We're doing all we can to help the virus
FYI we joked a bit about the headphones, always happy to cut a record with John and Alisyn! The microphone makes me come in loud and clear and I just figure I'm there to provide life-saving information and help to get us all through this awful pandemic...

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20 Mar
My interview last night with ⁦@Yamiche⁩ on the ⁦@NewsHour⁩ pbs.org/newshour/show/…
And my three accompanying recent papers. The first:

In @PLOSBiology @PLOS entitled "Anti-Science Kills"

"Without science, democracy has no future."
Maxim Gorky, April 1917

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
The second, also in @PLOSBiology @PLOS on the need for scientists to expand their role in science communications and public outreach
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
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16 Mar
1/5: Many thanks ⁦@chucktodd⁩ for hosting me on ⁦@MeetThePress⁩ discussing a globalizing antiscience antivaccine movement and it’s far reaching effects
2/5 it first accelerated out of Texas in 2015, which is when I began confronting it. It linked to the Tea Party forming antivaccine Antiscience PACs, and then spread into other red states. This explains new findings that 1/3 US population is vaccine hesitant mostly from the Right
3/5 this helps to explain why we’re seeing Fox anchors push antivaccine tropes in the last couple of weeks, also Great Barrington links to antivaccine groups. Doing my best to go on Conservative news outlets to head it off.
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15 Mar
Many thanks ⁦@EricaRHill⁩ ⁦@JohnBerman⁩ for hosting me on ⁦@NewDay⁩ discussing a third poll result showing high #covid19 vaccination hesitancy among the Republican Party. How did we get to this place and what should we do? Here’s my thinking and approach
First, it’s history. In 2015 the antivaccine movement re-energized by linking to the Republican Tea Party, accelerating under a “health freedom” banner and the formation of antivax PACs in especially here in Texas, some other Western States
Then in 2020 what was an antivaccine movement expanded its remit to protests against masks and social distancing to become a full on antiscience movement, mostly in Red States. Defying masks, distancing, and Covid vaccines become linked to political allegiances to the Rs
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10 Mar
The irony: The Putin-led Russian Government and their systematic program of weaponized health communication is a major element of the global Antiscience empire killing thousands, targeting me...now they’re shocked it has come back to bite them in the ass nytimes.com/live/2021/03/0…
As my dad Eddie Hotez used to say, “couldn’t happen to a nicer group of fellas”. Here’s my article in @PLOSBiology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
Through their deliberate and targeted Antiscience disinformation campaign Russia has destabilized global security and the economy. They deserve only condemnation by the UN Security Council
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6 Mar
For those interested on how America came to burn face masks, I've just written a brief history of the deadly health freedom movement in the US in @jclinicalinvest

"America's deadly flirtation with anti-science and the medical freedom movement"

jci.org/articles/view/…
It builds on my years of experience going up against the ringleaders of these Antiscience movement as outlined in my 2018 book jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/vaccines…
And further contextualized in my newest book:
Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science @JHUPress as recently highlighted on @CNN Image
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6 Mar
1/5: So something I’ve not said but I I think should be said goes like this:

In 2020, the Trump White House unleashed a devastating deliberate antiscience disinformation campaign that cost thousands of American lives. I’ve written about this @PLOSBiology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
The point being in the past there was a deliberate disinformation campaign. That’s now that’s thankfully gone. So when @DrLeanaWen @ashishkjha @JReinerMD @CarlosdelRio7 @arimoin @VinGuptaMD @PeterHotez we ask for clarification from White House CDC or even if we criticize...
It’s not the same thing. All of us are speaking constantly to colleagues to figure a way out of this pandemic, and we have different perspectives and concerns. There’s no precedent, we’re devastated at the loss of 500,000 Americans who lost their lives.
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