Thread by @anongeniusimmi1

1.@wkamaubell @drdrew Unlike you I don’t have a @KeckMedUSC #MD but I’ve known that #Vaccines are needed to travel internationally since I was 4. In 1959 my father had several vaccines. These left scars which were noticeable until he died in 2009. I don’t have the records for...

https://twitter.com/wkamaubell/status/1379149811983654912

2. these but I know how the #SalazarDictatorship worked. I’m sure that my father had to provide his vaccine records to leave #Portugal to go work in #Angola. His scars weren't enough proof. I’ve known about the #InternationalCertificateOfVaccination since I was 8 bc......

3. my parents, sister & I were each issued 1 to proof that we had gotten the #SmallpoxVaccine in order to immigrate here. We also had to have lung x-rays to proof we didn’t have TB. Here are pictures of mine from 1963:

4. Along with our passport, we had to show these @USEmbPortugal before getting our #ImmigrationVisas, @SEF_Portugal before boarding #PanAmAirlines & immigration @BostonLogan before entering the US. In 1973 I was an exchange student w/@AFS to #Japan. I had to get a 2nd.....

5. #InternationalCertificateOfVaccination to proof I had gotten the required vaccines in order to get a #StudentVisa to enter Japan. And when I was a travel agent I had to inform my clients about the need for vaccinations when they travelled internationally! So instead of.....

6. reinventing the wheel, let’s use the certificate already in existence or the #IATATravelPass an app to store & manage #Covid-19 tests or vaccines. @drdrew you’ve already had to apologize for getting #Covid wrong & suggesting that...
iata.org/en/programs/pa…

7. “it was a press-induced panic.” I remember you on #CNN talking about addiction. Perhaps you should stick to that topic rather than try to support the pundits on @FoxNews & other #CovidDeniers! usatoday.com/story/entertai…

8. If “experts” like you & pundits didn’t misinform us about Covid we wouldn’t have so many who won’t take the #CovidVaccine. I'm a #ResponsibleCitizen & #BelieveInScience. So I #WearADamnMask, etc. For my safety & that of others I've no issue showing evidence that I've gotten...

9. both doses of the #PfizerVaccine to be able to travel domestically or internationally! I’ve already been denied seeing my mother for the last 7 months of her life. I'll do what is needed to visit her only surviving sibling, my 84 yr old uncle, in Portugal as soon as I can!

10. Had you done your research before making such an absurd statement, you’d have found international travelers have needed a certificate of vaccination for years in order to enter other countries. See the Inform Yourself About Vaccinations section here:
travel.state.gov/content/travel…

11. Had you searched further you would have found that #USImmigrationLaw still “requires immigrant visa applicants to obtain certain vaccinations prior to the issuance of an immigrant visa.” For a list of the vaccinations immigrants need see:
travel.state.gov/content/travel…

12. @drdrew You must stop w/the #Misinformation! And had you looked some more you would have found this interesting article published on March 29th:

usnews.com/news/health-ne…

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