Many thanks ⁦@tomkeene⁩ ⁦@FerroTV⁩ ⁦@lisaabramowicz1⁩ for hosting me on ⁦@BloombergTV⁩ discussing events with JnJ vaccine why it’s on hold and the possible mechanisms of blood clots from adenovirus vectored vaccines, JnJ, AZOx, we don’t know about Russian
Based on AZOX another adenovirus vaccine, this class of replication deficient viral vectored vaccines can stimulate anti PF4 antibodies. PF4 found in platelet granules. This activated platelets, causes platelets consumption, and then thrombotic thrombocytopenia.
Rates about 1 per 100,000 to 200,000 for AZOx, 1 per million for JnJ, we don’t know about Russian adenovirus vaccine since it bypasses stringent regulatory authorities
Decisions nations makes may depend on availability of other COVID19 vaccines. Complicating this is the antivaccine aggression from US antiscience groups and the Putin Russian Government seeking to discredit Western vaccines according to US UK intelligence
Africa and Latin America right now are mostly dependent on adenovirus vaccines: AZOx JnJ Russian. We’re accelerating a different approach, a recombinant protein vaccine with @biological_e in India 🇮🇳 accelerating 1.2 billion doses

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14 Apr
My best guess is that the recent heightened antiscience antivaccine aggression targeting Me, Tony, Vivek and deliberate twisting we see nightly on Fox News programming has little to do with any particular anchor. It’s an executive decision from higher ups thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson…
Why the Murdoch gang wishes to go in this direction and work against American interests is unclear to me, I could guess on the basis of ratings competition, need to rebrand, create new think-tank identity around discredited ideas or pseudoscience, caving to foreign influence?
All conjecture until someone internally comes forward
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12 Apr
This conservative strawman is a bit ridiculous. Here's the way it is:
1) If we can fully vaccinate the US population we will return to something very close to normalcy by summer..
2) by that time restaurants, concerts, ball games, likely without masks...
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10 Apr
Tonight on ⁦@PamelaBrownCNN⁩ I explained that emerging data finds that all of the US COVID19 vaccines work well vs the B.1.1.7 variant now accelerating across the country. The other variants having an additional E484K mutation, not so much, but..
But these other variants of concern for now are of secondary importance to B.1.1.7 in the US. Later the E484K VOCs from South Africa or Brazil may become an issue in the US and for that except one-time boosters later this year or in 2022.
In the meantime all attention must focus on B.1.1.7 now making young people sick, that’s why expanded EUA for adolescents 12-15 yo is important. Last time VRBPAC was not unanimous about the 16 and 17 year olds, we’ll see how they feel about adolescents
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10 Apr
1/4: Interesting observation: New Hampshire leads the nation in COVID19 immunizations, almost one-half of the population has received a single dose of vaccine, yet the cases continue to rise, currently one of the most affected areas of the US. Some hypotheses why:
2/4: is it because most of the jabs are in older population, so that transmission still rampant among younger groups? Interesting that deaths down but hospitalizations still significant
3/4 Or a single dose dose doesn’t do much in terms of halting transmission, that requires full immunization with 2 doses?
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9 Apr
1/5: The words of the “health freedom” antiscience disinformation lobby. Let’s take this apart....
2/5: 1) There are no deaths resulting from the US COVID19 vaccination program. VAERS data is grossly misunderstood and deliberately misinterpreted
3/5: Part of the Trump White House disinformation campaign that ramped up around this time last year, artificially reduced mortality rates from COVID19 by falsely attributing the deaths to the comorbidities rather than the virus infection. This was amplified by the political R
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9 Apr
Periodically I RT @AuschwitzMuseum the most important Twitter to follow. My grandfather Morris Goldberg escaped the Jewish Quarter in Paris, Rue de Rosiers ahead of this, those left behind were sent to Drancy. Read “Last of the Just” Schwarz-Bart. Montreal Canada welcomed him
He said Maurice, we said Morris, but many called him Moishe. A great man, lived until his 90s, street smarts, uneducated formally but smart as hell, loved the @CanadiensMTL as do I to this day, and his Philip Morris cigarettes, oh well...
Some asked where did “Hotez” come from. We don’t really know, my grandparents on my dad’s side were “Galitzianers” Austria 🇦🇹 Poland 🇵🇱 Ukraine 🇺🇦 Hungary 🇭🇺 depending on the war. Maybe originally possibly “Chodetz” or something like that.
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