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26 Apr

@morningmika

1/4 Many thanks ⁦@morningmika⁩ ⁦@JoeNBC⁩ @Morning_Joe⁩ for hosting me to discuss the urgency of helping India produce vaccines for itself and the fact that we’re relying on India to produce vaccines for Africa, Asia, Latin America

2/4 Right now we depend on Serum Institute in Pune to produce AZOx vaccine, Biological E to produce J&J vaccine and our recombinant protein vaccine, Bharat an inactivated virus vaccine, and now Sputnik V is being produced in India

3/4 Therefore yesterday’s US announcement of releasing export restrictions to India is welcome, as well support for BioE. We need US Government to reassert global leadership in vaccine diplomacy

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19 Apr

@SRuhle

Many thanks ⁦@SRuhle⁩ ⁦@RuhleOnMSNBC⁩ for hosting me on what we must do to halt virus transmission in America: we’re still only at 40% of the US population with a single dose, and given high transmissibility of B.1.1.7 UK and B.1.429 CA, that number must double

Unfortunately we won’t get there unless we can persuade the Conservative 1/3 of the nation to vaccinate. But 4 news polls: Kaiser, Texas A&M, Monmouth Univ, PBS NewsHour all point to “White Republicans” as the most vaccine refusing group.

And it doesn’t help that now the Nighttime Fox News anchors go on antivaccine rants and target scientists. This is self defeating and will delay our time when we can go without masks.

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18 Apr

A reason, when virus transmission is still high and especially with B.1.1.7 variant, I typically wear a mask in public or when with others. As we head towards greater vaccine coverage in US about 75% by June, transmission will slow and masks less essential cnn.com/2021/04/14/hea…

The way I see this unfolding: as we advance towards high vaccine coverage of adults and adolescents by summer virus transmission will finally decrease substantially and then vaccinated individuals can feel much safer without masks. But we’ll still need to be mindful...

We should be prepared for the possible seasonality of COVID19 so that in January 2022 we might need to re-mask for a period of a few weeks if transmission goes back up. It requires our situational awareness and following CDC public health recommendations and guidance

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16 Apr

@chucktodd

Many thanks ⁦@chucktodd⁩ for hosting me on ⁦@MeetThePress⁩ with ⁦@ellisonbarber⁩ discussing how we navigate issues around JnJ vaccine and urgency to vaccinate ahead of an accelerating B.1.1.7 variant

Presumably the pause is to compare notes with European and UK regulators for both adenovirus vectored vaccines AZOx and JnJ. I said possible outcome would be if we could identify a specific at risk population say premenopausal women with a second risk factor such as BC, smoking

Then in this case we could redirect JnJ away from this group. I also stated more philosophically that this is a predictable consequence of only focusing on innovative vaccine technologies. We made some great vaccines but introduced some unnecessary risks and as a consequence..

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16 Apr

1/3: Even when US donates excess doses, it will still be a drop in the bucket: we need 4-5 billion vaccine doses for 1.1 billion people in SubSaharan Africa, 650 million in Latin America, 500 million low income Asian countries, there’s a better solution... washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/…

@TexasChildrens

2/3: With Bio E in India, our low cost @TexasChildrens Baylor Vaccine is being scaled for 1.2 billion doses. We could work with US Govt to produce another 3 billion doses, this is a high expressing Pichia yeast recombprotein vaccine similar to hepatitis B vaccine used for decades

3/3: our CoV vaccine program was initially supported by NIAID NIH and for COVID19 through Kleberg, Tito’s, JPB Foundations. Expanding manufacturing, producing the 4-5 billion doses of a vaccine first developed here in Texas would = great vaccine diplomacy win for US Govt world

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16 Apr

https://twitter.com/fairy_garcia_/status/1382885991061544972

Apologies for disappointing you, my inbox is flooded with medical advice queries: I could answer them 24/7 and still not get to all of them. Honestly I’m not sure what to do, literally dozens every day, and each one requires thought, most provide incomplete information.

https://twitter.com/fairy_garcia_/status/1382885991061544972

Instead I try to go on as many grand round lectures, podcasts, radio call in shows as I can. Usually 4-5 per day, and I still have the lab meetings, and cable news interviews. Most days I’m up at 4:30 AM, asleep by 10:30 PM, a couple of extra hrs on weekends. Like this for 16 mos

In between, hundreds of emails to answer or triage. Many wonderful expressions of kindness, which mean a lot to me. But equal filled with hate and evil, especially from Q gang. Those are especially demoralizing, and they set me back. Sometimes I pause until my darkness lifts, or

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