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28 Apr, 6 tweets, 4 min read
1/5 Many thanks ⁦@JohnBerman⁩ ⁦@drsanjaygupta⁩ for hosting me on @AC360 tonight discussing the 3 major sources of antivaccine disinformation in US:
2/5: well funded and organized antivaccine groups, with 58 million followers according to the @CCDHate
3/5: the conservative lobby that began as Republican Tea Party PACs in South Central US TX OK now becoming mainstream in the GOP as evidenced by nighttime anchors on conservative cable networks defiant of vaccines and masks
4/5 The Russian Government under President Putin with his program of weaponized health communication designed to discredit Western vaccines in favor of Sputnik V and destabilize democracies
5/5 these are the 3 pillars of growing and globalizing antiscience empire, which I wrote about today in @nature

nature.com/articles/d4158…
6/6 and many thanks @JohnBerman @drsanjaygupta @AC360 for highlighting the book tonight! @JHUPress @JohnsHopkins

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27 Apr
1/3 Many thanks ⁦@jaketapper⁩ for hosting me ⁦@TheLeadCNN⁩ re: revised CDC guidelines. I indicated that I don’t have a specific problem with them, but they are not properly contextualized and placed in the context of a roadmap or continuum.
2/3 the way to do that is articulate what nation looks like by summer if approach full vaccination, meaning 20% of country under the age of 12 and ineligible because of age, and 80% adults/adolescents. The. transmission declines dramatically, we get back to 2019 style life
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26 Apr
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
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25 Apr
Deeply appreciate ⁦@nytimes⁩ ⁦@nytopinion⁩ Editors for your enthusiastic support of our low cost ($1.50) COVID19 “people’s vaccine” now going into phase 3 trials, and being scaled to 1 billion doses. We need support for another 4-5 billion. nytimes.com/2021/04/24/opi…
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19 Apr
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.
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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…
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16 Apr
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
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