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4 May, 4 tweets, 3 min read
1/4 Many thanks ⁦@RuhleOnMSNBC⁩ ⁦@SRuhle⁩ for hosting me with ⁦@mollymhunter⁩ ⁦@stephgosk⁩ discussing the challenges of the US vaccinating internationally and nationally
2/4 globally US needs to shape a more coherent foreign policy and vaccine diplomacy framework, balancing the needs to support COVAX, India 🇮🇳 and the need to help vaccinate Canada 🇨🇦 and Mexico 🇲🇽 to slow virus transmission across North America, also our @TexasChildrens vaccine
3/4 In the US I’m concerned about a widening disparity across different states. The blue or blueish states in New England, NY, CA, NM now with 50% vaccine coverage, but deep red states GA AL TN LA ID WY under 35% we need greater outreach to conservative groups
4/4 I discuss some of these aspects in my new @thedailybeast article this AM

thedailybeast.com/forget-herd-im…

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4 May
Many thanks ⁦@AlisynCamerota⁩ ⁦@VictorBlackwell⁩ for hosting me following ⁦@POTUS⁩ remarks important to optimize access for those who want to get vaccinated. I was enthusiastic about his comments, but also there were a few elements missing, here they are: Image
1. The conservative lobby and four polls now showing that 40-50% of Republicans won’t get vaccinated. We must expand our outreach to conservative groups. Remember it’s not 70% of adults we must reach, it’s 70% of total population, and that means almost all adults
2. We’ll need to vaccinate Canada 🇨🇦 and northern Mexico 🇲🇽 to also halt virus transmission in the US. This means more than sending a few million AZOx doses
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4 May
Wow, right out of the antivaccine playbook, except more nuanced fine tuned. Diabolical: Fox News has recruited clever writers, with science backgrounds, to press their political agenda, discredit scientists, promote doubt and instability. The Murdoch’s pay better wages than Putin
So here’s the actual deal: as we worked to discredit fake antivaccine links to autism and with some success with my Rachel book, the antivaccine lobby needed a new thing. So they went after the HPV vaccine and made the same fake assertions about its links to reproductive health
They said HPV vaccine causes infertility and miscarriages and now copy paste that onto COVID19 vaccines. Remember what’s happening. Antivax forces are getting ready to draw a line in the sand against any approvals for adolescents 12-15 years old
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2 May
So I agree. We’re not looking out for our Canada 🇨🇦 brothers and sisters. I’m actually presenting tomorrow on this to an influential group. Vaccine metrics in Canada are awful. Canada has always been there for us through hard times and good, we must reciprocate.
It’s actually fucking ridiculous. The @POTUS should be up there with @CanadianPM @JustinTrudeau together announcing that all Canadian provinces will be afforded the same vaccine protection as US states. The Canadian people would never forget it and it’s in our own self interests
Honestly, we should do the same for Mexico and Central America, what’s happened to our humanity?
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29 Apr
No Ms. Wheeler, you are mistaken as was Joe. He was not informed about the shifting nature of the pandemic, how the variants are landing young adults in hospitals and ICUs. Also uninformed about high rates of long-haul COVID in young adults, many debilitated as a result.
cnbc.com/2021/04/16/cov…
cnn.com/2021/04/12/hea…
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28 Apr
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
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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
3/3 by summer life may get close to normal for many Americans. Between then and now the CDC should lay out a road map of gradually loosening restrictions as transmission declines. Right now at 50K new cases per day we’re at Summer 2020 levels, this decreases as we vaccinate >60%
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