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10 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Great new round of emails in the inbox this morning, I love Mondays...
And this of course
And this....
Also a heavy White Nationalist "calling on patriots" etc. and gun violence presence on the emails, some of which I'm not showing.

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11 May
That’s ridiculous @joshrogin I never said it doesn’t matter. I said we need an international team to investigate the origins in Hubei Province, collecting samples of blood from local animal reservoirs, people across a wider area. Also I said...
Also I said after the first pandemic CoV emerged from Southern China in 2002, we and others in the scientific community began working on coronavirus vaccines, because we knew this would not be the last. And we were right
The point is China is the perfect mixing bowl of animal reservoirs and dense human populations that gives rise to coronaviruses and influenza viruses, something known for a very long time
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11 May
For me one takeaway from this morning’s testimony: the US Govt has no overarching coherent COVID19 vaccine policy for global health: a few million dose donations here, some patent waiver action, but no comprehensive roadmap for vaccine diplomacy
Also I’m not hearing much of a plan for how to best combat vaccine refusal in order to reach the last mile and get the country fully vaccinated
I thought @US_FDA did a good job articulating how they worked to approximate the BLA during the emergency use process
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10 May
Lots of discussion about Tucker Carlson or Laura Ing. or other Fox News anchors. I have a slightly different view. I don’t think this is coming from any of them. This is an executive decision by Fox News and News Corps (have you seen WSJ Opinion lately?) to go full on antiscience
We have to understand better why? Is it as simple as a dog whistle to keep the 30 million together? Many identifying now as White Nationalists based on the broadside attack against me last wk. Or to fend off Newsmax or OAN? Or because of Putin Russian support? We just don’t know
But the public health consequences are just devastating. Have you seen the weekend vaccination numbers? Almost half in deep red states compared to blue blueish states. As a nation we can’t vaccinate our way out of this mess unless we can stop the antiscience aggression
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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:
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
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
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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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