Many thanks ⁦@GeoffRBennett⁩ for hosting me with ⁦@ChrisJansing⁩ ⁦@shaqbrewster⁩ as FDA VRBPAC meets on 3rd immunizations. In addition to Israel data ⁦⁦@NEJM⁩, today ⁦@CDCMMWR⁩ published declines of Pfizer vaccine effectiveness vs hospitalizations
Here’s the data today from @CDCMMWR showing decline vs hospitalizations for Pfizer BioNTech after 120 days down to 77%. That’s a problem cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
Also we’re discussing a problem with the State of #Idaho. In 2018 we published in @PLOSMedicine the high rates of childhood vaccinations due to strong antivaccine sentiments and phony health freedom ideologies, and now this continues with COVID19 among the lowest vaccinations
#Washington Governor @GovInslee @JayInslee is right to be upset that now his hospitals are being overrun with #Idaho COVID19 patients who refuse vaccinations because of fake health freedom ideologies and lack of leadership for vaccine advocacy in Idaho, among the worst nationally

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19 Sep
We’re now hitting 2,000 deaths per day and looks like COVID19 will once again become the leading cause of death on a daily basis in America. By Mon Tues this week we’ll likely exceed the number of Americans who died in the 1918-21 flu pandemic (675,000) nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Here’s where that 675,000 1918 flu pandemic number comes from, the CDC cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-r…
An important difference of course: in 1918 we had no effective flu vaccine, but now we have 3 highly effective and safe COVID19 vaccines. But since May >100,000 Americans unnecessarily lost their lives because they chose not to get vaccinated. They fell victim to…
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19 Sep
So here it is: Since April 100,000 unvaccinated Americans needlessly lost their lives to Covid despite widespread availability of safe effective vaccines. They were defiant succumbing to gross antiscience aggression from the political right, a disgusting “health freedom” movement
But wait, it’s not over. Another 100,000 will lose their lives by December. This is death by political antiscience. Deaths because hanging onto authoritarian control power by political forces on the right were more important than sanctity of human life journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
And now they are moving onto V.2.0 targeting American scientists, journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
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12 Sep
So I’ve been thinking non stop on this: to preserve our republic (FYI we’re a republic not a democracy) our founding fathers intentionally created a dynamic tension between the federal government and the states. It’s worked more or less for 250 years, but now there is a standoff
Someway somehow we have to find a way to build rapprochement to vaccinate the nation. The @POTUS fired a salvo with federal mandates which I support. But it will only get us so far. Without our Governors we can’t achieve the 85% vaccination coverage to save the nation from COVID
And that’s what it comes down to. We need the great compromise. The default is untenable: delta variant will continue accelerating among our defiant unvaccinated. Like a hurricane over 90 degree waters I said on @CNN this Am, until we inexorably head to 800,000 or 1 million dead
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11 Sep
Death by antiscience aggression. Since April antiscience aggression, defiance of vaccines despite their availability, has murdered 100,000 Americans. More than global terrorism, cyberattacks, nuclear proliferation. And yet we refuse as a nation to implement measures to halt it
I warned that it was imminent at the beginning of this year in January @PLOS @PLOSBiology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
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10 Sep
Many thanks ⁦@GeoffRBennett⁩ for hosting me today ⁦@KatyOnMSNBC⁩ I made the point that if we’re going to halt Covid transmission in America, we must vaccinate at least 85% of US population, that 90-100 million more Americans, given Ro of the delta variant. Here’s how:
While federal mandates are essential they won’t be adequate. Getting to that last 100 million for example will require school mandates outside the reach of the federal govt. It will also require FDA approvals for school-aged children
But ultimately I don’t see how we get close the gap fully without cooperation of the red state governors. This is a tough situation given how the governors are dug in and the disinformation is rampant. We must both dismantle the disinformation empire and somehow chart a path to..
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10 Sep
1/3: Our @TexasChildrens Center for Vaccine Development @BCM_TropMed is developing a vaccine against this organism, the cause of female genital schistosomiasis, an affliction of 40 million girls and women who live in extreme poverty in Africa
2/3: details on FGS in our 2019 @NEJM article. FGS causes genital pain, bleeding, infertility, social stigma, marital discord, depression, adolescent girls inappropriately accused of sexual promiscuity. FGS = major cofactor in acquiring HIV AIDS in Africa
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
3/3: Our vaccine is in phase 2 clinical trials in Africa and Brazil, the phase 1 for safety was done here at @bcmhouston (link below) we’ve also received in kind manufacturing advice from @MilliporeSigma But all our vaccines through nonprofit sector
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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