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3 Oct, 8 tweets, 5 min read
Being asked about some of my pre-pandemic articles warning about the the rise of the antivaccine lobby and links to political extremism on the right. Will post a few in this thread. This one from @PLOS @PLOSMedicine in 2016 journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…
A few months later in @nytimes in 2017 nytimes.com/2017/02/08/opi…
Also in 2017 @TexasMonthly texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
My @TexasMonthly @Andylanger podcast in 2018 texasmonthly.com/podcast/peter-…
My @sciam article in 2017 blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/wil…
Another @PLOSMedicine in 2018 journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…
2018 in @voxdotcom vox.com/science-and-he…
A nice summary in @HoustonChron @LisaGray_HouTX houstonchronicle.com/life/article/P…

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3 Oct
1/4 Many thanks @PamelaBrownCNN for hosting me this Sunday evening. I said we need to be careful about optimistic COVID19 projections on the Sunday AM talk shows today, here’s what I’m thinking:
2/4 First at this time last year we were also declining from our Southern surge and things we’re looking up. But then after Halloween 2020 our deadliest surge of all, the third surge began to accelerate in Nov Dec
3/4 I’m staring in horror in what’s now happening in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, hearing first hand from @mtosterholm what’s happening there. I worry that’s the tip of the spear for the fall surge
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3 Oct
Death toll resulting from the ivermectin-antimask-antivaccine antiscience aggression launched by the political right, conservative news outlets, even elected members of US Congress, red state Gov’s in 2020-21 will haunt our nation for years, if not decades nytimes.com/2021/10/03/us/…
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1 Oct
Blue-Red? More like blue-gray. In this summer delta wave, COVID19 has so far affected mainly affected the Confederacy with deaths mostly among unvaccinated in defiance of vaccines. The most self-defeating act I’ve ever personally witnessed. All victims of antiscience aggression
This morning I will speak with @AliVelshi @VelshiMSNBC about reaching out terrible 700,000 US death toll from COVID19. Will emphasize how we had the tools to stop this much earlier, and avert maybe the last 200,000 deaths. But we failed to take antiscience aggression seriously
I’ve written a series of articles about this in @PLOSBiology @sciam @jclinicalinvest that make the following case: antiscience aggression is well organized, well funded, and a deliberate/essential element of authoritarian control and power from the right journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
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1 Oct
1/5 Many thanks @JohnBerman @brikeilarcnn for hosting me @NewDay on breaking news that the Merck & co drug molnupiravir looking promising as a small molecule antiviral drug for Rx of COVID19 to reduce hospitalizations and deaths. Merck applying for EUA. Exciting but some caveats
2/5 first good news that drug was developed as a ribonucleoside inhibitor @EmoryUniversity @GeorgiaStateU for influenza to interfere with virus replication, unlike ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine this one actually makes sense that it could work vs COVID19 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
3/5 one concern that it introduces virus mutations or potential mutagenic probably means it won’t be recommended in pregnancy. I seem to remember my good colleague @RickABright had a concern about this drug when he was at BARDA so maybe he can comment. Also important to remember
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30 Sep
Many thanks ⁦@NicolleDWallace⁩ for hosting me @DeadlineWH with ⁦@jemelehill⁩ (really an honor to be on with you Jemele!) on statements from ⁦@NBA⁩ stars on why they won’t vaccinate or why it’s a “personal choice” here’s why I pushed back on their statements…
First, we're losing 2,000 American lives to COVID-19 daily, it's a leading cause of death in the US, almost all deaths among the unvaccinated, we're in one of the worst public health crises in US history...
Second, I spend every waking hour I'm not in the lab/lab meetings for our vaccine, convincing people to vaccine. On Sat AM I went on @officialKTSU909 the radio station of Houston's HBCU, Sun Night with @DZCofield, Wed AM @newsmax, today speaking at the Latino Health Summit..
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28 Sep
This is not correct, individuals who become infected with COVID19 and recover exhibit highly variable levels of protective immunity vs reinfection. Some have protection, others very little or none. If you are infected and recovered, it’s still important for you to get vaccinated.
For instance, if you remember when we were looking at the convalescent (infected and recovered) sera controls in the mRNA vaccination studies, there was tremendous variability/heterogeneity in virus neutralizing antibodies nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Then the Nussenzweig’s group @RockefellerUniv published in @nature that those who were infected but then vaccinated developed really robust responses, with even epitope broadening to make you resilient vs variants nature.com/articles/s4158…
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