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16 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The cost of fake health/medical freedom ideologies that seek to discredit vaccines, substitute ivermectin + other phony cures, and promote an aggressive antiscience from the political right. 90,000-100,000 deaths from antiscience this summer despite the availability of vaccines
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17 Oct
Love Dr Collins, but this interview he did not get quite right. It’s not that they underestimated. Since 2016 I’ve explained to HHS CDC in explicit detail what’s happening, how they pivoted from autism to a political movement on the right esp here in Texas, what will happen next
In response I was rebuked, told that “we’re not talking about this, it’s a just a fringe few, just a few squeaky wheels” paraphrase. So they were informed but they did not want to be bothered or were in total denial or…who knows. So I just put my thoughts in the public domain
In the following attached tweets I will provide a timeline of my articles and writings since 2016…
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17 Oct
I don't quite get what this discussion is about? If they said ivermectin is a "horse and other livestock dewormer" or it's also "for the treatment of some human worm infections such as onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis, but it doesn't work for COVID-19" ....then it's OK?
Because those are the indications for ivermectin, I should know I’ve written many of the papers on its global use for neglected parasitic infections going back >20 years nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
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17 Oct
Not so much advice, but what I try to do is to explain my underlying assumptions. There’s this old fashioned concept in science journalism that you talk to the American 🇺🇸 people like they’re in the 6th grade. I disagree and have found that Americans will tolerate complexity
Not many silver linings in this pandemic but I think one is that the American people don’t want to be patronized. They want scientists to speak to them like educated adults. That’s what I do, that’s what the HHS agencies never did, but now Drs Murthy, Walensky figured this out
My view: Biden made some really good choices for HHS leadership. They work hard, seek outside input, and they’re really nice kind compassionate people. No craziness, we’re in good hands. So when I get bumped from the cable news channels for one of them, it’s like “no problema”
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16 Oct
1/4 Many thanks ⁦@PamelaBrownCNN⁩ for hosting this Saturday evening as I clear up some confusion regarding the need for boosters for each of the three Covid vaccines being used in the US. Let’s start with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
2/4 For Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine the data from Israel shows clear waning immunity, which is not too surprising given that first two doses were given so close together, it acted like a primary immunization that falls off over time. Hence the need for a boost. I sketched this out
3/4 For Moderna not as much evidence for waning immunity, possibly because there is more mRNA in the vaccine + it was spaced initially an extra wk apart (just speculation). For many vaccines usually one waits for a decline in antibody for a boost, so "walk don't run" less urgency
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14 Oct
Many thanks to Brian Williams for hosting me on @11thHour making a few points tonight. First on the mix and match study published today I thought we should be careful about being too negative with the @JNJNews boost here’s why…
The original phase 1-2 studies published in @nejm were very promising with 2 doses giving very high neutralizing antibodies but with a delayed rise at 2-3 months, so by calling the study sooner you tend to bias against seeing the best effect nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Also JnJ vaccine induced strong CD8+ cellular responses which may also be important for long lasting protection clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/jj-covid-…
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12 Oct
Based on trajectories, our self-defeating vaccine defiance + health freedom rhetoric, by the end of 2021 Texas could overtake California to lead the nation in COVID19 deaths. It’s not too late to halt the death and destruction, but so far I’ve not seen much enthusiasm for this
Here are the @IHME_UW projections for Texas, placing us at around 80,000 deaths by the end of 2021. California pretty close, but of course California has a population of 40 million compared to Texas at 29 million covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-…
...in terms of hospitalizations, chronic disabilities, and deaths, COVID-19 has become one of the greatest humanitarian tragedies in the history of modern Texas.
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