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4 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Many thanks ⁦@SRuhle⁩ ⁦@RuhleOnMSNBC⁩ for hosting me on impact of omicron and why becoming infected will not offer durable immunity just as delta infection does not prevent omicron reinfection. However vaccinating on top of previous infection has major benefits Image
This includes potential epitope broadening to provide greater resilience against new variants. Bottom line, omicron infection is not a substitute for vaccination
A few papers, nature.com/articles/s4159…
webmd.com/lung/news/2021…

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6 Jan
1/6 Being asked my thoughts about what the post-omicron world looks like? Especially for the US. Always perilous to make pandemic predictions, but here are a few scenarios I'm looking at...
2/6 SCENARIO #1. Annual winter peaks. This was put forward by @mlipsitch and his @HarvardChanSPH team early in the pandemic, but I think it still holds up well. Arguably what's happening now is an example. Here's his 2020 paper from SCIENCE science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
3/6 SCENARIO #2. Happy endings. My view: The least plausible. It makes the case omicron = mild virus that infects everyone to establish global herd immunity. But we've learned how infection alone does not produce durable protection esp for upper resp CoVs nature.com/articles/s4159…
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2 Jan
Fyi, India is the furthest along but we’re also transferring our @TexasChildrens Covid vaccine technology, helping in the co development to additional countries listed here. Again, no patent or strings attached. The country vaccine producer gets to own the vaccine…
This means the vaccine producer works with its own national regulatory authority and WHO. If they ask for our additional help we provide it at our own expense. We’re not only vaccinating the world, we’re stopping the disgusting practices around science colonialism…so here we go
Bangladesh 🇧🇩 bcm.edu/news/baylor-co…
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31 Dec 21
Been doing a few end of year 'thank you' tweets. This one might surprise some:
Thanking the mainstream media - cable news, network news, major newspapers, smaller outlets - for actually working incredibly hard to get it right, providing accurate timely info about the pandemic
I've spent countless hours with reporters, anchors, producers, editors, bookers, explaining scientific findings, new info, and with very few exceptions, all have labored hard (many without science backgrounds) to make sure correct health information is provided to the public
So from my perspective, while everyone likes to complain about the "mainstream media", I believe in fact that mainstream media has saved thousands of lives both this year and last year. I consider them heroes.
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29 Dec 21
COVID-19 Vaccine doses for LMICs. Just looking to see how we compare this morning....

United States 316 million
@TexasChildrens @biological_e 300 million
Germany 175 million
France 120 million
UK 100 million
Japan 60 million
Canada 50 million
Spain 50 million
Italy 45 million
Refs:
kff.org/coronavirus-co…
zeenews.india.com/india/india-ap…
ourworldindata.org/grapher/covax-…
LMICs = low- and middle-income countries
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29 Dec 21
Many thanks ⁦@WillieGeist⁩ for hosting me ⁦@Morning_Joe⁩ explaining the challenges of opening schools in the northeast with a highly transmissible variant like omicron, and how we unfairly ask educators to create mini public health departments for testing/tracing
My premise is that we’ve depleted state and local health departments for two decades and now propose to kick the can down the road to the schools. We’re asking educators to get a crash doctoral degree in epidemiology. I think it will be really challenging for them to manage…
Also pointed out that while schools have managed in the past, it’s partly because the previous virus lineages are nothing like omicron. It will be like managing a measles outbreak, tough business
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28 Dec 21
Here’s our official announcement from @TexasChildrens @BCM_TropMed on our partnership with @biological_e to vaccinate the world beginning with this EUA in India 🇮🇳

texaschildrens.org/texas-children…
Here's why this is a BFD:
1. BioE now has 150 million doses ready now, and will be making 100 million per month.
2. In so doing our @TexasChildrens Vaccine Center has just matched or DOUBLED the US Government current commitment to global vaccine equity.
3. We technology transferred our vaccine and helped in its co-development with BioE with NO PATENT and no strings attached.
4. As a result it should be the least expensive COVID vaccine available yet
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