I don’t pretend to know the inside baseball, but to me Dr Walensky is not getting the help she needs to fix the epic fails at CDC - change management at a fed agency requires the WH, also compensate for invisible leadership at DHHS. Now this, it’s unfair cnn.com/2022/01/07/pol…
I’ve never worked in government, but this situation has a sad familiarity in my 40 years working at academic health centers. We throw women leaders under the bus at the first opportunity
And watch out for those media consultants. They often try to script you, take away any vestige left of authenticity. I’m no expert, but I’ve seen is how the American people value 1) smarts, 2) sincerity, 3) compassion, 4 ) authenticity. Once you get away from that, you’re done
If I were advising Dr Walensky I would recommend she emphasize her strengths as a leader in clinical infectious diseases, talk about the illness, talk about her concerns as a parent, get out of those awful blue boxes and austere background like some dystopian Hollywood Squares

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8 Jan
And not only Finland. Yet another reason I worry about all this “let it rip” omicron talk, with premature claims about it causing mild illness, especially for children…some attached tweets for thought reuters.com/article/us-hea…
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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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4 Jan
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
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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
LMICs = low- and middle-income countries
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