1/4 I have some concerns about today's White House announcement:

1. 400 million donated vaccine doses is nothing much to brag about, @biological_e and our @TexasChildren's Vaccine Center alone has already produced 250 million doses.

cnn.com/2022/01/26/pol…
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2. Lack of situational awareness that we need 6-9 billion vaccine doses for the African Continent, Latin America & Caribbean Region, and Southeast Asia.
3/4

3. By failing to vaccinate the world's low-income countries we should except another variant of concern to emerge and ultimately spread across Texas and the Southern US by this summer.
4/4

4. We should not expect omicron to provide any sort of durable protection, we don't know about durability of mRNA boosters, and have no surveillance in place to know what the next variant will be
Bottom Line: Same as it ever was, there appears to be no overarching strategy or global plan. Just react to situations and figure it out then...

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Jan 23
At a minimum this Wash DC rally makes clear the real nature of the antivaccine movement and their white nationalist and nazi leanings. If you have any doubts, here are some examples from 2021 (TRIGGER WARNING: Offensive beyond belief):
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Jan 22
Early 7AM Eastern start @MSNBC tomorrow AM @LindseyReiser re: the tragic Sunday antivaccine rally in Wash DC rally led by ne’er-do-wells, mostly unaccomplished men who couldn’t organize their lives, desperate for relevance much as Hannah Arendt reported en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origi…
This march tomorrow is a sanitized future of authoritarian totalitarian aggression in America, and we must recognize it for what it is, forces similar to January 6
And the fact that they’re working to destabilize our nation at the same time that Putin and Russia amass troops ordinance supply chains along the Ukraine border. These are not patriots.
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Jan 21
I’m very concerned about this weekend’s antivaccine rally in Wash DC. It will be a culmination of growing ties between antivaccine groups + far right political extremists which really accelerated (1st here in Texas) about 7 years ago. See my attached links washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/…
I first wrote about this in @PLOS @PLOSMedicine in 2016 journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…
Then in 2017 I warned the nation through an article I wrote in @nytimes nytimes.com/2017/02/08/opi…
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Jan 17
Yes we’re trying, we’re receiving many emails each day from those saying they won’t take mRNA but will ours because of their familiarity with the yeast technology, similar to the recomb hepatitis B vaccine given to children and adults in US for decades + it’s a vegan vaccine…
Problem is the US Govt Covid vaccine strategy is built entirely around mRNA and support for pharma companies, so in this current environment we don’t have entry for the US. Even though I think our vaccine could help to close the vaccine equity gap. But it’s a tough space in US
We’ve even received pleas from US military commanders saying our vaccine could help prevent attrition among recruits, but we would need help and interest from the US Govt
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Jan 8
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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Jan 7
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
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