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Jan 30 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Today is #WorldNTDDay #worldntdday2022 in 2005 we wrote the first papers using the term "neglected tropical diseases" indexed in PubMed, creating a list of 12 diseases + opportunity to bundle them in a "rapid-impact" package of essential medicines that now reach >1 billion/yr
The first papers were published in @PLOSMedicine (because @PLOSNTDs did not yet exist) and I remember how we worked with @GYamey to organize them. journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…
Ultimately we worked with the @PLOS team and Dr. David Brandling-Bennett at @GatesFoundation to launch @PLOSNTDs journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…
Here is the inaugural paper launching @PLOSNTDs in 2007 journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…
It also coincided with our first major paper on NTDs describing a new NTDs ecosystem in @NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

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Jan 26
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.
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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.
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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…
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
bmj.com/content/374/bm…
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