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Apr 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
What puzzles me: with all those $billions to spend, why Twitter of all things? He loves space flight so why not instead build a great cosmology/physics institute with a Texas U, or new telescope, an institute for our @TXMedCenter or expand STEM education? houstonchronicle.com/news/article/T…
Bottom line: there are so many interesting and game-changing things he could pursue…
These social media platforms for me are mostly flashes in the pan, when there are opportunities to do things that are much more enduring and could either address pressing humanitarian crises or uplift the human spirit.
I thought @ladygaga said it best when she declared “social media the toilet of the internet”. So I ask why invest billions in a toilet, when those funds could build great scientific institutions, research universities or address humanity’s gravest issues?
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Apr 3
Been working on a manuscript with our Lancet Commission on vaccinating to prevent longCovid. I feel as though longCovid is still relegated to some dark corner of the public discourse. My opinion: we should do the opposite, provide an honest assessment of long Covid disabilities
For me the Oxford study comparing brain 🧠 scans before and after Covid, which was on @medrxivpreprint for a year but finally published was a wake up call to conduct widespread neurodevelopmental assessments on kids and adults nature.com/articles/s4158…
If it were up to me, I would be mobilizing teams of psychiatrists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, social workers, and other mental health benefits professionals to get ready for this, not to mention a national discussion with hospital systems, 3rd party payers, insurers…
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Apr 2
Stories like this one inspire our ⁦@TexasChildrens⁩ Center for Vaccine Development to develop our vaccine and now immunize India vs COVID19. We’re not done, we have other countries like Botswana + other vaccines for Chagas’ disease, schistosomiasis nytimes.com/2022/04/02/opi…
In 2006, I began referring to our vaccines as “Antipoverty Vaccines” for their potential to not only improve public health but also lift people out of extreme poverty sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Then I began a quest to develop these vaccines jointly with other nations in programs of “Vaccine Diplomacy” to promote peace between nations journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…
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Apr 1
Who will defend embattled scientists? My opinion article in ⁦@BostonGlobe⁩ bostonglobe.com/2022/01/27/opi…
scientificamerican.com/article/the-an…
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
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Mar 30
I really detest these far right dog whistles or foghorns. I never said anything about lockdowns. NPIs mean non-pharmaceutical interventions, which include, masks, diagnosis and contact tracing, hand-washing and a range of other measures as promoted by the @CDCgov
And there it goes…
And so forth (even though we don’t take industry money, and we made a low-cost Covid global health vaccine for low-income countries with no patent restrictions)
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Mar 17
1/3. Pfizer seeks FDA authorization for fourth COVID vaccine doses for people 65 and up: to help clarify this situation, i emphasize the following: abc7.com/pfizer-booster…
2/3 first what is the goal of boosting is it 1) to prevent hospitalization and ICU admissions, 2) prevent emergency room visits, 3) to infection, 4) prevent longCovid. Currently our national policy focuses mainly on hospitalization and most experts agree with this, but…
3/3 but I’m a bit of an outlier and want it all, I don’t want longCovid brain degeneration/cognitive decline.
I don’t want an ER visit for Covid: I find that somewhere between dreary and terrifying. @CDCMMWR shows protection declines 4 mos after 3 doses cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
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Mar 6
The US is at 957,000 Covid deaths, at a current rate of 1,500 deaths/day we’ll hit 1 million deaths by end of this month/April. Roughly 1/3 of those deaths after Covid vaccines were made widely available 10 mos ago, I estimate 250,000 American deaths from vaccine defiance/refusal
Vaccine refusal is now one of the leading killers of young and middle aged adults in America. As studies from @KFF @charles_gaba @pewresearch @nytimes @DLeonhardt @NPR show these “red Covid” deaths over last 10 months occur in a sharp partisan divide nytimes.com/2021/09/27/bri…
Here’s latest from @charles_gaba
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