Well deserved congratulations to these human rights advocates from Belarus 🇧🇾 Ukraine 🇺🇦 Russia 🇷🇺. Both @mebottazzi and I profoundly grateful for this year’s #NobelPeacePrize2022 nomination and to @RepFletcher + staff for their support to promote global vaccine equity/diplomacy
Our @TexasChildrens@BCM_TropMed patent free Covid vaccine technology through @biological_e Corbevax has now reached 73 million children in India 🇮🇳 and millions of adults. In Indonesia 🇮🇩 20 million doses Indovac from @biofarmaID authorized last week as a unique Halal vaccine.
We hope to reach 100 million Covid vaccine doses in multiple nations by year’s end + potentially @WHO PQ. And that’s just the start as we accelerate a new low cost universal Covid vaccine for global health in addition to our parasitic neglected disease vaccines in clinical trials
In parallel I will continue my fight vs rising antivaccine activism and aggression (much of it based here in Texas) that killed an estimated 200,000+ Americans in 2021-22 and now threatens our entire global vaccine ecosystem pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35915141/
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1/4 Here’s the latest on our @TexasChildrens@BCM_TropMed recombinant protein COVID19 vaccine technology, licensed (patent-free) to India 🇮🇳 and Indonesia 🇮🇩
2/4 India 🇮🇳 where the vaccine is known as Corbevax produced by @biological_e 72.8 million doses administered so far to kids 12-14 according to India Ministry of Health mohfw.gov.in/pdf/Cummulativ… and 6-10 million adult boosters. @WHO PQ pending
3/4 in Indonesia 🇮🇩 where the vaccine is known as IndoVac received recently EUA and now Halal certification for Muslim majority countries. 20 million doses manufactured so far en.antaranews.com/news/253461/bi…
1/10 Thread on some of my key Covid talking points/messages as we head deeper into the fall and ultimately winter for the US (in no particular order)…
2/10 We’re still losing around 400 Americans per day from Covid. And yes they’re dying from Covid, ignore the “with Covid” BS nonsense from the Covid deniers
3/10 Also many more cases of severe Covid which places you at greatest risk for longCovid: it’s not only about deaths.
My concern about the malaria vaccine is an increasing level of distrust as cited in this article. My premise: some or most of the distrust now derives from US antivaccine activism and aggression as highlighted in the two articles I append to this tweet nytimes.com/2022/10/04/hea…
1/3 From my perspective, the @NFL concussion issue comes down to some simple formulas in physics: momentum = mass X velocity, while kinetic energy is 1/2 mass X velocity squared.
2/3 if you look back when the NFL began you had guys who were maybe 5’9” and weighted 160-170 lbs and ran with some speed but now you have a 6’7” 300 lbs defensive lineman conditioned to run at even faster speeds
3/3 so now the quarterback collisions or wide receiver collisions are massive maybe with 2 or 3 times the kinetic energy compared to when the NFL began, and hence far more injury and neurological events. The game must change to reflect these new generation giant super athletes
1/2 Two thirds of U.S. adults don't plan on getting COVID boosters soon - FYI I hope to have the opportunity to work with federal and state governments to fix this. I recently got my bivalent booster and believe it’s absolutely essential. The reason… reuters.com/world/us/two-t…
2/2…with mRNA, declining protection vs hospitalization over time since your last booster. Once you are more than 4-5 months out protection declines significantly, and not just for infection but for hospitalization as well. In attached tweet(s) will present some data
Although some noise and scatter, and still preliminary and unpublished, and we need more info, my interpretation is that overall booster protection against BA.1/4/5 declines over time vs hospitalization and boosting helps
3. Honoraria for grand round lectures either by zoom or in person: about $3,000 maybe a little more or less
4. My single author books with academic presses: around $10,000
So total maybe around $13,000 for thousands of hours of pandemic help for the world..
My impression from the far right: since it’s all about the grifting, they just assume that like their leaders on the take, others are the same. Sorry to disappoint…