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Vaccine Scientist-Author-Combat Antiscience @bcmhouston Professor Pediatrics Molecular Virology, @bcm_tropmed Dean, @TexasChildrens Chair in Tropical Pediatrics
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Mar 26 10 tweets 3 min read
1/n Our ⁦@TexasChildrens⁩ laboratory is rapidly accelerating a new human hookworm anemia vaccine for LMICs.

Fyi hookworm, malaria, yellow fever, dengue once common in East Texas (and in some cases returning). Here’s a hookworm map from early 1900s. Even Harris County, Image 2/n Image
Mar 19 14 tweets 4 min read
1/n There have been several papers out in the last few months examining or reviewing the PEDIATRIC disease burden of Covid + the benefits of vaccination, will summarize some of the key interesting ones from 2023-24 here in this thread, in some cases also a popular article on it Image 2/n pediatric covid deaths @JAMANetwork jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
Mar 12 7 tweets 2 min read
1/n Well he's right about one thing, follow the money. And he will find out how we develop low-cost neglected disease vaccines for global health. I think in my 40 years of this I've made less than $3,000 from our vaccines, nothing from interviews/podcasts...but guess who has? 2/n from @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02…
Mar 9 8 tweets 2 min read
1/n Trump Getting DESTROYED on Truth Social Over His Vaccine Post - ⁦@MeidasTouch⁩

To help people understand this phenomenon, it might be useful to look at each of the three major waves of COVID disinformation from 2020-2024. Will break it down…
meidastouch.com/news/trump-get… 2/n V.1.0 began in 2020 when health disinformation was used to avoid stay at home orders from governors + prevent oil prices from collapsing. That’s when the Trump WH/Fox News pushed the hydroxychloroquine nonsense + Great Barrington Declaration at AIER exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/22/how…
Mar 6 12 tweets 3 min read
1/n Infectious viral load in unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals infected with ancestral, Delta or Omicron SARS-CoV-2 | Nature Medicine nature.com/articles/s4159… 2/n medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
Mar 3 21 tweets 6 min read
1/n Thought I would update where we’re at in the U.S. in terms of Covid this March 3, 2024 and make some )(hopefully constructive) comments or offer my opinion on the CDC’s revised recommendations/guidance on COVID isolation Image 2/n First some potentially good news in that Covid hospitalizations seem to be declining significantly. The hope is that we are heading to the other side of this JN.1 wave Image
Feb 26 7 tweets 2 min read
1/n Measles cases continue growing in Florida. Two additional cases this morning. My periodic reminder that measles is a serious infection: 20% hospitalization, 10% measles otitis that in some cases leads to deafness, 5% life threatening measles pneumonia axios.com/2024/02/26/mea… 2/n also encephalitis and death. Here those numbers I graphically display with @billmarshnyt @nytimes compared with highly safe and effective (97% protection) MMR vaccine Image
Jan 18 6 tweets 2 min read
1/n The FL Governor is wrong. Boosters bump virus neutralizing antibodies and CD8+ T cells, they will help to keep you out of the hospital, reduce the likelihood of long COVID. Also from newer findings of the SARS-2 virus causing heart attacks, boosters may protect heart health 2/n I attach some papers. Here’s the one on CD8+ T cells nature.com/articles/s4159…
Jan 5 11 tweets 3 min read
1/n Many thanks ⁦@AliVelshi⁩ for having me on ⁦@MSNBC⁩ ⁦@WagnerTonight⁩ to discuss some puzzling and troubling public comments by the FL Surgeon General re: mRNA vaccines and his claims that contaminating DNA could or will cause cancer. Here’s why he’s wrong… Image 2/n first of all the DNA 🧬 he’s talking about are not genes or oncogenes, they are small fragments of DNA
Jan 3 4 tweets 1 min read
This one = head scratcher. Even if mRNA vaccines are contaminated with nano-femto-quantities of DNA, getting it into human cells is really difficult, needing electroporation to pass it through both outer membrane + nuclear membrane? A reason why we have no licensed DNA vaccines? I usually ignore the FL Surgeon General or his boss the FL Governor when it comes to vaccines. They seem to have an agenda and it's not public health. Right now the JN.1. variant is accelerating + new XBB annual immunization is showing benefit keeping people out of the hospital
Jan 3 4 tweets 2 min read
1/n. Vaccinations to prevent long COVID Yet another reason to get your new annual Covid immunization. This in @sciam Will attach our previous paper on this topic as well as a new @medrxivpreprint specific to this annual immunization. 2/n this from our group almost 2 years ago insights.bio/vaccine-insigh…
Dec 26, 2023 12 tweets 3 min read
1/n Well-Being Parameters and Intention to Leave Among Academic Physicians | New from ⁦@JAMANetworkOpen⁩ I’ve seen some of this during my informal whiteboarding/career sessions I do with young people at academic health centers almost everywhere jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… 2/n My view from doing this over many years is 1) YES, some due to the external aggression vs physicians/healthcare professionals during the pandemic, and 2) YES, some of it the “moral injury” that @ZDoggMD was so good at articulating back in 2019 but also
Dec 1, 2023 25 tweets 6 min read
1/ In the news of late: what Covid mRNA vaccines can/cannot do in terms of preventing/halting severe illness vs symptomatic infection vs asymptomatic infection/transmission vs long Covid or other chronic sequelae. Will try and clarify things over the next day or so in this thread 2/n b4 starting for transparency (as anyone who doesn’t live under a rock getting their health info from Fox InfoWars or other propaganda disinformation sources knows) our group developed low-cost no-patent Covid vaccines for India/Indonesia at $3 per dose tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Nov 29, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
1/n My view on latest Covid data in United States and things to consider to protect your health: Unfortunately the fall peak is not declining and if anything could be picking up again as we head further into the holiday season… Image 2/n increasingly it looks as if HV.1 a derivative of XBB/BA.2.86 is becoming a dominant variant as we head deeper into the holidays… Image
Nov 27, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
1/n Among the reasons this article is important from ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ (aside from the obvious): COVID19 the virus causes inflammation/atherosclerotic plaques to precipitate heart attacks. This can be a delayed consequence of past infections. My view washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/… 2/n look after your heart health, have a conversation with your primary health care provider for preventative care including hypertension control, cholesterol check to determine your suitability for statins/BP meds. Also keep up with with your Covid boosters/annual immunizations
Nov 19, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
1/n Today I’m posting reminders of how influenza/COVID19 (the actual virus, not the vaccine) cause heart attacks/strokes = yet another reason to keep up with annual immunizations. Ignore the phony “died suddenly” antivaccine activists. They don’t care about you or your family 2/n from @CIDRAP on influenza and heart attacks .cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-gene…
Nov 9, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
RFK Jr.: I’d Make NIH Take a ‘Break’ From Infectious Diseases.

My view: Presumably the 4th major coronavirus (after SARS, MERS, SARS-2), which may arrive before 2030 will appreciate that. Same for zoonotic influenza viruses, and the arboviruses in TX FL thedailybeast.com/robert-f-kenne… Here’s my latest in @NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Sep 24, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
1/n Many thanks ⁦@AliVelshi⁩ ⁦@VelshiMSNBC⁩ for hosting me this Sunday morning re: ongoing partisan/political targeting from extremist elected leaders who try to convince Americans not to take the new annual Covid immunization Image 2/n this just happened this week when FL Gov Ron DeSantis said he won’t recommend the new Covid annual immunization. This is 1) incorrect medical advice, 2) incredibly audacious to think the FL Health Dept know more than CDC and CBER/FDA, 3) very dangerous given Covid rises Image
Sep 1, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
1/n So I was both puzzled and troubled by the unsupported claims today that there are plans in place ‘To Bring Back COVID Lockdowns,’ here’s why… themessenger.com/politics/trump… 2/n first, I can’t tell you how many zoom, ms teams, phone calls I’ve been in during the pandemic with both the Trump and Biden White House staff and federal agencies. I can’t remember when anyone proposed or used the word “lockdown” in either Administration.
Aug 27, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
1/n Excited about having @MedSocDC and all are welcome to join me @PoliticsProse in Wash DC in about 3 weeks Saturday PM Sept 16 to discuss my newest book with @JHUPress @JohnsHopkins: The Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist’s Warning 2/n additional details @PoliticsProse politics-prose.com/peter-j-hotez
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Aug 24, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
Yes @alfranken tragic, my new book The Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist’s Warning @JHUPress @JohnsHopkins finds 200,000 Americans needlessly perished bc they refused Covid vaccines during our delta BA.1 waves, mostly in red states/counties. Ultimately they were victims… They were victims of a well-financed, organized, politically motivated antivaccine disinformation campaign from some members of the Freedom Caucus and Senate, a few Governors, and I document how this was amplified by nighttime Fox News broadcasts, extremist radio hosts/podcasters Image