Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD
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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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Please support our Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development: 100 million doses of our low-cost, patent-free, Covid vaccine technology administered in India/Indonesia. Now we have a new hookworm anemia vaccine for the world’s poorest people
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Not sure I get the logic here? I make low-cost patent-free vaccines to help people in low-income countries achieve equitable access to immunizations. No aspiration to become some American version of a shirtless Putin on a horse. Someone should remind Bobby to wear sunscreen…
Who looks healthier?
RFK Jr is 69 years old.
Dr. Hotez is 65 years old
Makes you think…
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For the record: Dr. Fauci has done nothing wrong, except serve our nation. In the meantime, Mr. Musk should know that 200,000 Americans needlessly lost their lives from Covid due to this kind of antiscience rhetoric and disinformation. Elon, I’m asking you to take down this Tweet
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This is unnecessary. Show some respect to those of us who worked tirelessly in the pandemic to help humanity. I didn’t sleep for 3 yrs to help make a low-cost patent-free vaccine technology for the world, communicating to the nation 3-10 times daily to keep American families safe
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Ugh I just was stalked in front of my home by a couple of antivaxers taunting me to debate RFKJr. Of course I was looking my Sunday best in our brutal heat wave. What is it with people? Well at least Houstonian’s now know I support the team…
#GoTexans
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1/n Many thanks for all your support these last few days, after the Steve Bannon’s dog whistle accusation and the Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, RFK Jr pile on, the online aggression, and even a stalking just for bringing home a Father’s Day cake, I didn’t know what to think or say.
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1/2 As both vaccine scientist + parent of a daughter with autism, I wrote Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism, which gave me a front row seat to 20 years of antivaccine activism, watching it grow into a political enterprise. My new book out soon
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I’ve known Tony Fauci for almost 40 years, I cannot remember when I’ve seen him so visibly hurt. I’ve called for federal action to protect prominent US scientists under attack…
Fauci: Why would a Senator want to do this? Go to Rand Paul’s website and you see fire Dr. Fauci with a little box that says contribute here. So you are making catastrophic epidemic for your political gain
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Our post omicron world:
1. Omicron goes down
2. It fails to produce herd immunity, durable protection
3. We’ll have 6 mo to vaccinate the world & prevent a new variant from emerging this summer
4. It may not resemble omicron
5. Vaccinating world in next 6 months = our best path
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I’m not a historian but from my time in the media daily since inauguration, I believe
@JoeBiden
will be remembered as an important
@POTUS
who kept our nation together when things could have gone horribly wrong, reminding America 🇺🇸 that a good person can occupy the
@WhiteHouse
Seeing our President visiting the children in the hospital for Christmas warms my heart 💙
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Seriously Elon? This is monstrous. 200,000 Americans needlessly perished (including 40,000 Texans, our neighbors) because they were victims of antivaccine disinformation during our awful Covid delta/BA.1 waves in 2021-22. Please don’t do this…
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Let’s remember what this is about, not a small number of Americans lost their lives from antivaccine disinformation during the pandemic. 200,000 Americans perished, 40,000 from my State of Texas I have nothing personal vs Joe, Elon, RFK Jr. Just hoping to halt more destruction
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Just a note to thank everyone for your support last 10 days after the coordinated FoxNews attacks against me + threats from the unwell that always follow. Not sure what triggered Fox this time, some say the Nobel Peace nomination but they didn't mention it. In any case, thank you
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That’s so kind
@GeorgeTakei
and as someone who has admired your work for decades that means a lot, thank you!
I am now following
@PeterHotez
and every decent person here who believes in science not quackery should, too.
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1/n Awful to read Mr. Ackman’s account of my activities. I have no pharma conflicts, I co-developed low-cost patent-free Covid vaccines for global health reaching 100 million doses. I never took a cent for any cable news/podcast/radio appearances., spoke tirelessly to low-income
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This is simply not true. Vaccines for smallpox, later childhood vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, Hib (vaccines discovered in USA), preserved our nation. I’m aghast at the absence of intellectual curiosity or even passing interest in American 🇺🇸 history from our US Congress
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I'm told
@IngrahamAngle
has been going after me on her Fox News show the last few days? Not sure what the deal is, but if she has concerns I'm easy to reach. Also would remind her that I'm not a federal employee, nor paid by CNN, MSNBC, Fox News (or any news or media outlet).
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Mark Cuban slams Joe Rogan and Elon Musk in vaccine debate | Fortune
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1/n Many thanks
@mehdirhasan
@MehdiHasanShow
for hosting me this evening I explained the problems of “debating” science on Joe Rogan with RFK Jr and there are several.
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Fyi this is laughable, total fake news. As anyone who knows me, as an academic with 4 kids, all we have is our modest townhome in Houston (you can ask my stalkers) and a very modest retirement. No money from China or other foreign governments, none from Big Pharma, nothing nada
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Many thanks to
@mcuban
for your support, that’s really nice and much appreciated
Way to talk in generalities Joe. Not saying there aren't a lot of fucked up things about pharma. That's why we created . But to ignore that the same industry has saved who knows how many lives is bullshit and you know it.
It's also disrespectful to all
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Looks like I've tested positive for COVID, moderate symptoms of fatigue, headache, sore throat, isolating at home doing zoom meetings. I'm grateful to have been vaccinated/boosted, which certainly prevented more severe illness. Just started Paxlovid. Transmission up, be careful.
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I spent the day yesterday in the
@WhiteHouse
including AM in the West Wing even got to chat briefly with
@VP
and you know what I saw? Old school civil servants who truly came to Wash DC to help the country. No ego, just kindness compassion and super bright energetic people. No BS
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Scientists shouldn’t debate gaslighters | Science | many thanks
@ScienceMagazine
@hholdenthorp
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Let’s call this out: This is an outright and full blown Antiscience disinformation campaign coming out of the White House. I’ve got the bow tie on and I’m ready for battle....
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Elon: Maybe you weren’t aware but in 2020 we asked you to support our lab that ultimately made low-cost, patent-free Covid vaccines, 100 million doses administered. Even though you couldn’t help us then, we still need help for our low-cost XBB booster + universal CoV versions
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If Joe Rogan asks you to debate, be suspicious (Opinion)
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Joe Rogan wants a scientist to “debate” a vaccine denier. Turning him down was the right thing to do.
@voxdotcom
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I'm not an expert in guns/ammunition, but I think I know what this means...it's unacceptable, and has to stop
Today's propaganda.
Dr. Hotez and other COVID vaccine maximalists should be treated similarly to doctors that experimented on Jews during the Holocaust.
They didn't have a choice to say "no", and in many cases, neither did US citizens.
Treat them like the criminals they are.
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Spotify Has Stopped Even Sort of Trying to Stem Joe Rogan’s Vaccine Misinformation. It’s really true
@annamerlan
just awful. And from all the online attacks I’m receiving after this absurd podcast, it’s clear many actually believe this nonsense
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Some leading causes of death in the State of Texas
5. Homicide: 1,653
4. Drug overdose deaths: 2,989
3. Firearm deaths: 3,583
2. Accidents: 10,763
1. Deaths from COVID19 vaccine refusal since June 1, 2021 even though vaccines widely available: 21,000
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1/4: An honor to be vaccinated against
#COVID19
tonight
@TexasChildrens
@bcmhouston
, dose 1/2 of the Pfizer BioNTech
#vaccine
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Joe, you have my cell, my email, I’m always willing to speak with you
Peter, if you claim what RFKjr is saying is “misinformation” I am offering you $100,000.00 to the charity of your choice if you’re willing to debate him on my show with no time limit.
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Too bad my kids are all grown up, it might have impressed them to know that Daddy was working with a team of scientists plotting to defeat Omicron
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We’re at 1,984 American Covid deaths yesterday, almost all among the unvaccinated. We’re hitting 2,000 deaths/day once again. Omicron is a serious virus pathogen.
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To understand how the antivaccine movement became a well-financed, organized, lethal force during the pandemic and it’s immediate aftermath, my latest book out soon
@JHUPress
@JohnsHopkins
: The Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist's Warning
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Our youngest son Daniel Hotez just married to his beautiful new wife from Plano TX, Alexandra Pfeiffer Hotez, at Hermann Park here in Houston TX. Overjoyed for these two!
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Here’s our official announcement from
@TexasChildrens
@BCM_TropMed
on our partnership with
@biological_e
to vaccinate the world beginning with this EUA in India 🇮🇳
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With great sorrow, announcing my mom Jean Hotez passed away in her sleep at Hebrew Senior Life in Roslindale MA just short of her 93 rd birthday, here she is with me, my sister Liz in West Hartford CT ca. 1967 heading to her funeral in Avon CT Jewish Cemetery on Friday
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I’m still hoping to remain on Twitter, but we’ll see how things go. This was and should be an important outlet for scientists, although far more challenging in its new form.
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Too wonderful for words, thank you
@MarkHamill
you just brought some joy in my life and for my family
@PeterHotez
@GeorgeTakei
Agreed. Just belatedly followed you. Thank you for your service
@PeterHotez
!
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On June 22 Florida Gov DeSantis and our colleague, Laura Ingraham, mocked me on Fox for predicting the return of COVID19 to the Southern US. As of today, Florida has the 2nd highest rate of Covid nationally +257% rise over last 14 days, with Jacksonville area among worst affected
Gov. DeSantis gives his thoughts on predictions that there will be a "summer surge" of COVID-19.
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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
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I’m at
@TexasChildrens
today, we’re vaccinating the kids as part of
@FLOTUS
@DrBiden
@Surgeon_General
visit. Told the antivaccine crowd is lurking so asked for some extra security this afternoon. I’m in good hands…
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2 Houston doctors nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for COVID vaccine - CultureMap Houston
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Well thought Covid was over, finished a 5 d Paxlovid, felt well, X2 neg antigen tests. 5 d later up this AM lots of rinorrhea, sore throat, antigen test screaming +. So either this post-Paxlovid relapse is real, something unique to BA.2.12 (although can’t confirm)…or something
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Ugh, did Tucker Carlson go after me tonight on Fox News? Whenever Fox or their fellow travelers does that it’s often followed by a wave of aggression on the internet or worse, sometimes with antisemitic with Nazi images. Looks like they’re starting to roll in…
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COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US | University of Oxford
@UniofOxford
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Translation: “Don’t let the death of your loved ones who needlessly perished from COVID19 because we couldn’t organize a national response dominate your life”. Also, “sorry cutting edge biotechnologies are available to only a privileged few, get over it”
I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!
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Twitter informed me that they’ve suspended my blue check verification status until I can provide support that I’m a public figure as evidenced by publications, Wikipedia entry, or citations via google news? They indicated that they would respond in 14 days? Bless their hearts…
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Yes Joe I thought it was over the top, unnecessarily provocative, so I took it down right away. But I’ve been hurt by the public/untrue statements you/guests have made about me being a pharma shill, when all I do is make vaccines for the world’s poor. I don’t take BigPharma money
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So a simple thank you. I’m off to New York tomorrow for a meeting (more on that soon i hope), and then São Paulo for our vaccine program and to help Brasil find a path out of their awful antiscience aggression
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Hmm... We don’t take Big Pharma money, I make low-cost, patent-free vaccines for global health. We’ve provided proof-of-concept it is possible to bypass Big Pharma to do important things. The only exposure is Joe Elon RFK Jr looking silly for targeting someone they should embrace
If you’re good at sophistry, this is your chance! Peter Hotez can’t afford to debate RFK Jr. because he’d be exposed and, the madness of our COVID response, and the full extent of Pharma corruption would be laid bare. The man needs an excuse HOURS AGO! Somebody help Peter!!! 🦗
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2/n but the support from people in the scientific community + the great actors, artists, journalists, historians, philosophers, healthcare professionals, teachers, essentially those whose take joy in learning new things and helping humanity really lifted my spirits + my family’s
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Today I cynically joked to a colleague the only one who has yet to weigh in was Roger Stone…
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This is absolutely not true and was shown to be false. Gross antiscience disinformation from an elected member of the US Congress. Antiscience aggression is contributing to the death of 1,500 Americans each day. Enabled by social media. 100,000 needless American deaths since May
When boys and young men are at a higher risk of being hospitalized from side effects of taking the covid vaccine than actually being hospitalized from covid itself, there is every reason to stop the covid vaccine mandates.
Stop the insanity.
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CNN medical analyst Dr. Peter Hotez to G7 leaders on Omicron: ‘Forget about the travel bans, let’s go vaccinate the African people’ • Today News Africa
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Looking for things to criticize or question in the
@JoeBiden
speech tonight. For me, nada. A home run. Thank you.
Turns out we elected a really good POTUS.
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Less than 2 weeks ago, I was mocked by Laura Ingraham and Florida Gov DeSantis for warning about the rise of delta variant in the Southern US
Florida is averaging 2,241 cases/day, a 55% increase over the last 14 days. That’s 17% of all cases in the US. Florida needs to surge its vaccine effort.
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1/n Many thanks to Dr. Fauci for highlighting our studies today on the needless loss of life among those refusing COVID immunizations in 2021-22. Estimate from my new book: 200,000 Americans perished as victims of a predatory/politically-driven antivaccine disinformation campaign
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We likely hit 850,000 US Covid deaths today, at roughly now 2,000 deaths per day, we could hit 900,000 deaths in early February. Most of the last 250,000 American 🇺🇸 deaths were among those who refused or defiant of vaccines despite their wide availability. Death by antiscience
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Letter sent to our home this afternoon in the US Mail. The second like this in a month. I really don’t want or need a Swastika collection. Local law enforcement and
@ADL
notified. On top of all the other aggression since Twitter invited back the hate groups. Tough stuff.
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Just a special thank you to
@houstonpolice
@HCSOTexas
for keeping my family safe this week, including Ann and Rachel while I’ve been in Brazil, also
@TXMedCenter
Police,
@bcmhouston
@TexasChildrens
security, and
@ADLSouthwest
@FBI
I couldn’t do this on my own. I’m so grateful
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By summer I knew White House never intended to contain COVID19 in America. It would have required fed govt to take control of response, exert leadership. When they rebuffed my Oct 1 plan in July instead launched disinformation campaign, our fate was sealed
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Just when I start to think all might be lost (from the stepped up aggression and attacks) an honest to goodness Jedi Knight steps up. Many thanks
@MarkHamill
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Thank you so much everyone for your kind/gracious support. In the day I’m fine, in the mix in lab meetings accelerating our low-cost, patent-free vaccines for the world 100 million doses, now our global hookworm vaccine amazing. At night the attacks wake me up, awful dreams
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Today we hit 750,000 Americans lost to COVID19. We’re on trajectory to hit 800,0000 by year’s end. Those last 100,000+ maybe even 200,000 died unnecessarily because vaccines were widely available. They chose not to get vaccinated, sometimes even defiant. They died by antiscience
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Decided to take a break from X for a while, it will be good to get away for bit, many thanks for all your support!
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Joe if you are serious about addressing vaccines + the fact that 200,000 unvaccinated Americans needlessly perished during our awful delta/BA.1 Covid waves (including 40,000 in our state of Texas) because they fell victims to vaccine disinformation: I want to have that discussion
This is a non answer. I challenged you publicly because you publicly quote tweeted and agreed with that dogshit vice article. If you’re really serious about what you stand for, you now have a massive opportunity for a debate that will reach the largest audience a discussion
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And did this for 3 years without financial compensation…just because it was the right thing to do
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Disappointed he took a cheap shot vs me this wk. In 2021 during our awful delta wave we were losing 2,000 Americans/day, >80% among unvaccinated, when vaccines were 90% protective vs death/serious illness, I criticized him for his public antivaccine stance
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Receiving daily emails from distressed vaccinated individuals who cannot convince their loved ones to get the COVID19 vaccine. Most often older parents of an adult, sometimes pregnant daughter, or adolescent. The antiscience disinformation empire has caused a national tragedy
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1/n I’m watching with concern how within one week 2 of our major news outlets are spreading misinformation about the Covid pandemic. First The NY Times now the WSJ
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7. This vaccine can be made locally all over the world, and we've now technology transferred our Texas Children's vaccine to producers in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Botswana.
8. Our Texas Children's Center does not plan to make money on this, it's = a gift to the world
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This is not correct, individuals who become infected with COVID19 and recover exhibit highly variable levels of protective immunity vs reinfection. Some have protection, others very little or none. If you are infected and recovered, it’s still important for you to get vaccinated.
Orlando Magic’s Jonathan Isaac says he isn’t getting the covid vaccine because he has natural immunity and data shows he isn’t at risk at all from covid. Well said:
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Vaccine Champion Dr. Peter Hotez and Other Award-Winning Texas Doctors Make a Difference For
@childrenatrisk
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This weekend we’ll hit the devastating milestone of 60,000 COVID19 deaths here in Texas. We’re averaging 200 deaths per day, almost all among the unvaccinated despite the availability of safe/effective vaccines. The product of phony health freedom ideologies from the far right
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New patent-free COVID vaccine developed as “gift to the world”
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Been emphasizing the emerging picture of brain injury from COVID19 + longCovid. Antivaccine forces keep pointing to low death rates in young people and adolescents, while ignoring the rapidly accelerating hospitalizations and now neurological complications
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Many of my colleagues in the health professions made different but equally meaningful contributions. Their story each time was the same. “Now is the time to help humanity, this is what we trained for, let’s roll”.
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In Boston MA this weekend visiting my 92 yo mom, Jean Hotez, Hebrew Senior Life in Roslindale/Brookline. My brother/sister in the Boston area, it has been tough to visit during the pandemic
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This coming wk will reveal a grim new reality across the Southern US. From FL to TX and all in between, hospitals ICUs, including pediatric PICU beds overwhelmed, failing schools frightened parents teachers. The full realization how our elected leaders capitulated to the bad guys
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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
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Public K-12 vaccine requirements are not determined by individual schools, but by state legislatures. But I worry this type of antivaccine rhetoric = a potential dog whistle for some legislators to establish onerous policies that could bring back measles, pertussis, even polio.
Trump: "I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate."
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It’s fake news from some phony conspiracy site. Not even a tiny fraction of that. I’m an academic with 4 adult kids. It all went for their college education, my special needs daughter, trombone lessons, hockey practice, ballet lessons, and a few weddings
@PeterHotez
@HoustonChron
Where has all your money come from? That’s a lot of money for a ‘humanitarian’.
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I took down my tweet on appealing to the major news outlets for accurate science reporting. The threats and aggression were overwhelming.
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Just a note to thank you for all your expressions of support in light of recent antisemitic attacks online, letters mailed to our home, phone calls, even a past physical stalking. Your kindness = a reminder that there are still many many good/intelligent people on this platform
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Interesting day:
This morning nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
This evening under attack from political extremists because of a Fox News dog whistle
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My impression of
@VP
Kamala Harris? I only met her once during a White House visit
@ashishkjha
introduced us during the pandemic. I came away impressed, remember calling Ann afterwards. She was super smart, insightful, kind. Someone you wanted to spend time with, the real deal.
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With Covid transmission so high across the U.S. it sure would be nice to have Novavax JN.1 or mRNA FLiRT vaccines available asap, and perhaps in time for the upcoming DNC in 2 weeks. We’ll see how the wastewater numbers go and whether they start to decline, hopefully soon…
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Nope, also fake news, no connection with the Rothschild Family, I receive no income from shell companies. Also nothing from George Soros, just more far right conspiracy and Qanon nonsense.
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Houston researchers Dr. Peter Hotez and Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi among Nobel Peace Prize nominees for COVID efforts |
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Your place is with us, not the grifters and the extremist contrarians who monetize the internet or are so desperate for relevance. You have the intellectual capacity and talents to understand this and make the world better. “Tikkun olam” as we say. I’m in Texas and glad to help
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America's antivaxx crisis: a quarter believe MMR shot causes autism; a third think Covid vaccines kill. It’s extraordinary, despite my battling antivaccine activism daily for 2 decades. The disinformation machine is so powerful and now backed politically
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With Rach, my special needs adult daughter
@BrasilCafeHTX
in our Montrose Houston neighborhood. Chicken tacos, house temparanillo red wine (did I spell that right?) got a chunk of writing in today on my new book “antiscience kills” working title, wept watching
@cnn
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