Rubio Urges US Rejoin Global Vaccine Initiative, Criticizes Kennedy
Thank you @SecRubio @StateDept Rubio Suggests U.S. Return to Global Vaccine Program in Rebuke of Kennedy https://t.co/qnilExC1DE via @NYTimes
Independent Researcher Questions Censorship Despite Humanitarian Work
But why GITMO? I make low cost vaccines to help humanity, so far 100 million doses administered at $2-3 per dose bypassing big pharma. Haven’t made a dime. And I write books with academic presses on the history of science...
High Neutralizing Antibodies Block Infection and Transmission
1/n But I’ve never “dodged the question,” it’s straightforward: when the levels of virus neutralizing antibodies are high, enough VNAs enter the throat and nose to stop infection and transmission. In early 2021, the Israeli’s showed with the Pfizer vaccine...
Single VSV Vaccine Dose Shields Monkeys From Bundibugyo Ebola
Single Immunization With a Monovalent Vesicular Stomatitis Virus–Based Vaccine Protects Nonhuman Primates Against Heterologous Challenge With Bundibugyo ebolavirus https://t.co/ShMm7CSW0I
Joining CNN Sunday to Discuss Ebola PHEIC
I’m scheduled for around 5:30 PM Eastern this Sunday PM @CNN to discuss the Ebola PHEIC and all things infectious
VSV Ebola Vaccine Protects Zaire, Struggles with Bundibugyo
1/n Been asked about potential X-protection of current VSV Ebola, which shows excellent protection vs Zaire strain, compared to the new epidemic strain, Bundibugyo, doesn’t look all that promising unfortunately, but with resources it’s possible to move quickly, some info...
Successful Hookworm Vaccine Trials Aim for Global Low‑Cost Scale
No need to bother our friend @grok the answer is yes, our vaccine group was funded by Gates Foundation for a hookworm anemia vaccine although the funding stopped a decade ago. But we just published in @TheLancetInfDis that the vaccine...
Hantavirus Limited, Yet Zoonotic Spillovers Surge Unpreparedly
Many thanks @KyraPhillips for hosting me @ABC as I explain why this hantavirus outbreak is likely to remain limited in scope but that there’s a big picture concern about an increasing frequency of zoonotic spillover in recent years: Ebola x...
Hantavirus Outbreak Signals Emerging Long‑term Health Trends
1/n: I could be wrong, of course, but my take about this hantavirus outbreak is less about the actual outbreak and more about what it means in the context of the last two decades and moving forward. Let me...
Anti‑Science Disinformation Thrives on Politics, Media, and Money
Hard to say, but as we detailed in our book #ScienceUnderSiege @MichaelEMann @PeterHotez @public_affairs the anti-science disinformation machine has become quite powerful backed politically by multiple petrostates, it’s been the bread and butter of the disgusting Murdoch media empire and...
Hantavirus Pandemic Unlikely, Yet Zoonotic Spillovers Rise
But…in multiple interviews I explained why the risk of hantavirus becoming a major epidemic/pandemic is low and unlikely. I did explain that zoonotic spillover events like SARS-1, SARS-2, MERS, H5N1, Ebola, now Andes virus are increasing and why, but maybe...
Low‑Cost Vaccines and Open Science Aren’t Evil
Hmmm, presumably making low-cost vaccines to help humanity, $2-4 per dose, no onerous patent restrictions, pioneering a way to bypass big pharma, helping the nation through a terrible pandemic, writing books with academic presses on history of science/medicine, constitute evil?
Zoonotic Spillovers Becoming the New Normal
Many thanks @OutFrontCNN @ErinBurnett for hosting me this evening with colleague Dr. Gustavo Palacios a hantavirus expert. I made the point that zoonotic spillover events are now occurring with increasing frequency: SARS-1 MERS, Ebola, SARS-2, H5N1, now Andes virus, a...
OutFrontCNN to Cover Latest H
Scheduled for @OutFrontCNN 7 PM Eastern this Friday evening to discuss the latest on Hantavirus
Climate Change Fuels Emerging Infections; Defunding WHO Is Reckless
No I don’t think so, usually hantaviruses are not as transmissible person-to-person as coronaviruses, but it’s another reminder of the risk of global infections emerging due to climate change, globalization, and why it’s reckless to defund @WHO @CDCgov