(((Dorit Reiss)))
@doritmi
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Professor of Law UC SFLaw, teaches torts, administrative law, etc'. Writes on vaccines & law. Vaccine advocate. Mom. Not Twitter blue paid subscriber. She/her.
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I get to use this in class today to teach causation.
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@MartinKulldorff
Has anyone discussed Typhoid Mary with you? (Not to mention a long, and sometimes sordid, history of quarantine?)
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10-week-old baby dies of whooping cough - how did this happen? Neither baby nor mother were vaccinated. It's part of a pertussis outbreak linked to drop in vaccine rates.
#vaccines
via
@jerusalempost
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I know these are painful. I know they're hard. It's also really important to amplify them, and remind people.
Please follow the
@AuschwitzMuseum
and amplify their work.
7 April 1944 | A Dutch Jewish boy, David Ossendrijver, was murdered in a gas chamber in
#Auschwitz
II-Birkenau.
He was born in Rotterdam on 5 September 1932. He was deported from
#Westerbork
in a group of 240 Jews. 111 of them were selected to be killed.
He was 11 years old.
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Flu vaccine linked to a 40% reduction in risk of Alzheimer's disease via
@skepticalraptor
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@MartinKulldorff
HIV criminalization or tort cases?
Mandated antibiotics for infectious TB?
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When an anti-vaccine activist denies that polio is caused by a virus, and claims the problem is the polio
#vaccines
(and not the virus that used to cause hundreds of cases paralysis world wide each year, tens of thousands in the U.S.), they are not credible.
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My 9 year old son asked me to post this quote from him publicly online. Here is what he says.
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Shingles vaccine may be linked to lower dementia risk: Preprint - in line with other studies - suggests it's possible.
Of course, the main reason to get the vaccine is to avoid shingles. via
@skepticalraptor
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@gtconway3d
It is unpresidential to celebrate an effort to intimidate an opponent. Using violence to undermine the rules of the game doesn’t help either party, and hurts our democracy.
That shouldn’t have to be said.
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@oneunderscore__
@ksorbs
A.
#COVID19
and influenza are different diseases.
B. Neither is a cold, and neither is trivial or easy to treat.
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Dear non-Jewish friends,
Yom Kippur is not a happy day. It’s a day of prayer and atonement. The relevant blessings for your Jewish friends are “easy fast” and “Gmar hatimah tova,” which refers to a hope that when God does their accounting, they will fare well in the assessment.
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@AlastairMcA30
@DrJBhattacharya
Yeah, I don’t see that happening on the Stanford campus - and since at no point in California was there complete lockdown, you didn’t need anything like that. This is either a lie or was done for drama, to make it seem like he, the privileged, was oppressed.
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@RobertKennedyJr
And I would remind you that last time you apologized for such a reference, insincerely, as the repeated behavior shows, you did not also apologize for falsely, offensively, and harmfully describing autistics as not having a brain. You should have.
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@libsoftiktok
@leslieherod
@BriannaForCO
This is not just you, but it’s part of the fruits of your labor. This is what you encourage, promote, and work for. The kind of people who follow you do this. This just happened in Colorado.
And you work for more like it.
BREAKING OVERNIGHT: At least 5 killed, 18 injured after gunman opens fire at LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, police say.
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Dr.
@PeterHotez
has been awarded the inaugural Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership Award. So well deserved - congratulations!
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Mother calls on others to get MMR after daughter dies from measles complications.
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Pro-tip: if you want to pretend that you're not anti-vaccine, don't celebrate the fact that more children are going to get measles.
Other pro-tip: measles hurts brains and immune systems. MMR protects them.
Context:
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@Esqueer_
@shannonrwatts
At least the Boeberts managed to avoid pointing the guns at family members during the picture.
[typo fixed]
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@PeterHotez
But I hope you don’t fall into the trap of agreeing to debate an antivaccine activist.
He doesn’t deserve the legitimacy you’d confer on him.
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@jonathanstea
@CaulfieldTim
@EdzardErnst
@tnicholsmd
@RyanMarino
@DrLindaMD
@NY_Tuck
My dad was in the doctor’s waiting room for a routine check up. Suddenly, he had a heart attack. He never woke up, and died within three hours. Now, he wasn’t 26 - he was in his 60s - but he was active and appeared healthy.
Except his heart was clogged.
This was 2014.
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@NikkiMcR
@oneunderscore__
So who do you think is going to pay and be “real Elon Musk” for $8 a month?
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No preliminary injunction requiring Google LLC and YouTube LLC to restore Kennedy's anti-vaccine videos to their platform because he’s unlikely to succeed on the merits because they are private companies, not government.
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Rise in measles cases in the UK.
Thank you, Andrew Wakefield.
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Publicly telling everyone you're in trouble for (apparently) sexually targeting nurses is not a good idea.
It's also not something that recommends the person to me as a future doctor. Neither the act nor the bad judgment in sharing it.
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In the midst of a measles outbreak, the Florida Surgeon General -
A. Does not recommend MMR vaccines.
B. Allows parents to send unvaccinated children to school.
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An adult died from measles in Ireland.
Thanks, Wakefield.
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Reminder: antivaccine leaders like Dr. Robert Malone and Steve Kirsch got vaccinated against
#COVID19
- and we do not know about others. They vaccinated their children.
When they scare their folllowers off vaccines, they’re working to deny followers protections they have used.
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@thehowie
@ChelseaClinton
And some babies are too young to get MMR. It’s exactly because of people who cannot get
#vaccines
that it’s so important that the rest of us do. Because immunosuppressed people and young babies are at even higher risk from measles.
#VaccinesWork
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@WFKARS
@Jim_Jordan
It hasn’t been that long since Ohio’s mega measles outbreak. He may want to aim for at least a ten year break between bad childhood diseases outbreaks.
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@PeterHotez
To put this in context, the antivaccine organization Children’s Health Defense is up to over 3 million dollar per year, and pays its staff six figure salaries to promote misinformation.
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No, COVID mRNA Vaccines Won't Damage Your DNA
You have a “better chance of becoming Spider-Man” than being harmed by DNA from COVID vaccines via
@tanyalewis314
@sciam
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@gtconway3d
I don’t want him out of the race. I don’t him to die. I want him and his congressional enablers to face the voters they failed again and again, the country mourning over 200,000, and hear the people’s response to their failures.
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Reminder: Mr. Kennedy is lying in saying he did not compare COVID-19 mandates to the Holocaust (that's aside from other comparisons). See screenshot of what he said and the Tweet below and responses, too. Source of screenshot:
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Got my first dose of
#HPV
#vaccines
. Nurse said to close eyes and take a deep breathe 😊.
#vaccineswork
#vaxwithme
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Anti-vaccine activist proud of stalking and harassing a scientist that saves lives at his home at the service of another anti-vaccine activist.
And makes a video, to make sure there's clear evidence of his misdeeds.
I confronted
@PeterHotez
and asked why he is too scared to debate
@RobertKennedyJr
on the
@joerogan
podcast!
W/
@merissahansen17
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The Pandemic’s Wrongest man is shocked, shocked, that the Pfizer
#COVID19
vaccine does not reduce the risk of car accidents deaths or other non-covid related causes of deaths.
What good are
#vaccines
, he asks, if they don’t make you completely immortal?
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@JHowardBrainMD
@TheEliKlein
Dr. Hotez: works voluntarily to create a vaccine that will allow low and middle income countries to protect their people from deaths, communicates to explain the pandemic. Also, wants children safe.
Inconvenienced
#COVID19
minimizer: I want this guy punished.
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Professor Y. Tony Yang and my book has arrived. We wrote a lay-directed explanation of vaccine law (not to the depth of a full textbook, but hopefully helpful to lay people wanting a quick introduction).
See:
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@dfreedman7
@JenniferMarguli
Ask yourself: is an infection with a serious chance of landing you in a hospital, of making you seriously sick for weeks, with unknown rates of longterm harms and, yes, a risk of killing you worth accepting certain limits on behavior to prevent?
If yes, let’s discuss which.
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@SIfill_
@AnthonyMKreis
Has anyone told him about European wars before the American conquest?
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@oneunderscore__
@ksorbs
C. I have a feeling he doesn’t understand what communism is, either.
Hint; it’s not U.S. public health law.
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Cervical pre-cancer rates down 88% in decade since
#HPV
#vaccines
began – first findings via
@ConversationUK
#vaccineswork
#vaxwithme
#IVax2Protect
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@aetiology
"I won't drive on the right side of the road for you, either, or stop at stop signs. Your road safety is none of my business."
"I won't avoid lighting fires in my yard for you, either."
These people make a good case why living in society requires a government.
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@traemurray
It’s horrible that the parents are so afraid to protect their child from disease they would rather put him through that. Whoever scared them off
#vaccines
deeply wronged the child. Using his suffering as an antivaccine propaganda tool is adding insult to the injury they caused.
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@Natalie24278613
@gorskon
This is the equivalent to showing a child covered with all the diapers they use in the first two years: meaningless attempt to manipulate emotions.
Protecting children against 15 dangerous diseases would actually make them safer. No emotional manipulation needed.
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@susanbeeha
@MorganTrau
@WEWS
@WCPO
@OhioCapJournal
The legislator passed a bill that would involve stripping children and examining their genitalia by strangers, and think they're doing something good?
[reposted to correct previous tweet, that unfairly attributed it to the reporter]
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@whitherwander
@Popehat
@mjs_DC
They think they can disregard any federal court order.
I think Article IV to the Constitution would like a word about that.
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No neurodevelopmental issues found in babies of COVID-vaccinated moms
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An anti-vaccine activist left me this message.
Sharing to raise awareness that yes, there are people like this in the anti-vaccine movement.
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YouTube blocks all anti-vaccine content
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@Tiffany51160468
@CaulfieldTim
@jerusalempost
10 weeks is a bit over 2 months, but you're right that that vaccine would not be enough.
This is why it's really important for the mother to have been vaccinated during pregnancy - which she was not. :-(
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@AuschwitzMuseum
@DrPanMD
@ConceptualJames
Trolling and targeting the Auschwitz Memorial that does important work to remember victims for calling you out when you misuse the Holocaust isn’t a good look, either.
That said, Auschwitz Memorial, it’s more than fair to block any of his fans that target you, and I hope you do.
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@sarahcpr
@JennaEllisEsq
In courts, where the rule of law governs, their lawyers have stated there’s no fraud, provided no evidence of widespread issues, and lost many cases for lack of evidence.
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This is a good example of how antivaccine activists generate and spread misinformation.
FOIA does one thing. It allows you to get access to existing agency records, unless there’s an exception. So whatever you are asking for has to be an agency record. 1/n
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Measles is spreading — and the anti-vaccine movement is downplaying the danger and misrepresenting the risks - again. (We have seen this before). via
@nbcnews
@BrandyZadrozny
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Steve Kirsch wants a vaccine debate — science doesn't debate, and Mr. Kirsch has nothing of substance to add, explains
@skepticalraptor
, addressing why he won't accept the invitation.
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Guess who just did their part to poke
#COVID19
in the eye by getting the first dose of their
#vaccines
?
#igottheshot
#thisistheirshot
#ThisIsOurShot
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The largest safety study of COVID
#vaccines
finds issues are rare, and many alleged harms are not connected to the vaccines. via
@skepticalraptor
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@RobertMackey
@scientistabe
@chadloder
Again. He was suspended and brought back.
As a reminder, Mr. Musk alleged nobody was suspended for their views and is bringing back accounts that engaged in direct stalking and harassment of people.
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There are many places where we can debate if mandates are a good or bad idea.
But in nursing home, where our most vulnerable are, staff should be vaccinated,
@ArthurCaplan
and I point out.
"Mandate
#covid19
#vaccines
in nursing homes. No exceptions."
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Israel’s Top COVID Truther Died from
#covid19
, denying it till the end.
His family calls on other to take the vaccine and save their lives.
@thedailybeast
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@ConSelfOwns
@RightWingCope
I.e., the correct pronoun for the Bible G-D may well be they/them.
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@MarkChangizi
@jerusalempost
Antivaccine misinformation existed long before covid misinformation.
Public health made mistakes during the pandemic, but the level of misinformation was also extreme.
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Just so everyone knows:
#COVID19
#vaccines
do not contain hydras.
Probably not unicorns either.
#thingsyoushouldnthavetosay
. There’s a fact check and all.
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@Popehat
Don’t forget these two well known communist robots.
Man, wait until antivax politicians find out about how R2-D2 and C-3PO tried to encourage vaccination... in 1978. Almost like this isn't a new thing and programs that cater to kids want to keep them safe and healthy.
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I would urge people to be skeptical of information about complex topics from people who cannot tell the difference between a face mask and a diaper.
That's a pretty basic mistake to be making. What else don't they know or understand?
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The measles outbreak in Ohio was solely in unvaccinated children, mostly young. Out of 85 cases, 36 were hospitalized.
SSPE yet to be determined.
#vaccines
#vaccineswork
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Raiden will be five this months. He’s living with his grandmother, because his mom and dad died from
#COVID19
.
This is not a game. H/T
@aetiology
via
@Nicolemarie_A
@NBCNews
tagging
@FacesOfCOVID
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@SWAtlasHoover
You said rise up. You said it knowing that violence has already been planned against the Governor. Denying you knew this would be read as inviting violence is unconvincing.
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Trust in science and vaccines continues to decline. The decline is correlated to lower education, and is politically charged.
While public health made mistakes, intentional misinformation by bad-faith actors did much more. via
@sciencebasedmed
@gorskon
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@jennajameson
Well, under that logic, I look forward to seeing your future questioning of laws against drunk driving, seatbelt mandates and bans on smoking in hospitals and airplanes.
That apart, asking questions about
#vaccines
is great. Rejecting the answers, as
#antivaxxers
do, isn’t.
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@drlucymcbride
@TracyBethHoeg
@MonicaGandhi9
@JeanneNoble18
@kwadwo777
@notaproviderMD
@DrScottBalsitis
@DrAmyBeck
@doctortara
@JVergales
@korystotesbery
@etholland71
As a reminder, one of your collaborators wants children sick. Parents, I don’t know if a group that includes people who openly want children sick with
#COVID19
- at a time when children are hospitalized and dying in larger numbers - is the best place to go to keep kids safe.
3.There is still ongoing international discussion about what is safest/best for children 5-11. See Norway
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