Gabby Stern
@gabbystern
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@WHO Director of Communications. Ex-OWH, ex-WSJ, ex-BMGF. gabbystern60 on threads. Am no longer checking X DMs.
Geneva, Switzerland
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News to me.
The Biden administration is very close to handing the World Health Organization power over every aspect of your life. Imagine the civil liberties abuses of the Covid lockdowns, but permanent.
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Hi,
@WHO
's process for assessing
#COVID19
vaccines for emergency use listing is rigorous, scientific and standardized. It involves outside experts on a technical advisory group who review data from manufacturers and others to ensure efficacy and safety. Thanks!
A meeting that sealed this.
Sources say PM Modi pushed for Covaxin approval at G20 with
@DrTedros
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Exactly.
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Hi
@DrEricDing
, It's been a while since we connected --hope you’re well. I'm reaching out to suggest that the next time you wish to tweet about
@WHO
, you should feel free to reach out ahead of time to avoid inaccuracies.
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On
#HolocaustRemembranceDay2022
, I thank
@AuschwitzMuseum
and recommend that you, dear friends, follow their account. The little lad below is one of many millions of reasons why.
27 January 1933 | A German Jewish boy, Lutz Ludwig Grünstein, was born in Berlin.
He was deported to
#Auschwitz
from the
#Theresienstad
ghetto on 9 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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.
@WHO
says it will continue asking for medical and other humanitarian aid access to Tigray via
@TheNationalNews
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Seeing Meghan Markle trending (the haters must be at it again, but I don’t have the energy to check) and am recalling how she and her husband so staunchly supported
#COVID19
#VaccinEquity
: cc:
@jammyholt
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Horrors in Tigray described in this
@BBCWorld
article. ⬇️ Health and humanitarian access urgently needed to save lives.
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A note: My followers might wonder what this thread is referring to, but I'm reluctant to include a link to the Doctor's thread and related article as, sadly, they're not fully accurate.
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"In
#Tigray
, single-use items such as gloves, surgical materials & even chest drains are being washed & reused, increasing the risk of infections. In some places, doctors have replaced disinfectant by salt to clean wounds." -Apollo Barasa, ICRC
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Millions of people are suffering in the greater Horn of Africa: hungry, malnourished, no health care, forced to migrate. And in Tigray, Ethiopia, millions endure a 21st month of siege & now there's drought. Today
@DrTedros
called on global media to cover these crises.
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Together:
@DoctorsXr
,
@WHO
&
@DrTedros
standing in solidarity & urging global action to end the climate crisis & protect the health of all people everywhere. These are inextricably intertwined.
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Grateful to you,
@Camila_Cabello
, for speaking about your experience with unhealthy body image burdens which are imposed on women and girls throughout our lives. I'm so glad younger generations aren't putting up with it.
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Yes, that's right.
@WHO
has a technical advisory group made up of independent experts who assess
#COVID19
vaccines. The process relies on manufacturers to provide a range of data, and this can take time. The
#COVAXIN
process has unfolded similarly to other vaccines.
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Makes me cry. So true. The heart, humility, strength and perseverance of
@DrTedros
captured so powerfully by
@miaamormottley
, the truth-saying PM of Barbados. ⬇️
“Every call. Every single call that I made on behalf of the people of Barbados to
@DrTedros
and the
@WHO
was answered, whether it was day or night, whether it was weekend or weekday.”
@miaamormottley
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Regarding
#monkeypox
: From the first signals in early May,
@WHO
experts have been working intensely and swiftly on multiple technical, clinical, community-focused, risk comms and other essential work streams to help countries and individuals protect themselves.
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A week after Tigray truce, aid sector still unable to deliver food
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⬇️
#Tigray
war has seen up to half a million dead from violence and starvation, say researchers /via
@globeandmail
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I stand with you,
@PeterHotez
, and other scientists, physicians and researchers who are being grotesquely trolled and threatened.
Dozens of these, this morning. An unprovoked and expanded wave of aggression against the scientists. It’s coming from those expressing allegiance to the far right, election deniers, and QAnon adherents. It’s terrible.
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But I'm sure you already know this, as you're a regular consumer of
@WHO
's
#monkeypox
scientific products, including our global and regional situation reports, guidance and guideline documents, press conferences and LIVE chats, community webinars etc etc.
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"The world is not treating the human race the same way."
@DrTedros
calls for urgent action to help "all human life equally" -- Black and white lives both -- in conflict and crisis zones around the world where people lack food, medicines & other basics.
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One last point: You may also know that there’s no “pandemic declaration” under international health law. PHEIC is the bright red flashing light which governments signed up for. Thankfully, many countries acted swiftly to heed the alarm. Those who didn't came to rue the day.
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Medics in Tigray plead with Ethiopia for insulin airlift as supplies run out
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Update on the health and humanitarian crisis in
#Tigray
- approaching 2 years since it began. Help us help our brothers and sisters there. 👇🧵
The health situation in
#Tigray
, Ethiopia is grim. The ability to meet health needs is extremely limited. WHO has no health supplies available in the Mekelle warehouse. There has been no humanitarian road or air access for 6 weeks. Chronic shortages of fuel and cash continue.
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“Why are we not helping each other as one humanity?” Just heard
@DrTedros
say this. We need to keep asking ourselves such fundamental questions. We must dig deep and understand why some lives are prioritized over others. Will anything change? It had better.
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Just messaged you - thx!
.
@gabbystern
I am making an offer to help work with you as an aerosol scientist who understands airborne transmission of disease. I will let go of the past to help make a better path moving forward. Your DMs are closed--so please contact me directly.
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@AuschwitzMuseum
reminds us that humans are capable of committing genocide.
@HolocaustMuseum
recently warned of growing risk of genocide in
#Tigray
. It's vital to get health & humanitarian aid to our brothers & sisters there before it's too late.
30 October 1944 | An evacuation transport of 1,308 female Jews from
#Auschwitz
reached the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Among them probably sisters Anne & Margot Frank. They died there of typhus most probably in February 1945.
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Interesting:
@WSJopinion
calls on Prez-Elect Trump to liquidate the family business & avoid conflicts of interest
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Patients dying as conflict prevents supplies reaching Tigray hospitals
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My pronouns are Thanks/Fauci.
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In this piece,
@ghoshworld
writes of mounting evidence of a 'major humanitarian disaster' in
#Tigray
, citing
@DrTedros
& calling on a distracted world not to forget the suffering of people there & elsewhere.
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Dear Senator, with all due respect this is untrue, unjust & unhelpful.
@WHO
&
@DrTedros
are working in solidarity with Member States & partners to end
#COVID19
& improve global health security. Glad to discuss further offline if you’d like to DM me. Thx!
Pres. Biden’s “Pretty please, with sugar on top” isn’t going to work with China and
@WHO
.
The WHO’s Dr. Tedros hums the Chinese national anthem in the shower while the American people pay his salary.
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But weeks earlier -- as early as Jan 1, 2020 --
@WHO
experts were on the job, treating the unknown pathogen with the utmost seriousness and partnering with scientists from America and other countries who were embedded with us. I think you're aware.
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Thanks for listening, stay well, and thanks again for the Austrian pumpkin oil :-).
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Agree. Grateful to the few journalists who’ve been reporting recently on the humanitarian/health crisis caused by the 1.5-year
#Tigray
siege, including:
@berhe_lucy
,
@CharlesEmptaz
,
@OlivierJobard
, and
@Roduza
.
There just isn’t enough media coverage or world attention on this.
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A thing of beauty: print version of the
@washingtonpost
masthead editorial on the need for equitable and wise allocation of
#COVID19
vaccines, which
@WHO
and the ACT-Accelerator are working hard to achieve.
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'Taiwan never provided any warning to
@WHO
about the novel coronavirus or its transmissibility. The email, the contents of which have been confirmed by both Taiwan and
@WHO
, did not contain any new information about the coronavirus...
With strong US support, Taiwan claims that it provided "early warning" to the WHO about Covid and “human-to human-transmission”. The US and Taiwan have used this claim to attack the WHO and China.
There’s just one problem: it’s totally false.
My latest:
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From this
@BBC
piece: "The medics said more than 40% of children aged under five years who come to the hospital are malnourished - double the 2019 rate."
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Vaccines on horseback: Fiji doctors take long and muddy road to protect remote villages from Covid
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This US DOD timeline shows CDC springing into action early on: Here’s: HHS timeline: And CDC itself:
Here's Dr. Birx on ABC echoing Trump's attacks on the WHO and saying "it wasn't until the beginning of March that we could all fully see how contagious this virus was." (This is false -- the CDC was warning coronavirus could cause "severe" disruption to American life in Feb.)
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What
@WHO
knew about the outbreak from Day 1, countries & scientists around the world also knew. It’s our modus operandi.
The W.H.O. had at least 10 meetings with U.S. officials in Beijing while the virus raged in January— further shredding Trump’s blame-deflecting claim that W.H.O. left U.S. in the dark. New column:
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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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Spotted in this article: "And while other vaccine developers have fiercely guarded their intellectual property during the pandemic,
@PeterHotez
and
@mebottazzi
are in talks to share the license for the vaccine with
@WHO
’s
#COVID19
technology access pool
#CTAP
."
A new coronavirus vaccine heading to India was developed by a small team in Texas. They expect nothing in return.
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Here's
@DrTedros
's opening remarks at
@WHO
's press conference, with strong appeals to help millions in the greater Horn of Africa & in the besieged Tigray region of Ethiopia; for people to protect themselves from
#COVID19
; and the latest on
#monkeypox
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This is why I feel so fortunate to work at
@WHO
and for
@DrTedros
and with colleagues dedicated to serving all people, everywhere.⬇️
In a little over 3 months,
#COVID19
has changed the world in so many ways, bringing us closer together and reaffirming the importance of
#HealthForAll
.
This video shows the key moments so far as WHO works with partners worldwide to fight
#coronavirus
and save lives.
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Thanks,
@raju
. I'm thrilled to be joining
@WHO
and
@DrTedros
! Know I have a lot to learn from the great global team. Sad to be leaving
@gatesfoundation
and my brilliant colleagues and bosses. Geneva, here we come! :-)
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A sad day.
Trump's 3rd executive order today is assault on women's health. "Mexico City policy" strips US support from health clinics around the globe
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Moreover, the latest airstrike hit a flour mill in Tigray, according to Bloomberg, and "most of those killed were women who had been grinding grain at the mill..."
The same day Biden spoke with Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed about peace in Tigray, an Ethiopian government airstrike killed "at least 17 people, including women and children," just "days after dozens more were killed after a drone opened fire on a refugee camp."
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"The UN this month said enough food to feed 950,000 people is currently stuck in warehouses in the regional capital, Mekele, because there is not enough fuel to distribute it within
#Tigray
after several fuel tankers were refused access to the region."
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❤️ Birthday wishes to
@DrTedros
and Blen! ❤️
Happy birthday to my dad and my little sister Blen, who share a birthday. Love you both so much. ♥️
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A brief note: THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART to everyone who has reached out to me & the
@WHO
communications team to offer support. It's beyond amazing how many individuals & organizations have offered to help amplify important
#COVID19
#coronavirus
messages.
#verklempt
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So great to have Jacinda Ardern join
@DrTedros
- and an amazing eagle - to Walk the Talk for
#HealthForAll
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My thanks and respect to the doctors and nurses at Hôpital Ophtalmique Jules-Gonin in Lausanne. The retina has been reattached by a skilled and caring team working a Samedi shift. Merci!
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Heads up: Virtual press conference tomorrow (Saturday, July 23) on the report of the 2nd meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee regarding the multi-country
#monkeypox
outbreak. Hosted by
@DrTedros
. Time: 15h CEST. Tune in via
@WHO
and our other social media channels.
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UNFPA ESARO | Fistula cases soar due to conflict in Tigray, says fistula centre medical director
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U.S. Focused on Delivery of Humanitarian Aid to Ethiopia's Tigray
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Today
@DrTedros
was a guest of President Macron at an historic Bastille Day celebration in France honoring
#healthworkers
saving lives and fighting
#COVID19
. This is a screenshot from French TV.
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So thrilled that
@devisridhar
is participating in this live chat ahead of the most important World Health Assembly in history due to the
#COVID19
pandemic. Few experts have more knowledge & context on global health &
@WHO
.
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Sharing our online Q&As about
#monkeypox
(MPX) including how to protect yourself and loved ones:
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Ethiopian Region of Tigray at 'Serious Risk' of Famine, Warns Top UN Official
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Reporters, in case you missed it, here are
@DrTedros
’s remarks delivered at today’s presser, from
#COVID19
to
#Tigray
to
#Ukraine
to
#MentalHealth
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An extraordinary individual is leading the transformation and modernization of
@WHO
; the international response to the
#COVID19
pandemic; the global effort to establish
#healthforall
; and much more. You can read about
@DrTedros
here:
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Some news about me: I'm joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as Director of Media & External Relations. Truly thrilled and grateful.
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Yes, insulin access is a huge global issue, with a few producers controlling most of the market.
@WHO
is committed to solving this problem:
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Hi, the
@Nature
piece is incorrect. We’ve said many times publicly, not quietly, since early 2021 that understanding the origins is critically important & China should share data & provide access. The work of the SAGO continues as well. We’ve asked Nature for a correction. Thx!
Last year the WHO planned to investigate labs in Wuhan and also worldwide where early COVID-19 cases have been retrospectively detected before 2020.
Today we get to know that the plan has been quietly shelved because of “the politics across the world”.
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Not if we have anything to say about it.
Study suggests relatively wealthy nations will likely be able to vaccinate their entire populations against coronavirus, leaving people in low-income countries waiting, maybe until 2024.
@emilyrauhala
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Radical transparency now:
@WSJopinion
calls on President Trump & family to face reality & disclose all ASAP.
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Joined
@WHO
last Monday as Director of Communications. One's first week in a new job tends to be a blur. It was somewhat like that for me. But what dominated my newbie experience was something else, something wonderful. 1/5
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Saying goodbye to
@gatesfoundation
today after 3 immensely enriching years learning from extraordinary colleagues & partners. Thank you, dears. Next stop:
@WHO
and Geneva!
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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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