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Peter Hotez

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This could be really, very dire for our country as we head into the spring, now, we're in a race. We're in a race to see how quickly we can vaccinate the American people.

– Peter Hotez

Found on CNN 22 days ago Top News

We think long-haul symptoms are not due to active virus infection, but to prolonged inflammatory responses to the virus.

– Peter Hotez

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

They come up profoundly small, and that's tragic. And it's costing American lives, until they can figure out a way to modernize and do big things, we will never solve this problem.

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Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

If we're still in this situation a month from now, we're going to be in a lot of trouble.

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Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

Right now, encouraging employees to get vaccinated and creating that leave policy for that purpose is a great idea.

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Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

By the time you wait( 85) days, a sequence can go from being a rare variant to being half of the circulating virus in a population.

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Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

That variant from United Kingdom was noted in United Kingdom back in September, and it's probably been in the US since September, we're going to see homegrown variants that are similar in character in terms of transmissibility, I can almost promise you that.

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Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

But we know that this is a range, it's a probability, and roughly about 90 % become positive within 10 or 11 days, so possibly that's what they're looking at is cutting it short those extra three days because 90 % of the people are going to be positive by that period, and even 14 days is not perfect.

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Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

What that means, practically speaking, is that Covid-19 could be the single leading cause of death in the United States on a daily basis.

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Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

Intuitively, Baylor College of Medicine doesn't make sense to claim 92 % protection just based on 20 events. But we'll have to see the data, the regulators need to see the data and a regulatory authority that has experience should review the data such as the EMA, the European Medicines Agency. They're the ones that really need to look at this and say, well, you know, this is too small, really, for you to say is 92 % effective.

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Found on CNN 3 months ago World

This is the time when we could be entering one of the worst periods of our epidemic and one of our worst periods in modern American public health, i'm very worried for the nation.

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Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

This winter -- this November, December, January, February -- could be the worst time in our epidemic, get ready to hunker down.

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Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

The updated guidance would have been fine if it came out last May, we knew all of these things months ago.

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Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

This is the single largest public health failure in the modern history of the United States, certainly, in the last hundred years, and it happened because of the refusal by the White House to launch a national campaign and a national strategy against the virus. So it's beyond upsetting.

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Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

And it happened because of the refusal by the White House to launch a national campaign and a national strategy against the virus. So it's beyond upsetting.

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Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

It should be added to the growing list of compounds that are tested in laboratory animals. That's it, the likelihood that this would actually emerge as a proven therapy is still remote.

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Found on CNN 6 months ago Health

Remember, it's not just the deaths. It's this terrible, disabling... long-lasting disabilities to the lung, to the vascular system, to the heart, to the brain, we're seeing long-term cognitive deficits. This is a terrible illness.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Health

In many states, like Texas, Florida, Arizona, Covid-19 once again is the single leading daily cause of death.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Health

One( reason) is this steep acceleration, we're approaching( Fauci's) apocalyptic prediction of 100,000 cases a day.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Health

We just don't have the leadership to make that happen.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

These are not' hot spots' or'em bers.' Instead, we are seeing a massive resurgence of Covid-19 across the American South, especially in our metro areas, now at 50,000 cases per day and rapidly approaching 100,000 cases per day in the coming weeks, this is not a temporary problem and it is not limited to a few hot spots.

– Peter Hotez

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

It didn't contain any data, so basically -- it's opinion. It was spin and opinion.

– Peter Hotez

Found on CNN 8 months ago Health

Trying to do science by press release, without backing it up, either with a traditional journal or a preprint... has universally led to misunderstanding and has no place in science. The biotechs are doing it because they're writing for their shareholders, they're writing for their investors, but it's being done in a way that's oblivious to its public health impact and needs to stop.

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Found on CNN 8 months ago Health

At least in the metro areas, we've got people wearing masks now, the bars are closed and we've got some advocacy coming out of the county judge and the mayor, i don't know how much this will really slow this incredibly aggressive rise. It's like trying to stop a train coming down the tracks.

– Peter Hotez