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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. Andy Slavitt  🇺🇸 💉‏Verified account @ASlavitt 16 Dec 2020

      COVID Update December 16: Why you won’t hear me use the phrase “anti-vaxxer.” 1/

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    2. Andy Slavitt  🇺🇸 💉‏Verified account @ASlavitt 16 Dec 2020

      First let me tell you my opinion of vaccines. If they hadn’t been invented we would be so much worse off as a planet. It’s probably a more important invention than Tik Tok. 2/

      15 replies 62 retweets 1,176 likes
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    3. Andy Slavitt  🇺🇸 💉‏Verified account @ASlavitt 16 Dec 2020

      And the story of the first people who took vaccines is a story of “you’re serious. You’re going to put that in my body. GTFO.” But the story with small pox goes (more or less) the first does went to the vaccine makers kid & when it worked all the next went to the king’s kids. 3/

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    4. Andy Slavitt  🇺🇸 💉‏Verified account @ASlavitt 16 Dec 2020

      But the king in this story was not an anti-vaxxer. He had legit questions. They did a (admittedly small) clinical trial and he was like “wow, great.” 4/

      1 reply 22 retweets 607 likes
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    5. Andy Slavitt  🇺🇸 💉‏Verified account @ASlavitt 16 Dec 2020

      In 2003 in Northern Nigeria, the world was on the cusp of Polio eradication when a rumor about a the vaccine caused a year long protest. That rumor turned out to have no substance but caused the world to lose years & $500 million in eradication efforts.5/

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    6. Andy Slavitt  🇺🇸 💉‏Verified account @ASlavitt 16 Dec 2020

      Rumors have lots of power when there’s no good information or very legitimately limited information out there. And this was before the Internet, Russian bots, Rudy Giuliani, bot farms, and all the other ways bad things spread. 7/

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    7. Aliza "I think and I vote."‏ @alizatw 17 Dec 2020
      Replying to @ASlavitt

      2003 was not "before the Internet". It wasn't even before social media.

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Dec 2020
      Replying to @alizatw @ASlavitt

      While technically true, all that existed then were blogs, Usenet newsgroups, and BBS, at least for most people. Having come from the 1990s on Usenet and started my first blog in 2004, I look at the pre-2002 (or so) Internet era as so different from now as to be, yes, another era.

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