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"COVID vaccines: time to confront anti-vax aggression"


Halting the spread of the coronavirus will require a high-level counteroffensive against new destructive forces.


Nearly one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been delivered in less than six months, but anti-vaccine disinformation and targeted attacks on scientists are undermining progress. These threats must be confronted directly, and the authority and expertise of the health community alone aren’t enough to do this.


Accurate, targeted counter-messaging from the global health community is important but insufficient, as is public pressure on social-media companies. The United Nations and the highest levels of governments must take direct, even confrontational, approaches with Russia, and move to dismantle anti-vaccine groups in the United States.


Efforts must expand into the realm of cyber security, law enforcement, public education and international relations. A high-level inter-agency task force reporting to the UN secretary-general could assess the full impact of anti-vaccine aggression, and propose tough, balanced measures. The task force should include experts who have tackled complex global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks and nuclear armament, because anti-science is now approaching similar levels of peril. It is becoming increasingly clear that advancing immunization requires a counteroffensive."

Hotez was born in Hartford, Connecticut to a Jewish family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hotez


Professor Hotez is an expert on parasites; thus studying his ancestry and family history.

https://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/hotez/en/