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"And I reached a point where not being political, not really getting to the root of the problem, is in itself immoral.”
As one of the nation’s leading experts on drug and vaccine delivery, Dr. Peter Hotez, codirector of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, has become an almost ubiquitous presence on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.
But while he’s reliably been loath to discuss the politics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, across the last week or so, as Texas’s numbers have risen, he’s done a noticeable about-face; he’s begun using his television time to counter a White House narrative he describes as a “fairy tale spun by mediocre people” and to decry “an absence of federal leadership.”
He ended a recent tweet about the federal government’s failure to enact an evidence-based plan with a simple “WTF.”
“I’ve really worked hard to only talk about the science and not publicly criticize the White House or other elected officials, but I’ve had to depart from that,” says Hotez, who also serves as dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and has an endowed chair in tropical pediatrics at Texas Children’s Hospital.
“What pushed my hand was the steep rise across our Southern cities, knowing that our low-income neighborhoods are especially getting hit, and, most likely, though the data isn’t in yet, it’s people of color, African American, Hispanic, and Latinx people that are piling into the hospital. So we are as a nation are failing to protect our vulnerable.
And I reached a point where not being political, not really getting to the root of the problem, is in itself immoral.”
On July 12, 2020, former game show host Chuck Woolery found himself in the spotlight after U.S. President Donald Trump retweeted a message from the “Love Connection” star in which he said that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the media, Democrats, and doctors were all lying about the COVID-19 pandemic.
A day later, a screenshot supposedly showing a second tweet from Woolery in which he announced that his son had tested positive for the virus started to go viral.
Some social media users were skeptical that this second message was real. For starters, many people encountered this message as a screenshot, not on Woolery’s timeline. Second, some suspected that the supposed “karma” of these messages was a bit too on the nose.
This was a genuine tweet from Woolery, whose account, unfortunately, was deleted without explanation two days later on July 15. An archived version of that tweet is available here. http://archive.vn/J7Q0S
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