JOINT CHAPTER EDUCATION:
CALIFORNIA APIC COORDINATING COUNCIL & INLAND EMPIRE APIC CHAPTER 074
PRESENT A VIRTUAL CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM
Thursday, July 18, 2024 from 1:00PM - 2:30PM, PST
Topic: "Global Vaccinations & Antipoverty Vaccines: Science Vs. The Anti-Science"
Speaker: Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, DSc (hon), FASTMH, FAAP
Zoom Meeting Link
Will discuss how we both address vaccine equity and a rising an aggressive globalizing antiscience empire. Globally, our Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development is accelerating a low-cost recombinant protein vaccines for global health including COVID vaccines released in India and Indonesia, where almost 100 million doses have been administered, and now a new human hookworm vaccine is showing promise to become the second parasitic disease vaccine after the malaria was licensed for the African Continent. In the US substantial progress has been made in vaccinating the population versus COVID19, with the important exception of an estimated 200,000 unvaccinated Americans who lost their lives because refused COVID19 vaccinations. This antivaccine defiance has evolved over the last 20 years beginning around disinformation claiming vaccines cause autism, but now increasingly around a framework of health freedom or medical freedom. The health freedom movement is now a political one espoused by some elected officials, news outlets, contrarian intellectuals or pseudointellectuals, and even extremist groups. It is a complex ecosystem that targets both biomedical science and scientists with dangerous consequences for the nation not only around vaccinations but also other health and science interventions. It has begun to globalize to Canada, Western Europe, and increasingly low- and middle-income countries.
