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Date
2020-07-06 15:21
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker
Andrew Rambaut
Topics
Vaccines

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From Jefferson's wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Jefferson_(epidemiologist) : "His views about the effectiveness of influenza vaccines and his outspokenness about them are also controversial;at a 2007 meeting on pandemic preparedness he was shunned by other vaccine researchers and ate alone."He is getting his revenge for being shunned.

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From Jefferson's wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Jefferson_(epidemiologist) : "His views about the effectiveness of influenza vaccines and his outspokenness about them are also controversial;at a 2007 meeting on pandemic preparedness he was shunned by other vaccine researchers and ate alone."He is getting his revenge for being shunned. quoted / not their view quoted_external sentence carries quotation marks asserts

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  1. 2020-07-06 15:21 Andrew Rambaut
    From Jefferson's wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Jefferson_(epidemiologist) : "His views about the effectiveness of influenza vaccines and his outspokenness about them are also controversial;at a 2007 meeting on pandemic preparedness he was shunned by other vaccine researchers and ate alone."He is getting his revenge for being shunned.
  2. 2020-07-06 15:21 Andrew Rambaut open
    Also: > On 5 July, 2020 it was widely reported Jefferson claimed the coronavirus may not have originated in China. His theory was that a virus may simply lie dormant for years before suddenly emerging. Jefferson pointed to the isolationof Western Samoa which lost 22% of its population to Spanish Flu in 1918, Jefferson reportedly claiming that theislands had no contact with the outside world. His claim was in direct conflict with the generally accepted and well documented notion that Spanish Flu arrived on board the SS Talune on 7 November, 1918, when six infectedpassengers arriving from New Zealand were allowed ashore.Wikipedia has basically done a 'Let me google that for you' on him.

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