1/3: Taking flak for expressing my concerns about our national #COVID19 response to a massive resurgence in the American South.

2/3: My major reason: I am very worried that this virus is disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations living in poverty. I saw it happen in NOLA this past spring and now I believe it's repeating in low-income neighborhoods across the Southern half of the US

3/3: I want to know that I am doing all I can to sound the alarm, prevent a surge in deaths among African American, LatinX, Native American populations in Southern US. I don't want to wake up at the end of July and realize I didn't do all I could to halt a humanitarian tragedy

This is also why I trained as a physician-scientist and devoted my life to developing #vaccines for neglected diseases of poverty. https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0007117