Andrew Wehrman: @profwehrman.bsky.social (@profwehrman) 's Twitter Profile
Andrew Wehrman: @profwehrman.bsky.social

@profwehrman

Historian at CMU. Author of The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution (JHU Press, 2022), “Expert in old-timey vaccines”

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1/n Tomorrow or soon, I will do a Tweet X thread on how the antivaccine, health & wellness, nutrition supplements industries joined forces with far right American politics to generate “crisis of chronic illness” propaganda. It’s an interesting story 25+ years in the making

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Constitution Day Speaker - Laura Edwards "The Constitution and the Reconstruction of Rights after the Civil War" on Friday, September 27, 2024, 3:30 PM in the Sarah and Daniel Opperman Auditorium, CMU Park Library.

Constitution Day Speaker - Laura Edwards
"The Constitution and the Reconstruction of Rights after the Civil War" on Friday, September 27, 2024, 3:30 PM in the Sarah and Daniel Opperman Auditorium, CMU Park Library.
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🧵📣 THE DEAD POOL: Since JD Vance wants to Concentrate folks w/pre-existing conditions into separate Camps, let's talk about it. 1/ acasignups.net/24/10/02/dead-…

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Let's go back to the pre-ACA healthcare landscape. This is what it looked like in 2012...*before* the ACA's major provisions went into effect. Half the US had employer coverage. Another third had Medicare or Medicaid. ~11M had "individual" insurance; ~48M had nothing at all. 2/

Let's go back to the pre-ACA healthcare landscape. This is what it looked like in 2012...*before* the ACA's major provisions went into effect.

Half the US had employer coverage. Another third had Medicare or Medicaid. ~11M had "individual" insurance; ~48M had nothing at all. 2/
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The Missing Information in Anti-Vaccine Propaganda: Anti-vaccine activists do not only overstate and even invent vaccine risks, they never tell you about the risks of not vaccinating. open.substack.com/pub/stopantiva… via Vincent Iannelli, MD

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U.S. National Archives please don't adopt ai llm tools! Doing so is literally the death of history and the death of the archives. Your own account says 90% accuracy, that is unacceptable. Ai severs the past from primary sources and jumbles together word associations lacking context.

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"Among children born during 1994–2023, routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented approximately 508 million cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and 1,129,000 deaths, resulting in direct savings of $540 billion and societal savings of $2.7 trillion."

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An element of this election that has been understated nationally is that in 2020 Trump was running a pro-vaccination campaign. There was hope the Covid vaccine was coming soon. In 2024 with RFK Jr., he’s running an anti-vaccination campaign, the first of its kind in U.S. history.

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Not to be forgotten, the women 65+ who seem to be turning hard toward Kamala are the ones who have most witnessed the harms caused by Covid and are by percentage the most vaccinated in the country. Trump’s anti-public health platform is anathema for this group.

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I'm looking forward to giving the Coy James Lecture in American History at Albion College on Monday Jan. 27! Come hear me speak on the centrality of inoculation and public health to the founding of the United States. albion.edu/event/coy-jame…

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Kennedy claims he's a science person after: A. Ignoring much of the data about thimerosal and including junk science in his thimerosal book. B. Denying HIV in his Fauci book. C. Repeatedly making false claims about vaccines. He's not a science person. Just anti-vaccine.

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Retweeting this 🧵about the damage that can be done simply by legitimizing an anti-vaccination huckster and allowing him to gain a bigger audience.

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Tennessee Families for Vaccines gave away copies of my book to legislators yesterday as they declared that "protecting public health is patriotic!" How awesome is that?! I hope it makes a difference! The US has been pro-vaccination since its founding. Let's not change it.

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I will be talking about the United State's 225 year streak of support for vaccination. When Thomas Jefferson first heard of it months before being inaugurated the 3rd President in December 1800 and wrote "every friend of humanity must look with pleasure on this discovery."

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Not only did the Revolutionary Americans support inoculation (and later vaccination), they claimed inoculation to have been a proud American invention up there with Franklin's lightning rod. Putting an anti-vaxxer in charge of health and defunding scientific research is an insult

Not only did the Revolutionary Americans support inoculation (and later vaccination), they claimed inoculation to have been a proud American invention up there with Franklin's lightning rod. Putting an anti-vaxxer in charge of health and defunding scientific research is an insult