Peter Hotez

Dr. Peter Hotez, PhD is a Professor and researcher and death of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children's Hospital.

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Hotez received a bachelor's degree from Yale University before attending the Weill Cornell Medical College where he received his Doctorate in Medicine. His doctoral training included vaccine development.

Hotez and colleagues are the recipients of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health funding, most of which is for RBD recombinant protein-based SARS vaccine for biodefense.¹⁾

• Jul-Sep, 1997 Hotez et al in Emerging Infectious Diseases: Emerging and reemerging helminthiases and the public health of China
• Jan 24, 2019 Wang et al (Hotez) in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: China’s shifting neglected parasitic infections in an era of economic reform, urbanization, disease control, and the Belt and Road Initiative

He is also University Professor at Baylor University, Fellow in Disease and Poverty at the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, a Neoconservative think tank.

Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at Texas A&M University.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hotez was awared a million dollars per year in grant money from the NIAID to study receptor binding domain protein for use in a potential vaccine for COVID-19.²⁾

• Dec 30, 2021 Washington Post: New Coronavirus Vaccine Developed by a Team in Texas to be Deployed in India.

• Apr 27, 2021 in the the scientific journal Nature: COVID vaccines: time to confront anti-vax aggression
  • Suggests treating those whom he derides as anti-vaxxers should be targeted in ways similar to terrorists.
• Dec 14, 2020 on Twitter: “Absolutely no Americans are being forced to take a vaccine”
• Dec 14, 2020 on Twitter: Suggests that having helped with an ivermectin program for other diseases, he understands it (and is not biased?).

• Jan 29, 2021 Houston Chronical: With new COVID variants looming, Dr. Peter Hotez says Biden will have to step up his vaccine game
  • Suggests rush to approval of the AstraZeneca vaccine. But he has a conflict of interest:
    • “…And there’s also the recombinant protein vaccine our lab has developed at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. In India they’re scaling that up to a billion doses. Nobody from the White House has approached us to say, “Hey, Peter, what can we do to bring that vaccine in.” There seem to be blinders: All they can see is getting the mRNA vaccines. I don’t quite know what’s driving that. We have to figure out a way to bring the other ones on board.”
• Dec 16, 2021 Dr. Hotez: Airline CEOs Objecting to Masks on Planes Have ‘Emotional Intelligence of a Doorknob’
  • Response by Dr. Paul Alexander.³⁾
• Dec 31, 2021 Hotez states that 200,000 Americans died from COVID-19 because they were unvaccinated, suggesting that antiscience attitudes are what kills people.