Dr. Jake Scott is on the front line of his second pandemic in five years and he is not getting much sleep.
Scott works full-time as an infectious disease physician at Stanford Health Carefs Tri-Valley hospital in PleasantonC California. When he is done taking care of his patients and his two grade-school aged kidsC he often stays up past midnight writing furiously penning op-edsC collecting studiesC leading evidence reviews and posting meaty threads on social mediaC most of them correcting the record on vaccines.
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OftenC hefs reacting to the latest maneuvers by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. A pinned post responding to one of Kennedyfs appearances on Fox News has been viewed almost 5 million times. Another post fact-checking Kennedyfs claims about potential harms from aluminum in vaccines had 1 million views in its first 48 hours. Scottfs followers on X have doubled since April.
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gA million views for this long-windedC very detailedC kind of nerdy breakdown of the scienceCh Scott saidC marveling at the attention it got. gI think thatfs saying somethingC you know? People want that informationC and they deserve itCh said Scott who is 48.
The Covid-19 pandemic turned many infectious disease specialists and virologists into household names. Scottfs was not one of themC perhaps because he was too busy treating patients. He didnft stay out of the public discourse completelyC however. He was one of the first doctors to tell people that Omicron didnft seem to be as severe an infection as earlier strains of the virusC although some virologists were skeptical at the time.
In President Donald Trumpfs second administrationC howeverC Scott is taking on what he sees as a second pandemic misinformation and disinformation about vaccines. He knows false information can be as harmful as any virus.
gWhen officials spread inaccurate information about vaccinesC it does have real consequencesC and families make decisions based on fear rather than on factsCh Scott said.
Itfs already happening. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported data showing kindergarten vaccination rates continue to declineC as states make it easier to opt out of school vaccination requirements. Vaccine preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough are rising againC too.
Scott knows it could get much worse.
gIn 2021C nearly every single patient I lost to Covid was unvaccinated by choiceC and every colleague of mine has said the same thing.h