One of the greatest things to come out of the quarantine is judging people on Zoom calls by their bookshelves. In fact, there’s a whole Twitter account dedicated to it. Some people use their shelves to throw shade, and Houston’s own Dr. Peter Hotez went on
The Rachel Maddow Show last week to do exactly that.
Hotez is the Co-Director for Vaccine Development at Texas Children's Hospital Center as well the Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor. He’s also a frequent guest on Maddow’s show these days to talk about the efforts to fight the COVID outbreak with a new vaccine. Hotez appeared to discuss the recent decision of a government advisory board to move forward with the Pfizer vaccine, which the FDA has also subsequently approved. Hotez was quick to acknowledge safety concerns regarding the speed of the vaccine’s development, but countered it was necessary when 400,000 American deaths were projected by Inauguration Day 2021.