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Many thanks Edward!

This is Shannon Dickson here on early Monday morning, June 17th. And I been impressed through out the pandemic, with your in-depth insights, such as found in your most recent 'Framing the Imprint: Omicron and Original Antigenic Sin', an amazing article!

Also, I would much appreciate the opportunity to have a relatively brief phone call with you at some point, at your own convenience and whenever you have a bit of free time, from roughly say, 15 minutes to half and hour tops ... if possible.

I'm also hoping you might be able to connect me with Dr. Paul Offit at some point for a similar brief connection by phone. I much admire you both, as you may well already know.

I'm 72 years old and my wife, Magdalena, and I are in the same age group.

And I am president of Afibbers.org, the longest running patient education and advocacy resource online dating back roughly 30 years now, with my main focus our advocacy and education in Cardiology and Electrophysiology, in helping our large group of 'Afibbers' making their best choices toward minimizing and improving Atrial Fibrillation around the U.S. and Canada.

One last thing, you might find interesting is that I contracted oral polio at 10 yrs old in the fall of 1962 from the Sabin vaccine during the initial 'Sabin on Sundays' oral polio campaign in the U.S. to inoculate as many folks from polio as possible back in 1962.

From then on, polio has been a significant part of my life. And the great care and compassion I experienced during the roughly 2 years from 1962 of dedicated physical therapy as I partially recovered over time with the wonderful doctors and PT nurses in the Houston Medical Center back in the day with large polio clinics.

One aspect is for sure, you would be very hard pressed to find any actual polio patients who would have ever become an 'antivaxxer' ... not with all the great care and compassion we all experienced back in the day that cemented our natural love for public health and science! :-).

Cheers!

Shannon Dickson

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