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Please allow me to go back to this question of "do vaccines prevent transmission?". What do vaccines do? Stimulate antibody (from B cells) and T cell responses (not often measured)
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Interesting article in SF Chronicle today about schools and Gov Newsom's financial incentives. People will take what they will but I liked these lines:https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/S-F-Oakland-and-other-large-distri
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Pfizer study shows vaccine should work against this B.1.1.7 UK and South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2. mRNA sequence in Pfizer vaccine likely propietary but Pfizer took a virus with the
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The U.S. has been the epicenter of the pandemic since March 26, since two weeks after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the WHO on March 11. This is due
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Thank you for sending me this paper in Science Immunology (one of many now) showing strong immunity developing in health care workers even after asymptomatic or mild infection. Wanted to
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More on #vaccines e.g. the full report on the Moderna vaccine which is likely to be authorized this week! By the way, there was a ? asked about vials of
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okay, moving on from my contention that poverty, job loss, business loss, loneliness, food/housing insecurity, harm reduction should all figure in our public health recommendations from now on, the CDC’s
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My concern about the almost-complete lockdown order in 5 counties in Bay Area is that it is similar to March, but we have learned so much about the virus since
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On lockdown (which California is considering): Public knows we have learnt much about virus since March including that outdoors safer than indoors so arbitrarily restricting outdoors/parks (like in LA) will
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The airports are apparently very full as the CDC announced today not to travel for Thanksgiving. There seems to be a breakdown in the trust of public health officials and
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The word "lockdown" is really disturbing. San Francisco has essentially been locked down x 8 months. Testing is helpful but acknowledge limitations of each test. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (distance, masks, hand
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I know I am all over the place today but my 2 favorite COVID-19 topics are masking & immunity. Today good day for masking & here is another study (super
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