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HOSPITALIZATIONS AS METRIC OF SUCCESS RATHER THAN CASES: @nytimes opinions piece we wrote 2 1/2 weeks back may have seemed forward looking but really seems to make sense now in light of @omicron variant
CDC said today breakthrough common; took Singapore data that viral load decreases more quickly & Netherlands data that virus less infectious with breakthroughs; shorted isolation to 5 days (then mask x 5 days); no quarantine if can mask 10 days
time.com/6129225/omicro…
Vaccines really work & if you want to encourage vaccinations (and boosters in those who need), stress how they work even in light of #omicron by not adopting 2020 strategies for 2022
time.com/6131104/rethin…
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1/ Wonderful don't-miss hour at #UCSFMGR with a candid COVID convo b/w Drs @ashishkjha & @Bob_Wachter. Dr @ashishkjha was a fmr @UCSFIMChiefs at the VA, a leading policy expert & is now a trusted #SciComm expert on all things COVID-related: the Walter Cronkite of our time.
2/ Boosters: FDA mtg today on Moderna. Jha says "POTUS mostly got it right" re: boosters. We still see v hi levels of protection w/ severe illness but even prevention of milder breakthru is important. Concentrate on high-risk ppl 1st. NOT a tradeoff w/vaxing the world/the unvaxed
3/ "We can do both!" says Jha. We already have ~90 mil doses sitting in states now & have to distribute those, can't rapidly logistically move doses frm your CVS to India. Actual # of booster doses is "drop in the bucket compared to global supply." Still need #GlobalVaccineEquity
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"Dr. Gottlieb sees Covid’s ‘pandemic phase’ ending when antiviral pills, kids' vaccines available": wanted to explain from infectious diseases principles what @ScottGottliebMD means by this which makes sense to me
cnb.cx/3DjvoR0
There was a time between alpha and delta when there was talk of herd immunity - where the vaccinated or immune would protect the non-immune. But delta is so transmissible, that it changed the equation & the dialogue
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
Now "control" and "endemicity" being discussed (as in article I wrote for @washingtonpost above) where control is a place where the virus is brought down to low circulating levels but outbreaks still seen among unvaccinated & ongoing vaccination of susceptible (kids) needed
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