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There are other infections -- for example, syphilis -- that spread through other ways other than sexual transmission.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don't think we have enough information at this point to completely classify it. I think there's some suggestions, but there's more study that needs to be done, there are other infections -- for example, syphilis -- that spread through other ways other than sexual transmission.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Some of the resource-poor countries where these diseases are endemic sometimes have a clearer path to getting these tests in people's hands than in the United States, where there's so much regulation and it's so hard to do a point-of-care test, i do think there's an advantage to having these tests in endemic countries so that people can get diagnoses quickly.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It would be great if Quest and LabCorp could do it. It'd be great if there were kits that people could put in sexually transmitted infection clinics to definitively diagnose, but I don't think right now you're hampering the public health response, just because there's no other orthopoxvirus circulating.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think that more diagnostic tests closer to patients is better. Commercial assays are even better, but the fact is, there are no other orthopoxviruses out there right now.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Those of us who know that this is going to be an endemic respiratory virus have been waiting to understand what the virus does in order to become more like its other family members that cause about 25 % of our common colds. So people are on the lookout for those changes. And maybe this is that -- maybe it's not.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think it is pretty easy to say if you are fully vaccinated, the breakthrough you get with Omicron is going to be milder, even if this gets around some of our vaccine-induced protection, it is not an all-or-done effect.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It raises the possibility that maybe this is not going to be as bad as some people were fearing, that doesn't mean it's not bad at all.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think the focus needs to be on vaccines, not on masks for vaccinated individuals, i don’t see that being a major way the trajectory of cases changes. If it’s a rare occurrence maybe contagious in a small number of people- how is that going to make a dent in transmission going on from unvaccinated [people]?
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There's definitely issues with stigmatization where the variants are being described and then labeling them based on that country. We know that there's already backlash in India, regarding the Indian variant and people mentioning it that way, so, I understand why it's happening. I think it's just a lot for people to think about this far down the line.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The primary objective is to deny this virus the ability to kill at the rate that it could, and that has been achieved, we have in effect tamed the virus.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We’ve gotten spoiled because we’ve seen the Moderna and Pfizer numbers. I know people are going to be alarmed, but 60% efficacy against the new variant is acceptable.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The current system appears to be faltering at multiple levels so I do think having more distributors involved is prudent, it will be important however to maintain central coordination.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
There's starting to be some level of evidence, but I don't think it's ironclad, it's not definitive yet.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
That's likely what dogs are reacting to, we know for other purposes, we use dogs that way for bomb-sniffing, for drugs, and they have tried to use them in cancer diagnosis. They've been trying to use them for C. diff diagnosis as well.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There has not been enough vaccination to see a full effect nationally.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I wouldn't let our guard down, biologically speaking, nothing is changing.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The virus has established itself in the human population and it's not going anywhere, we're going to see a lot of transmission until we cross the threshold for herd immunity.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The virus will find it harder to move around between person to person, especially when people are doing activities outdoors in the summer, we didn't really see the seasonality this summer because there were so many people who were not immune to the virus.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
My big concern is because we are so intensely privatizing this rollout and relying on pharmacies, we really are giving our wealthier folks more access to this vaccine.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I think the overarching goal of getting all eligible people vaccinated has to take precedence, we can’t let an overly dogmatic adherence to priority groups to cause inefficiencies in vaccine administration.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I think it’s the right move based on epidemiological data and the difficulty people have in adhering to 14 days.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
They're only testing for what they know -- this [ coronavirus ] is an unknown unknown, we're just not that great at diagnosing them. We look for the usual suspects. We're always looking for the horses, but never the zebras.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We need to figure out the mechanism and understand it at the molecular level to be able to say for sure how this is occurring -- that this is really the O blood type and not something that kind of tracks with O blood type, we're starting to see enough now that I think it's an important research question to answer.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is part of the idea of not having just one vaccine candidate going forward, it gives you a little more insurance.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It does appear in this study that there is a significant proportion of individuals that have this cross-reactive T cell immunity from other coronavirus infections that may have some impact on how they fare with the novel coronavirus. I think the big question is trying to jump from the fact that they have these T cells to understanding what the role of those T cells might be.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think that there likely is a lot of pressure on vaccine developers to release information as quickly as possible because of the fact that we know that the only way back to any kind of normalcy is through a vaccine, there are I think a lot of incentives to try and amplify good news when most things that we care about in the pandemic are bad news.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's moved the needle a little bit for me -- I think that it shows that it's safe, i anxiously await Phase 2 trial data, which is much more useful to us in trying to demonstrate whether or not this vaccine will ultimately be effective.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Over the last several weeks it's become easier for me to order tests for people, but the point is doctors and people have to be comfortable ordering tests and not worrying about supply chain issues.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It tells us this virus is much more widespread than we thought, the hospitalization rate may be much lower because the denominator( of people infected) is so much bigger.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's not the middle of a pandemic that you do this type of thing.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's a very elegant solution, and that's why they could go to vaccine trials so quickly, because all they need is a sequence of the virus, they don't have to tinker with the virus to make a vaccine candidate. They can just make a vaccine candidate with genetic sequence of the virus.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you're sending it to Quest or LabCorp, the test has to be sent out of the hospital, that requires paperwork.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There are many disincentives to testing, what we really need is to have test kits in the hands of doctors and hospitals, where they don't have to send it out.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In an outbreak your really have to interpret fatality rates with a very skeptical eye, because often it's only the very severe cases that are coming to people's attention, it's very hard to say those numbers represent anything like the true burden of infection.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There is always going to be a risk of infection with blood products.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are fighting a disease now in 2019 that should have been off the table in the 1960s with the development of the vaccine, it should be viewed as an embarrassment that so many Americans have turned away from vaccines that we are having a record year for measles.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Anthrax is a zoonotic disease with human cases often tied to animal exposure. For example, multiple cases have occurred at African drumming events when individuals were exposed to animal drum skins that contained anthrax spores, because of the risk of spillover into humans, it is crucial to monitor animal anthrax outbreaks and delimit the exposure of humans while promptly administering post-exposure antibiotics to those exposed. It is also important to emphasize Anthrax is a major biowarfare threat and being prepared for outbreaks of animal origin directly enhances abilities to respond to a potential bioattack using anthrax.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Not even the exposure we had in 2001, we're talking about the Super Bowl or something like that.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
What's dangerous is when it's in something that's being directly injected into a person, that bacteria doesn't have to go through any kind of barrier. It's a superhighway into the bloodstream.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
There are certain bacterial genes that are more worrisome than others, that are much harder to treat, these genes are lurking in American patients and they are spreading in hospitals and health care facilities.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There is a whole confluence of issues that may be resulting in more cases being reported.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There may be limits to what antibiotic stewardship can do.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Antibiotics resistance isn’t just something that happened after the discovery of penicillin.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
That’s why you have to take certain precautions when you are working with a cow in the birthing process to make sure that you don’t inhale the material from the birth that may contain the Q fever bacteria.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Q fever is something that is well-known to be transmitted to people via livestock, especially around the issues in birth.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Q fever is a rare diagnosis to make, it’s not terribly common, but that’s because not many people think about it, so they aren’t testing for it with the same frequency.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
A lot of that material from the birth or the spontaneous abortion or miscarriage of the livestock can transmit it. The main way that people get it is because they inhale material from the birthing of a livestock animal, that’s why you have to take certain precautions when you are working with a cow in the birthing process to make sure that you don’t inhale the material from the birth that may contain the Q fever bacteria.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If antibiotic resistance continues to increase, all of the stuff that’s part of modern medicine and done routinely will become more dangerous.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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