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I hoped the Nature Medicine article on the genomic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 would settle this. But probably didn't get much visibility, i would not do anything about this right now. It is a shiny object that will go away in time.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You know, maybe we under-invested in research on human behavior, i never imagined a year ago, when those vaccines were just proving to be fantastically safe and effective, that we would still have 60 million people who had not taken advantage of them because of misinformation and disinformation that somehow dominated all of the ways in which people were getting their answers.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There is no evidence really to say. Most of the scientific community, myself included, think that is a possibility, butfar more likely, this was anatural way in which a virusleft a bat, maybe traveled throughsome other species and got tohumans.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I’m really sorrythat the lab leak has become such adistraction for so many peoplebecause frankly, we still don’tknow, there is no evidence really to say. Most of the scientific community, myself included, think that is a possibility, butfar more likely, this was anatural way in which a virusleft a bat, maybe traveled throughsome other species and got tohumans.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I did write that,and I will stand by that, basically, these fringe epidemiologists whoreally did not have thecredentials to be making sucha grand sweeping statement, were saying just let the virus run through the population andeventually then everybody would have had it and everything will be okay.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We in this country have somehowgotten all fractured into ahyperpolarized politicizedview that never should havebeen mixed with publichealth, it has been ruinous andhistory will judge harshlythose people who havecontinued to defocus theeffort and focus onconspiracies and things thatare demonstrably false. Shameon all us that we’ve gotten intothis kind of pickle.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I’m really sorrythat the lab leak has become such adistraction for so many peoplebecause frankly, we still don’tknow.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We won’t know unless China decides to open up on this which they have not done, and shame on them for that.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
So I'm sorry I was opposed to that, I still am, and I'm not going to apologize for it.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I am hopeful that that is anindication that while incrediblycontagious, this virus may be abit less likely to make peoplesick.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I did not imagine there would be 60 million people who, faced with compelling evidence of the life-saving nature of Covid vaccines, would still say,' No, not for me,'.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I have done everything I can to stay out of any kind of political, partisan debates because it is really not a place where medical research belongs, i was not going to compromise scientific principles to just hold onto the job.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The problem, of course, is if this is so infectious -- and we might see hundreds of thousands of cases every day, maybe even a million cases in a day from Omicron -- even if it's a little less severe, you are going to have a lot of people in the hospital and our hospitals are already really stretched with Delta, especially in the northern part of the country.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We still don't really know -- and there's some controversy about this -- whether Omicron causes the same kind of severity of disease or whether it's a somewhat milder form of the illness.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
National Institutes of Health's clear that Omicron is an extremely contagious variant, that it doubles every two to four days.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think I did several instances say I would not be willing to do that. Here’s probably the most respected knowledgeable infectious disease expert in the world who is basically getting in hot water because he’s speaking the truth to people that do n’t want to hear it ? Is that a reason for me to relieve him of his job ? No. I would not have been willing to do that. They would have had to fire me first.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Well, OK, if it’s that specific. There were people [ like ] Scott Atlas that said do n’t worry about this business of putting on masks or asking people to isolate themselves or stay distanced. Let it rip. Let this virus run through the country until everybody has had it, and we ’ll have herd immunity ’, the consequence of that would have been hundreds of thousands of additional deaths.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Following Thanksgiving, we're seeing cases going up again now over 100,000 new cases every day, and we didn't want to be there, and hospitalizations also going up, and, sadly, deaths now in excess of 1,000 every day, the vast majority of those being unvaccinated people.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It not only boosts the level of antibodies, but it boosts the breadth of coverage that they have of spike proteins that your system hasn't even seen before but is now ready for, it is that phenomenon that I think is going to help us here.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Your best protection against Delta is to get vaccinated, and if you've already been vaccinated and six months have passed since you got Pfizer or Moderna, get your booster, two months since JJ, get your booster, that was a reason already, but now add Omicron to the mix.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We still have, of course, in the US a serious surge of the Delta variant, we should be thinking about that, your best protection against Delta is to get vaccinated, and if you've already been vaccinated and six months have passed since you got Pfizer or Moderna, get your booster, two months since JJ( Johnson Johnson), get your booster.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I do think it’s more contagious when you look at how rapidly it spread through multiple districts in South Africa. It has the earmarks therefore of being particularly likely to spread from one person to another. … What we don’t know is whether it can compete with delta.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I do think it’s more contagious, when you look at how rapidly it spread through multiple districts in South Africa.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Those are preventable deaths. Probably at least 100,000 of the deaths that have happened this year didn't need to.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Christians, of all people, are supposed to be particularly worried about their neighbors, if you are a Christian, or if you're anybody who has not yet gotten vaccinated, hit the reset button on whatever information you have that's causing you to be doubtful or hesitant or fearful, and look at the evidence.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Much of National Institutes of Health is this disinformation that is so widely spread on the internet, and which has, I think, caused a lot of people to be confused or fearful about what the vaccinations might do to them, and that is truly heartbreaking when we see, still, more than a thousand people losing their lives to this disease( daily), almost all of them unvaccinated, and therefore didn't have to happen.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You've got to go through two shots, three weeks apart, and then another two weeks after that. So if you got immunized on Halloween and you're, you know, nine years old, it's still going to be December by the time you have that full protection.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is going very steeply upward with no signs of having peaked out.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think the term is terrible because it's scaring people and making it sound as if the vaccines don't work. Let me say very clearly : The vaccines are incredibly effective in preventing hospitalizations, severe cases -- over 90 %. So, let's not let the language get in the way of that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Maybe there are some immunocompromised people there, who though they are vaccinated, are not fully protected, the dynamic changes. There will be need for common sense there.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is not just a matter of people expressing opinions that might be wrong, this is life and death.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
People who have immune deficiencies, who did not get a full response to the original pair of doses from Moderna or Pfizer, or the one dose from JJ -- maybe an additional dose might help those people, i wouldn't call that a booster, though.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I hope people will hear this, right now listening to this : If you are on the fence bout whether vaccination is going to help you, listen to those numbers, why are we waiting folks ? Let's roll up our sleeves if we haven't already done so.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They were not approved by NIH for doing gain of function research, we are of course not aware of other sources of funds or other activities they might have undertaken outside of what our approved grant allowed.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
What has it meant for them to be out of school, which is normally the place where a lot of socialization and education happens for this prolonged period. And what about this issue of being fearful of an illness that might actually affect your families, might suddenly be blamed on you if you were the one who happened to bring the illness in ?
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We might easily exceed that, but I think President Joe Biden's being smart, instead of overpromising and underdelivering, which is sort of what happened back in December, President Joe Biden's going to kind of under promise and then hope to overdeliver.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
At the moment we are not alarmed about that, we are somewhat more concerned about a South African variant.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things,' that would apply really well right here. So whatever is true.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There is a tendency in many White evangelical churches to assume that science is atheistic, god gave us both a sense of God's love and care and compassion, but he also gave us the brain and the opportunity to understand God's creation, which is nature, which includes things like viruses. And I think God expected us to use those gifts to understand how to protect ourselves and others from disease. If we have the opportunity to heal through medicine, I think God expects us to do that and not count on some supernatural intervention to come and save us when he's already given us the chance to be saved by other means.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is a good moment for people to stop and ask themselves :' What can I do to try to be sure that we limit the further infections that otherwise seem to be looming in front of us as cold weather is kicking in and people are indoors, and those curves are going upward, in the wrong direction ?'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is a good moment for people to stop and ask themselves,' What can I do to try to be sure that we limit the further infections that otherwise seem to be looming in front of us as cold weather is kicking in and people are indoors, and those curves are going upward, in the wrong direction ?'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't want to have us, a year from now, having a conversation about how we have in our hands the solution to the worst pandemic of more than 100 years, but we haven't been able to actually convince people to take charge of it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I am ready to roll up my sleeve as soon as they say it's effective.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Now, keep in mind that the likelihood of that is pretty low, this is like the Boy Scout motto,' Be Prepared,'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
From the first week I saw the numbers, and they were not as encouraging as I would have liked.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Speaking for Francis Collins, I think I underestimated the level of public resistance, i didn't expect it to be that widespread.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It'll be really critical to do that if we're going to develop the level of herd immunity across the country so that this doesn't come roaring back the next time, the next fall, the next summer. We won't know.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
One of the things I'm worried about is there's a lot of skepticism in America about the vaccine and something like 25 % of people say I'm not sure I would take that vaccine.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We know that if we could, as Americans, agree to take those recommendations to heart, that we would keep our masks on when we're outside, we'd stay more than six feet apart from each other and we would avoid indoor gatherings where there's a big chance of spread, we wash our hands and all that, then we could implement what we know has worked.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is a lot of progress in therapeutics, we have two proven drugs -- remdesivir and dexamethasone, both proven in rigorous randomized control trials, which is the only way you really know if something works.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We shouldn't feel hopeless here and we know what works, we know that if we could, as Americans, agree to take those recommendations to heart, that we would keep our masks on when we're outside, we'd stay more than six feet apart from each other and we would avoid indoor gatherings where there's a big chance of spread, we wash our hands and all that, then we could implement what we know has worked.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Because we have a number of these( trials), and they all use a different strategy, I am optimistic that at least one, maybe two, maybe three will come through looking like what we need, we want to hedge our bets by having a number of different approaches, so that it's very likely that at least one of them -- and maybe more -- will work.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
No vaccine is going to be put forward unless it's been checked out very thoroughly, both in terms of' Is it safe ?' and' Does it protect you ?'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Obviously that's not our favorite. It would be much better if this could all be done with a single injection.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Africa is now beginning to experience lots of cases of COVID-19. We might very well want to run part of the trial there, where we know we can collect the data effectively.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Ironically, if we're really successful using public health measures to stamp out the hot spots of viral infection, it will be harder to test the vaccine.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If you're in a circumstance where you really, really don't want to miss a diagnosis of somebody who's already carrying the virus, you'd like to have something that has a higher sensitivity than that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you're in a circumstance where you really, really don't want to miss a diagnosis of somebody who's already carrying the virus, you'd like to have something that has a higher sensitivity than that, and I know they're working on how to make that happen.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is no doubt that genome editing technologies hold huge potential.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What this study says quite definitively for diabetes is the vast majority of hereditary risk variants are in fact these common ones, and the rare ones, while they pop up here and there, are a much smaller contribution.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is about all of us, participants will be true partners, not subjects, not patients.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Inducing behavior change for diet and exercise and is extremely difficult, and these subjects were not offered any support, even if they thought they should do something about it there was no assistance.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We reached a point where ... the need for research has essentially shrunk to zero.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Googles and the Apples and the Qualcomms are certainly paying close attention to the potential of this.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You want individual participants to have control over their data and have a dynamic opportunity to change the level at which they are willing to give access to possible research partners.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
That doesn’t necessarily mean all of the data is in one place being operated by the same software.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
That's a high priority early on, that doesn’t necessarily mean all of the data is in one place being operated by the same software.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is something that can be achieved but obviously there is a lot that needs to be done.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It may, at this point, be hard to find 27,000 people at risk, it is going to be challenging.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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