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My only question is why the 65 year age cutoff? What was that based on? Ordinarily I would have preferred that it be brought down to 60 or even 50, for those Americans who understand its importance, we should make second bivalent boosters available. Finally, we’ll soon need guidance about another annual fall booster. Presumably that information comes sometime this summer.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
But that is the reality, and as long as that’s the reality and as long as Covid is still around, I think we should be advocating for it, the doses are there, and if we don’t use them soon, they’re going to have to be thrown out. So better to give them to people who are all in and willing to take it than just the tossing, right?
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The doses are there, and if we don’t use them soon, they’re going to have to be thrown out. So better to give them to people who are all in and willing to take it than just the tossing, right?
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Now, it seems more plausible that XBB.1.5 could remain of regional importance, not necessarily of national importance.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I would say what it could mean is that because XBB.1.5 is potentially more transmissible, more people are getting infected faster, and therefore that may account for the rise in hospitalizations.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If you’ve not gotten that bivalent booster, I don’t think the original vaccinations are going to protect all that well against XBB.1.5.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It gets a little dicey when people kind of take intermediate positions between the two, and they tend to get heavily criticized.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There was always a group of contrarian intellectuals or pseudointellectuals who were very aggressive and tended to downplay the severity of the pandemic and say it was a hoax or nothing more than the flu.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There's two things happening at once. There could be waning immunity, if all we had to worry about was Delta, would we be having a problem ? Or would things have held up ? And so I don't know the answer to that.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Since the beginning of January 2021, I've said this was always a three-dose vaccine.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There's heavy consequences because we're starting to see not only breakthrough hospitalizations, but even breakthrough deaths in people getting only two doses of the vaccine and not getting the booster -- especially those over the age of 65 -- so this is more than a theoretical discussion. Lives are being lost because of the messaging.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If all we had to worry about was Delta, would we be having a problem ? Or would things have held up ? And so I don't know the answer to that.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The big unknown is this: How much of that decline is due to something quirky because of the Omicron variant? Or, is this a weakness in the technology and it's not holding up? And it's very hard to sort out, all vaccines have strengths and weaknesses, and it may be that for mRNA that it does not produce durable protection. It could be that you go in, use mRNA vaccines to rapidly immunize a population, stabilize it, but then over time, you're going to have to come in with a heterologous boost that's a different technology.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is by far the king of transmissible Covid viruses. And Texas Children're seeing unprecedented numbers of kids getting infected and going into children's hospitals.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It may be the case that in some school districts, where things are so raging right now in terms of Omicron for the next couple of weeks, and it may be prudent to delay things a couple more weeks, it's going to be a very challenging time, people are going to have to be patient.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There will be pediatric hospitalizations, and what's going to be the other tough piece in the next weeks, keeping the schools open, because of this high transmissibility -- especially if Peter Hotez start seeing absences of school teachers, bus drivers, cafeteria staff.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I wouldn't do it now, you have got a screaming level of transmission in the Northeast, in New York City and Washington, D.C. Trying to open schools at this point, it's hard to imagine how things will go well.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you've only gotten two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, even though that officially counts as fully vaccinated, we know that its impact on breakthrough symptomatic illness is close to zero.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The reason is, when you get that third dose, you get a 30 - to 40-fold rise in virus-neutralizing antibodies, and therefore there's more spillover protection against new variants, including Omicron, the third dose gives Peter Hotez 70 % to 75 % protection against symptomatic illness.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
When you look at the sequence of the virus in terms of its transmissibility, it looks a lot like the Alpha variant that arose out of the UK and came to the US at the beginning part of the year, which was more transmissible than the original lineage but not more transmissible than Delta, on that basis, I actually don't think Omicron is necessarily going to outcompete Delta.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If there's a dramatic drop, that's one thing. If there's a modest drop, it means that the third immunization will hold and we won't need to make a specifically designed booster.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's more of a theoretical concern, but it's something to keep in mind, i think I would be concerned about taking this drug if I were pregnant.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The big concern there is that it may not be as effective as it would be if they received it after six months.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is concerning they got a higher dose, and they have to be monitored, but they should do really well, there is a lot of data out there now in 5-year-olds and older.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
From the data from Israel, I come out strongly in favor of the boosters.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's gon na have to happen if we're going to get kids through the school year.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We know from past epidemics what that means, the best way to do this is to vaccinate your way out of it in collaboration with masks, we can't be either, or -- the only way we are going to defeat this virus is with both.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
So, Houston Independent school district opens August 23, that's going to be a huge accelerant. This is just the beginning, unfortunately.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
That's how badly things have gotten out of hand. There is a screaming level of transmission across the southern states right now. And now we're starting to see this happening among younger age groups.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Chip Walter want to make sure the vaccine is not worsening that, that may take more time in order to convince both the companies and the regulators that these kinds of phenomenon are not occurring.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Why was the decision made to do it at 12 instead of 11 or 10 or 14, that I don't know. I guess you could have moved that goal post either way, probably.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What you're doing is your condemning a whole generation of adolescents to neurologic injury totally unnecessarily, it's just absolutely heartbreaking and beyond frustrating for vaccine scientists like Peter Hotez to see this happen.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It looks like the two doses of the current vaccine are pretty robust against the Delta variant, so yes, we'll need a booster, but nothing to worry about right now in terms of vaccination.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We need clarification on the percentage of children who have debilitating effects from Covid, especially neurological effects in the developing brain, we need the pediatric neurological societies to really look into this more in depth. ... We tend to use very blunt instruments when talking about either adolescents' or children's deaths, and only hospitalizations. There are so many more dimensions to Covid than that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is twice as infectious as anything we’ve seen before, so if you are not vaccinated or you are only partially vaccinated, there's a high likelihood that you will become infected with this Delta variant over the next few weeks or over the summer, it's not too late. Now is the time to get vaccinated. And if you’re a young adult or adolescent, don’t listen to the anti-vaccine nonsense that says if you go to the gym eat a healthy diet, that’s good enough. It's not. It's not the same as the virus neutralizing the antibodies from the vaccine.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This requires parents and really anyone to have some situational awareness of what their region looks like, what their state looks like, what their county looks like in terms of vaccination rates and Delta variants.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I have to believe this, with this new Delta variant, the same thing is going to happen again with anyone who's either unvaccinated or only a single dose of vaccine, and so this is the time for everyone to get vaccinated, because even if you want to get yourself vaccinated tomorrow or your adolescent child tomorrow, it's still going to take five to six weeks to get both of those doses of vaccine and then another week after that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't think it's going to be a precise number, but we'll know it when we see it. It'll be obvious as the numbers come down rather dramatically.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
So we'll get back to ball games and concerts and we'll become pretty close to a normal quality of life by the summer, that's why we have so much to look forward to.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I can barely understand the dispute or why they would make it so public, my concern is that this will further erode public confidence in the AZOX vaccine, especially for low and middle income countries. And we don't have many options for Africa and Latin America at this point.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This could be really, very dire for our country as we head into the spring, now, we're in a race. We're in a race to see how quickly we can vaccinate the American people.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We think long-haul symptoms are not due to active virus infection, but to prolonged inflammatory responses to the virus.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They come up profoundly small, and that's tragic. And it's costing American lives, until they can figure out a way to modernize and do big things, we will never solve this problem.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If we're still in this situation a month from now, we're going to be in a lot of trouble.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Right now, encouraging employees to get vaccinated and creating that leave policy for that purpose is a great idea.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
By the time you wait( 85) days, a sequence can go from being a rare variant to being half of the circulating virus in a population.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That variant from United Kingdom was noted in United Kingdom back in September, and it's probably been in the US since September, we're going to see homegrown variants that are similar in character in terms of transmissibility, I can almost promise you that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
But we know that this is a range, it's a probability, and roughly about 90 % become positive within 10 or 11 days, so possibly that's what they're looking at is cutting it short those extra three days because 90 % of the people are going to be positive by that period, and even 14 days is not perfect.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What that means, practically speaking, is that Covid-19 could be the single leading cause of death in the United States on a daily basis.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Intuitively, Baylor College of Medicine doesn't make sense to claim 92 % protection just based on 20 events. But we'll have to see the data, the regulators need to see the data and a regulatory authority that has experience should review the data such as the EMA, the European Medicines Agency. They're the ones that really need to look at this and say, well, you know, this is too small, really, for you to say is 92 % effective.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is the time when we could be entering one of the worst periods of our epidemic and one of our worst periods in modern American public health, i'm very worried for the nation.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This winter -- this November, December, January, February -- could be the worst time in our epidemic, get ready to hunker down.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The updated guidance would have been fine if it came out last May, we knew all of these things months ago.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is the single largest public health failure in the modern history of the United States, certainly, in the last hundred years, and it happened because of the refusal by the White House to launch a national campaign and a national strategy against the virus. So it's beyond upsetting.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
And it happened because of the refusal by the White House to launch a national campaign and a national strategy against the virus. So it's beyond upsetting.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It should be added to the growing list of compounds that are tested in laboratory animals. That's it, the likelihood that this would actually emerge as a proven therapy is still remote.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Remember, it's not just the deaths. It's this terrible, disabling... long-lasting disabilities to the lung, to the vascular system, to the heart, to the brain, we're seeing long-term cognitive deficits. This is a terrible illness.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In many states, like Texas, Florida, Arizona, Covid-19 once again is the single leading daily cause of death.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
One( reason) is this steep acceleration, we're approaching( Fauci's) apocalyptic prediction of 100,000 cases a day.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
These are not' hot spots' or'em bers.' Instead, we are seeing a massive resurgence of Covid-19 across the American South, especially in our metro areas, now at 50,000 cases per day and rapidly approaching 100,000 cases per day in the coming weeks, this is not a temporary problem and it is not limited to a few hot spots.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It didn't contain any data, so basically -- it's opinion. It was spin and opinion.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Trying to do science by press release, without backing it up, either with a traditional journal or a preprint... has universally led to misunderstanding and has no place in science. The biotechs are doing it because they're writing for their shareholders, they're writing for their investors, but it's being done in a way that's oblivious to its public health impact and needs to stop.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
At least in the metro areas, we've got people wearing masks now, the bars are closed and we've got some advocacy coming out of the county judge and the mayor, i don't know how much this will really slow this incredibly aggressive rise. It's like trying to stop a train coming down the tracks.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
At least in the metro areas we've got people wearing masks now, the bars are closed and we've got some advocacy coming out of the county judge and the mayor, i don't know how much this will really slow this incredibly aggressive rise. It's like trying to stop a train coming down the tracks.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The big metro areas seem to be rising very quickly and some of the models are on the verge of being apocalyptic, i can't stress enough how concerned I am.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're not seeing the deaths yet, but that will start, those deaths will start to mount up, I would say, in a couple of weeks.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That is really worrisome and as those numbers rise, we're seeing commensurate increases in the number of hospitalizations and ICU admissions, you get to the point where you overwhelm ICUs and that's when the mortality goes up.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The big metro areas seem to be rising very quickly and some of the models are on the verge of being apocalyptic.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are now projecting that our intensive care units will fill up over the next two weeks. And the reason that's significant is because we know as ICUs start to fill up, mortality goes up, it gets harder and harder to manage all of those patients, even if you have -- even if you're fully staffed.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It gets harder and harder to manage all of those patients, even if you have -- even if you're fully staffed.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This time, we have to go back to what's called' containment mode,' meaning less than one new case per million residents per day.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This might stimulate local or systemic cross protecting immunity.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've never finished the first wave, we didn't complete that social distancing period that we needed to do.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It was just open it up and then more or less business as usual, with a little bit of window dressing, this is not an abstract number of cases. Were seeing people pile into intensive care units.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The results, such as they are presented, provide interesting data that are reassuring ... This needs to be replicated and it needs to be peer-reviewed.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The good news is,( the vaccine) is producing neutralizing antibodies, which scientists think is important for protective immunity against Covid-19, what is less certain is whether the levels of neutralizing antibody are high enough to confer complete protection, or whether this will be partially protective.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I can't think of another example where things have gone that quickly.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The overwhelming priority right now is to ensure that all of our hospital frontline staff, clinical staff, have that level of protection.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That has the potential to be the most destabilizing part of this epidemic, even a single death among health care workers... could make the whole thing unravel.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When Tony Fauci said 12 to 18 months, I thought that was ridiculously optimistic, and I'm sure Paul Offit did, too.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It looked really good -- it was protective, it was safe, but the problem was we couldn't raise any money.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is a risk of immune enhancement, the way you reduce that risk is first you show it does not occur in laboratory animals.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If there is immune enhancement in laboratory animals vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine, that's a showstopper.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think we've maxed out on the benefit of travel screening, it made sense when the passengers were coming from one country, and I think in some ways it was effective. But now we're really going to see diminishing returns.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is hard to try to put the genie back in the bottle once you have an epidemic. if you have measles, coronavirus, plus the flu, it's hard to fight that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't understand why they have to be kept on a ship, we're employing what I call 14th-century approaches and ethics to individuals with transmissible disease.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The lesson we've learned is coronavirus infections are serious and one of the newest and biggest global health threats.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Measles is typically the first disease to return when there are interruptions in vaccinations because it is so highly contagious, so the fact that measles is now returning in some areas is an indication that our vaccine ecosystem is fragile and in some areas breaking down despite general gains.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
That is really astonishing, i don't know what he was thinking to specifically target a constituent like that. I would have thought there's probably some House ethics rules that prevent you from doing that. It's kind of an abuse of power, in a way.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is now fully integrated into public life of this country, it's an example of how pervasive the anti-vaccine movement is right now, and now to try to start dismantling it is going to be really hard work.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Aedes aegypti tends to be a day biter, but once it’s inside houses, it could bite anytime.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
While we were calling them neglected tropical diseases, the 'tropical' part is probably a misnomer, most of the world's neglected tropical diseases are in wealthy countries. It's the poor living among the wealthy.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Poverty is seldom evenly distributed across the country. Poverty clusters in pockets. It clusters in northeastern Brazil, it clusters in northern Argentina, it clusters in southern Mexico, it clusters in southwestern China, well, it's the same thing in the USA. Poverty is clustered in the American South.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
So many of these neglected tropical diseases are not acute infections like ... the flu or common cold, many are chronic, debilitating conditions that mimic non-communicable diseases ... If somebody has epilepsy, they don't think of cysticercosis ... If a child tests poorly in school, the pediatrician or nurse practitioner won't think of toxocariasis.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It looks like the global health movies you show to first-year Masters of Public Health students.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
There's been a gradual rise in the economies of all nations ... but it's leaving behind a bottom segment of society, and that bottom segment of society is who gets the neglected tropical diseases.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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