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7 reasons why think immunity to COVID from vaccination or infection will be long-lived (and why I continue to marvel that CEOs of companies who stand to make profit from

Why should we not worry about VARIANTS "escaping" immunity from vaccines or natural infection; why are we not likely to need vaccine BOOSTERS? Remember immunity is both antibody and cell-mediated

Wanted to tweet on masking as getting a lot of interest in this today (I am not a ventilation scientist; I am just an epidemiologist/ID doctor who can see from

Ok, was trying to stay off Twitter until Saturday but this question of children masking outdoors (in camps, etc.) keeps coming up. Let's discuss #outdoortransmission. Viral particles disperse quickly in

Someone asked me yesterday why schools aren't mainly open in San Francisco (despite 30 cases in city of 896K yesterday (& they test),

of passing the virus to others if you are undetectable on antiretroviral therapy because I marveled CDC (a traditionally conservative public health agency, understandably; they are messaging for nation) would

Wanted to send you 2 articles today that indicate when an epidemic can be downgraded to endemic for an infectious disease. What is an epidemic? An epidemic is when a

Wanted to drill down a bit more about the importance of the T-cell response to SARS-CoV-2 to give you more reassurance of enduring protection from vaccines (even against variants). Technical

Want to talk about INFLECTION POINT and how it looks like we have reached this in our country with hospitalizations at this vaccination rate & also turning the corner in

Pfizer CEO said boosters may be needed. Unlikely1) T cell immunity from vax (and Abs) work against variants; 2) T cells last long time- 34 y & counting after measles

Sobering article on how there will be a wave of disability & death from other chronic diseases after pandemic (happened in 1918 too). Will be tempting to keep testing asymptomatic

Important to look at dropping hospitalizations in U.S. among older groups getting vaccinated when judging power of the vaccines (as opposed to younger groups not yet vaccinated). So, when you