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Rory Hester's avatar

One of the things you didn't hit upon is how wrong we apparently got vaccine spacing. There was an interesting thread yesterday by your boy Topol talking about this.

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1467186981327151105?s=20

It's possible that the reason the booster is so important is not because it's a 3rd dose, but because its spaced out from the first dose.

There is such a dichotomy between the awesomeness of our private companies and their ability to leverage science and technology to provide such awesome tools to fight this virus and our government agencies complete inability to adapt to novel situations. Imagine if the CDC and the FDA (more importantly) were able to shed the bureaucratic nonsense the keeps us from using data from foreign countries to make decisions, or to approve challenge trials.

On a political note: I wonder how much patience the public has for a new round of precautions. Seems pretty clear to me that we are about to have a 4th??? wave over the next two months.

Even if hospitalizations are high because of the sheer number of cases, if the severity and individual risk of hospitalization/death is low, you are going to see the public become even more apathetic.

Politically, another wave is going to hurt Democrats if it is accompanied with more school disruptions.

Finally: why are you always up so late dude. Damn. I wake up here in Argentina, and you are still going strong on Twitter.

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Bob Smith's avatar

Paul Offit and the crew on the TWiV podcast aren't convinced about boosters. Quite the battle going on in the public health and virology space. Just about as a bad as the mask and test battles early on. Unfortunate.

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