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    Living With COVID (w/Dr. Monica Gandhi)

    • calendar_today May 15th, 2022

    We now have all the necessary tools to end the COVID “emergency” phase. Here’s how (and why) we can live with this coronavirus.

    Here’s an extended Twitter thread outlining the key points we discussed (easy for sharing). And here’s every show we’ve done with UCSF Professor and infectious disease specialist Dr. Monica Gandhi.
     
    Topics & Timecodes
    00:00 Intro, mask mandates, individual control & benefits of one-way masking
    05:22 Long COVID, innate vs adaptive immunity, seroprevalence among varying age groups
    10:27 Vaccine protection against severe COVID, natural immunity, media catastrophizing, animal reservoirs & endemicity
    15:23 Hepatitis outbreak in children, did pandemic sheltering weaken our kids’ immune responses, masking children & the precautionary principle
    20:00 Creating an endpoint, the purpose of non-pharmaceutical interventions, hospitalizations with COVID vs. for COVID, death rate as a key metric
    23:53 Hybrid immunity, Omicron as the great equalizer, CDC messaging & it’s role in terrifying the vaccinated & convincing the unvaccinated that vaccines don’t work
    31:49 Covaxin vs Sinovac, India vs. China, downstream effects of lockdowns, excess deaths 
    40:32 Age-based risk stratification, immune response in children, what a “mild” case of Omicron looks like, Paxlovid & other therapeutics
    46:10 Omicron mutations & why they point to approaching endemicity, public & mental health strategies
    49:38 The value of holistic treatment, right brain vs. left brain, reductionism, importance of recognizing the many tools we have to combat COVID
    59:32 What’s next for Monica, why docs suck at talking about risk, final thoughts

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