Incident Report

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. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/living-with-covid/ 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