Episode 30: Science Thursday with Dr. Jose

Topics:

• Update on Numbers
• Update on Models
• Updates on Masking
• Update on HHS rule about data reporting and its implications
• HCQ study from U Minn—quick overview
• HIV/Truvada covid study—quick overview
• Federal Study suggests real numbers of infected are significantly higher than numbers of positive tests.
• South Korea Study on Older Kids
• How Does Immunity Work? An Overview
• Vaccine Update: Oxford/AstraZeneca and CanSina trials reported in the Lancet
• UK Study on Immunity duration
• What can we do now? We are in a really difficult place as a country. How do we move forward?
  • The accidental Sweden
  • Steps that can be taken now to try to improve the situation we’re in

Links:

• NPR, Masking Protects the Wearer
• MMWR, Hair Stylists Who Wore Masks
• STAT, JAMA Serology Study
• COVID Exit Strategy Website (Tracking the Response)
• STAT, HHS Data Reporting
• STAT, New HCQ Study
• Study on HIV/COVID
• NYTimes, South Korea Study on Children and Transmission Risk
• NIH, Science Education PDF on how immunity works
• CNN, UK Ab Study
• The Atlantic, How to Interpret the UK Ab Study
• Vaccine Data  
  1. BBC
  2. The Lancet, Oxford/AstraZeneca Vaccine
  3. The Lancet, CanSina Vaccine