Episode 55, Science Friday with Dr. Jose

Updates:

1. Update on Numbers
2. Update on Trends
3. Update on Vaccinations
4. Update on Models
5. News: The Variants got new, popular names
6. News: A preprint study shed some light on what makes B.117 more transmissible/deadly
7. News: Vaccines among immunocompromised patients
8. News: Myocarditis and Vaccines
9. A word about VAERS and other systems to monitor vaccine safety
10. Will there be another surge?
11. Check In: Risk Management

Links:

• NYTimes, How the Alpha Variant became so powerful
• Preprint Study, Evolution of enhanced innate immune evasion by B.117
• WaPo, Vaccines in Immunocompromised
• Marion et al, study on vaccine safety and efficacy in solid organ transplant
• CDC, VaST Workgroup Report 5/17/2021
• NYTimes, States Falling Behind on Vaccine Goals
• NYTimes, COVID in the UK
• WaPo, Analysis of Case Rates in Unvaccinated