What shape will the continuing pandemic take in the year ahead?
Was Live Friday, Jan 6, 2023 | 11 am PT
Guest Speakers:
- Dr. Ben Neuman, Chief Virologist of the Global Health Research Complex, Texas A&M
- Dr. Oliver Brooks, Chief Medical Officer, Watts Healthcare
- Jill Rosenthal, Director of Public Health Policy, The Center for American Progress
- Sophia Tan, Research Data Scientist, UC San Francisco
News Story from this Media Briefing
Event Overview
A new sub-variant of omicron, named XBB.1.5, now accounts for 40 percent of Covid-19 infections in the U.S. XBB.1.5 is even more prevalent on the East Coast, accounting for 75 percent of infections.
Speakers this week will brief us on the origins of the new sub-variant; whether our current vaccines, including the updated boosters, can provide sufficient protection against XBB.1.5, new therapeutics in the pipeline, and a possible drop-off in people seeking treatment once Paxlovid is no longer free/subsidized as the public health emergency ends. Researchers will also discuss a novel study that looks at the prison population to note the rates of infections in fully-vaccinated people and reinfections in people that have already experienced Covid.
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