This week, Dr. Klotman addresses questions that folks are asking about the pandemic. There isn’t much going on in this front right now, and I consider that good news.
There are a couple of things that he doesn’t mention. One concerns European research regarding the optimal spacing of vaccine doses. A group in Portugal has measured immune responses to primary vaccination doses spaced four weeks apart versus ten or twelve weeks. The latter resulted in antibody levels ten times higher than the doses spaced more closely. Of course, higher antibody levels needn’t mean higher levels of protection. It might, but that is uncertain.
The other thing is that there are now a few clusters of COVID infections linked to wildlife – white tail deer in one case and farmed minks in another. I mention this only to comment that we cannot continue to believe that SARs-CoV-2 came out of a Wuhan lab when there is abundant evidence that it is a zoonosis – a viral illness akin to Influenza that jumps to humans from non-human hosts.