from YB "My takes as a doctor working in ICU

from YB

"My takes as a doctor working in ICU

overall covid patient is down quite a bit. However remain concerned with some new mutant variant s in UK and California but nothing as scary as South Africa

The variant discovered in South Africa, 501Y.V2, with a mutation called 484, may be escaping some or all of the antibodies people developed against a natural infection – though it's too soon to know whether vaccines will be effected.

"Looking at blood from 44 South Africans who recovered from COVID-19, more than 90% showed reduced immunity to the new variant, and almost half had no protection at all against it, according to a study published Tuesday though not yet peer-reviewed."

If I had to guess, we ll be looking at higher infection rates going into Feb and March. Fda and cdc will approve a lot of therapeutics now in phase 3 trials including hgen, rlftf and cydy. Vax not clear if they work or will work on mutant variants now and developing in the future."

"Is your hospital a research site? Any feedback from your colleagues at other hospitals re. lernonlimab.
I work as a Doc at the Tampa VA which became a site toward the end of trial enrollment. + Good feedback!

"Robert, I got LL involved with their biggest enroller in cd12. Icu docs want this on their formulary yesterday. They were blinded to the pts but knew who received the real thing based on clinical and lab results.

".. because the new variants spread a lot faster and perhaps vaccines won’t offer as much protection.