Gladstone in the News
May 3, 2023
San Francisco Chronicle—Gladstone Senior Investigator Nadia Roan explains that while prior vaccination or exposure to COVID-19 may confer long-term protection against serious disease, a booster shot with the bivalent vaccine will protect you for a few months against new infection.
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December 10, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle—New SARS-CoV-2 subvariants are driving an increase in COVID case numbers around the world. Gladstone Investigator Nadia Roan explains that the subvariants have mutations that help them evade neutralizing antibodies, but stresses that getting the bivalent vaccine can still help strengthen immunity to the ever-changing virus.
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December 2, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle—Although requirements for mask wearing and social distancing have eased around the country, a third winter of the pandemic is looming. Gladstone Senior Investigator Warner Greene recommends paying attention to local trends in case numbers to decide which COVID-19 precautions to take.
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December 1, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle—In an update to a previous article, Senior Investigator Warner Greene now expects both COVID and flu to spread during the holidays and encourages people in high-risk groups to take extra precautions to avoid infection.
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Gladstone in the News
November 17, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, shares his views on the likelihood of a new COVID surge this winter.
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November 15, 2022
Invisishield Technologies—Gladstone Senior Investigator Warner Greene has been appointed President and Chief Scientific Officer of Invisihield Technologies. Invisishield is focused on developing intranasal preventatives for respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.
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October 20, 2022
ABC7 News—Senior Investigator Nadia Roan, PhD, says that a winter surge of infections from the highly transmissible new variants of SARS-CoV-2 currently emerging in the US is likely, but it remains unclear how bad it will be.
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Gladstone in the News
October 16, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle—The new bivalent COVID-19 booster shots are recommended for individuals age 5 and up who are at least two months past their last vaccine dose. Gladstone Investigator Nadia Roan explains that the bivalent boosters greatly increase the levels of antibodies that can prevent the Omicron variant from infecting cells.
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Gladstone in the News
September 10, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle—New COVID-19 booster shots targeting both the ancestral virus and omicron strains are now available. Gladstone Investigator Nadia Roan weighs in on when people should get the jab, based on the timing of their last dose and whether they’ve been recently infected.
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Gladstone in the News
September 1, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, says that it makes more sense to boost immunity with the newly approved bivalent vaccines targeting Omicron than with vaccines that aim at long-extinct variants of the coronavirus.
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Gladstone in the News
July 26, 2022
ABC7 News—The federal government plans to roll out a new vaccine against the BA.5 Omicron variant now predominant in the US early this fall. Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, says that you might want to hold off for your next booster shot until you can get this new vaccine, which will offer better protection against currently circulating variants.
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July 25, 2022
The Daily Californian—Senior Investigator Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, and collaborator Abdullah Syed, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Senior Investigator Jennifer Doudna, explain how they discovered that antibodies against early versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus do not protect well against the now widespread and highly contagious Omicron variant, and recommend masking to avoid new infections.
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