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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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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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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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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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June 14, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle—A year has passed since California dropped most public health restrictions related to COVID-19, but the pandemic isn’t over. Senior Investigator Warner Greene notes that the virus is still spreading effectively, and people can be infected repeatedly with different subvariants.
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May 20, 2022
ABC News—Gladstone virologists investigated the effect of the Omicron variant on the immune response. Melanie Ott describes her team’s discovery that previous infection with Omicron does not result in strong immunity to other known SARS-CoV-2 variants. However, as Nadia Roan explains, individuals who were vaccinated before becoming infected with Omicron did have a broadly protective immune response, emphasizing the importance of the vaccines in saving lives.
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May 12, 2022
ABC News—COVID-19 case numbers are rising in the San Francisco Bay Area, driven by sublineages of the Omicron variant. Gladstone virologist Warner Greene explains that the new subvariants are more infectious, and can evade the antibodies produced in response to vaccination and previous infection.
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April 20, 2022
KCBS News—Although Omicron and related new variants can infect vaccinated people, Senior Investigator Warner Greene says vaccines still protect us well against severe disease, and urges people to get at least one booster shot.
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March 30, 2022
ABC News—The FDA recently announced that they would authorize a second COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for people 50 and older, and those 12 and older who are immunocompromised. Senior Investigator Warner Greene explains that the second booster can protect people who don’t have vigorous immune systems from infection, and predicts that it may be more broadly recommended for all adults in the months to come.
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March 16, 2022
ABC News—A sub-variant of Omicron known as BA.2 is causing a spike in COVID-19 cases in Europe, and is predicted to become the globally dominant variant in the coming weeks. However, Senior Investigator Warner Greene says that vaccinated and boosted individuals are still well protected against serious illness, and spread of this new variant is unlikely to lead to new lockdowns.
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