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Gladstone in the News October 28, 2021

Definition of ‟Fully Vaccinated” Could Change, CDC Chief Says. Here’s What That Means

San Francisco Chronicle—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, puts the CDC's definition of "fully vaccinated" in the context of our constantly evolving understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Video October 22, 2021

Staying Safe over the Holidays

Gladstone virologists discuss the state of the pandemic and how to stay safe this holiday season

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Gladstone in the News October 19, 2021

Natural Immunity Is Good. Getting Vaccinated after Being Sick with COVID-19 Is Better.

USA Today—Senior investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, comments on the benefits of vaccination after COVID-19 illness.

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Gladstone in the News August 14, 2021

Scientists Say a “Doomsday” Variant after Delta Isn’t Likely. But Here’s What’s Possible

San Francisco Chronicle—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, draws from his expertise as a virologist to explain how Delta and other coronavirus variants might evolve.

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Gladstone in the News June 20, 2021

Delta Coronavirus Strain Is Growing Fast in California, with Risk for Unvaccinated People

San Francisco Chronicle—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, calls the Delta strain of the coronavirus, which originated in India, our biggest threat so far because it is rapidly spreading all over the world, and reminds us that other new strains may yet arise.

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Gladstone in the News March 4, 2021

SF Team Seeks COVID-19 Therapies and Ways to Defeat Future Coronaviruses

San Francisco Public Press—Senior Investigator Warner Greene describes the efforts of Gladstone scientists to discover ways to treat the acute and long-term consequences of COVID-19, and their hope of discovering antiviral approaches that could be ready for use to battle future pandemic viruses.

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Gladstone in the News January 24, 2021

Coronavirus Variants Will Prolong the Pandemic. But Here's How It Could End

San Francisco Chronicle—The United States is trying accelerate coronavirus vaccine distribution, which could allow the country to achieve herd immunity. However, Gladstone virologist Warner Greene points out that the coronavirus is a global problem, and ending the pandemic will require mobilizing vaccines around the world.

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Gladstone in the News December 18, 2020

Does It Matter Which COVID-19 Vaccine You Get?

FiveThirtyEight—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, is among several experts explaining the various types of COVID-19 vaccines about to be deployed to fight the pandemic.

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Gladstone in the News October 28, 2020

Bay Area Health Experts Weigh in on Joe Biden's Coronavirus Plan

San Francisco Chronicle—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, endorses presidential candidate Joe Biden's plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic, calling the plan “rational.”

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Gladstone in the News October 18, 2020

Fetal Tissue Research, Donald Trump, and the Science behind the Politics

San Francisco Chronicle—Some of the treatments the president received for COVID-19 were developed using cells derived from human embryonic tissue. In addition, many of the COVID-19 vaccine candidates were developed using fetal cell lines. Gladstone Senior Investigator Warner Greene explains how valuable fetal tissue research has been to research on cancer, HIV, spinal cord injuries, and many other diseases. He also describes how the president’s 2019 decision to cut federal funding for fetal cell research has damaged that progress.

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Gladstone in the News October 8, 2020

Trump’s Covid Treatments Were Tested in Cells Derived From Fetal Tissue

The New York Times—The experimental drugs used to treat President Trump for COVID-19 were developed with the help of a human cell line derived from a fetus aborted decades ago. Gladstone President Deepak Srivastava, MD, and Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, comment on the ethics of accepting this treatment while also banning research using newly derived fetal cells, in the process thwarting the development of life-saving treatments for other conditions.

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Gladstone in the News October 5, 2020

What We Know about Trump’s Extraordinary COVID-19 Treatment

San Francisco Chronicle—After the president was diagnosed with COVID-19, he received aggressive medical treatment. Gladstone Senior Investigator Warner Greene noted that the combination of drugs the president received has not been tested or proven effective, and that the dexamethasone he was given is a sign his illness might be more severe than it appears.

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Article October 2, 2020

Should You Get a Flu Shot This Year in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

The answer is yes. And here’s why.

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Gladstone in the News September 30, 2020

“Berlin Patient” Dies at 54: Timothy Ray Brown, the First Man Cured of HIV, Succumbs to Leukemia

San Francisco Chronicle—Warner Greene, MD, PhD, director of the Center for HIV Cure Research, explains how Timothy Ray Brown, who was cured of HIV/AIDS via a bone marrow transplant, changed the field of HIV research.

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Gladstone in the News August 27, 2020

"Exciting" Study Explains Why Men Are More Vulnerable to Coronavirus

Inverse—A new study from researchers at Yale University showed that males have a less robust T cell response to the coronavirus than females do. Gladstone virologist Warner Greene comments that this finding may in part explain why men are more likely to die from COVID-19 than women, and that it suggests men and women may benefit from different treatments.

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