Imperfect Immunity

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🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Revisiting "herd immunity"; how to write about Long Covid; and monkeypox.

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0:00.0	On this week's on the media, we don't know how long antibodies from vaccination or infection
0:05.8	can protect us from COVID, but try thinking about it like this.
0:10.4	Just because I walk past a restaurant at 1am and I don't see the kitchen bustling doesn't
0:15.3	mean they've lost the capacity to make food.
0:17.5	Also, when reporting on long COVID, journalists overlook the wisdom of those living with the
0:23.5	condition.
0:24.5	Many long COVID patients have had a more intimate view of this disease for longer than pretty
0:30.2	much anyone else in the world, because we were the only people monitoring our symptoms.
0:35.1	Most of our doctors were actually too overwhelmed to be in regular touch with us.
0:39.6	Plus, why is everyone talking about monkey packs?
0:43.5	Any time a virus behaves in ways that are different and new, everyone who studies viruses
0:49.2	and gulps.
0:50.2	It's a gulp moment.
0:51.2	But I want to stress something, this is not COVID-22.
0:55.6	Let's be real.
0:56.6	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.9	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:04.0	I'm Brick Ladsdone.
1:07.1	What's that cliche?
1:08.6	You may be done with COVID, but COVID's not done with you.
1:12.7	Well here, the prevailing variant is Omicron BA.2.12.1, with BA.4 and 5 bringing up the
1:21.9	rear.
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