UCSF's Dr. Bob Wachter Takes Your Covid Questions

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Citing dramatically reduced Covid-related hospitalizations and deaths, Governor Gavin Newsom announced this week that he's lifting California's Covid-19 state of emergency at the end of February. But as uptake of the new bivalent booster remains low, there may be reason for caution as winter approaches. That's according to UCSF's Dr. Bob Wachter, who joins us to answer your questions about case rates, subvariants, vaccines and more. Guests: Dr. Robert "Bob" Wachter, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:19.8	Governor Gavin Newsom said he's lifting California's COVID-19 state of emergency at the end of February,
1:25.7	citing low COVID-related hospitalizations and deaths.
1:29.3	But a rise in cases in Europe could mean another winter surge for the U.S.
1:34.3	and mounting signs of a bad flu season could further strain hospitals.
1:38.3	Add to that, uptake of the new bivalent booster has been low, even in California. We get the advice the advice of UCSF's Dr. Bob Wachter and hear from you.
1:48.0	Have you gotten the new booster yet?
1:50.0	Why or why not?
1:52.0	Join us after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Nina Kim.
2:06.2	For the past two years, colder temperatures have brought a rise in COVID cases.
2:11.6	And this year, we could be dealing with what some have called a tripledemic of COVID, a wave of flu cases, and of a respiratory
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