Symptomatic but now for the first time were hearing you should also wear a mask because it protects the wearer. So this is interesting information coming from right here at ucsf. So happy to have dr. Monica gandhi joining us and mention that among other things, shes director of the Ucsf Gladstone Center for aids research. Thank you for the time. Thank you very much for hving me. So tell me about this paper that youre putting together and what the takeaway is for all of us when it comes to wearing our masks. Yes, so we basically put together evidence from both virology and epidemiology and whats going on with this virus and put together the theory. We think viral determines whether you get the infection or get sick with the infection. The oldest we could find from 1938 that how much virus you get in the system makes you either very sick if you get a lot of virus or not very sick if you dont get hardly any virus. And what a mask does is for you as an individual is it protects you from ge
The first study of its kind shows regional global disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates among people with HIV, who are at higher risk for COVID-19 mortality.
An Atlas of HIV s Favorite Targets in the Blood of Infected Individuals
Gladstone researchers have identified the blood cells most likely to be targeted by HIV during a real-life infection
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In the 40-some years since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, scientists have learned a lot about the virus, the disease, and ways to treat it. But one thing they still don t completely understand is which exact cells are most susceptible to HIV infection.
Without this knowledge, it is difficult to envision targeting these cells to protect the millions of people who encounter the virus for the first time every year, or the infected people in which infection will likely rebound if they go off therapy.