An assistant professor in Infectious Diseases at stanford and leads the johnsonen john vaccine study at stanford. Thank you, dr. Grant. Good afternoon. There are a few different ingut ther 72,66 . 85 . Break down whats what. Right, so the overall prevention against severe disease is in the mid80s, like you said. One other piece of information that you didnt say, so just in terms of what people know, its an virus vector single dose and these are comparing the efficacy of the please bo vespers the active drug. In the individuals with the active drug it prevented 72 of overall infections and prevented 88 of severe infections studywide. Another piece of information thats important, is after 28 days of the vaccine there was no people that had been given the real vaccine that ended up in the hospital or died. And substantially, you know, a fair number in the place bo arm. It was effective against preventing against severe disease. But not as effective of mild disease. You also mentioned the
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Marin county will begin restrictions tomorrow. Joining us to talk about its effectiveness, Infectious Disease specialist dr. Monica gandhi and ash coalrod. Thank you for joining me today. Thank you. Thank you. I want to dive into whether the new restrictions make sense. Bmp we do that, the governor announced alarming new numbers. Dr. Gandhi, when numbers caught your attention . You know, its aptly true that were in a surge, we have increased cases and many areas in the state have increased hospitalizations. This is not true we havent reached yet in the bay area. This is a prophylactic move to prevent us from getting into the kind of criteria that the governor explained. They were not there. Its a prophylactic move. We have to restrict activities, and so now the question becomes what makes sense, what gets restricted and what doesnt make sense. Thats absolutely true. Many things are closing down again. Indoor entertainment, outdoor playgrounds, that caught a lot of people by surprise. A
Thank you for your time today. I like your happy thanksgiving. Happy early thanksgiving. If you have a question the doctor, go to Facebook Live and well try to get them answers. Doctor, the tsa has screened five million travellers since friday. How nervous does that make you, given what were facing right now . It makes me very nervous, kristen, because we know that in previous holidays, even in the united states, memorial day, etc. , it was accompanied by a predictable increase in cases in two weeks. Not only cases but concerningly high hospitalizations. You hook at what happened in thanksgiving in canada, i think the writing is in the wall. Well see increased numbers in two weeks, even above our current surge. Lets try to do our part and one piece of that is having smaller gatherings. Dr. Fauci was asked whether the risk from small gatherings has been exaggerated . What does the data show . Can we do a small gathering without a surge . I think what the contact data tracing shows is it
From particulates we may be breathing out into the air. Your Research Says its effective on the masked wearer sthems. What did you find . What we were looking at actually was to take a step back, the cdc when they told the public to wear a mask, they said do this to protect others. They made that announcement on april 3rd. What our study shows and what other studies have show is actually, the masks have a beneficial effect on the wearer as well. There are science studies that show if you wear a mask lock virus getting in. If you block the majority of virus that gets in, you either dont get transmission or if youre unluckily enough to get infected, youre more likely to get a mild disease. Thats based on what wie seen over time with this infection. Over time in places that mask, we see milder symptoms of infection if you do get infected and weve seen lots of studies that mask it. Why is it that its a milder case . Is it because of the amount of particulates or the percentage of the virus