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US COVID-19 vaccination pace is down by nearly half in the last month Share Updated: 6:39 AM CDT May 21, 2021 Travis Caldwell, CNN Share Updated: 6:39 AM CDT May 21, 2021
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Show Transcript KENT: THEY WANT TO KNOW,S IETH VACCINE IMMUNITY BETTER THAN THE NATURAL IMMUNITY FROM PEOPLE WHO’VE HAD COVID? DR. POTHOF: YEAH, SO, THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES. VACCINE IMMUNITY IS BETTER THAN NATURAL IMMUNITY, AND THE REONAS IT’S BETTER IS THE VARIANTS. THE IMMUNITY THAT THE CCVAES PRODUCE AGAINST VARIANTS IS BETTER THAN THE IMMUNITY THAT YOU GET FROM NATURAL COVID INFECTION. IT ALSO LOOKED LIKE VACCINE-INDUCED IMMUNITY IS GOING TO LAST LONGER THAN NATURAL-INDUCED IMMUNITY. YOU’RE RECOVERED, I WOULD RECOMMEND GETTING THAT VACCINE BECAUSE WE’RE STARTING TO SEE THESE VARIANTS BECOME THE DOMINANT STRAINS, AND YOUR NARATUL IMMUNITY ISN’T GOING TO
San Francisco General Hospital has 0 COVID-19 patients for 1st time since March 2020
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In a sign of both the shrinking coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. and remarkable efficacy of the vaccines, San Francisco General Hospital had zero COVID-19 patients on Thursday, for the first time since March 2020. This is a huge milestone in the pandemic to show the power of the effectiveness of the vaccines, Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease expert at U.C. San Francisco, told the
San Francisco Chronicle, noting that 76 percent of San Francisco residents 16 and older are at least partially vaccinated. This milestone continues to assure us the epidemic in San Francisco is no longer a public health threat.