
TWiV 967: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
This Week in Virology
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COVID in Children and Adolescents
In China, there's not a lot of immunity from prior infection. This is we've heard the older individuals in mainland China are too frail to be vaccinated. So unfortunately, what we're seeing here is that no, no, the virus did not become mild. What we're seeing is vaccines work. And so a vaccinated individual that gets infected with a virulent virus does a lot better than someone who doesn't have immunity. But yeah, I worry about that common wisdom, this idea that Amacron is becoming the virus has become so mild that now it's just a head cold.
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