UCSF expert predicts annual COVID shot
UCSF doctor predicts annual COVID shot at Rep. Huffman’s town hall
A UCSF doctor and expert in emergency medicine who is being tapped for President Biden s 13-member COVID team said at a North Bay town hall meeting that he predicts we could see an annual COVID vaccine shot, similar to the flu.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - A COVID shot every year?
That s the prediction from a San Francisco doctor serving on President Biden s pandemic advisory board.
And wearing two masks at once? Why not?, responds Dr. Robert Rodriguez, a professor of Emergency Medicine, one of 3 UCSF experts tapped for Biden s 13-member COVID team.
Bay Area political events: COVID-19 town hall, Alicia Garza book club
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Vital Vittles started as a flour mill in 1976, then became a bakery in 1979, working out of Virginia Bakery on Shattuck Avenue. It later moved to its own facility on Heinz Street, and finally opened a bakery on San Pablo Avenue in West Berkeley, where it still stands today. Photo: Amalya Dubrovsky
2810 San Pablo Ave. (near Grayson Street), Berkeley
Owners Binh and Huong Tran, along with three other employees, get up in the early morning hours to go to Vital Vittles, a West Berkeley bakery on San Pablo Avenue, where they prepare the organic, whole wheat bread, muffins and cakes that have fortified countless meals at Berkeley cafes, school cafeterias and homes for decades.
Dr. Barry Massie, a world renowned cardiologist, died on January 8th 2020 at a memory care facility in Belmont, CA. He was 76 years old. The cause of death was a decade long battle with dementia followed by a short bout of COVID-19. Dr. Massie was born in St. Louis, MO, obtained his undergraduate degree at Harvard, and trained at Bellevue Hospital in New York City (where he was chief resident) after graduating from Columbia University Medical School. He completed his fellowship in cardiology at University of California San Francisco and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco and became a professor of Cardiology at UCSF in 1977.