ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: A new COVID-19 variant of concern is gaining traction across the country — and health officials are taking note of its high transmissibility.
, there is no reason yet to believe that XBB.1.5 causes any more or less severe illness than existing strains of the virus. He joined Midday Edition on Wednesday with more on the latest COVID-19 news. This interview has been edited for clarity.
So it spreads quite easily, no less. It evades our immune response to a large degree, so it's not a good thing to have, and it's growing quickly in terms of New York and Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey area, where a lot of hospitalizations have increased among seniors who are, of course, the most vulnerable.
Against the backdrop of all that, Moderna is planning on charging anywhere from $110 to $130 for vaccine doses. What are your thoughts, and is it worth it?First of all, both Pfizer and Moderna, I think, are egregious to raise the price fourfold from what it was when they sold it to the government. I think that's just horrific to take advantage of the situation.
We've been seeing some pretty drastic news coming from China for some time now. What do you think we can learn from how China is handling their COVID situation?They took a very draconian policy all the way through to recent times, which kept COVID close to zero, but they didn't set up for the transition about when they were going to open things up. And so this is the problem. They didn't get vaccines, particularly for people who are 60 plus years of age, out at high levels.
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