On the second anniversary of the nation’s huge COVID-19 shutdown, experts offer a roadmap to get us to the new normal.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday Pfizer said it will seek emergency authorization for a second booster shot of its vaccine for people 65 and older, an effort to bolster waning immunity. Next month, the FDA plans to gather its outside advisers to debate whether future shots should be the same as the current vaccine or retooled to counter new variants.
John Elk, of Oakland, right, places a sign for his friend Dick Wezelman, of Berkeley, left, who turned 87 at Belmont Village Senior Living in Albany, Cailf., on Thursday, April 2, 2020. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, visitors were not allowed in the facility. “In the early days, there was a lot of uncertainty,” said Rogers. “Now things are drastically different.”
To get early warning of a possible spike in cases, wastewater employees hold their noses, open manhole covers and test wastewater in Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Imperial, Kern, Lake, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego and San Francisco counties. Genome sequencing is done on about 20% of viruses, which will help catch new variants.
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