Unlike last December, when precautions were drastic and one-size-fits-all, there are tools today to help keep us safe: vaccines and boosters and easily accessible tests for the virus, as well as better basic information about who is at most risk and why.
“I wasn’t actually going to get boosted, because of global vaccine solidarity,” Gandhi said. “But then my father got an immunocompromising condition relatively recently. And that’s why I got boosted, so I could see him.”
“I’ve been on the side of harm reduction and human contact more than other infectious-disease doctors right now,” she said. “I think that’s a fair thing to say. ... I think of the isolation and mental illness and loneliness and how hard it’s been for people. We have gotten to that point where we need to tip the balance toward human contact.”
“It is entirely possible,” she told them, “if everybody is fully vaccinated and they test negative to gather safely indoors. Because a negative antigen test indicates that nobody is infectious. At that moment.” Dr. Robert Wachter, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at UC San Francisco, will observe Christmas the same way he did in 2020. And 2019. And many other years before. He’ll be treating patients at UC San Francisco Medical Center. “I’m Jewish,” he said. “It’s not that important to me.”
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