Dr. Hotez and the Chronicle's Andrew Dansby share symptoms of their recent COVID bouts...
Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerHotez — dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital —Hotez admitted that having been vaccinated and boosted, he started venturing back to public events, and his number finally came up.
Q: I try to take my daughter to see anybody left who’s touring. The Bob Dylan show didn’t exactly snare her attention. But she appreciated the act of seeing him.Q: There is. In fact, I was just up there, and that’s where I got COVID. Which is as good a segue as we may find from music to the pandemic.Q: Indeed. Three nights in a row at the historic Cain’s Ballroom. I’m pretty sure I got it the third night at the Elvis Costello show.So let’s get right into it.
Q: I read a New York Times story that suggested multiple infections per season could become a new normal. Thoughts?Rather than make a broad summary like that, I try to think in different ways. I try to parse out the pieces. Let me give you an example. Right now this BA 2.12, first of all, last time we spoke, I hoped it would be a bump not a wave. Guess what? It’s a wave.
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