Have We Reached Herd Immunity From COVID? Here’s What Boston Doctors Say | NECN
CEID Interim Director Dr. David Hamer talks about COVID-19 herd immunity on a panel of Boston doctors, “It’s not classic herd immunity… It’s immunity that’s sufficiently high to prevent the bulk of the population from being hospitalized or having severe disease, but it’s not going to stop people from being infected.” See more here.
XBB Subvariant Now 83% of All COVID Cases in New England. But Don’t Be Alarmed | NECN
CEID Interim Director Dr. David Hamer speaks about the XBB subvariants, “If you go back and look at what delta came in, or omicron came in, they completely displaced all other sort of variants at that time. And this has not happened. There’s still a number, you know, sort of an alphabet soup of variants […]
Another COVID winter finds Mass. in a different place than past years | MassLive
Massachusetts health officials announced 10,075 new COVID cases and 129 virus-related deaths, “And to me, that says something, that there’s more happening,” says CEID Interim Director Dr. David Hamer. See more here.
Young and healthy people get benefits and low risk from COVID-19 vaccine, despite claims to contrary | Politifact
Per CEID Interim Director Dr. David Hamer, “other benefits of vaccination to younger people… include preventing lost time from work or school because of infection and preventing infection spread to other people.” See more here.
When is it time to mask up again? Boston doctors weigh in | WGBH
CEID Interim Director Dr. David Hamer adds to the conversation about masks, “There are benefits to mask use that go beyond simply preventing disease.” See more here.
Boston Doctors Explain ‘Dramatic Uptick’ in COVID Wastewater Levels as XBB Subvariant Spreads | NBC 10 Boston
CEID Interim Director Dr. David Hamer joins a panel of Boston doctors to talk about the XBB subvariant, and comments, “It does remind me of a year ago when omicron came in over a two-to-four week period and displaced everything… This is sort of going that direction, but I think we need more data. Over […]
Top Story with Tom Llamas – Dec. 30 | NBC
CEID Interim Director Dr. David Hamer joins Savannah Sellers on NBC, and comments, “To protect those who are most vulnerable, we really need to be cautious” Watch here.
Doctors Urge Masks in Crowds, Vaccination as New COVID Variant Spreads | NBC 10 Boston
CEID Interim Director Dr. David Hamer joins a panel of Boston doctors to provide updates on the XBB subvariant of COVID-19 on NBC 10 Boston. See more here.
‘Highly contagious’ XBB variant becomes dominant COVID strain, as Boston-area virus wastewater levels keep rising | Boston Herald
CEID Interim Director Dr. David Hamer provides greater context surrounding the XBB subvariant of COVID-19 in the Boston Herald. See more here.
Should We Be Worried About BF.7, China’s Dominant Variant? Boston Doctors Explain | NBC 10 Boston
CEID Interim Director Dr. David Hamer is featured in NBC 10 Boston to discuss the BF.7 variant, “What I’m worried about, honestly, is — with a massive explosion of cases in China — the potential for a new variant to evolve in that context that could be even more resistant to our current treatments and […]