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In the imminent future, patients will start to die because there simply aren’t enough people to care for them. Doctors and nurses will burn out. The most precious resource the U.S. health-care system has in the struggle against COVID-19 isn’t some miracle drug. It’s the expertise of its health-care workersand they are exhausted.

John Williams, MD, Henry L. Hillman Professor of Pediatric Immunology, shares what you need to know about #COVID19 reinfection.

A many-years-long collaboration between NIAID’s Robert Seder and Pitt’s JoAnne Flynn has given another shot for an old vaccine. Learn more in Pitt Med's Fall 2020 feature: https://www.pittmed.health.pitt.edu//another-shot-old-vacc

When somebody gets infected [by influenza], it takes a while for them to develop symptoms associated with the viral infection. Before they have a fever or a cough or feel lethargic, the virus has already affected them and they are already shedding large amounts of virus, said Seema Lakdawala, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, who researches flu viruses. via Popular Science https://www.popsci.com//asymptomatic-vs-pre-symptomatic-i/