Dr. Bob Wachter, who chairs the UCSF medical department, managed to avoid COVID-19 during the pandemic with a careful regimen of mask-wearing, crowd avoidance, vaccines and boosters, strategies he …
Through the miserable years of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Bob Wachter, the University of California-San Francisco medical department chair, became a beacon of guidance to hundreds of thousands who followed his social media tips on avoiding the virus that killed more than 1.1 million Americans.
Wachter said he received his second “bivalent” vaccine booster tailored to protect against the more recent omicron variants of the virus in April, “so my protection against a severe case was still strong.” But he noted that the two-to-three month “window of protection” if offers “had passed.” He also acknowledged he “let down my guard a bit,” — he still wears an KN-95 mask on planes and in crowded rooms, but dines indoors without.
“By Sunday night, I felt flu-ish, with a sore throat, fever, and chills,” Wachter tweeted. “Things got bad overnight. Monday, I woke up drenched in sweat, with a bad sore throat and a hacking cough.”
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