In today’s NYTimes article on #poliovirus in NY, an expert is quoted as saying vaccinated people are protected against the virus. This is WRONG. They are not protected against infection. They are protected from getting paralysis. Vaccinated people may still get infected.
— Vincent Racaniello (@profvrr)
Aug 17, 2022
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Today’s complaint about CDC handling of #poliovirus in US: release the nucleotide sequence of the recovered vaccine-derived isolate from NY. Let the virology community do a molecular clock analysis to determine how long the virus is circulating – likely more than one year!
— Vincent Racaniello (@profvrr)
Aug 17, 2022
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CDC is refusing to provide information on PCR primer pairs to detect #poliovirus in wastewater. They don’t want others doing surveillance. Sounds like their early attempt to control PCR testing of SARS-CoV-2 which did not work out well.
— Vincent Racaniello (@profvrr)
Aug 16, 2022
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