Vaccines, Variants, and Vigilance: Navigating COVID-19 in 2024 with Dr. Choctaw

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Coming up on this episode of the
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise podcast.

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Father God Almighty, we
come to you this morning.

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We just want to, first of
all, thank you, my father.

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Thank you, my father, for our lying,
dying lies tonight and our lies enough

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this morning and closing our right
minds with all our spiritual, physical,

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mental capacities functioning properly.

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Thank you, my father, for giving
us the opportunity to be at this

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appointed time, my father, to listen
to the words that you help us to

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listen to, my father, the wisdom
that is coming from your servant, Dr.

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Choctaw, my father.

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Father, let our ears be attentive, my
father, and hear what he has to say, not

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only that, but abide by it and use it,
not only that, but share with others,

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so they too, my father, can understand
and know the things we must do and

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not do during this particular time.

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We ask this of you, we thank
this of you, in your darling son,

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Jesus Christ, holy name, amen.

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Greetings to one and all, and
welcome to the 18th edition

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of the Leadership Masterclass.

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I'm Jesse, your emcee.

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Uh, we're glad that you've joined us.

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Here online and in person, uh, please
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follow along with the presentation.

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You can also drop any questions or
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address them at the end during
the question and answer period.

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With all that said, let's go.

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Your host is a well qualified, uh, person
to, uh, provide the content of this class.

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He's a Yale University School of
Medicine trained surgeon with over

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50 years of medical experience,
uh, who is also a Western State

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College Law trained attorney.

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Who is also a former supervisor for the
joint commission who is also a former

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mayor of walnut california he was also
an author of multiple books who was

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also the host of the widely distributed
healthy wealthy and wise podcast he also

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serves as chairman of the non profit
Servants arms and is currently the

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president of Choctaw Medical Group, Inc.

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So it's my honor to present to some
and introduce to others your host today

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for the leadership master class Dr.

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William T.

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Choctaw, MD, JD.

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Robert Andrew Collins.

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And he's also my friend.

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ha ha

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ha.

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That is God.

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I left that out.

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Ha ha ha

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Okay, I'm going to read it to you, 2
Chronicles chapter 7, starting at verse

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12, and we're reading down to verse 16.

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Okay.

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It says, And the Lord appeared to Solomon
by night, and said unto him, I have

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heard thy prayer, and have chosen this
place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

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If I shut up heaven that there be no
rain, or if I command the locusts to

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devour the land, or if I send pestilence
among my people, if my people which

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are called by my name shall humble
themselves and pray and seek my face

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and turn from their wicked ways, then
will I heal from heaven and will forgive

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their sin and will heal their land.

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Now mine eyes shall be opened and
my ears attend unto the prayer

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that is made in this place.

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Let us go to the Lord in prayer.

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Father God Almighty, we come to
you this morning, we just want to,

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first of all, thank you, my Father.

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Thank you, my father, for our lying
dying lives tonight and our rising up

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this morning and closing our right minds
with all our spiritual, physical, and

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mental capacities functioning properly.

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Thank you, my father, for giving
us the opportunity to be at this

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appointed time, my father, to listen
to the words that you have for us

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to listen to, my father, the wisdom
that is coming from your servant, Dr.

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Choctaw, my father.

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Father, let our ears be attentive, my
father, and hear what he has to say.

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Not only that, but abide by it and use it.

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Not only that, but share it with others.

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Amen.

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So they too, my father, can understand
and know the things we must do and

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not do during this particular time.

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We ask this of you, we thank this
of you, in your daughter's son

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Jesus Christ's holy name, Amen.

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What I'm gonna ask is, I want you
to all think like doctors today.

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We're gonna ask you to
think like doctors today.

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Okay.

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Uh, the masterclass medicine classes,
uh, that we do have three main purposes.

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Um, the first purpose is to give you
information to inform you about what's

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going on in the world of healthcare.

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The second purpose is to educate.

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My definition of education is receiving
information that changes behavior.

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So my point is we want to, we
want you to change your behavior.

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Uh, and third is to motivate that once you
get this information and use it, We want

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you to use it to help other people, okay?

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So, here we go.

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As always, we like to
start with our beliefs.

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I believe life is about
being of service to others.

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That, indeed, being Christ
like means helping others.

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I believe knowledge is power.

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I believe leaders can change the world.

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As always, we like to do an outline.

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The purpose of the outline is to let
you know what we're going to talk about.

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Uh, and as important, I'd like to let
you know when we're just about done.

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I'm one of those time people.

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I like to start on time and end on time.

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And as a part of that, I want
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Because your time is just as important,
if not more so, than my time.

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So we're going to talk
about, uh, Hi Conan!

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We're going to talk about
COVID status for 2024.

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Remember, let me take you back
to late 2019, early 2020s when

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all of this stuff started.

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So we're about four years now or so.

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Um, and we're going to talk about
the latest new variants and we'll,

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we'll talk about what a variant
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Um, we're going to try to see if we can
explain better, um, the whole idea of

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vaccination, who should be vaccinated,
what's a booster and what's not a booster.

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Um, we're going to talk about,
um, uh, the role of vaccines

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and how vaccines really work.

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Some of which you may already know,
but we're, we're going to go over that.

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Uh, and we're going to
talk about, uh, long COVID.

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We haven't really said a lot
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year or so, but it is with us.

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And so we want to talk about that also.

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Just to remind you, uh, this is what
a SARS COVID 2 virus looks like.

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I know you're saying, so?

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But that's the electron microscopic
picture of what it looks like.

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Why don't I show you?

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I want you to be able to
put a face on the virus.

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I want you to know your enemy.

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I want you to know who you're fighting
and what you're fighting, okay?

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So it's not all that big,
all that bad, right, right?

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So you can deal with this,
you can deal with this.

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So to bring you up to date, uh,
fortunately, the good news is that

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fewer and fewer people are dying from
COVID now, uh, only about four to 5,

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000 people, that's a lot, but relative
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and 22, uh, that's a small amount.

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Uh, so since October.

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of last year, only about
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Now, keep in mind, our Collection of
data is not as good as it used to be.

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Because people aren't
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Health departments aren't reporting stuff.

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Uh, patients aren't doing
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Uh, et cetera, et cetera.

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So just sort of keep that in mind.

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But, but the bottom line here is there
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And that's a good thing.

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And that's because fewer people get
the disease, which is a good thing.

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And that's because of, of the vaccines.

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bottom line.

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And remember, we didn't get the vaccine
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Right?

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Um, that, that other person
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the vaccine hit around about December.

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Uh, and, and we're going to spend some
time going into why the vaccine works.

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Uh, what's unique about the MRNA vaccine,
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Let's go back again to early 2020
and 2021 where we had warehouses of

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pseudo hospitals because hospitals
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sure many of you remember that.

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Uh, and this was sort of one of
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and not only in this country,
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Fortunately, we don't see
this picture that much now.

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Uh, God is good, and, and, and it's
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people, uh, particularly, uh, the
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Um, uh, caregivers, uh, just
sort of get this under control.

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So let's say a few words
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Vaccines do not kill viruses.

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They don't.

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Vaccines actually deal with
the future, not the present.

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And I know that that may sound
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sort of explain what I mean.

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If you have a bacteria,
Bacterial infection.

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And you take an antibiotic, penicillin,
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kill the, will kill the bacteria.

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It just kills it.

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Um, uh, viruses and
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Now, vaccines will help to destroy the
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We'll talk about that.

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And so as a result, vaccines deal
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So when you take a vaccine, what
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getting the infection in the future.

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And that's why it's a little
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head around that, you know, in terms
of do I need to take a vaccine?

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Do I not need to take a vaccine?

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I feel fine.

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Why do I need to take it now?

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Et cetera, et cetera.

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So just remember vaccines work
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Okay.

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Survival with a, a viral infection.

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Depends on prevention and
treatment, prevention and treatment.

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I'm sure you know this, but just go back,
some of the symptoms of COVID 19, mild

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symptoms of fever, fatigue, and dry cough.

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Um, uh, more serious symptoms tend to
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throat, shortness of breath, and diarrhea.

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Uh, and of course, those
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You can have those symptoms
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And therein lies part of the, um,
um, Uh, difficulty in treating a

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vaccine, uh, a virus like COVID 19.

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So, I want you to sort of go back to
high school and, and your chemistry and,

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and, and college, et cetera, et cetera.

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Uh, what, what is the vaccine
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the virus really look like?

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One of the reasons why it's called
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those little things or those little
spikes, uh, some people felt that

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they look like crowns and so that's
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But the important thing is it's a very,
very small organism, very small, very

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simple organism with, with the mRNA,
um, um, uh, strand on the inside.

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One of the ways, then, that the vaccines
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doing damage is that it can attack those
little spike proteins on the outside.

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One of the things that occurred in
2020 was, uh, organizations like

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Pfizer, Moderna, and some of the
others who, who have been working

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on developing vaccines, We're able
to develop these vaccines very fast.

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What I mean by fast meaning like a year,
which I know is a long time, but it used

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to take many years to develop a vaccine.

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Um, because they're using the mRNA
messenger RNA ribonucleic acid, uh, they

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were able to develop this in about a
year's time, and that's really rapid time.

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And that's because of this
new mechanism with mRNA.

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Um, and as a result, the, the
benefit was much better than,

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uh, the risk associated with it.

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I'm not going to spend a lot of
time with this because it's a little

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complex, but basically what it does
is it goes out, it copies the mRNA

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strand from the virus, sends it back
to our cell, and then our cells.

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The next time it gets exposed to
the virus can then have a defense

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system that can destroy the virus.

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So it's indirect, um,
um, attack on the virus.

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And that's part of the complexity
of explaining how, how vaccines

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work and explaining to individuals
why, why they need to have it done.

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Well, what are these new vaccines?

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Well, one is called FLIRT, F L I
R T, I have no idea what it is.

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I think got that name.

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I have no idea.

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Another one is called, uh, uh, uh, LB1.

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These, uh, variants Are offshoots
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was like the first big variant.

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And all of these are appendages,
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The reason why that's important is.

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that when we come up with vaccinations
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omicron major variant, um, the, the
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You don't have to come up with
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You just tweak the vaccine a bit
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So that's why these things work.

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Well, it does not matter, uh,
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deaths has decreased or increased.

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If, if you are one, or your, your
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loved one, is a part of, of this whole
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Uh, because one person is 100
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about the percentages here or there.

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What's my point?

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My point is, uh, COVID is still with
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uh, to be able to destroy it
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So what is some of the newer things
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four years to allow us to attack this,
this virus and to keep it under control?

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Well, the CDC is doing a lot of work as
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Um, and one of the things that we
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okay, are offshoots of the Omicron,
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of COVID 19, I know that's a lot.

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Um, uh, we're able to still be
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with the vaccines that are in play.

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Uh, they're still able to
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And so it's important that all of us stay
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effects of the, of the, uh, of the virus,
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and our loved ones don't get affected.

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This is very challenging.

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It's challenging.

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It's very challenging.

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Because viruses, and particularly this
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Those are two different things.

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Change means it, it, it evolves.

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It's different.

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And that evolution changes itself.

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So, it doesn't evolve the exact
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So, it's like you always, you're
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you're familiar with the game.

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Uh, uh, but, but that, that's, that's
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One of the things that's very interesting,
even though fewer people are testing

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now, uh, because fewer people actually
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and other organizations have developed
good ways to still follow the effects

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of the virus on the population.

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And one is by following sewage.

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Yes, you heard me right.

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Sewage.

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Wastewater from all of our
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And, and so the CDC and, and
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able to monitor the, the, uh, uh,
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in, in, in the wastewater.

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And so that's how they know whether
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area or decreasing in an area.

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Remember, most of us are not testing.

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There are not that many
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And with fewer people going to
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And so this is one of one of
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And as you can tell by this, um,
this is from July 23rd to June 24.

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And as you can tell in January 24, which
is during the flu season, uh, Right?

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This is when most of us get sick
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Um, uh, the, the amount of COVID
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And then you notice it's starting
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So there's usually a
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That's when most people get sick.

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Uh, and then there's a, there's
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Now, some have theorized, well,
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people out and about and getting
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I don't know whether that's true
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does start spiking summertime.

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So what does that tell us?

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That tells us that we need to be even more
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of preventing, um, spread of the virus.

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And we'll talk a little bit about
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Well, one of the things that's happened
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the CDC, which is in Atlanta, Georgia,
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Um, and this is important because they
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guidelines for infections, infectious
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Okay?

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Uh, and they've come
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And in conclusion, be the change.

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You want to see in the world?

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Thank you for listening to this
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