{"id":1830379,"date":"2023-01-31T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830379"},"modified":"2023-01-31T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:43:15","slug":"wear-a-mask-likely-forever-ucsf-chair-of-medicine-fears-large-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wear-a-mask-likely-forever-ucsf-chair-of-medicine-fears-large-gatherings\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wear A Mask \u2026 Likely Forever\u2019: UCSF Chair Of Medicine Fears Large Gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwear-a-mask-likely-forever-ucsf-chair-of-medicine-fears-large-gatherings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830379&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Chair of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Medicine stated that he has plans to host large gatherings. \u201cto wear a mask \u2026 likely forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bob Wachter (65), whose Twitter bio says, \u201cCareer: What happens when a poli sci major becomes an academic physician,\u201d The revealing of their political views is enough to make them seem clear. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZekeEmanuel\/status\/1605285091290349568\">Leftists<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samstein\/status\/1603553003365072904\">He<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrislhayes\/status\/1602737365629427714\">Follow us on Twitter<\/a>This was published on a <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1616158968883347456.html\">Twitter thread<\/a> This is his explanation of why he chose to go against the grain and try extreme measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome folks continue asking what I\u2019m doing viz Covid behavior,\u201d He began before stating. \u201cIn the Bay Area, I\u2019m now OK with indoor dining &#038; removing my mask for small group gatherings.\u201d He then acknowledged he hasn\u2019t had COVID and is \u201cfully vaxxed &#038; had bivalent in Sept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Covid (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCSF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UCSF<\/a>) Chronicles, Day 1038<br \/>Some folks continue asking what I&#8217;m doing viz Covid behavior\u2026<br \/>Answer: I&#8217;m changing my behavior. In the Bay Area, indoor dining is now acceptable. I also remove my mask when attending small group events. <br \/>While I haven&#8217;t changed, my risk has. Here&#8217;s how: (1\/25)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bob_Wachter\/status\/1616158968883347456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy main fear is Long Covid, which I peg at ~5% probability per Covid case,\u201d He said so, adding: \u201cThis leads me to being comfortable indoors without a mask when the effective case rate is <\/p>\n<p>After citing statistics regarding wastewater, COVID hospitalizations, and UCSF hospitals\u2019 asymptomatic test positivity rate, he offered his plan going forward, including eating outdoors and testing before he and his family arrived for a meal in Palm Springs with friends.<\/p>\n<p>Then he segued to \u201cPublic transit, theaters, other large gatherings,\u201d writing, \u201cPlan to wear a mask (always a KN95; why not wear a good mask if you\u2019re going to mask?), likely forever. I\u2019m comfortable taking it off briefly to eat on a long flight, but will try to keep it on when I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was enthusiastic about playing poker with a small number of people. \u201cI\u2019m now comfy playing with a small, vaccinated group (n=8) without testing. I\u2019ll lobby (till they throw me out) to keep the doors\/windows open during the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs always, I\u2019m not telling anybody what they SHOULD do,\u201d He wrote. \u201cPerfectly reasonable people have looked at all of these odds (or decided not to) and chosen to live life like it\u2019s 2019. Most of them will do just fine \u2013 they\u2019ll have a higher odds of getting Covid than me, but \u2026 few will get super sick (particularly if up to date on vax), &#038; most won\u2019t get Long Covid (either prolonged symptoms or be victim of elevated long-term risk of stroke, MI, or cognitive decline).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust because we\u2019re all tired of this doesn\u2019t change the risks &#038; thus doesn\u2019t change the way I think about managing them,\u201d He concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chair of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Department of Medicine stated that in large gatherings, he plans \u201cto wear a mask \u2026 likely forever.\u201d Bob Wachter, 65, whose Twitter bio asserts, \u201cCareer: What happens when a poli sci major becomes an academic physician,\u201d and whose political predilections seem clear enough because of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1830382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5184,4567,9442,8950,4575,10451,3618,17127,5024],"class_list":["post-1830379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-chair","tag-fears","tag-forever","tag-gatherings","tag-mask","tag-medicine","tag-riot","tag-ucsf","tag-wear"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1830382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}