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by shmatt 1659 days ago
She, as a family doctor, was fast to alert from the front lines. But she is not an infectious disease specialist.

The first doctors seeing HIV cases in California without knowing what it was, yet alerting the medical community, were not the same people who brought us the current medication that controls it

Her position on the front lines is very important. But the decision on how dangerous the variant is should be given to those who specialize in just that (and would probably suck at diagnosing you with a stomach ulcer)