This is part two of My conversation with Dr. Otto Yang, who is the associate chief of the infectious disease at UCLA. 

Dr. Yang is a first-generation Taiwanese-American. He grew up in a family of scientists. He graduated from Brown University and Harvard. And for the last 20+ years, Dr. Yang has been specializing in T cell immunology and HIV. And since the beginning of the pandemic, he has repurposed his lab to study the immune response to COVID-19.

We talked about Dr.Yang’s research in part one of the interview and in this episode, we get down to the nitty-gritty of the COVID-19 - how the virus spreads, how the vaccines work, why we need to double mask, and how Taiwan managed to keep the infection rate so low without lockdowns (total of 955 cases to date / 9 deaths / population 23.8 million).

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