Boaz Hepner, a registered nurse, didn’t set out to be a one-man clearinghouse of information on the coronavirus and the vaccines developed to fight it. Hepner said he takes an apolitical approach with patients, readers, friends and colleagues who ask him questions. Hanna Yemanebirhan, a nurse colleague of Hepner’s, told me she survived the first big waves of COVID-19 patients without getting sick and didn’t see a need to get vaccinated. “I probably drove him crazy with all my various questions, and I attended one of his webinars. We still don’t know everything there is to know about the virus or the vaccines, Nagel said.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 08, 2022 15:59 UTC