Once again, we received no vaccine. Here is where it went. It also appears that Costco is now offering the vaccine. Someone was able to book it online with only a few days notice. https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news/updates/COVIDVaccineAllocation-Week18.pdf Yesterday morning, as part of…
I was watching a lecture on YouTube, another adaptation to the pandemic. I am a member and past president of the Texas Club of Internists, an almost 100 year old organization dedicated to continuing medical education for Texas internists. https://www.texasclubofinternists.org/.…
First of all, TDHS did not give us any vaccine for next week. Here’s where it went: https://dshs.texas.gov/news/updates/COVIDVaccineAllocation-Week17.pdf In addition to going to the usual places, a lot is going to HEB and Walgreens pharmacies. If you have not been…
Local cases are low, but seemed to have plateaued. Fortunately, vaccines remain effective for months and the ones used in the US are effective against the South African variant. Here are some succinct summaries from Physician’s First Watch: Pfizer-BioNTech efficacy…
When we read about the effectiveness of Covid 19 vaccines it has to do with clinical trials used to get their approval. What is the real world experience? The short answer is they were even more effective in health care…
The TDHS decided again this week not to give us any vaccine. Here is where it went. https://dshs.texas.gov/news/updates/COVIDVaccineAllocation-Week15.pdf Interestingly, this doesn’t include large pharmacy chains who must be getting it directly for the government. As you can see the vaccine…
Here is some recent information on vaccines as well as information on availability. I haven’t included an online article from yesterdays’ New England Journal of Medicine indicating the dismal track record of Astra Zeneca’s vaccine in South Africa. That’s not…
A patient walked into the office the other day, masked per our protocol and said that he had read a new report from the CDC that showed that masks were ineffective at preventing the transmission of Covid-19. “Poppycock and balderdash!”,…
It was a year ago that I took care of my first Covid patient. I didn’t know that at the time. He had been skiing in Colorado and developed a fever and a sore throat. He didn’t improve upon his…
I was going to tackle the subject of restaurant dining, but then the governor ended the mask mandate which required me to rethink that subject and the CDC finally came out with their recommendations of what people who are fully…
