Regarding the vaccines which are being approved. We don’t know which ones will be approved, whether we will be able to administer them and the groups to which we can administer them. So, it is a little too early for…
Quick antigen tests are popular for Covid-19 testing.  The results come back in 15 minutes and can be helpful in making decisions that involve treatment and quarantine. The trade off is they are less accurate than PCR tests that may…
Bottom line: Maybe. It’s an association, not proof of cause and effect. Probably not any downside to hedging your bets and taking some. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a wide variety of diseases. There is no proof that supplementing…
Patients ask me if they come down with Covid-19, what am I going to give them? I point out that 80% of patients have mild disease and require no treatment. They also ask if there is something that they can…
My phone is starting to ring again. It always rings, but it rings more right before Covid-19 cases begin to escalate. The calls have to do with exposure scenarios. Frequently, these do not fit into the guidelines so Dr. Wallace…
As was predicted, Covid-19 cases are on the rise. It’s a combination of college students, kids going back to school and fatigue. It has been estimated that 100,000 fewer people would die if mask wearing went from 50% to 90%.…
I had previously posted about the ability of dogs, cats and lions to get coronavirus from sick people. Here is the latest. It’s a summary with commentary from Journal Watch about an article for the Proceedings of the National Academy…
I’ve given my recommendations for flying apparel, but here is another physician’s. Dr. David Aranoff, director of the division of infectious disease at Vanderbilt University Medical Center gave this advice in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. Flying…
The numbers go down. We become complacent, socialize with more people without masks and social distancing. Then the numbers go up. This is being repeated across the country and in Europe. We are on track for 300,000 deaths in this…
