Want to know your blood type? Curious if you have antibodies against Covid-19 (even though we aren’t sure what those results might mean)? Donate blood. The hospitals are full up and need blood for critically ill patients that require transfusion. …
Whenever I have occasion to pass a flower arrangement, it’s my habit to smell the flowers. Unfortunately, roses are grown now for show and not for fragrance. I can’t always smell them and since Covid-19 has become a presence in…
When I was a kid, I would walk down the street to my grandmothers house to visit. She subscribed to Reader’s Digest and I would flip through them at articles like ” I am Joe’s Kidney”. But my favorite section…
Here are three new things on Covid-19. Congratulations to Jim Berg! Jim was found to have positive antibodies to Covid -19 several months after getting sick while skiing in Colorado in early March. Jim has been donating plasma which is…
Here is an article from the NY Times that shows how a bar is the perfect environment for the spread of Covid-19. A Virus Walks Into a Bar … As communities open up, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the indoor…
Hot on the heels of “What blood type am I?”, “Should I be tested?”, we have “Do I need an MMR?”. That stands for Measles, Mumps and Rubella, a live viral vaccine given during childhood. This is the latest darling…
This summer marks the 45th anniversary of the movie Jaws. What does that have to do with Covid-19? A month ago I told patients that if they avoided jails, meat packing plants and nursing homes that they stood a pretty…
Here is a scenario with which I have been presented four or five times today and every day for the last 10 days. I ( we) were with some friends last weekend and they had been with some other friends …
As the number of cases of Covid-19 increase in San Antonio and hospitals become more crowded, hospitals restrict their visitors to reduce the risk of transmission, This is difficult on patients and families. It’s bad enough to be sick, but…
Long before Covid-19 I avoided touch points. There is scant evidence that we catch the novel corona virus from surfaces, but why tempt fate? The above picture is an example. It shows how you push the elevator at the hospital…
