Wear a Mask, Please Recently, I’ve been surprised by the number of patients who come to our office and aren’t wearing a mask. This won’t work. Studies have shown that we can reduce the risk of transmitting the virus by…
Moving Forward, Staying Safe With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we realize that many people are hesitant to get medical care or tests for fear of being around other patients who may expose them to COVID-19. The virus will be with…
Here are a couple of news summaries from different news releases from the Center for Disease Control plus a statement by the Methodist Healthcare System on Covid-19 antibody testing. The first is good news. It’s tough to get the coronavirus…
The latest and most comprehensive assessment on the use of chloroquine in treatment of Covid-19 was published yesterday in The Lancet. Here is an article in the Washington Post (it was on Fox News too) followed by a link to…
There are actually five. I have bolded them in the article. I am envious of physician authors. It’s tough enough to be a good doctor, but to be able to write too? Dr. Gawande is a neurosurgeon who has authored…
There is a popular theory that the Covid-19 virus will disappear in the summer months. This is because the other corona viruses which are some of the viruses which cause the common cold tend to disappear in the warmer months. …
Texas continues to open up, though with some trepidation. The following is some interesting polling data provided by Taylor West. Regardless of how quickly Texas opens up, the prevention of further cases boils down to personal hygiene, covering our faces…
Here is a very good article from The NY Times on that question. The only part that I take issue is the percentage of people who infected who are asymptomatic. It seems to be particularly high in nursing home residents,…
Many Covid-19 antibody tests have been produced, but few are FDA approved. Many are unreliable. This study compares two that are FDA approved. The first part is a summary of the study from Clinical Chemistry (not one that I subscribe…
Many people are not aware of it, but San Antonio has a world renowned biomedical research institute, Texas Biomed.https://www.txbiomed.org/ It was founded in 1941by Tom Slick and specializes in the study of infectious diseases, is on the forefront of coronavirus…
