As we head into our fourth year with Covid 19, this is a reasonable question to pose. This is an interesting editorial from this week’s New England Journal of Medicine on the subject. Perspective Do Pandemics Ever End? List of…
The illustration looks suspiciously like Covid 19, but is RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, another nasty respiratory pathogen. There are two new vaccines that are available to prevent it, but it has been tough to tell from the published data which…
I got my updated Covid 19 vaccine at the pharmacy today. I scheduled it online. Here is why I didn’t want to wait. San Antonio COVID cases continue to rise; 5 deaths reported in the past week Texas Public Radio…
As predicted the FDA approved the new Covid 19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. Today the CDC’s advisory committee, the ACIP, recommended the vaccine be given to patients 6 months of age and up. I wish Covid would go away,…
Here is an interesting Q+A from The Washington Post with infectious disease and vaccine specialists about how they are dealing with the rise in cases of Covid 19. Do they mask? Are they eating out? How covid experts are living…
Fall Vaccine Update “Fall”, I like the sound of that. It may not be here for a while, but already the temperatures have begun to moderate from the hottest summer on record. Now if we could just get some…
People are concerned about the rise in Covid 19 infections and would like to know if the new vaccine will be recommended for them. Unfortunately, I can’t tell them. Although we have information that the vaccine will be released in…
As previously reported, there is a lot of Covid 19 going around. Chances are, it won’t kill you if you get it. Not so, the other virus circulating. West Nile virus can be a real killer. It’s not spread from…
Covid 19 cases are increasing. COVID-19 Hospitalizations Continuing To Increase In US, CDC Says ABC News (8/15, Benadjaoud, Kekatos) reports, “COVID-19 hospitalizations are continuing to increase in the United States, according to the” CDC. Data show that “for the week…
We had been led to believe that the new Covid 19 vaccine would be available in late September. Apparently, that is correct. However, we don’t know anything new as far as who should receive it. New COVID-19 Vaccines To Be…
