Do I Need a Fourth Shot? 2
My phone is ringing again, not as much as in January, but things seem to be heating up again. I’ve had a flurry of cases in the past week. Cases are still low but, are rising in certain parts of…
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Do I Need a Fourth Shot?
Pfizer has applied for emergency use authorization for a fourth dose for adults of it’s Covid 19 vaccine. Just because they are applying for it doesn’t mean that you have to run out and get one. Independent experts need to…
Do I Still Need to Wear a Mask?
Here is an article from the TMA published today on the latest recommendations. CDC: Masks Still Recommended for Everyone in Health Care Setting By Sean Price Does the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend masking for physicians and…
Covid 19 Vaccine Update
Two new articles regarding Covid 19 vaccine. The first is from Bloomberg News on Pfizer’s vaccine. The second is from today’s New England of Journal which shows the efficacy of Covid 19 vaccine boosters in preventing Omicron. Boosters were more…
Covid 19 and the Heart
Painting by Taylor Thornton While Covid 19 cases are low and it recedes to the back of our collective brains, it is important to remember some of the long-term effects may be. Patients and friends would question whether it…
Two years of Covid 19
TWO YEARS OF COVID 19 It was in early March 2020 that I saw my first patient with Covid 19. We didn’t know it at the time, but that’s what he brought back from a ski trip in Colorado. According…
CDC Updates Masking Guidelines
Masks remain unpopular in some areas and locally, it seems like few people are wearing them. Local numbers are declining , but the CDC still considers us in the HIGH LEVEL due to the hospital data. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=Texas&data-type=Risk&list_select_county=48029 Here is an article…
Omicron Variant Update
First, some news about the outpatient treatment of Covid 19 with Remdesivir followed by some new guidelines on the timing of the second dose of Covid 19 vaccines. Following that is an article from today’s WSJ on BA2, the new…
Ivermectin Strikes Out Again
It is gratifying to see numbers continue to fall, but Covid 19 is still out there and I still hear reports of patients receiving prescriptions for Ivermectin. here is the latest from the Journal of the American Medical Association. Here…
Covid 19 Update
There were 1,752 cases reported yesterday. Slightly up from the previous day. The 7 days average dropped to 2,822, but the positivity rate is about 30%. Before the surge we were running a daily rate of around 200 with a…