Local cases are low, but seemed to have plateaued. Fortunately, vaccines remain effective for months and the ones used in the US are effective against the South African variant. Here are some succinct summaries from Physician’s First Watch: Pfizer-BioNTech efficacy…
When we read about the effectiveness of Covid 19 vaccines it has to do with clinical trials used to get their approval. What is the real world experience? The short answer is they were even more effective in health care…
The TDHS decided again this week not to give us any vaccine. Here is where it went. https://dshs.texas.gov/news/updates/COVIDVaccineAllocation-Week15.pdf Interestingly, this doesn’t include large pharmacy chains who must be getting it directly for the government. As you can see the vaccine…
Here is some recent information on vaccines as well as information on availability. I haven’t included an online article from yesterdays’ New England Journal of Medicine indicating the dismal track record of Astra Zeneca’s vaccine in South Africa. That’s not…
A patient walked into the office the other day, masked per our protocol and said that he had read a new report from the CDC that showed that masks were ineffective at preventing the transmission of Covid-19. “Poppycock and balderdash!”,…
It was a year ago that I took care of my first Covid patient. I didn’t know that at the time. He had been skiing in Colorado and developed a fever and a sore throat. He didn’t improve upon his…
I was going to tackle the subject of restaurant dining, but then the governor ended the mask mandate which required me to rethink that subject and the CDC finally came out with their recommendations of what people who are fully…
The Texas Department of Health Services did not approve our request for Johnson and Johnson’s new Covid 19 vaccine. Here is the summary from the Medical Letter, a nonprofit which reviews and comments on new medications and treatments free of…
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that has been touted for the use of Covid 19 in people who aren’t sick enough to warrant hospitalization (see January 6th blogpost). Unfortunately, this study does not show a benefit to taking it. Here…
” Is it safe?” This is the question that Laurence Olivier asks Dustin Hoffman repeatedly in Marathon Man as he tortures him using dental instruments. It made trips to the dentists more difficult after seeing the 1976 film which was…
