Patients ask me if they come down with Covid-19, what am I going to give them? I point out that 80% of patients have mild disease and require no treatment. They also ask if there is something that they can…
My phone is starting to ring again. It always rings, but it rings more right before Covid-19 cases begin to escalate. The calls have to do with exposure scenarios. Frequently, these do not fit into the guidelines so Dr. Wallace…
As was predicted, Covid-19 cases are on the rise. It’s a combination of college students, kids going back to school and fatigue. It has been estimated that 100,000 fewer people would die if mask wearing went from 50% to 90%.…
I had previously posted about the ability of dogs, cats and lions to get coronavirus from sick people. Here is the latest. It’s a summary with commentary from Journal Watch about an article for the Proceedings of the National Academy…
I’ve given my recommendations for flying apparel, but here is another physician’s. Dr. David Aranoff, director of the division of infectious disease at Vanderbilt University Medical Center gave this advice in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. Flying…
The numbers go down. We become complacent, socialize with more people without masks and social distancing. Then the numbers go up. This is being repeated across the country and in Europe. We are on track for 300,000 deaths in this…
Yes, chloroquine is still around.  It’s still being studied. The last I reported on it was a study that it didn’t work for post exposure prophylaxis. That is, it didn’t prevent Covid-19 when taken after exposure to the virus. Some…
Someone used the expression “Quarantine 15” to refer to weight gain associated with being isolated at home. I haven’t read any studies which indicate what change in weight has been associated with dealing with the pandemic. There has been a…
As outlined in this article in the New York Times, Covid-19 infections hit the young this summer, but that’s not where they stayed. Virus Cases Surged in Young Adults. The Elderly Were Hit Next. Infections among young adults eventually may…
