“Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.” Unknown It is Memorial Day, the official start of summer. My daughter came in after spending the afternoon…
Most people think of RSV as a childhood disease, but it affects a lot of adults each year and is responsible for 6,000 to 10,000 deaths annually. One of my patients had the misfortune of having both in December and…
As anticipated, the FDA approved a second dose of the Bivalent Covid 19 booster (the only one available now) for adults 65 and older and those people who are immunocompromised. The next article is one about vaccine developments that are…
Even though only 17% of eligible Americans have gotten Bivalent boosters, many patients ask me if they can get another, Here is some recent information on this. F.D.A. Plans to Allow a Second Updated Covid Booster for Vulnerable Americans…
Covid cases are down and we are relaxing our office policies to reflect the decreased risk of transmission. But it is still with us. I had two more cases last week. While it is often “just another cold’ in symptoms,…
After three years if Covid 19 we have a lot better idea about what works and what doesn’t. This is an article from The Medical Letter which is a nonprofit organization that publishes medical reviews which are not subject to…
We are almost at the anniversary of San Antonio’s shutdown three years ago. We are still seeing Covid cases almost daily. Since most people have some immunity by being vaccinated, being sick or both, we don’t see many seriously ill…
I haven’t been blogging much recently. Call it Covid fatigue. Influenza and RSV seem to have peaked and gone away, but Covid remains. Not a day goes by that I don’t get a call from a patient who has Covid…
As I have said previously, bivalent boosters have been a tough sell. They do work, however, as this report of a study done by the CDC shows. They compared positivity rates on tests done in a pharmacy and compared it…
Here is one of the articles that may have inspired patients to ask me about all the people dropping dead from Covid 19 vaccines. As it turns out, it was a post on the website Expose misinterpreting or intentionally misrepresenting…
