Version Three Point Uh-Oh! Omicron case numbers from the very contagious BA.2 and BA.3 variants — and soon BA.4 and BA.5 — continue to move upwards, now climbing in over forty states. — -The good news: Vaccines/boosters no longer are perfect at stopping us from getting Covid but they are…

Coping with the Great Unmasking Covid cases continue to crawl upwards in early May but not hellaciously in most places — not system-crushing. Since home testing has increased so much it’s probably worse than it looks, but still, hospitalizations are stable, too. So it’s not super-dooper terrible. But it’s not…

Building The Plane While We Fly It, Part 706 Our lull in the middle of mild storm clouds continues. In Massachusetts the number of cases has ticked up a bit. The number of people in the hospital is stable and a fraction of what in was in January (like 200…

Will It Cripple Us Again? We are still in the middle of a wonderful Covid lull but there’s probably some storm clouds gathering, mostly in the form of that Omicron variant called BA.2. Numbers of cases, deaths and hospitalizations are going down in the US but skyrocketing in other parts…

Six Steps To Being SafeR I’m a Boston-based cancer doctor and I’ve been writing weekly fact-based-no-blame-no-rumors-all-science-all-the-time essays about Covid-19 since March 2020. Here’s my latest; thanks for reading. If you want to support this kind of writing and Medium, you can support us here. In the good news bears category, Omicron cases — mostly caused…

You just spent two years stewing in a cauldron of anxiety — now what? I am writing this on March 6, 2022. I first wrote about Covid, in a post to my neighbors, on March 6, 2020. There is now absolutely no question that we are facing a major life-altering…

(at least for a few months) — I’m a Boston-based cancer doctor and I’ve been writing weekly fact-based-no-blame-no-rumors-all-science-all-the-time essays about Covid-19 since March 2020. You can read my views on what to do if you get Covid here — or about kids and Omicron here — or you can read about vaccines/anti-vaxxers throughout history here Omicron is…

Dr. Robin’s Covid Updates Yes, You Really Should Get a Booster Shot Time to Get on the Science Train I’m a Boston-based cancer doctor and I’ve been writing weekly fact-based-no-blame-no-rumors-all-science-all-the-time essays about Covid-19 since March 2020. You can read my views on what to do if you get Covid here — or about kids and Omicron here —…

Dr. Robin’s Covid Updates Omicron Update We’ve Learned a Lot in Two Months. But We’re Still in the Soup I’m a Boston-based cancer doctor and I’ve been writing weekly fact-based-no-blame-no-rumors-all-science-all-the-time essays about Covid-19 since March 2020. You can read my views on what to do if you get Covid here — or about kids and Omicron here — or you can read about vaccines/anti-vaxxers throughout…