Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates

Delta: Deja Vu All Over Again

Infections After Vaccines, Masking Again, And Other Repetitive Motions

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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 why to get a summer cold tested here — or about unvaccinated kids here — or you can read about vaccines/anti-vaxxers throughout history here.

If lately you’re feeling a strong sense of deja vu, like bad Covid stuff is happening all over again, you’re absolutely on target.

Cases are rising in most states — much worse in states with low vaccination rates but rising everywhere. 10,000 cases a day in the US at our low point last month; now almost 80,000, and this with less testing and less reporting.

Hospitalizations (which always lag a couple of weeks) have started to climb some, but they’re only reaching dizzying scary heights in the areas with low vaccination rates.

Deaths are fairly stable, not rising a lot.

At the beginning of the pandemic, a big goal of all the shut-downs and the lock-downs and the sheltering in place was to prevent the nightmare of overflowing hospitals and ICUs. And we did, mostly.