Dr Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Omicron That We Don’t Know Yet
Is it Deja Vu All Over Again? Not Today
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 your cold symptoms tested here — or about boosters here — or you can read about vaccines/anti-vaxxers throughout history here
Wednesday night I lay in bed and thought to myself, “Hmmmm, nothing new happening in the Covid world! Maybe I won’t write a missive this week-end…”
Ah, the innocence.
Because boom! Then it was Thursday and word ebbed out about a possible new variant. By Friday WHO met and announced that the wonderful scientists and testing infrastructure of South Africa had detected a new variant, and they had found it was in several other countries as well (no idea where it started) and they named it omicron (which is the Greek letter for “O” and not the name of a Transformer Toy), and by Saturday the fear-filled headline machine was in full throttle, so fierce and ferocious that now everyone is terrified again.
