Dr Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
Go get your shots!
Vaccines to help get you and your family through the Holiday Spike intact
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. If you liked this and some of my other essays below, you can support both Medium and me here .
You can tell Covid is relatively quiet since I’m only writing once a month. I guess it’s come down to: the less Covid and fear is out there the less I feel the need to write.
What is quiet? Well, it’s still >1000 deaths a week, which is awful but for perspective it’s not 21,000 like the worst of Omicron.
So it’s lower, but it’s still there and most of us know somebody whose plans have been wrecked by a recent infection so they’ve had to miss work or school or trips or whatnot. And we’re about to know some more because wastewater numbers are going up most places and all the numbers always go up during the holidays.
Hospitalizations remain relatively rare and deaths rarer still; both are mostly seen in the “elderly elderly” and the very immunocompromised and in people who should have but didn’t take Paxlovid.
