Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
Kleenex? Check. NyQuil? Check.
Covid Test? Check
Getting a cold in the middle of a global pandemic
Guess what happened when we took off our masks and started hanging out with each other again? The natural order was restored and we started having viruses comes out of our noses and mouths and we’ve started infecting each other again!
It’s like the germ floodgates have opened and viruses are just pouring out. All the Old Familiar Summer Bugs — strep, RSV, older corona viruses, rhinovirus, coxsackie, the list goes on and on — are leading to lots of people getting “colds” and “flus” and “sinus infections” and it’s such a shock to our systems! Many of us lucky ducks haven’t had a single upper respiratory symptom since maybe the winter of 2019 so we aren’t used to these miseries.
The one thing you need to remember is that if you or your kids get a “classic cold” or “bad allergies,” you should still get Covid tested. Why?
1) Although Covid cases are wonderfully on the decline in well-vaccinated areas, Covid’s still out there, and we need to know if it’s Covid or one of the Other Summer Bugs since they get treated differently.
