Okay Booster
Getting Us To 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.
You can read my views on why to get your cold symptoms tested here — or about protecting our kids here — or you can read about vaccines/anti-vaxxers throughout history here
Look at what I wrote in May: “Cases are fantastically lower in many parts of the US. I mean, there’s still 37,000 cases a day which is horrible but it sure is better than the 237,000 after Christmas.”
Today: “Cases are definitely lower in many parts of the US. I mean, there’s still 75,000 cases a day which is horrible but it sure is better than the 150,000 during the summer peak.”
Also today: “Hospitalizations are down, too; now 50,000 — down by half from the summer peak of 100K. (And 135K at our very worst.)”
So yeah, it’s better. But good heavens: these are still horrible numbers and it’s definitely not over.
Our New Normal: SafeR Behavior
We can’t yet walk around like everything’s normal: it’s not. Vaccines and boosters are helping us move towards more normalcy, less limits and fewer fears. But what we’re approaching now is a “New Normal” which involves modifying our behaviors…
