Dr. Robin’s Covid Updates

Omicron Update

We’ve Learned a Lot in Two Months. But We’re Still in the Soup

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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 what to do if you get Covid here — or about kids and Omicron here — or you can read about vaccines/anti-vaxxers throughout history here

Week-end update: 11,000 cases/day in the US in June, 802,000 cases last Sunday, 706,000 today

But you know what? Cases don’t really matter any more: there’s huge undercounting because of the gajillion unreported at-home tests and we know Omicron is getting past our vaccines. But the vaccines are still hugely protecting us against hospitalization and deaths, and even though there’s 2000 deaths a day, the vast majority are among the unvaccinated because vaccines are keeping us from dying.

But please don’t use the word “mild” for even a nano-second to describe what’s going on now. Our hospitals — and ERs and clinics and internist and pediatrician offices — remain under the absolute worst strain they have been under since this all started.

Today let’s talk about the basics