Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
How To Protect Yourself From December’s Perfect Viral Storm
And Protecting Yourself From Paxlovid Myths As Well
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
What’s happening now with Covid:
We are again seeing a “Thanksgiving-as-super-spreader” small surge (I’ve heard of entire families testing positive by Sunday afternoon!), but nothing like last year.
There are a few changes: one is the Covid daily death rate, now “down” to ~250 compared to ~2500 at our worst.
Another important change in the death statistics: the vast majority of deaths now are in the “elderly elderly,” sometimes defined as over 85 (my personal definition is “much older than me”).
A huge change this month is that the newer Omicron variants changed just enough that they “out-grew” some of our best drugs so now most old monoclonal antibodies no longer work against Covid.
Included in this sad list is the excellent antibody bebtelovimab and the preventative…
