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Dr Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
Should You Boost? Now?Then?When?
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Today’s Update:
Covid remains active but less horrifying than many times in the past. With the one-two-three punch of summertime, vaccines, treatments, and shorter isolation periods, for some of us it’s becoming more of an inconvenience and less of a life-altering drama.
This is not to minimize that some people still get really sick and miserable, but fewer are ending up in the hospital.
This is also not to say the inconvenience of a Covid diagnosis can’t be really rough — this week alone I’ve heard of people who were unable to attend their own graduations, who had to cancel trips, who couldn’t attend weddings, and who needed to drop out of speaking engagements — all because of an ill-timed illness.
But overall in much of the Northeast and other parts of the country things are a little better. We’re in better shape than two years ago, a year ago, a month ago.
Why are things better? It’s all about the progress we’ve made in Covid science.
It’s because people who were once at high risk to end up in the hospital are now
a) vaccinated, which decreases the chance of serious disease
