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Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
Some Glimmerings of Good News
Vaccines Work, Surges Sag, Science Marches On
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 a summer cold tested here — or about protecting our kids here — or you can read about vaccines/anti-vaxxers throughout history here
We’ve got a reasonably “good news report” this week.
It feels odd to say/read those words after all these weeks of bad news.
Some Good News
Things in the US are slowly gradually calming down. It is grim to think “calming down” means there’s still 96,000 cases/day and 1750 deaths, but that’s down from 100K and 2000 and for me it’s awesome to just not see things getting worse. The summer surges are definitely declining in most areas and a lot of this is because of the vaccines.
The number one good-news take-away about these surges is just that: vaccination really does protect us from hospitalization and death.
This protection is the Real McCoy but it’s often lost in the messaging. It’s true that we all have friends who have gotten sick despite vaccination and that the “CDC has reported…
