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Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
The Election and the Coronavirus
Hope is a thing now
The numbers get grimmer. On Saturday November 7, the New York Times, presenting the rapid increase in cases and hospitalizations, wrote there are “almost no hopeful signs in the data.”
For me, however, there is one gigantically hopeful sign, and that is the election of President-elect Biden.
Why am I hopeful?
I am hopeful because he has already appointed a number of fantastic physician-scientists to a Covid transition advisory panel and they already started work this week, and they all have deep roots in public health and all are known to have “the right stuff.”
I am hopeful because this means the new approach will be — as promised — based on “bedrock science.”
I am hopeful because jumping right to work demonstrates a deliberate commitment to try to decelerate this runaway train.
I am hopeful because it means the new administration has a better chance to hit the ground running the third week of January.
Of course, things will be different in January. There will be progress in the science of testing, treatment, vaccines.
At the same time, hospitalizations will no doubt go higher still because of the holidays.
