Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
The New “Omicron Vaccine”
The new vaccine the CDC is recommending for everyone over 12
Today’s missive is about the new bivalent “Omicron vaccine”
Cases (unreliable numbers) and hospitalizations (pretty reliable) and deaths (most reliable) all are in decline but basically we’re in a plateau — a long summer plateau — looking nervously at winter.
Covid marches on. It is still all around us and it still has the potential to disrupt our lives.
We truly are at a new normal. Things with Covid are much worse than during an average flu season, both in terms of cases and hospitalizations, but they are nothing compared to how much death and destruction we had prior to vaccines. Our hospitals are reeling but they’re not collapsing. It’s bad but not catastrophic. Covid’s here and not going away and we have to get used to it.
Which is a good news/bad news situation.
(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 missives, you can support both Medium and me here.)
