Dr Robin’s Covid-19 Updates

Vaccine-Hesitant Q&A

How to Talk to Uncle Maskless about Getting Vaccinated

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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 are seeing deep-seated Covid Bleakness wherever vaccine rates are low.

Covid’s Delta variant is swamping many hospitals in unvaccinated states. Classrooms and conference rooms are being turned into hospital rooms again. Cancer surgeries and heart repairs are getting delayed again.

Nurses and doctors and janitors and respiratory therapists and ward clerks with PTSD from 2020 are now experiencing it all over again, except for one terrible difference.

Now more than 90% of the suffering they are seeing is utterly and completely preventable. For almost all the patients now in the hospital, our vaccines would have kept them out.

Seeing preventable suffering causes a special kind of despair among the nurses and doctors struggling to help these unvaccinated patients. And then after their unbearably…