Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
What To Do If You Get Covid
Version Three Point Uh-Oh!
Omicron case numbers from the very contagious BA.2 and BA.3 variants — and soon BA.4 and BA.5 — continue to move upwards, now climbing in over forty states.
— -The good news: Vaccines/boosters no longer are perfect at stopping us from getting Covid but they are doing a great job at protecting most of us from getting the kind of serious disease that lands us in the hospital or the morgue.
— — The bad news: Omicron is continuing to cause a fair amount of disruption and misery. “Mild” is not a good descriptor of Omicron for a lot of people.
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What should you do if you turn positive?
Number one: You should not feel guilty or like you’ve done something wrong, or “But I did everything right for two years and now this!” The thing is, this isn’t something you necessarily did WRONG — it’s just the nature of a highly infectious virus.
{This kind of guilty/frustrated reaction, which I hear a lot, reminds me of when women with breast…
