Dr. Robin’s Covid Updates

Yes, You Really Should Get a Booster Shot

Time to Get on the Science Train

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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 what to do if you get Covid here — or about kids and Omicron here — or you can read about vaccines/anti-vaxxers throughout history here

Even though our case and hospitalization numbers are falling fast, they are still higher than they ever were before, which means there’s still gazillions of people walking past you with Omicron.

And there’s still gazillions of people being admitted with Omicron, but it’s less than last week, and rarely in the vaccinated. Small mercies.

Still, there’s so so so many deaths. We know this makes sense since the denominator is so huge but still, more than 2500 deaths a day is just terrible, unimaginable.

That’s the bad news. The good news is that the science keeps chug-chug-chugging along; it’s like “The Little Engine That Could.”