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Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
Youth Vaxx
Keeping the Kids All Right
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 ways to navigate our post-vaccine world here — or about unvaccinated kids here — or you can read about vaccines/anti-vaxxers throughout history here.
Almost everywhere you look at Covid statistics in the US right now: oh my gosh, it’s like a pandemic miracle.
I know, I know, I’m a doctor, and I’m not supposed to talk about miracles.
But look:
Numbers almost everywhere are down, down, down. There are now some hospitals where there are NO Covid patients at all.
In Boston’s March 2020 surge, we topped out at close to 4000 people per day hospitalized with Covid. In our post-Christmas surge it was over 2500. Yesterday it was 258. It’s like magic.
Well, actually, it’s “Science Magic.”
Or more precisely, “Vaccine Science Magic.”
Vaccinated people just don’t end up in the hospital much now and it’s even rarer, like super rare, to die.
So almost everybody in the hospital now with Covid is somebody who didn’t get…
