COVID UPDATE – April 26, 2020

by | Apr 26, 2020 | COVID

It’s April 25 and I’m back as Robin Schoenthaler-the-Boston-cancer-doctor-writing-about-Covid and we in Boston are in the surge. All the numbers are in the thousands now, making it harder to wrap our heads around them Thousands of new cases a day. A thousand...

COVID UPDATE – April 11, 2020

by | Apr 11, 2020 | COVID

Hi, I’m here with my weekly FB missive as the Boston-cancer-doctor-who-writes-about-Covid. Feel free to share as you see fit. In Massachusetts we are in the surge, still pre-peak. 1560 deaths (an all-time high of 159 deaths reported on Friday; 13 in Arlington),...

COVID UPDATE – April 3, 2020

by | Apr 3, 2020 | COVID

Here is my COVID-19 Facebook Missive Number 7, written on 4/3/20, from me as your friend Robin Schoenthaler the cancer-doctor-writing-about-COVID-19 (and feel free to share wherever and however you like). So the surge has begun. Massachusetts has 10,400 people who...

COVID UPDATE – March 27, 2020

by | Mar 27, 2020 | COVID

3240 cases today in MA, 823 more than yesterday. 35 deaths. The hospitals have been feverishly working to get ready — turning many of us into telemedicine docs, converting endoscopy suites into ICUs, cancelling all elective or delay-able surgeries so that there...

COVID UPDATE – March 14, 2020

by | Mar 14, 2020 | COVID

We are in a very painful but maybe still can-I-please-have-a-tiny-bit-of-hope stage of this epidemic. Travel mattered before, but now it’s irrelevant — it doesn’t matter where you’ve been — it’s in your neighborhood or next door (so...