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...

COVID UPDATE – March 11, 2020

by | Mar 11, 2020 | COVID

I am posting again as Robin Schoenthaler the “cancer doc who is posting about Covid.” I don’t have time for a long post today because events are gathering speed. I am posting not out of panic, but out of my perspective as a physician who has access...

COVID UPDATE – March 9, 2020

by | Mar 9, 2020 | COVID

For now I am going to make myself the self-appointed translator of mis-information to facts about COVID-19.  We are about to move into a catastrophic health care crisis and I will periodically post updates.  This is not about blame, or controversies, or politics and...