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As the world went dark and confusion and misinformation poured from every source, Robin Schoenthaler took her medical degree and dived in to the data to make sense of it all. With her eye firmly on the facts and her honest open style, readers began flocking to her missives to read Robin’s take on the numbers, acceptable risks, vaccine safety and more.
Urgent Omicron Action Items: What To Do Now That We See the Train A-Coming
PUBLISHED IN healthmanagement.in What to do as this Omicron Freight Train comes booming our way? a) Go get boosted. This week. Vaccination seems to still be helpful in not getting severe disease; boosters may help with not catching this wildly contagious Omicron. b)...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Omicron That We Don’t Know Yet: Is It Deja Vu All Over Again? Not Today
Wednesday night I lay in bed and thought to myself, “Hmmmm, nothing new happening in the Covid world! Maybe I won’t write a missive this week-end…” Ah, the innocence. Because boom! Then it was Thursday and word ebbed out about a possible new variant. By Friday...
Vaccinating the Littles
Numbers in the US continue to improve: cases flat or falling in 40/50 states. Deaths are down to “only” 1400/day, with about 12 times as many deaths in the unvaccinated as in the people who had already gotten their shots. More in the good news category: seven...
Okay, Booster: Getting Us to SafeR
Look at what I wrote in May: “Cases are fantastically lower in many parts of the US. I mean, there’s still 37,000 cases a day which is horrible but it sure is better than the 237,000 after Christmas.” Today: “Cases are definitely lower in many parts of the US. I mean,...
When Non-Covid Irish Eyes Are Smiling:
Last month I spent eight days in Ireland. I did a nice “Insider Bus Tour of Ireland” with a local Irish-owned company called The WorldTour. It was great. I chose Ireland carefully. I chose Ireland because their Covid management has been excellent, because they have an...
Boise + Boosters: Medical Rationing in the Headlines
Covid Delta surges continue to torture many states. While in some places the number of cases is starting to level off, hospitalization numbers remain insanely high. Covid hospitalizations continue to overwhelm health care workers and systems. It’s still overwhelmingly...
Delta’s Psychological Toll: How 2021 Covid Scientists and 1878’s Aunt Nathalie Can Help
Another day, another set of headlines about surges. And schools. And schools. And surges. Covid Delta surges seem to last around 6–8 weeks. They are ramping up horribly in some new states (South Dakota, Ohio, Idaho, Maine) — but are slowly declining in Missouri,...
COVID Update – October 18, 2020
Hi, I'm back as Robin-Schoenthaler-the-Boston-cancer-doctor-who-writes-about-Covid. (And it’s okay with me if you want to share.) Today I’m going to talk about thinking about Covid science when we think about Covid risk. As we enter into fall/winter there is...
COVID Update – October 4, 2020
Hi, I'm back as Robin-Schoenthaler-the-Boston-cancer-doctor-who-writes-about-Covid. (And it’s okay with me if you want to share.) Today I’m going to talk about why rates in Massachusetts and other states are going up, and what we can learn from White House events...
COVID Update – September 27, 2020
Hi, I'm back as Robin-Schoenthaler-the-Boston-cancer-doctor-who-writes-about-Covid. (And it’s okay with me if you want to share.) Today I’m going to talk about how March Terror led to March Myths and then we’ll do some March Myth-Busting. Big picture: Massachusetts’...