by Dr. Robin Schoenthaler | Apr 17, 2022 | COVID
No question our BA.2 Omicron bit-of-a-surge is happening in the Northeast, and soon other parts of the country. The fact that BA.2 is sooooooo transmissible means Covid is once again playing havoc with our plans and our daily lives.The good news is we’re not seeing a...
by Dr. Robin Schoenthaler | Apr 10, 2022 | COVID
Building The Plane While We Fly It, Part 706 Our lull in the middle of mild storm clouds continues. In Massachusetts the number of cases has ticked up a bit. The number of people in the hospital is stable and a fraction of what in was in January (like 200 vs 3000) ....
by Dr. Robin Schoenthaler | Mar 27, 2022 | COVID, Uncategorized
Will It Cripple Us Again? Weare still in the middle of a wonderful Covid lull but there’s probably some storm clouds gathering, mostly in the form of that Omicron variant called BA.2. Numbers of cases, deaths and hospitalizations are going down in the US but...
by Dr. Robin Schoenthaler | Mar 16, 2022 | COVID, Uncategorized
Six Steps To Being SafeR In the good news bears category, Omicron cases — mostly caused by the BA.1 variant — continue to decline in most places around the country. We are seeing a fabulous fall in cases, hospitalizations, and need for ICU beds. You don’t need to be a...
by Dr. Robin Schoenthaler | Mar 6, 2022 | COVID, Uncategorized
I am writing this on March 6, 2022. I first wrote about Covid, in a post to my neighbors, on March 6, 2020. There is now absolutely no question that we are facing a major life-altering epidemic and all of our lives are going to be changed for a while and for a few of...
by Dr. Robin Schoenthaler | Jan 23, 2022 | COVID
Week-end update: 11,000 cases/day in the US in June, 802,000 cases last Sunday, 706,000 today But you know what? Cases don’t really matter any more: there’s huge undercounting because of the gajillion unreported at-home tests and we know Omicron is getting past our...
