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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.  

Doctors Telling Stories About Omicron BA.2

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...

Should You Get Another Booster Shot?

Building The Plane While We Fly It, Part 706Our 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) ....

BA.2 Is Snapping at Our Heels

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...

Omicron Has Landed: And It’s Everywhere

PUBLISHED in Medium.com It was a very Omicron Christmas for many of us. As cases soar (70,000 at the end of October; over 200,000 today), I had countless friends and relatives who suddenly had to cancel, adjust, or scale down their celebrations because of people...