COVID-19
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.
Will the Golden Globes Be a Super Spreader Again?
The last missive I wrote was right after Thanksgiving and things were relatively quiet. Not any more, not by a long shot. This month, with all the holiday visiting and the new JN.1 variant and the indoor time we now have tons and tons of cases, lots 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...
They’ve Changed The Covid Rules of Engagement
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...
How to Navigate Our Post-Omicron World
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...
Omicron Update: We’ve Learned a Lot in Two Months. But We’re Still in the Soup
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...
Kids and Omicron This Week: What to Expect If They Get Covid
Today we are going to talk about KIDS. I know many parents out there with little kids are living in Limbo Land and feel neglected and constantly afraid and as if there’s no right answer, so let’s talk about the kids under 12 and Covid. Just a note: this isn’t...
Doctors Telling Their Omicron Stories: It is Horrific Out There
Things are unbelievably terrible out there right now. Forget anything you’ve heard about Omicron being “mild.” It is HORRIFIC how it is ravaging our society and our hospitals and our health care workers. 11,000 cases/day in June in the US. 650,000 cases yesterday...
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...