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As I mentioned about a month ago, Ebola preparedness is back on our radar. Ebola is much more dangerous than Covid but fortunately is extraordinarily ...

Earlier today, a CDC advisory panel says the benefits of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine outweigh the risk and that we should resume using the J&J ...

In 9th grade, my daughter wrote a history paper on the emergence of public health in Europe during the 14th century as a result of the plague. The ...

Hot off the presses, and hours after I finished drafting my Friday night update (which starts with the next paragraph), Pfizer has requested an ...

The CDC is very concerned about a fourth surge and are reporting that the daily number of new cases are up 10% compared to a week ago. ...

Our internal ER COVID testing data is divided up between symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. It’s the ordering physician’s decision about whether a ...

Although the more contagious and perhaps more serious variants are on the rise across the country, that hasn’t impacted my view from the ER. Our ...

Yesterday marked the 1-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring Coronavirus a global pandemic. Since then, over 530,000 Americans ...

This Sunday marks one year since we diagnosed our first COVID patient at VHC. Since then, we’ve had almost 10,000 patients require our COVID isolation ...

500,000 COVID deaths. We crossed that threshold earlier this week. It’s really unbelievable to me where we are compared to a year ago. In reviewing my ...