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Dr. Alex Lickerman, my GP, has a new post on his website about the coronavirus and vaccines, the twelfth since he began posting during the pandemic. Click on the screenshot below to read it (it’s free). The short answer to the title question is “yes”, but there are lots of other questions answered (and some … Continue reading New post by Dr. Alex Lickerman: Should you get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine?
UPDATE: To underscore the opacity of the present system, its greed, and the way patients are overcharged, read this NYT article from May, “She was told that surgery would cost about $1,300. Then the bill came: $229,000.” Lisa Melody was charged the “chargemaster” price, even though she didn’t agree to that and her insurance company … Continue reading American hospitals refuse to adhere to new price transparency law
My doctor, Alex Lickerman, has put up post #13 in his continuing series on the medical science of coronavirus and the pandemic. This short but informative post (click on screenshot below) deals with a question we all have: First, the effectiveness. Alex summarizes numerous studies showing how effective a vaccine is. Remember, though, what that … Continue reading Effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines
My GP, Dr. Alex Lickerman, has once again put up a coronavirus post on his practice’s website, and allowed me to reference it here. It’s timely because it’s all about the new Pfizer vaccine. (A ICU nurse in New York may have been the first to get the shot.) How effective is it, and how … Continue reading My doctor’s new post about the Pfizer vaccine: your questions answered (and you can ask the doc if you have others)
I’m calling attention to a new post by my physician, Dr. Alex Lickerman—part of his continuing series on the pandemic and the virus. In this one, he lays out guidelines about how a business should operate to be opened safely if it’s allowed to and wants to; but he emphasizes at the outset that he … Continue reading Dr. Lickerman on coronavirus: is a vaccine in the offing, what’s your risk of infection from casual contact, and what rules should businesses follow if they’re allowed to reopen?
UPDATES: The discussion of this paper has gone back and forth, and the cause is that neither Alex nor I read the paper carefully. I just skimmed it, and Alex read it quickly but paid most of his attention to the tables. That led to this first update in which he concluded (and I agreed) … Continue reading Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are not only useless in treating Covid-19, but very harmful
