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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?
My primary-care physician, Dr. Alex Lickerman, discusses the question everyone’s asking: should you get that bivalent booster? (For most people it would be their third booster and the fifth Covid shot). You can access Alex’s post by clicking on the screenshot below. (Be sure to look at the graphs and read it all.) Alex always … Continue reading Should you get that bivalent booster shot?
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)
From time to time, my primary care physician Dr. Alex Lickerman posts articles on his website from about what’s going on with the pandemic, concentrating on the scientific research and what it means. The latest post on the website, below, “lays out the evidence for wearing masks, talks about the development of a vaccine, and … Continue reading Dr. Alex’s latest advice on Covid 19, and a chance to ask questions
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
