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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 GP has written another post on vaccines, this time on the new Moderna vaccine, which has just been approved by the FDA. Click on the screenshot to read it, or you’ll likely be satisfied with the conclusions and unanswered questions below, which were remarkably similar to his take on the Pfizer vaccine. That’s because, … Continue reading Dr. Lickerman on the Moderna 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?
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
If you’re contemplating getting a booster shot, as I did (the Pfizer), you should read this blog post by Dr. Alex Lickerman, my primary care doc who has, as you may know, written a whole series on Covid-19 for the layperson. This is post #16. Click on the screenshot below to read his booster take … Continue reading Advice from my primary care doc: Should you get a booster? If so, which one?
Everybody knows about Lourdes, the town in southern France where Bernadette Soubirous (now a saint) said she had eighteen visions of the Virgin Mary beginning in 1858. The Grotto in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes has become a place of worldwide pilgrimage for Catholics (and, I suppose, other Christians) seeking relief from ailments … Continue reading 60 Minutes goes to Lourdes to investigate medical miracles
Apropos of yesterday’s post on the unproven efficacy of ivermectin for Covid-19, I talked to my GP, Dr. Alex Lickerman, about the drug (he’s read the studies). I learned not only that there is no publication of high-quality controlled double-blind tests needed to show that ivermectin is effective against Covid-19 (there’s a big one that … Continue reading The fallacy of using observational study to guide medical treatment: about 40% of medical procedures and drugs reported as not useful
My extremely competent and science-oriented physician, Dr. Alex Lickerman, has written post #14 in his continuing series about the coronavirus and the pandemic. It’s free, and you can read it by clicking on the screenshot below. This one answers a number of questions that many of us have. I’ll give a precis of the answers … Continue reading The latest from my doc on the pandemic, vaccinations, masks, and Delta
