The Closer We Get to Universal Vaccination, the Better our Future Will Be
Here are a few misinformed arguments we must dispel to successfully reach herd immunity.
Daniel Stone is Regional Medical Director of Cedars-Sinai Valley Network and a practicing internist and geriatrician with Cedars Sinai Medical Group.
Here are a few misinformed arguments we must dispel to successfully reach herd immunity.
My struggles this COVID-19 year were bracketed by an email on February 26 and a shot in the arm on New Year’s Eve.
My febrile and coughing patients can often identify someone that wasn’t careful and put them at risk.
Trump’s impending departure offers my patients and the millions of others hope that their healthcare access through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will be protected.
My family and my career would not be affected much by the outcome of an election. What gets me out and knocking on doors are the healthcare needs of my own patients and millions like them across the country.
Summer vacation plans usually don’t require in-depth risk analysis. But 2020 is no normal year.
As we pray for the president’s recovery, we can only hope that he realizes that following public health advisories protects ourselves and others from the ravages of this illness.
Why do many Americans still shun the safety measures that produced coronavirus success stories in Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere?
Our doctors, nurses and pharmacists successfully restructured health care so effectively because we looked first to the needs of patients and colleagues rather than our own.