The COVID Pandemic Continues

At this point we have all been affected by COVID. It seems like this pandemic of COVID 19 has been going on forever. We were all so anxious to get back to our lives and did our best to enjoy a summer where we could take our masks off. Sadly, our short lived return to some normalcy is long gone.  On the front lines in my office we have seen just about all the usual ups and downs of office medicine despite also dealing with COVID. We have helped educate and convince many that the vaccine was the right thing to do. I have also been reminded just how important my role is to help keep people healthy. I believe many people have also realized the need to have a doctor and access to quality, efficient and timely health care. COVID has demonstrated this. We have seen how telemedicine, Monoclonal antibody and relationships have been able to save lives for all patients. Old, young, black, white irrespective of one’s baseline health. No one knows where we go from here, but I will always believe that science will be the road back to normalcy. Get your vaccine and make good decisions.

One other piece of advice I share with everyone is this. Do not make the mistake of treating cold symptoms like you did before COVID 19. Doing so can be a serious mistake since it could easily be COVID.

If you don’t have a doctor get one and take advantage of telemedicine and the doctor patient relationship. I have seen how this has saved lives over the past year. Telemedicine is here to help and here to stay just like the virus.

Darryl Hill, M.D. FACP