Category: Covid-19

  • New Season for Highway Thru Hell

    New Season for Highway Thru Hell

    There was a countdown on Sunday for the new season for Highway Thru Hell. That’s the explanation for the featured image. The show has been on a while; this is season 11. Season 11, for the first few episodes will deal with the catastrophic floods that devastated British Columbia in November of 2021. It took…

  • Congratulations to Paul Thisayakorn, MD!

    Congratulations to Paul Thisayakorn, MD!

    I got a wonderful holiday greeting from one of my favorite past residents, Paul Thisayakorn, MD. He’s running a top-notch Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (CL-P) Service and a brand-new C-L Fellowship in Thailand. I could not be more excited for him and his family. His wife, Bow, runs the Palliative Care Service. He and Bow answered our…

  • Listen to Dr. Wes Ely, MD on Talk Radio Europe Discuss His Book: Every Deep-Drawn Breath

    Listen to Dr. Wes Ely, MD on Talk Radio Europe Discuss His Book: Every Deep-Drawn Breath

    Listen to Dr. Wes Ely on the show Talk Radio Europe as he talks about the devastating consequences of severe disease that results in admission to critical care units, specifically in the context of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The title of the presentation is “Understanding the Long Shadow of COVID and ICU Care.”

  • Rounding@Iowa Presentation on Covid-19 Bivalent Vaccine Boosters

    Rounding@Iowa Presentation on Covid-19 Bivalent Vaccine Boosters

    Give a listen to the Rounding@Iowa presentation “Update on Covid-19 Bivalent Vaccine Boosters. While these presentations are mainly directed to health care providers, they are very helpful for members of the community at large.

  • CDC Advisory Committee Recommends Including Covid-19 Vaccine for Routine Immunization Schedule

    CDC Advisory Committee Recommends Including Covid-19 Vaccine for Routine Immunization Schedule

    Today, the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended adding Covid-19 immunization to the routinely recommended vaccine schedule.

  • Two Vaccine Jabs in One Arm or One in Each Arm?

    Two Vaccine Jabs in One Arm or One in Each Arm?

    There were headlines about whether it’s better to get the flu shot and the Covid-19 updated booster in one arm or one in each. It doesn’t matter. Sena got both in one arm. Mine were split. I think it depended on the preference of the person giving the shots. The main thing is that you…

  • HHS Campaign for Updated Covid-19 Updated Vaccine Booster

    HHS Campaign for Updated Covid-19 Updated Vaccine Booster

    See the HHS Campaign for the Covid-19 updated vaccine booster for older adults-a high risk group. We’re scheduled for both the flu shot and the updated booster.

  • How to Get the Updated Covid-19 Vaccine Booster at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

    How to Get the Updated Covid-19 Vaccine Booster at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

    Here’s an updated link to how to get the updated Covid-19 vaccine booster (often called the Omicron bivalent booster). It’s sometimes faster to get this booster at local pharmacies, although there’s less urgency now.

  • Single Administration Therapeutic Interfering Particle (TIP) Reduces Covid-19 Viral Shedding & Pathogenesis in Hamsters

    Single Administration Therapeutic Interfering Particle (TIP) Reduces Covid-19 Viral Shedding & Pathogenesis in Hamsters

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) recently published a study showing: Abstract “The high transmissibility of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a primary driver of the COVID-19 pandemic. While existing interventions prevent severe disease, they exhibit mixed efficacy in preventing transmission, presumably due to their limited antiviral effects in the…

  • I Say Omicron and You Say Ahmicron

    I Say Omicron and You Say Ahmicron

    Well, we tried the Miracle Whip salad dressing on egg salad sandwiches the other day. I thought they tasted better than the tuna fish sandwiches we had before. But maybe it was the mustard in the egg salad. Anyway, Sena says we’ll be going back to Mayonnaise after the Miracle Whip is gone. The difference…