I’ve now been blogging about COVID-19 for about a year and a half. As a society, we’ve used that time to argue constantly, and totally change each other’s minds, about whether masks are useful tools to prevent the spread of COVID-19 or the worst thing that’s ever happened in life. Remember the Cuban Missile…
This week, Texas got about two million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Despite the pause in the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, local health departments have not paused efforts to improve distribution.I have also not paused writing blogs. That’s my pledge to you, the dozens of people who read this blog every week.A couple weeks ago, before…
Earlier this week, I was charged with investigating lines at the vaccine hub at Fair Park in Dallas.Listen, North Texas, we’ve been through a lot, you and I. Again and again, we’ve heard this pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to the world.Then the weather’s over here, like, “I’ll give you an unprecedented challenge.”Vaccine…
The editorial board here at 1 Scaianalysis Esplanade can only provide so many pick-me-ups.But the CDC isn’t helping. We’ve all got cabin fever, so I understand calls to not host Super Bowl parties. Loyal Scaiaholics will recall we’re so close to the end of this whole COVID story arc, so if we skip this…
I got my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine today.https://twitter.com/scaia/status/1355190349241741316While I was there, the line of cars was ripe for microphone shovin’. I sidled up to several cars to ask them how they feel about getting the vaccine [spoilers: every one of them was in favor].I had actually set up outside…
I believe HIPAA laws dictate, when the COVID-19 vaccine becomes widely available, your healthcare provider is required to provide a doctor or nurse to administer the vaccine and also an assistant to take a picture of you smiling reassuringly into the camera and possibly giving a thumbs up.Businesses are anxious to reopen so we can smile reassuringly at…
I may never have mentioned this before, but I was in a minor fender bender [or kerfuffle, if you will] about six years ago. Each December, an associate texts me to congratulate me on my “staying alive anniversary.”This year, the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation asked me to participate in a study about recovery from traumatic brain injury.That study…