Posts written by Eric

07/21/2021 | 11:30 am | Dr. Jason Bowling, Infectious Diseases, was interviewed for a live, four-minute segment on KENS 5 TV’s lifestyle show, Great Day SA; he spoke about the delta variant in relation to the U.S. Olympic gymnast who has tested positive and also addressed why people should continue to mask and get vaccinated:

July 26, 2021

07/21/2021 | 11:30 am | Dr. Mandie Tibball Svatek, Pediatrics, is quoted in this KENS 5 news story about the delta variant and the fact that San Antonio doctors are now treating more children for COVID-19, with the possible result that more kids need to be hospitalized:

July 26, 2021

7/21/2021 | 11:30 am | Dr. Jason Bowling, Infectious Diseases, was interviewed by the San Antonio Express-News for a story about the contagious delta variant being a driver of the rise in cases nationwide, including in San Antonio and other Texas metro areas:

July 26, 2021

07/21/2021 | 11:30 am | Dr. Fred Campbell, General & Hospital Medicine, was interviewed live on Spectrum News 1 regarding the delta variant of COVID-19, the fact that it’s the most prevalent and much more transmissible than the wild type of COVID-19 has been in the past and that the ways to keep the risk low are to be fully vaccinated, to mask and to avoid being in close quarters with large crowds, especially indoors

July 26, 2021

07/21/2021 | 11:30 am | Dr. Jason Bowling, Infectious Diseases, spoke to KENS 5 news viewers, lending the new sense of urgency with regard to the highly contagious delta variant and the critical importance of getting vaccinated:

July 26, 2021

07/19/2021 | 4 pm | Dr. Jan Patterson, Infectious Diseases, is quoted in this San Antonio Express-News story, saying that COVID is not going to go away, it’s now called an endemic, as San Antonio’s COVID positivity rate nearly doubles in one week:

July 19, 2021

07/19/2021 | 4 pm | Dr. Jason Bowling, Infectious Diseases, is quoted in this Spectrum News story saying that we need more studies regarding long COVID; but, while we need to figure out why some people get long lasting symptoms after having COVID, one thing is for sure —get the vaccine, even if you’ve had a COVID infection before:

July 19, 2021

07/19/2021 | 4 pm | Dr. Tess Barton, Pediatrics, and Dr. Jason Bowling, Infectious Diseases, are quoted in this San Antonio Report story on the delta variant and what we need to know about the new strain of COVID-19:

July 19, 2021

07/19/2021 | 4 pm | Dr. Tess Barton, Pediatrics, is quoted in this KENS 5 news story about the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) that is spreading quickly, with some children developing Bronchiolitis:

July 19, 2021

07/19/2021 | 4 pm | Dr. Dimpy P. Shah, Population Health Sciences/ Mays Cancer Center, and Dr. Ruben Mesa, Mays Cancer Center, contributed to this U.S. News & World Report story on the research that has found that almost all cancer patients responded well/developed antibodies to the new coronavirus within three to four weeks after their second dose of a mRNA vaccine:

July 19, 2021