Stop the Spread January 9 01/05/23 | 5 pm| Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, Rehabilitation Medicine, contributed comments to this USA Today feature about millions of Americans who are suffering from long COVID-19; their different experiences show the challenges of helping people with a condition that creates so many profound and varied problems. Research suggests that the more symptoms someone has after their initial infection, the more likely their symptoms are to linger: January 9 12/28/22 | 5 pm | Dr. Tess Barton, Pediatrics, is quoted in this Texas Public Radio (TPR) story about the current spike in children’s respiratory viruses; she does not hold the opinion that the tools used to protect against COVID-19, like isolation and masking, have left children more vulnerable to other infections. Instead, she points to the fact that this is the second real RSV season during the pandemic, with a big surge during the summer of 2021. She suggests that what is actually occurring is a temporary immunodeficiency that happens after you get an infection, because many children are getting something else after having COVID: January 9 12/13/22 | 5 pm | Dr. Michelle Brooks, Hospital Medicine, is quoted at the end of this article in The Hospitalist. Following the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, it’s no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading-information policy. Hospitalists are among those who are wondering about the future of #MedTwitter; during the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitalists found a sense of community on social media—Twitter specifically — using it to share research and protocols that seemed to change by the hour, to provide accurate, evidence-based information and to help dispel misinformation January 9 12/13/22 | 5 pm| Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, Rehabilitation Medicine, was featured in this video and story in Medical Economics, describing the symptoms of long COVID; Dr. Verduzco-Gutierrez is an advocate for medical and policy solutions to help patients deal with the disease: January 9 12/9/22 | 5 pm| Dr. Jose Cadena, Medicine, was interviewed for this KSAT 12 TV story on detection of tuberculosis at two local high schools, Brandeis and Clark; since the COVID-19 pandemic, TB rates have been rising and — with all the fall allergies, Covid and respiratory viruses — TB has been hiding amid all the coughing: January 9 12/9/22 | 5 pm| Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, Rehabilitation Medicine, was interviewed about long COVID for a CNBC news story and spoke about the financial toll of long COVID to include credit card debt and ruined retirement plans: January 9 12/7/22 | 5 pm| Dr. Rachel Pearson, Pediatrics/Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics, is quoted in this story of The Guardian regarding the best way to avoid this winter’s ‘tripledemic’ of RSV, COVID and flu cases: January 9 12/7/22 | 5 pm| Dr. William Henrich, president, was interviewed by the publication Invest: San Antonio and, among the many topics discussed, he mentioned that telehealth is far more prevalent within the practice of UT Health Physicians than it ever was before COVID and that we are looking to expand it across those areas with which it is most aligned: January 9 12/6/22 | 5 pm| Dr. Jessica Solis-McCarthy, Emergency Medicine, contributed to this KABB Fox 29 TV news story on seeing an increase volume of patients with a combination of viruses, flu and COVID together: January 9 12/2/22 | 5 pm| Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, Rehabilitation Medicine, was interviewed about long COVID for a CNBC news story and spoke about patients’ struggles with the ongoing symptoms of long COVID and its impact on the health care system: 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 95 »
