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April 14, 2021
Dr. Rachel Pearson, Pediatrics, Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, is quoted in this feature on the challenges of unravelling long COVID. She believes that, in scientific inquiry, there’s much less harm to casting a broad net of inquiry in order to see what we find in the arena of long-haul COVID. Read the story.
April 14, 2021
In this KSAT 12 Q&A, Dr. Ruth Berggren, Infectious Diseases, spoke from a senior center where vaccinations were being administered, by the School of Nursing’s mobile vaccine administration unit, in order to answer viewers’ latest questions regarding how the vaccine is holding up to the variants. Watch the Q&A.
April 14, 2021
Dr. Ruth Berggren, Infectious Diseases, said that, in a few rare cases, where people had an allergy to mRNA vaccines, side effects of clots and bleeding are appearing indicating a possibility of an antibody being produced that’s binding to platelets and causing platelets to clump and be cleared. She recommends that those who have concerns […]
April 14, 2021
Dr. Ruth Berggren, Infectious Diseases, spoke to KSAT 12’s Tiffany Huertas about the FDA’s recommendation to pause Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine over a rare clotting issue. Dr. Berggren suggested that we need to stay calm, identify only those people who have had this particular vaccine in thhe last three weeks and then alert those individuals […]
April 13, 2021
Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, Rehabilitation Medicine, is quoted in this Chicago Sun-Times story about patients who test negative but still have “long COVID” symptoms (patients referred to as “long-haulers”). She comments that about 12% of the patients she’s seen never had a positive COVID test, but that’s not as important as are the symptoms she must […]
April 12, 2021
Dr. Alan Peterson, STRONG STAR/ Consortium to Alleviate PTSD (CAP)/Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is quoted in this San Antonio Express-News story about military suicides in the COVID era hitting a new high. Read the story.