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March 25, 2021
Dr. Robert Leverence, chief medical officer of UT Health Physicians, contributed to this KENS 5 news story about Metro Health’s encouragement to healthy people under 50 to wait to get the COVID-19 vaccine in order to prioritize high-risk groups; this is recommended because young people are less likely to die from coronavirus. Watch the story.
March 25, 2021
Dr. Robert Leverence, chief medical officer of UT Health Physicians, was quoted in this San Antonio Express-News story on all Texas adults becoming eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine starting March 29, saying that we have worked to develop new digital platforms and other scheduling mechanisms to help with open scheduling of patient. Read the story.
March 25, 2021
Dr. Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, was interviewed for this story, offering advice on how to guide kids through a reopened world; adults should realize that children, too, have felt a loss of control through the pandemic. Read the story.
March 24, 2021
Volunteers will be outside helping with crowd control, giving directions, pushing wheelchairs, assisting patients in and out of their vehicles, checking that they have confirmed appointments and have signed all consent forms.
March 22, 2021
In this KSAT 12 story, Dr. Patrick Ramsey, Obstetrics and Gynecology/Maternal Fetal Medicine, was interviewed by KSAT 12, recommending that pregnant moms get the COVID-19 vaccine. Read and watch the story.
March 22, 2021
In this Q&A, Dr. Fred Campbell, General and Hospital Medicine, provided the answers for a KENS 5 Q&A, saying that it’s important to get the second dose of the vaccine in order to extend its effectiveness and that, while it is not dangerous to switch between two vaccines for the second dose, it is not […]