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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 […]
March 19, 2021
Dr. Ruth Berggren, Infectious Diseases, appeared on the March 18 KSAT 12 news to talk about a waiting list for vaccines, sharing that the Pfizer vaccine is 97% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 94% effective in preventing asymptomatic COVID-19. Watch the Q&A.