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August 10, 2021
Dr. Jan Patterson, Infectious Diseases, wrote this opinion piece published in the San Antonio Express-News about the COVID-19 hospitalization crisis and ways people can avert the crisis. The views of other leading infectious disease specialists across San Antonio were included in the piece. Read commentary
August 9, 2021
Dr. Sarah Frances McClure, DO, Emergency Medicine, seeks information on COVID-19 vaccination via this publication that serves the EMS provider community nationwide. This is part of an effort to gather data to understand the factors that influence EMS providers’ decisions to receive the vaccine. Read story
August 6, 2021
Dr. Robert Leverence, chief medical officer for UT Health Physicians, spoke to KENS 5 viewers in this story about the critical capacity at hospitals across the city with COVID-positive patients, including children, and the importance of getting vaccinated to slow the spread, especially in the face of the delta variant. Watch story
June 17, 2021
In this video, Dr. Owais Durrani, Emergency Medicine resident physician, discusses the threat of the COVID-19 delta variant in Yahoo! Finance. Watch here.
June 10, 2021
Dr. Donald Jenkins, Trauma and Emergency Surgery, is quoted in this KSAT 12 story about the growing demand for blood donations and the impact of a critically low blood supply in San Antonio. Watch the story.
May 19, 2021
Dr. Jessica Solis-McCarthy, Emergency Medicine, is quoted in this KGNS TV (Laredo) story about people who are missing their second COVID-19 dose or choosing to not get it. She believes that transportation, accessibility and fear/concern of side effects could have a lot to do with this. Watch the story.