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July 6, 2020
In this week’s installment of Ask a Doctor, UT Health San Antonio physician Fred Campbell, MD, answers more of Texas Standard listeners’ most pressing questions about the coronavirus.
July 2, 2020
Dr. Ruth Berggren, infectious diseases specialist, discussed the crisis and what people can do to avoid increasing cases even more this July Fourth weekend. Dr. Berggren said even if people decide to celebrate outdoors, they should stay away from people, keep a six-foot distance and always wear a mask. Read and listen to the story.
June 30, 2020
Hospital beds are becoming scarce in San Antonio due to COVID-19. Contingency planning is now being ramped up to provide excess capacity when the hospitals are full. “We’re all nearing our capacity,” says Dr. Robert Leverence, chief medical officer. He says the hospital’s models show “by the middle of next week, or the end of […]
June 29, 2020
Dr. Claudia Miller, an environmental scientific consultant and professor emeritus in family and community medicine at UT Health San Antonio, believes politics and economics should not outweigh public health in this pandemic. “Health is so critical and this virus is so incredibly contagious, and people are taking it home with them and infecting others,” she […]
June 29, 2020
Dr. Robert Leverence, chief medical officer of UT Health San Antonio, discussed the surge in COVID-19 cases including that our model predicts a doubling of cases by next week. “This tells us that we’re still in the thick of things. It is a highly infectious virus. It still has the capacity to overwhelm our system […]
June 25, 2020
With COVID-19 cases surging and businesses across the state reopening, a lot of people are questioning where they can go safely. Dr. Jan Patterson, an infectious diseases doctor at University Hospital and professor of medicine, and Dr. Ruth Berggren, professor of infectious diseases, weighed in on the safety of grocery shopping, voting and other activities. […]