Posts Tagged ‘covidtestingorangecounty’
Quantitative Antibody Testing Orange County Urgent Care
Since the blog last week advising antibody counts to help predict vaccine failures, we have had many questions. Let’s answer a few now. -Caduceus and PDQ Urgent Care and More can draw the counts during an office visit of any type or at their draw stations. Due to high demand, we have specific times we…
Read MoreANTIBODY QUANTITATIVE TESTING- ORANGE COUNTY URGENT CARE COVID BLOG
In a world that keeps on pushin’ me around I’ll stand my ground And I won’t back down. Tom Petty Let’s present the actual real-life case of a PDQ married couple I will call Donald and Daisy. (It’s real except their names of course.) They are both in their 60’s. Both were vaccinated in Feb/March (the brand isn’t important). Being fully vaccinated, they assumed they were safe to travel to the…
Read MoreCMO Covid Orange County Urgent Care Blog- Shares his story
It was 3 PM on my second day in the hospital–Christmas Eve- and was due to have a half hour IV infusion of Remdesivir for my Covid pneumonia. I looked up at the IV bottle. It was a dark glass container, looking identical to an upside down Kahlua bottle. More bothersome – there were three…
Read MoreCMO Covid Blog Urgent Care Orange County- Covid Treatment Team Updates
Last week, we gave a special bulletin on five items relating to the pandemic. To update this week, we enlisted the help of one of the most famous doctors of all time. He did this by eavesdropping on Annie, a young adult who sported a “good Annie” on one shoulder, and a “bad” Annie on the other. #1-…
Read MoreCMO Covid Patient Bulletin Urgent Care Orange County December 2020
Special Bulletin- We want to alert our Caduceus and PDQ patients to new developments regarding Covid —the usual disclaimer These apply ONLY to our patients, other health systems may be experiencing different scenarios, or perhaps not reporting them. 1. New presentation of Covid2. Testing shortage looming3. New saliva testing update4. News on vaccinations5. How to reach us 1. New presentation of…
Read MoreTesting Testing 1-2-3
COVID 19…Testing…Testing…Testing… 1-2-3 For my fellow baseball fans, this is a good time to recall the beloved Yogi Berra who told a post-game interviewer after a bad loss… “We made too many wrong mistakes.” That sums up my viewpoint on our response to the Covid pandemic, both nationally and here in California. I have been purposely apolitical during the…
Read MoreCovid Diagnostic and Antibody Testing Updates for Orange County
We have been pushing the mantra of– Know if you’re contagious Know if you’re immune Test. Test. Test. We are all aware of the large spike in new Covid cases recently. This has created a unprecedented demand for the PCR swab test. We continue to do these curbside on a near daily basis. That will…
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