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How do I continue relationships with friends and family members with very different views on vaccines, masks, politics and life post COVID?

Mental Health

A: If you love them and want to continue to be in relationship with them, focus on the common ground instead of the areas where you disagree. From masks to vaccines, from coverups to conspiracy theories and beyond, global news (and all the politics that come with it) dominated personal conversation in the last year. Read more…

Help! Am I languishing?

Mental Health

Do not fear….Dr. Aparna Kumar, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, here to talk about this! 😿 What is languishing? It is living but having little joy, purpose, or aim. It is going through the motions of daily life but not feeling good about it and maybe even not being able to take the next steps. Read more…

Is the need to test different doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in kids versus adults related to differences in body size or weight?

Families/Kids Vaccines

A: No. Testing of different doses in younger kids, compared to teens and adults, is related to potential differences in how the immune system responds to vaccines across different age groups. When we hear the word ‘dose’, we often think of medications. With medications, a certain level needs to be present in the blood for Read more…

CDC Mask Recommendation Update 5/14/21

Masks

Q: What should I know about the new CDC recommendations allowing fully vaccinated people to lose the mask in most settings? A: The new CDC recommendations apply to fully vaccinated people only. This individual level policy change has complicated implications for population health. Like much of the last 15 months, nothing is written in stone. Read more…

CDC recommends the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents age 12-15!

Families/Kids Vaccines

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (@CDC) is recommending the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for all adolescents age 12-15 following the May12th meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Big picture: The vaccine is safe and effective for these kids and clinicians are raring to start giving the vaccine to this age Read more…

¿Cuál es la definición de vacuna?

Vaccines

Sigo escuchando a la gente decir que la vacuna para COVID-19 ‘no es una vacuna’, entonces, ¿cuál es la definición de vacuna? ¿Las vacunas para COVID son realmente vacunas? R: Una vacuna es un producto que se introduce en su cuerpo con la intención de crear anticuerpos contra una enfermedad específica, dándole la capacidad de Read more…