“ On the discharge papers, I write these parting instructions: Be prudent. Stay at home if you are sick. Talk to your doctor about keeping a course of oral antivirals (like Paxlovid) in your medicine cabinet if you are at higher risk of hospitalization or death. Remember what Dr. Anthony Fauci recently said: “If you are vaccinated and boosted and have available therapy, you are not going to die [of Covid], no matter how old you are.” That should be reassuring to people like my parents, who are now in their early 80s.
And, yes, please use the formal end of the pandemic as a new beginning for yourself personally. Invest in yourself to get into the best possible health to feel better, happier and stronger now, as well as to weather any medical storm in the future.
But most of all, go enjoy all the things that a major emergency or the threat of severe illness wouldn’t let you do. Call if you have any problems.
I wish my patient well. I wish us all well.”
http://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/health/covid-public-health-emergency-ends-gupta/index.html
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