The original clinical trials to find a COVID-19 vaccine excluded pregnant women. Many take that to mean the vaccines are unsafe for expectant mothers.
Even though later trials with pregnant women showed the vaccines are safe for them, the incorrect beliefs persist. Many still believe it’s dangerous for the mother, it’s dangerous for the baby or it can cause infertility. None of these things are true.
Late last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told the story of a teacher in Marin County, California, who came to work one day in May feeling fatigued, with a little nasal congestion. She brushed it off as allergies.
The teacher, who was not vaccinated against COVID-19, took off her mask just long enough to read to the class during story time. Two days later, she tested positive for the virus. So did half her elementary school class of 24. And so did a total of 27 others in other classes, their parents, and siblings.
We all know that little children can’t resist putting things into their mouths. It’s one of the ways they explore their new world. But this practice can often be dangerous, especially when it comes to tiny magnet toys.
These toys are composed of high-powered magnets the size of BBs and even smaller. You can twist them into an endless array of fascinating shapes and are irresistible to adults as well as children. So our concierge primary care doctors in Jupiter want to explain the danger to kids that can be involved in having these toys around the house.
Is your head spinning from all the conflicting guidance on masks for adults as well as children? You’re not alone. So let our concierge primary care doctors try to clear up some of the confusion on masks, kids and COVID-19.
Our primary care doctors in Jupiter have been receiving worried calls from parents about the possibility of their children contracting myocarditis and pericarditis from the COVID-19 vaccine.
We’d like to reassure you that the possibility is remote. Here are the facts.
Our primary care doctors in Delray Beach want to advise you of an unforeseen and unfortunate consequence of the drop in cases of COVID-19: an increase in another illness among children.
Those who are vaccinated—as well as those who aren’t—are mingling more in public without masks. Social distancing is now almost a thing of the past as many have come to believe the pandemic is over. (It isn’t, since just under half of Americans are fully vaccinated for the virus.) This change in behavior is leading to a rise in one particularly serious illness in children, RSV.
The guidance surrounding the best ways to protect children from the coronavirus continues to rapidly change and become increasingly complex. One especially perplexing area of contention arose in recent weeks regarding COVID-19 and kids summer camp. Our primary care concierge doctors in Jupiter hope we can help clear up some of the confusion for you.
Many people continue to regard marijuana as a benign drug, similar to alcohol. But, as anyone whose life has been ruined by alcohol abuse can attest, things aren’t always what they seem. So our concierge primary care doctors at MD 2.0 in Jupiter want to make you aware of the possible downsides of this increasingly legal drug. We especially consider the danger to kids posed by edibles.
All people in the U.S. over the age of 16 are eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine. And now that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds, our primary care concierge doctors in Jupiter thought this would be a good time to bring you up to date on what we know about kids and the COVID-19 vaccines.
With all the millions of words that have been written about the novel coronavirus over the past year, relatively few have covered the topic of COVID-19 and kids. That’s because, once it was discovered that most of the serious illnesses and deaths were concentrated in those who are older, kids seemed to have been forgotten, except for the impact on their schooling.
But our concierge doctors in Jupiter, Florida, have been seeing more studies and reports that have begun to focus on children. We want to pass along the newest information in this area.
