text: Remember back in March and April when the fear of COVID shut down everything, including elective medical care, gyms and large gatherings? The hope was that we could quickly and "easily" stop COVID in its tracks. But as COVID cases increase and the pandemic drags on, it's clear this won't have a quick resolution. Citizens will and are demanding the economy, and even sports, reopen....
  Tags: covid 19, major league baseball, mlb, school closures, surge, surge planning
  Early on in this pandemic, the recommendations from the CDC and state authorities were pretty clear when it came to mass gatherings: don't have them. In fact, the CDC reiterates this guidance in an update from July 7th, 2020. The highest risk of spread of the coronavirus comes from "large in-person gatherings where it is difficult for individuals to remain spaced at least 6 feet...
  Tags: covid 19, George Floyd, protests
  Here we are, emerging from the acute phase of the coronavirus pandemic, entering the unknown chronic phase. There is much we still don't know about the virus, including why some become symptomatic but others remain asymptomatic. Even with these unknowns, the world must press on, doing our best to adjust our lives and maintain some sense of normalcy. One facet of this new normal...
  Tags: buildmybod health price estimator, coronavirus, covid 19, social distancing, work from home
  Let's review the initial response to the first wave of coronavirus by hospitals, city and state governments. Hospitals cancelled elective cases. Cities and states ordered a shelter in place order, shut down restaurants and closed parks and beaches. These techniques were able to mitigate some of the worst predictions. 100,000 deaths instead of 2 million deaths. The healthcare system was not overwhelmed as it...
  Tags: covid 19, face mask, mitigation, social distancing
  Here in San Francisco, the city and health department issued a directive on May 15th allowing elective surgery. In the directive, it was very clear elective surgery, including cosmetic surgery and dental procedures, could move forward. For this reason, we began performing cosmetic surgery in our in-office AAAASF accredited operating room the following Monday, May 18th. A full two months had passed after the...
  Tags: aaaasf, buildmybod health price estimator, office based operating room
  Ice cream shop : takeout food :: cosmetic surgery : elective surgery
  Think back to your SATs. Remember the analogies? The goal was to determine the relationship between the first pair of words and then choose the second pair of words that had an equivalent relationship. In the title above, ice cream shops are to takeout food as cosmetic surgery is to elective surgery. In other words, ice cream shops are a type of takeout food, just...