What Should I Do If I Have Been Exposed to Someone With COVID-19?
This is a question we are hearing more often these days as COVID-19 continues to work its way around every corner. Although Florida’s numbers are down slightly, COVID-19 is still here. Overall case numbers and percent positivity of new cases are down to a daily new case average, around 2,600 for the week ending September […]
Getting a Flu Shot This Year Is More Important Than Ever
Before coming back to the island this year, please get a flu shot. If you are working on the island, please get a flu shot. It does not matter where you get your flu shot, but making it a priority to get one matters a great deal. Flu vaccines have been shown to reduce the […]
Is There Safety in Numbers? Thought About Gatherings and COVID-19 (By Popular Demand)
First, let’s start with a definition of a term we are all hearing thrown around a lot lately; herd immunity. Herd immunity is the resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population that results if a sufficiently high proportion of individuals are immune to the disease, through recovering from the illness or […]
A New Voice on the Subject of COVID-19
Hello Boca Grande Clinic Community, I want to take this opportunity to introduce myself and say hello! I am Mark Driscoll, the new CEO of the Boca Grande Health Clinic. I have been with the Clinic now for almost two months and I look forward to meeting all of you over the coming year. It […]