Thoughts of herd immunity still far off as city continues immunizations
Thoughts of herd immunity still far off as city continues immunizations By Michael Cantu | January 19, 2021 at 3:56 PM CST - Updated January 20 at 7:54 AM
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - With vaccines being slowly distributed in the state and nationally, health experts still encourage social and physical distancing measures.
The key to moving away from the measures is what doctors call herd immunity.
Dr. Victor Test is the chief of pulmonology medicine and critical care at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and director of Medical Intensive Care Unit at University Medical Center. He said there may be a need to re-think the term.
Lubbock doctors entered holidays exhausted, worried gatherings could bring another spike
Dr. Ebtesam Islam walked room-to-room through the University Medical Center ICU on Wednesday morning, checking on each COVID-19 patient on the overfilled floor.
She carried an iPad with her, in case she needed to help a patient FaceTime their family to say goodbye at a moment s notice, she had to practically shout through layers of PPE as she spoke to other families, and she had to tell the wife of a man in his 30s that her husband would not make it home from the hospital - all before noon.
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