Dear Blue Fish Families, We are currently preparing to administer the COVID-19 vaccine in our offices to Blue Fish patients 5 to 11 years old. Please note that it will only be given to existing Blue Fish patients. We are not a public COVID-19 vaccination site. Currently, we do not know when [...]
We are excited to announce that both Dr. Amanda Chan and Dr. Neha Manikonda have joined our Woodlands practice! Dr. Chan is accepting new patients and is seeing patients starting on Monday, September 13, 2021. Dr. Manikonda is accepting new patients now and she will begin seeing patients in early November 2021. If you [...]
Dr. Jung has some back-to-school advice for the COVID-19 Delta surge: http://peterjung.blogspot.com/2021/08/post-56-back-to-school-advice-for-covid.html
At the moment, it looks like the Pfizer vaccine will be the first shot available to children under 12. The vaccine-maker expects to have enough data by the end of September to support an emergency use authorization for its vaccine in children who are ages 5 to 11. A Shot Against COVID For Kids Under 12 [...]
Excellent Q&A about children visiting grandparents, stores, and returning back to school in the midst of the delta variant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/07/22/covid-delta-variant-children/?fbclid=IwAR3waFLxufAEBoPnyvjI_54ST_LLcR2a0AFnBbcuVQ013u8sdRMpYx8M2nY
We highly recommend reading the following article regarding our kids going back to school: https://www.bcm.edu/coronavirus/for-the-baylor-community/from-dr-james-mcdeavitt/school-days
Please read the following article regarding the risk of COVID-19 vs the vaccine for young people: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/04/opinion/covid-vaccine-kids-risks.html?fbclid=IwAR2GWPmQ03RS16NPXSwuZKMPHawKbDkkAp3XjHmtGjjcfQod5KZ7QpxrS1M
We are pleased to announce that our Katy office will begin offering Saturday morning urgent care services for Katy patients beginning on Saturday, August 7, 2021. Saturday urgent care services are available by same day appointment only. If you have any questions about our Saturday urgent care services, please contact our office by calling [...]
This is a helpful tool to assess the relative risk of various activities for unvaccinated children: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/navigating-kid-related-activities
