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Community and COVID Vaccines

December 30, 2020 • covid • covid-19 • vaccines

Dear CFP Community, Last week, the practitioners and staff at CFP were given the opportunity to get our first Covid vaccines as members of the medical community. I have to say, I was not expecting that my response would be to burst into tears of relief, hope, joy, so many feelings that have been pent up and put in a box on the shelf for the last year. I felt like I had won the lottery! All of us who were able to, had our sleeve rolled up and our first dose of the Pfizer vaccine administered within an hour...

Cheap, Fast, Accurate Covid-19 Testing?

November 24, 2020 • coronavirus • covid-19

One of the major problems with COVID-19 has been access to tests. At this time, the standard test is a nasal swab requiring a professional lab to evaluate and a turnaround time of 72 hours or longer. It is a PCR Molecular test.

From our Acupuncturist, Peggy Ghorbani, L. Ac.

May 22, 2020 • blog • herbs • immune support • peggy ghorbani

I miss getting to see you for acupuncture every week but I’m glad you’re taking good care of yourself and social distancing. While acupuncture and Chinese medicine have been my work for the past 15 years, my background is in microbiology and I’m passionate about epidemiology and public health. I thought I’d share some ideas for supporting your immune system and managing stress from the synthesis of both the Chinese medicine tradition and modern functional medicine.

First of all, the most important strategy to avoid getting sick with a virus is, of course, to AVOID EXPOSURE! Observe social distancing rules, strict hand hygiene protocols, proper mask-wearing, and regularly disinfect all high-contact surfaces.

In conjunction with these basic but critical public health strategies, Chinese medicine emphasizes fortifying and balancing our bodies to reduce our susceptibility to colds, flu, and other infectious diseases. Here are some of my favorite herbs and actions you can take to help protect yourself.

Weekly Update from Central Family Pratice

May 22, 2020 • blog • Connie's Corner • news

Hello to all of our fellow travelers in this altered universe we find ourselves in. As Texas reopens, we realize that without more adequate testing & contact tracing protocols, or at least some time to see how the local infection rates rise in response to the relaxing of lockdown measures, we are not ready to start seeing patients in the office yet. Our responsibility is to take care of you, our staff, and the wider public health of our community with the best information that we have at any given time, in this ever changing environment.

Weekly Update from Central Family Practice

April 27, 2020

Greetings from the CFP Staff! Hello to all of you out there in pandemic world, Dr. Pugh attended the virtual Travis Co. Medical Society Town Hall on the 23rd, and the great news is that In Austin, the rate of cases of covid that was doubling every 2-4 days at the beginning of the outbreak is now doubling every 13.5 days. Shelter in place works! If we can just “crack the window a little” in opening up, but still maintain social distancing and fewer contacts, we will not overwhelm the hospital systems as the numbers increase. Also, Austin Public...