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Important Updates to CFP Covid Policies – Please Read!
Dear friends, These are strange and uncertain times which unfortunately require that we take some additional safety measures that will not be temporary but ongoing at least for the next 6 months to a year. While it is true that the seven day moving average for hospitalizations is thankfully coming down, it is still high, and the percent of positive Covid-19 tests is over 10%, which is an uncomfortable number, and the Travis county death toll approaches 1,000. We are a small office, and everyone who works at Central Family Practice is essential. As your health care providers we have...
Community and COVID 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?
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.
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Weekly Update from Central Family Pratice
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.