“We’re at a turning point.”
This is the urgent message from the Tarrant County Medical Society this week.
This week he posted an article online on his news blog: “We could do it with COVID-19, but it’s not done with us.”
It is a request from doctors to the patients they care for.
“The more we can arm ourselves as humans, as a population, the better off we will be and the sooner we will get out of this pandemic,” said Dr. Triwanna Fisher-Wikoff, a family medicine physician at Privia Medical Group North Texas.
Both she and Dr. Greg Phillips said most of her patients with COVID-19 have the delta variant.
Phillips is a former president of the Tarrant County Medical Society.
He weighed in and helped write the article online for his news blog.
“As a medical society, we felt we wanted to make a statement to the community, reinforcing that health care is based on science and not based on fiction,” said Dr. Greg Phillips, an internal medicine physician at Phillips Total Health.
He said Tarrant County sees between 800 and 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 every day.
Intensive care units are 96% full.
It has put pressure on hospitals and staff.
“I can see in the face of critically ill doctors and infectious disease doctors who are once again in a strange and very stressful situation,” Dr. Phillips said.
Philips said all of its COVID-19 patients from the last month and a half are people who are not vaccinated.
Health experts can’t stress it enough – get vaccinated if you’re eligible.
Both doctors said COVID-19 vaccinated patients had mild symptoms, or no symptoms at all.
You can read the full article on the Tarrant County Medical Society news blog here.