Please read the message below which was first sent as an email from HM Executive Vice President Roberta Schwartz on June 12, 2023: As the number of patients with COVID-19 continues to drop we are easing our masking requirements even further. While we are relaxing the restrictions, we must also keep protecting our most vulnerable patients. We hope the new recommendations are … [Read more...]
COVID-19 Masking Update: March 2023
Please read the message below which was first sent as an email from HM Executive Vice President Roberta Schwartz on March 29, 2023: This email has been a long time coming! But we are happy to report that COVID-19 transmission levels have decreased enough in our communities that we can now ease our masking restrictions. Today we only have 109 COVID-19 patients in our … [Read more...]
COVID-19 Update: January 5, 2023
Please read the message below first sent as an email from Roberta Schwartz, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of Houston Methodist: We are experiencing a COVID-19 surge right now, five months after infection rates had stabilized late this summer. This uptick is due to COVID-19 variants, waning immunity, and lack of vigilance in our community about … [Read more...]
Bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine available now
Please read the message below from Dr. Rob Phillips sent September 12, 2022 On Aug. 31, Pfizer and Moderna’s applications for emergency use authorization for new COVID-19 boosters were approved by the FDA and the CDC. The new bivalent (or hybrid) COVID-19 vaccines have arrived at Houston Methodist and will be available soon. For greater detail on the new booster, please see … [Read more...]
COVID-19 Update From Dr. Roberta Schwartz
Please read the below email sent by Dr. Roberta Schwartz on August 2, 2022: All indicators show that this current surge of COVID-19 infections has stabilized! Across the TMC, hospital admissions have slowed, positivity rates are slowly declining, and the city of Houston wastewater viral load is decreasing. But because of the highly contagious B.A. 5 variant, we expect our … [Read more...]