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A fever is rarely a reason to go to the hospital - here s what to do if you or your child has a fever
A fever is rarely a reason to go to the hospital - here s what to do if you or your child has a fever
Nicky LaMarco,Dipesh NavsariaDec 30, 2020, 04:22 IST
Infants 3 months or younger should be taken to a healthcare professional if they have a temperature of 100.4 °F or higher.Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images
The hospital is not the first place you should consider going if you have a
fever.
Adults and children 3 years, and older, typically can recover from a fever on their own without medical aid, but you should consider taking children to their primary care provider if they ve had a fever of 102 °F for two or more days.
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For Dr. Robert Goldberg, the arrival of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is the ray of sunshine in a dark storm.
Goldberg, a pulmonologist and critical care physician at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, said that he and other healthcare workers have been waiting for so long. There’d been highs and lows during the course of the pandemic. At its start this spring, there’d been worries that the hospital might be busy and overrun with patients.
Then, cases seemed to decrease until they didn’t.
The last few weeks have seen cases skyrocket in Orange County, which Goldberg said seemed to reach points higher than in March and April. But though it will be some time before the general public will be vaccinated, Goldberg thinks the arrival of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is a start to fighting back against the pandemic.
When will the general public get the COVID-19 vaccine?
Just how soon until you can get the COVID vaccine? Hal Eisner has some answers.
LOS ANGELES - Dr. James Keany from Providence Mission Viejo Hospital says 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses are expected this month and another 30 million in January should begin to take care of those in our healthcare and high-risk communities.
As for everyone else, Keany says, “definitely by March and April, this should look like a flu vaccine where you can go into your local provider and get the vaccine.”
Local providers are expected to include a number of neighborhood pharmacies including CVS, which sent FOX 11 a statement saying, “We have an agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services to provide vaccines in our 10,000 CVS pharmacy locations which could be as soon as March 2021.”
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