Louis Krenn MD

Just about everyone is eligible now. Get your vaccine so we can get back to normal.

Curious if you should still get the vaccine if you've had COVID? This video helps to answer that question. https://youtu.be/iApzxzJod_I

Does the Astrazeneca COVID 19 vaccine cause blood clots? Watch to find out what we know so far. https://youtu.be/yHtYMIO3H4E

Do the COVID 19 vaccines prevent infection as well as they prevent moderate to severe disease? The data is starting to become clearer. https://youtu.be/ZRCjEUqHTeo

Vax’n 8, a group of physicians from Northern California working in a variety of specialties in medicine, are proud to present My Shot!, a song adapted from th...e hit Broadway show Hamilton. My Shot addresses the social, scientific, and political issues currently affecting the decision to receive the vaccine against the virus SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19. While we completely respect everyone’s freedom of choice, we as a group of physicians support and encourage everyone who can to receive a vaccine based on our understanding of both the science behind its safety, and the global imperative to bring population immunity to the point where the pandemic can finally come to an end.

Do's and Don'ts after you get the COVID 19 vaccine https://youtu.be/Zzvbm4uA3I4

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I just love playing the prior authorization game!

Some very good information on mask wearing. From the article: "To be clear, the science supports using masks, with recent studies suggesting that they could save lives in different ways: research shows that they cut down the chances of both transmitting and catching the coronavirus, and some studies hint that masks might reduce the severity of infection if people do contract the disease."... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8 #covid19 #maskup #maskswork

Choosing a specialty in medicine is a very important decision. Becoming a family physician was one of the best decisions I have ever made. I review how I made the decision to enter medicine and why I chose family medicine over all other specialties. Most importantly, hear why I love being a family medicine doctor! #familymedicine #primarycare https://youtu.be/wJhOrur41Lk

Time to get your flu shot! Medical professionals have enough to worry about this year.

I was going to make a video on getting your flu shot, but I think Zdogg said it very well. Flu shots available now!

If you have recovered from COVID-19, please consider donating. Our local supplies are dangerously low of this potentially life saving treatment!

The following words were written by Amelia, the nurse pictured here, who cares for COVID-19 patients at Cox South. As the virus continues to spread in our commu...nity, please take her thoughts to heart and do all you can to stay safe. --- We don’t see you when the only symptoms you have are similar to allergies and fatigue, and you’re swabbed and sent home to quarantine. We see you when your eyes are wide with terror as you struggle to breathe and your oxygen saturation is in the 60s, despite every non-invasive ventilation attempt. We see your fear as we yell over our respirators -- so you can hear us -- that you’re going to have to be intubated and be placed on a ventilator. We watch your eyes close as we push the sedatives into your IV as the doctor prepares to intubate you. We watch your oxygen saturation take seemingly forever to recover, if it ever does, after you’re placed on the ventilator, because your lungs have suffered so much damage from this virus. We hold your hand as we tell you to fight this, and that you have so many people who care about you. We watch as you nod and squeeze our hand and tears stream from the corners of your eyes. We listen as your family tells you over the phone that they love you and can’t wait for you to get better and come home. We watch as this virus kills you despite every fight against death. We take care of patients who have not social-distanced because they didn’t believe the virus was real. Some of these patients curse us and fight us at every attempt to save their lives; we take it in stride because we know their hypoxia is the most likely culprit for their hateful words and actions. We take care of them with the same intensity as we take care of the patients who are immunocompromised and tried not to get sick, but did anyway. We take the (once grateful, but now) angry phone calls from family members who are disbelieving of this virus; who request to re-test their loved one because they are sure it was a skewed result or a false positive. Angry family members who complain that we don’t call all ten family members because we are busy tending to their paralyzed, proned loved ones. We watch the ignorant opinions that are spouted on TV or social platforms that are just as harmful as the virus itself. You can’t see what we see every day and even if there was a camera that followed us into the COVID ICU I’m sure there would still be people that would dispute the reality of it or would say: hYdRoXyChLoRoQuInE wOuLd hAvE sAvEd tHeM! or wHaT cOmOrBiDiTiEs dId tHeY hAvE? And if that’s you, I hope you can justify that second question to whatever God you believe in, because if it was your loved one in that ICU bed you wouldn’t care whether they had zero or 100 prior diagnoses in their medical history because you’d want them to live anyway. The numbers are greater than ever and continuing to grow in the Midwest and more and more people are dying. If you have any respect for your friends, family, at risk populations, or anyone else in society, I implore you to take this virus, and precautions for it, seriously.

COVID-19 Quarantine guidelines explained https://youtu.be/siKLAVEL98g

More reasons to wear a mask

It's been around six months since COVID-19 concerns began ramping up in the Ozarks. Steve Edwards, our president and CEO, shares thoughts on what we've seen so far, and what the future looks like at this point.