WHOA, THEY’RE 60 OR 60. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT THE NUMBER OF NEW COVID CASES HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS MORE THAN DOUBLED FROM A WEEK AGO AND HERE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT AND SO MUCH MORE AS DR. TODD ELLEREN CHIEF OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES AT SOUTH SHORE HEALTH. GOOD TO SEE YOU DOCTOR GREAT TO SEE YOU DR. C. SO SO LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT TTHA DATA PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS RELEASED THE WEEKEND COUNT OF NEW INFECTIONS ON MONDAYS. AND AGAIN, IT’S AEE WND COUNT. SO IT’S A HANDFUL OF DAYS, BUT THE NUMBER SURGE FROM 5500 TO MORE THAN 11,000 IN JUST ONE WEEK. SO, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS TRIGGERING? THE ONLY CLUB BE THE GONNA BE THE REASON FOR IT. NICE PRONUNCIATION AND THE ANSWER IS NO OMICRON IS NOT THE REASON FOR THIS. THIS IS A DELTA SURGE. I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I RECENTLY TALKED TO THE HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND IN MASSACHUSETTS. WE’RE DOING A REALLY REALLY GOOD JOB OF SEQUENCING NOW, DON’T GET ME WRONG. THERE’S MORE THAN A SINGLE CASE RIGHT IN MASSACHUSETTS RIGHT NOW THAT’S GONE UNDETECTED. BUT THE SURGE RIGHT NOW IS DELTA. ATTH’S SO INTERESTING. SO SO WHAT KIND OF IMPACT IS THIS SUDDEN INCREASE HAVING ON HOSPITALS LIKE SOUTH SHORE? THIS IS A BIG DEAL MARIA. LET’S PUT IT THIS WAY AS OF A MONTH AGO WHEN YOU LOOKT A HOSPITALIZATIONS, THEY DOUBLED IN MASSACHUSETTS. WE ARE SEEING MORE CASES OF COVID-19 RHTIG NOW IN THE HOSPITAL AND AS OPPOSED TO PAST SURGES THAT HAVE JUST GONE UP PRETTY QUICKLY AND COME DOWN WE’RE SEEING SLOW INCREASE THE CONCERN IS WE’RE NOT JUST HAVING A SURGE IN COVID CASES. WE HAVE A LOT OF PATIENTS IN THE HOSPITAL WITH NON-COVID ISSUES. WE DON’T HAVE THE SAME CAPACITY AS WE HAD LAST YEAR WHEN THERE WERE LESS PATIENTS COMING IN WITH COVID. SO THE THE CONCERN IS THAT YOU HAVE SORT OF TWIN DEMOCS COVID CASES CINOMG IN NON-COVID CASES AND THE CONCERN IS THE INCREASED CODUL EXCEED HOSPITAL CAPACITY DR. TISA SOME QUESTIONS FROM OUR VIEWERS NOW. OKAY, LET’S LET’S START WITH LORI SHE I RECEIVED MY SECOND SHOT OF PFIZER IN JANUARY AND A THDIR SHOT IN JUNE BECAUSE I’M IMMUNO COMPROMISED. DO I NEED TO WAIT THE FULL SIX MONTHS BEFORE I GET THE BOOSTER. OBVIOUSLY, SHE’S NOT IN THAT TIME FRAME QUITE YET. THAT’S RIGHT. SOHE T INTERESTING PART FOR IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENTS IS IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENTS DON’T HAVEO T WAIT THAT SIX MONTHS THAT IMMUNOCOMPETENT PATIENTS DO SO IF YOUR IMMUNOCOMPROMISED THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE CDC RIGHT NOW FIRST, D’O’T YOUR SECOND DOSE THREE TO FOUR WEEKS LATER AND YOU CAN GET YOUR BOOSTER 28 DAYS AFTER SO REALLY MONTH FREE IF YOU WAITED BEYOND THAT GO GET IT IMMEDIATELY IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENTS DON’T HAVE TO WAIT SIXON MS.TH RIGHT HERE. THIS IS ANOTHER ONE DOCTOR. THISS I FROM TINA SHE WRITES IF A PERSON HAD AN ALLERGIC REACTION TO THE FSTIR DOSE OF MADURA. IS THERE A WAY TO GET A SECOND DOSE AND A BOOSTER SHOT IN A SUPERVISED SETTING THE REACTION INVOLVED SWELLING OF THE NECK, BUNOT HO SRTNESS OF BREATH. ABSOLUTELY, I’LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. IAV HPAE TIENTS LIKE THIS WHAT WE DO IS WE BRING THEM INTO OUR AMBULATORY CLINIC WITH WITHIN THE HOSPITAL AND WE’LL GIVE IT TO THEM IN. SETTIN TGHAT IS SUPERVISED WHERE WE’RE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF ALLERGIC REACTIONS. I TNKHI WHAT’S IMPORTANT THOUGH IS YOU WANT TO TALK TO EITHER YOUR PRIRYMA CARE PROVIDER OR AN ALLERGIST SPECIFICALLY TO MAKE SURE THAT IT’S OKAY TTHA YOU RECEIVED THAT SECOND SHOT. OBVIOUSLY IF YOU IF YOU’VE HAD THE MOST SEVERE ALLERGIC REACTION LIKE ANAPHYLAXIS, AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU THAT SECOND. OUT WE’RE GOING TO GO POTENTIALLY WITH ANOTHER TYPE OF SHOT DR. TD. DO YOU SUSPECT THAT THE THAT THE INCREASE IN NUMBERS THAT WE’RE SEEING IS, YOU KNOW THANKSGIVING WAS A PERIOD OF TIME AGO. IS THIS IS THIS IN THE WAKE OF WHAT HAPPENED DURING THANKSGIVING. DO YOU SUSPECT THE TIMING IS THAT AT THIS POINT WE COULD BE SEEING A THANKSGIVING SURGE EDDIE AND WITH ANOTHER HOLIDAY COMING UP WHIT WITH DELTA SURGING WINTER COMING. YOU KNOW, THIS IS A RECIPE AND BY THE W,AY IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT COVID-19. WE’RE SEEING INCREASE IN CASE THE RIGHT WENZA AND OTHER RESPIRATORY VIRUSES. HE DON’T CARE GET YOUR FLU SHOT AS WELL. YEAH.

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Video: Dr. Todd Ellerin explains why COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts are rising

Updated: 6:04 PM EST Dec 7, 2021

The chief of infectious diseases says the omicron variant is not the reason for the spike in cases.

WEYMOUTH, Mass. —

The chief of infectious diseases says the omicron variant is not the reason for the spike in cases.

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