COVID-19
UPDATES
&
How to keep everyone safe
(Please check back since there will be updates as things
evolve.)
Greetings
all!
We
hope this finds you and your family well. Our office would like to
express a special thanks to those who have called to check on our well-being,
dropped off PPE and gifts, helped us experiment with telemedicine technology,
helped locate supplies, and even sewn us masks!
We are fortunate that our
staff have remained committed to our patients and our office despite their
family’s concerns about their safety in the pandemic.
Unfortunately, we did lose a
couple of staff who left for nursing school and paramedic school. Luckily, our most senior staff member is now
full-time. We also have one part-time
staff member.
We are doing our best to
balance patients’ health needs and everyone’s safety. We have had many
patients get COVID and have seen firsthand the severe disease it can cause and
the damage that long COVID can do. We are
seeing more cases of breakthrough as immunity wanes from vaccination. Approximately one out of every 500 people in
California have died of COVID.
During this pandemic, patient
care everywhere is being delivered in a different way that minimizes COVID
exposure to patients and staff.
As physicians, our job is to
do our very best to keep everyone – our patients and their families, our
elderly nursing home patients, our staff and their families, and our own
families (including a 106-year-old grandmother)—as safe as possible. Keeping
people safe is a responsibility that we take very seriously. Both our
physical office layout and our patient flow have been redesigned with that goal
in mind.
COVID has changed our office
and our world. We are all being asked to
adapt to a new way of life. It is not
easy for you nor for those of us in healthcare.
Please be kind to others, be creative in ways to enjoy life, and work on
your health. We will all get through this together.
We appreciate everyone’s
patience and understanding during this pandemic. Thank you for your
continued support of our office and for helping keep everyone safe.
Jaya Virmani,
MD Soa Tsung, MD
Types of appointments
during COVID
Preparing for in-person
office visit
Preparing for an
injection appointment