Provider Profile:
John Brooks, MD

Vaccines are here, bringing hope of returning to life as we knew it before the COVID-19 pandemic. You’ve received your vaccine, so now what? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued new guidelines for those who are fully vaccinated. You are considered fully vaccinated: Two weeks after your second dose in a 2-dose series, like the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or Day 29 after a single dose vaccine like Johnson & Johnson If you have been fully vaccinated, there are some things yo...

There was never really a question that we would see variants of the COVID-19 virus — it’s what viruses do, and the more cases you have, the greater likelihood there is of variants developing. Dr. John Brooks, an infectious disease specialist and our Chief Medical Officer, shared some information on what the variants are, what they mean for vaccine efficacy and what the future may hold. • What are variants and what do they do? Variants result for changes in the RNA of a virus. In the variants we’ve seen ...