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Doctor reveals he suffered irrational panic and feared his son would die after catching the virus - Daily Mail
Jan 10, 2022 1 min, 52 secs
Bob Wachter, the chair of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, shared his journey of watching his son fall ill with the coronavirus and recover in a series of 25 tweets on Saturday.

Wachter described checking in on him frequently, getting worried when a reply came slowly, and even letting himself into his home to find him 'sleeping...and breathing.'.

COVID cases in San Francisco skyrocketed in December due to the more contagious Omicron variant, reaching a pandemic high of 1,218 new daily cases earlier this month.

Wachter described his son as overweight but healthy and said he was triple vaccinated  .

Wachter described his son, whose name he did not share, as 'quite careful' and said he even switched from two-ply cloth masks to KN95 masks at his father's behest since the Omicron outbreak. .

His song works in customer service in downtown San Francisco, Wachter wrote.

I told him to stay home, drink fluids and take Tylenol or Advil,' Wachter said.

He described how local pharmacies were all out of rapid tests, but he had one set 'stashed away.'.

He described going to check on his son to make sure he was still breathing as science-based evidence gave way to 'parental emotion'.

Wachter said he felt 'a strange guilt - not entirely rational, but real - for not having protected him.'.

He calculated his risk of hospitalization, based on his age and and other risk factors, at 2.3 percent, which he said was lowered by 80 percent thanks to his triple doses of Moderna and by 50 percent thanks to the 'mildness' of Omicron

Wachter said he's only 'a little' worried about long COVID, where people have reported COVID symptoms for more than a month, because of the 'messy' literature on the lingering effects of the virus

San Francisco has seen rising COVID cases, matching the numbers in much of the country. 

The city reached a pandemic high of 1,218 new daily cases this month, far above the previous peak of 373 cases in January 2021

As COVID cases rise in California, Gov

He has written  300 articles and six books, according to his UCSF faculty page, and is considered the 'father' of the hospitalist field, described by WebMD as doctors who specialize 'in providing hospital care.'

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