Tag: COVID-19 and Safety Precautions

Ask the Doctor Question: What 3M N95 mask is best for SLL patients? Answer: The CDC provides quite a long list of approved manufacturers on their website here: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part/n95list1.html. Be careful about sellers who are advertising cheap N95’s as knockoffs under

Ask the Doctor Question: My mother-in-law with CLL says the CLL Society is recommending that when outdoors, everyone around her who is unvaccinated (outdoors) must wear a mask. I cannot find this on your site, I only see that it

Ask the Doctor Question: My husband has CLL and is in a clinical trial. We both had two Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines. He was tested for antibodies and had none and we know he is not protected. My adult children have

Ask the Doctor Question: My CLL expert told my wife and I that asymptomatic vaccinated people cannot spread the Delta variant, and, that we should be comfortable indoors with friends and family we know to be vaccinated and are not

Ask the Doctor Question: I am an 80-year-old CLL patient in the watch and wait period, with as yet no clinical signs. My son died of cancer recently.  The family is having a memorial service in the Bay Area where we

Ask the Doctor Question: I am a 64-year-old male diagnosed with CLL in 11/2019, in the “watch and wait” category with no treatment. I have no other health issues and have been fully vaccinated for COVID.  Given the recent studies on vaccine efficacy,

Ask the Doctor Question: I have CLL and have received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Can you tell me whether it would be safe to go to a museum that uses social distance circles to distance patrons from each

Question: I have CLL and am in the watch and wait category. I have been vaccinated (second shot in March).  I am going to a small kindergarten graduation party for my grandson this weekend. There will be very few adults