UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Dr. Raymundo Lo The whole world is now focused on COVID-19 vaccines. Even while many countries in Asia have vaccinated most, if not all, of their target populations, the Philippines is still grappling with such vaccination issues as the slow pace of rollouts, poor coordination...
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE The key to surviving in a new environment is adaptation. In a pandemic, the main solution is vaccination, notwithstanding the anguished cries of anti-vaxxers. This bears repeating: COVID vaccines are SAFE. Hundreds of millions of doses have been given with very minimal side...
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE (Last Sept. 27, a consultative meeting was held by the GoNegosyo with medical experts to seek their opinions on allowing greater mobility for the fully vaccinated in certain areas to open the economy a little bit more. The travel sectors-airlines, hotels and travel...
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Dr. Raymundo Lo Lab hopping is when a patient gets a test result which is not to his liking, whether true or not, and gets another test from a different lab hoping there’s a mistake in the first lab’s result. Often, he doesn’t consult a doctor, who may have ordered the...
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE The COVID vaccination program is now underway. Vaccine shortage is acute though we’ve been promised at least 61 million doses are coming shortly. Assuming adequate vaccine supply, our next concern will be the roll-outs with vaccination activities. As a volunteer vaccinator, I...
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE An opinion column I read Monday cites a massive testing and treatment program which is patently FALSE. Majority of testing occurs in private labs that operate more efficiently and are paid for by individuals being tested since PhilHealth will not reimburse non-admission cases....
Raymundo W. Lo, MD So, we’re headed for another two-week lockdown due to the Delta variant surge threat. But lockdowns per se will only bring temporary relief, as we’ve seen in the past year. The same goes for different countries seeing surge after surge. While vaccination is the key to ending...
The “Tumindig” artwork of Filipino artist Tarantadong Kalbo, or Kevin Eric Raymundo in real life, meant to encourage people to register to vote, criticize the government’s failed pandemic response, and air his frustrations. Instead, it snowballed into a resistance fueled by artists, writers,...
‘ Artista ng bayan, ngayon ay lumalaban! ’ Resistance and protest can be done in many ways, but often the best and most effective medium is art. Paintings, songs, literature, and other forms of art have the ability to move people to stand up in solidarity in such a creative way that the...
Ina Raymundo made sure the whole world knows her daughter Erika Rae Poturnak got accepted into the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She was only too quick to announce the achievement on Instagram. Posting a photo of her daughter, she wrote, "As much as possible I don’t want to...
The beautiful mom-of five also reminds her daughter Erika Poturnak to use this makeup product Toned body, glowing glass skin, and moves that groove in every dance beat. With these characteristics, actress and celebrity mom Ina Raymundo is undeniably one of the few who's beauty remains the same as...
A Cease and Desist Order (CDO) has been issued by the National Privacy Commission against Lisensya. Info paving the way for the eventual taking down of its online site that allegedly hacked the Land Transportation Office (LTO) official site. In a statement, NPC said an email copy of the CDO was...
