Today, COVID-19 misinformation surrounds us, and the hype about it causes significant confusion, which is jet fuel for the pandemic in our community.

Since its emergence in December 2019, this new virus, better known as COVID-19, has been a threat to our health, with enough impact to be declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) and a public health emergency in Houston.

NOTE:  “Don’t Believe the Hype” will be a continuing series, which will serve as an antidote to COVID-19 misinformation, and will be an important barrier to the spread of this virus.

Dr. Gathe, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, has a storied history in the Greater Houston area; not just because of the impact his family has had in the area of medicine generationally in the Greater Houston area, but because of his own personal reputation as being one of the only specialists in the Greater Houston area to tackle and treat the HIV/AIDS virus from the very early days of it becoming a major epidemic in the U.S., particularly amongst Black people.

Dr. Varon, who is originally from Mexico City, Mexico, has dual citizenship between Mexico and the United States, and has extensively practiced medicine in both countries over three decades and is also one of the leading infectious disease doctors in the Greater Houston area.