Kim Fullerton-Nelson, MD

Kim Fullerton-Nelson, MD was raised in Jersey City, NJ and miraculously found herself in a Marin County hot tub nestled among redwood trees during a family vacation to California. She never looked back…or east…again. She is a proud graduate of Tam High in Mill Valley. After college at UC Berkeley, she worked for Planned Parenthood as a reproductive-health advocate in San Rafael, CA and then for Interplast as a Spanish-English interpreter in Ecuador. She once trekked 200 miles across the Andes, got lost in a storm by a glacier and ran out of food. She survived the ordeal to attend UC San Francisco medical school. After UCSF, she trained in emergency medicine at Stanford, worked for Physicians for a Violence-free Society in Texas, and then practiced pediatrics full time in a house with four children. It is here where she honed her skills in multitasking, time-out management and meditation. After raising her kids, she eagerly returned to clinical practice and worked for a federally qualified health center in Humboldt County practicing family medicine. Dedicated to community service, she has served on the board of various non-profit organizations focused on education and public health in Marin County such as The World Family, Beyond Differences and Karma Club. She loves off-the-beaten-path adventure travel, nature photography, and visiting family in Colorado. She is thrilled to join the Marin Community Clinic where she hopes to develop great relationships with her patients and help them achieve their health goals y muy buena salud.

You have multiple options. You do not need to have insurance or U.S. citizenship.
Call your doctor or urgent care center. If you have insurance, you can call the number on your insurance card to get help with making an appointment.
Find a Test-to-Treat location, which are sites that offer COVID testing and treatment services, near you. To find a site, call the statewide COVID-19 hotline at 833-422-4255.
Make a free phone or video appointment through California’s free telehealth provider and talk to a health care provider the same or next day. Call 833-686-5051 or go to com/covidca.
Some pharmacies, such as CVS and Walgreens, have pharmacists that may be able to give you a prescription for treatment. Call your pharmacy to see if they offer this service.

Call the statewide COVID-19 hotline for questions and help with finding free COVID treatment, at 833-422-4255.

As soon as you have new symptoms such as a runny nose, cough, sore throat or fever, you should immediately test for COVID-19 and ask a doctor about treatment if you are positive.

We have effective tools to take good care of ourselves if we get COVID-19.
COVID-19 treatments are safe, free, widely available, and highly effective at preventing COVID-19 illness from becoming serious.
Benefits
○ Scientific evidence shows that COVID-19 treatments work to prevent serious illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19 by up to 50-88% (cut the risk in half or more)
○ Early evidence also suggests they may lower the risk of developing long COVID symptoms.
○ Treatments like the Paxlovid pill can also prevent the virus from multiplying in your body and infecting more of your cells, which can help you test negative sooner.
They’re available at no charge, regardless of whether you have insurance or your citizenship status
They are recommended for most adults and some teens.
Treatments must be taken within 5 days of testing positive and when symptoms begin to be effective and work well. Seek treatment while your symptoms are still mild, do not wait for your symptoms to get worse.

So if you start feeling a runny nose, cough, or generally not like yourself, act fast and take a COVID test. And if you test positive, seek treatment right away.

Remember – if you test and treat, you can beat COVID-19!

Kim Fullerton-Nelson, MD

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