Tracey Hessel, MD

Dr. Hessel is a long-term veteran at MCC, now overseeing all pediatric care for the clinics. She has been raised and fully educated in the Bay Area. She devotes her full-time professional expertise to the under-served children of Marin County, often emphasizing the value of literacy and education by promoting the Reach Out and Read program and giving books to her young patients. At the same time she supports her own community as a parent volunteer with Heads Up, the San Rafael City Schools Foundation.

Her view from the clinic says it all: “I feel extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to work at a clinic that serves such a richly diverse patient population. I enjoy working with families to improve their children’s health as well as the health and well- being of our community.”

Dr. Hessel has a MD from the University of California San Francisco and completed her residency in pediatrics at UCSF. She is Board Certified in Pediatrics.

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Product Recall: Cinnamon & Applesauce

Recall Alert:

The Federal Drug Administration has issued a recall of several ground cinnamon products and applesauce pouches containing cinnamon. These products have been found to contain lead and ongoing use of these products could be unsafe. If you have any of these products in your home, please discard them.

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Alerta: Retiro de los siguientes productos

La Administración Federal de Medicamentos ha retirado del mercado varios productos de canela molida y bolsas de puré de manzana que contienen canela. Se ha descubierto que estos productos contienen plomo y su uso continuo podría ser peligroso. Si tiene alguno de estos productos en su casa, por favor deséchelo.

*Haz clic en el enlace para más información sobre el retiro de productos de canela:

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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!

Tracey Hessel, MD

Associate Medical Director, Pediatrics

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