Bonnie Grice speaks with Gerald “Gerry” Simons MPAS, DFAAPA, PA-C, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of PA Education, School of Health Professions at Stony Brook Southampton. Gerry is a member of the Stony Brook Southampton Hospital Regional Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center
Advisory Panel and among other topics he addresses the recent March, 2023 CDC study which revealed that tick borne disease cases increased 25% from 2011 to 2019 with Babesiosis increasing significantly in New York, as well as Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont.