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COVID-19 AMA: California Tops 50,000 Deaths From Winter Surge, The New Variant Spreading In New York And More

By AirTalk Staff
Published Feb 25, 2021
Registered Nurse Angelo Bautista administers the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to eligible people identified by homeless service agencies from the parking lot of the L.A. Mission on February 24, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
Registered Nurse Angelo Bautista administers the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to eligible people identified by homeless service agencies from the parking lot of the L.A. Mission on February 24, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.
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FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images
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COVID-19 AMA: California Tops 50,000 Deaths From Winter Surge, The New Variant Spreading In New York And More

In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry Mantle speaks with Dr. Dean Blumberg.

Topics today include:

  • CA winter surge death toll tops 50,000, including 806 in L.A.

  • New COVID variant spreads widely in NYC

  • C.D.C. traces COVID outbreaks to gyms

  • NYT: Once COVID hotspots, nursing homes are now outpacing U.S. in declines

  • USC study: education a bigger factor than race in desire for COVID-19 vaccine

  • The flu becomes one welcome casualty of the coronavirus pandemic

  • Large-scale study from Israel shows Pfizer’s vaccine

Guest:

Dean Blumberg, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital