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COVID-19 AMA: Drop In Infections, Vaccine Frontrunners And More

By AirTalk Staff
Published Aug 4, 2020
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JULY 31: Mend Urgent Care workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) perform drive-up COVID-19 testing at Central City Value High School on July 31, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. The coronavirus pandemic spread quickly throughout the state as California now leads the nation in number of cases. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Mend Urgent Care workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) perform drive-up COVID-19 testing at Central City Value High School on July 31, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.
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Kevin Winter/Getty Images
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COVID-19 AMA: Drop In Infections, Vaccine Frontrunners And More

In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry Mantle speaks with infectious disease specialist at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Dr. Kimberly Shriner.

Topics today include:

  • The latest California numbers 

  • California is going through a reduction in confirmed COVID-19 cases. What does that mean for re-opening?

  • LA and OC experience drop in hospitalizations 

  • How many positive COVID-19 cases should it take to close down a school?

  • What are the vaccine frontrunners? What are the pros and cons of each, so far?

  • Plus, once the vaccine is online, who should be the first to get it?

  • There are still questions about COVID-19’s ability to spread ‘silently’

Guest: 

Kimberly Shriner, M.D., infectious disease specialist at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena