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COVID-19 AMA: President Biden Says US To Have Enough Vaccine Doses For American Adults By End Of May

By AirTalk Staff
Published Mar 3, 2021
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 17: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Clinicians perform a tracheostomy on a patient in a COVID-19 ICU (Intensive Care Unit) at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills neighborhood on February 17, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. The hospital is located in the northeast San Fernando Valley, which was a primary coronavirus hotspot in hard hit Los Angeles County. The patient population is predominantly Latinx. In the US overall, Latinos are 3.2 times more likely to have been hospitalized as whites due to COVID, according to the latest CDC data. Increased chances of exposure to the virus, social determinants of health, economic and systemic inequities all contribute to heightened coronavirus risk. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Clinicians perform a tracheostomy on a patient in a COVID-19 ICU (Intensive Care Unit) at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills neighborhood on February 17, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.
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COVID-19 AMA: President Biden Says US To Have Enough Vaccine Doses For American Adults By End Of May

In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry Mantle speaks with Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at the UCSF Medical Center.

Topics today include:

  • Biden says U.S. will have enough vaccine doses to vaccinate all adults by the end of May

  • C.D.C. says small, maskless gatherings of vaccinated people will soon be allowed

  • How CA virus numbers compare to TX as the latter lifts its mask mandate and opens up 100 percent

  • COVID-19 vaccine rates in Brentwood, Santa Monica twice as high as poorer L.A. County areas

  • How much of an impact does the state tier system have on the disparity in vaccine rates

  • COVID side effect enlarged lymph nodes can be mistaken for cancer

  • Night clinics for single moms in Black communities who can only get vaccinated at night & other ways that providers, governments are trying to reach people where they are

  • Brazilian virus variant infected people who already had COVID-19

  • Let’s do the numbers -- the vaccine efficacy numbers, that is, and explore what they really mean

  • CalMatters: When might nursing homes reopen for visitors?

  • Blue Shield officially takes over COVID distribution for California

Guest:

Peter Chin-Hong, M.D., infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at the UCSF Medical Center; he tweets