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COVID AMA: Confusion Ahead Of California’s Reopening Date, Cal/OSHA Proposes Looser Workplace Rules And More
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Jun 9, 2021
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COVID AMA: Confusion Ahead Of California’s Reopening Date, Cal/OSHA Proposes Looser Workplace Rules And More
In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry Mantle speaks with Dr. Dean Blumberg from UC Davis.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 08: Memorials hang from the front gate of Greenwood Cemetery during an event and procession organized by Naming the Lost Memorials to remember and celebrate the lives of those killed by the Covid-19 pandemic on June 08, 2021 in New York City. The group of volunteer activists, artists and folklorists has created memorial sites in New York City to name and remember the victims of Covid. An estimated 600,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Memorials hang from the front gate of Greenwood Cemetery during an event and procession organized by Naming the Lost Memorials to remember and celebrate the lives of those killed by the Covid-19 pandemic on June 08, 2021 in New York City.
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In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry Mantle speaks with Dr. Dean Blumberg from UC Davis.

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

Topics today include:

  • California reopening — lots of confusion before big date 

  • LA restaurant rules ‘retired' after June 15 public health official says 

  • When vaccines and re-emergence were just as daunting 

  • More people hospitalized in US areas with low vaccine rates 

  • Masks off at work? Cal/OSHA proposes looser rules 

  • Fauci warns of COVID-19 Delta variant now spreading rapidly in UK

  • The power of natural immunity

Guest:

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

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