Picking up the pace with rollout of COVID-19 vaccines
The distribution kinks for COVID-19 vaccines (https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine) are getting ironed out, says Dr. Gregory Poland (https://www.mayoclinic.org/biographies/poland-gregory-a-m-d/bio-20053165), an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group (https://www.mayo.edu/research/labs/vaccine-research-group/overview). "It's a logistics nightmare, but now you're seeing a plan to administer 1 million doses a day and I think that's very achievable," says Dr. Poland. (https://www.mayoclinic.org/biographies/poland-gregory-a-m-d/bio-20053165?utm_source=newsnetwork&utm_medium=l&utm_content=content&utm_campaign=mayoclinic&geo=national&placementsite=enterprise&cauid=100721&_ga=2.136537328.1903245515.1583502589-382127956.1576426874) "And the production of the vaccine is just going to accelerate." Dr. Poland also repeats the reminders about preventing transmission of COVID-19 (https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19): * Wear a mask. * Wash your hands. * Keep your social distance. "The current estimates are that in the next four weeks, we'll probably have about another 100,000 deaths," adds Dr. Poland. "It's stunning when you think about 1 out of every 860 Americans has now died of this." In this Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Poland talks more about the rollout, transmission and herd immunity (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/herd-immunity-and-coronavirus/art-20486808), as well as fertility issues related to COVID-19, survivor brain fog and more. Learn more on the Mayo Clinic News Network (https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org).
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The distribution kinks for COVID-19 vaccines are getting ironed out, says Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group.
"It's a logistics nightmare, but now you're seeing a plan to administer 1 million doses a day and I think that's very achievable," says Dr. Poland. "And the production of the vaccine is just going to accelerate."
Dr. Poland also repeats the reminders about preventing transmission of COVID-19:
- Wear a mask.
- Wash your hands.
- Keep your social distance.
"The current estimates are that in the next four weeks, we'll probably have about another 100,000 deaths," adds Dr. Poland. "It's stunning when you think about 1 out of every 860 Americans has now died of this."
In this Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Poland talks more about the rollout, transmission and herd immunity, as well as fertility issues related to COVID-19, survivor brain fog and more.
Research disclosures for Dr. Gregory Poland.
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