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:

Did California’s vaccine lottery boost vaccinations?

Black Angelenos have highest COVID case and death rates

10% of world’s population is fully vaccinated, data shows

Pandemic worsens in Africa as more contagious variants spread

Over 150 Texas healthcare workers resign or were fired over mandatory vaccination policy

LA Police commission wants LAPD to look into legality of mandating vaccinations for those folks

CDC to discuss rare heart problems in young, vaccinated people

Delta variant detected in all states except South Dakota

Guest:

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