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

Topics today include:

• California surpasses 30,000 COVID deaths 

• Vaccine news: 

  • Biden plans to release almost all vaccine doses  

  • To avoid vaccine waste, California is expanding who can get the shot

  • Indonesia is taking a different approach, vaccinating younger people first

  • After FDA cites false negatives from Curative tests, some L.A. County sites drop the company 

  • Dodger Stadium to become vaccine location this week 

• L.A. County’s public hospitals have created “triage officers” to determine rationing of care

Guest:

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