Keith Armitage, MD, infectious disease physician and Medical Director, UH Roe Green Center for Travel Medicine & Global Health provides an update on the COVID-19 pandemic.
0:00 Percentage of Americans who now have antibodies
0:32 Percentage of Americans who have at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine
0:39 Hospitalizations in northeast Ohio
0:54 National death rate
1:06 Concerning Omicron subvariants
1:39 Protection for people who do not respond to the vaccines
2:04 Paxlovid is a very effective treatment
2:41 Pfizer and Moderna are tweaking the vaccines
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