Emergency Physician Answers Coronavirus Latest Questions

Russia is claiming it has created a vaccine against COVID-19, but international critics are skeptical about its safety and effectiveness given how quickly it was developed. Dr. Amesh Adalja, infectious disease and critical care specialist and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, weighs in on the announcement, and the current state of the pandemic in the U.S.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has released new data predicting almost 300,000 coronavirus-related deaths in the U.S. by December. Dr. Ali Mokdad, chief strategy officer of population health at the University of Washington, breaks down the numbers and other COVID-19 headlines.

Dr. Nicole Woitowich, associate director of the Women's Health Research Institute at Northwestern University, discusses why researchers are not focusing heavily on how differently women and men might react to a coronavirus vaccine.