On the Coronavirus Front Lines

The NFL says 7,500 health care workers vaccinated for the coronavirus will be given free tickets to next month’s Super Bowl to be played in Tampa, Florida.

Summer McGee, PhD, CPH, the Dean for the School of Health Sciences at the University of New Haven, discusses how new, more contagious coronavirus variants are playing a major part in the rapid spread of the virus.

Concerns over new strains of the coronavirus are rising across the U.S. Researchers in Ohio say they've discovered two new versions of covid which likely originated right here in the United States. That's in addition to a UK variant already spreading in the country. One Bay Area company, called Helix, is working with the CDC to identify new cases of that UK strain, here in the U.S. For more, we spoke to Dr. James Lu, President & Chief Scientific Officer of Helix.