Vaccinating the Front Lines, Cheddar Speaks to CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care About First Week of Vaccinations

Dr. Robert Frenck, Infectious Disease Specialist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital joins Cheddar to discuss the latest coronavirus variants.

While vaccines are making Americans more optimistic about the pandemic, the rollout is incredibly slow. According to Bloomberg's vaccine tracker, 6.25 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been given to Americans and only 29% of shots distributed to states have been administered. We're one week into 2021 and still well below the Trump administration's goal of administering 20 million doses by the end of last year. Dr. Anthony Fauci saying the U.S. needs a little more time to catch up on vaccinating the country. For more, we spoke to Dr. Eric Dickson, CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care.

While states attempt to vaccinate the public, urgency is growing as are fears over more infectious variants of the virus spreading in the U.S. The variations are changing the landscape of the fight against the virus with more than 50 cases of the new strain found in at least 8 states. For more, we spoke to Doctor Tammy Lundstrom, infectious disease expert, SVP and Chief Medical Officer at Trinity Health.