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Podcast: Mayo Clinic Talks
Episode: Mayo Clinic Q&A: Summer Travel and People Not in Your Bubble During COVID-19 Pandemic
Description: This episode is shared from Mayo Clinic Q&A and was recorded June, 2021
Guest:Â Gregory A. Poland, M.D. (@drgregpoland)Â
Host: Halena M. Gazelka, M.D. (@hmgazelkamd)Â Â Â
"The reason we have the COVID-19 delta variant, the reason we have the delta plus variant is because of unimmunized people who get infected," says Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. He adds that 99.2% of the recorded COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are in people not vaccinated against the virus.Â
This is why he cautio...