Mayo Clinic Q&A: COVID-19 vaccines and children

The distribution kinks for COVID-19 vaccines are getting ironed out says Dr. Gregory Poland an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinics Vaccine Research Group."a logistics nightmare but now youre seeing a plan to administer 1 million doses a day and I think thats very achievable" says Dr. Poland. "And the production of the vaccine is just going to accelerate." Dr. Poland also repeats the reminders about preventing transmission of COVID-19: Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Keep your social distance. "The current estimates are that in the next four weeks well probably have about another 100000 deaths" adds Dr. Poland. "stunning when you think about 1 out of every 860 Americans has now died of this." (Published 01/20/2021)