In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, we speak with UCSF’s Dr. Peter Chin-Hong. 

Today’s topics include: 

• Some counties are frustrated, confused with CA’s delay on lifting masking rules

  • CA weighs dropping mask, distancing rules for fully vaccinated workers

• Orange County moves into the yellow tier 

• “Very disturbing” racial disparities remain in vaccination trends

• Why many Latino men haven’t been vaccinated yet

• EU moves to allow in fully vaccinated visitors 

• India sets global record for daily COVID-19 deaths 

• Trained dogs may be able to sniff out the coronavirus in humans

• Can vaccine passports help enforce the CDC’s mask guidance?

Guest:

Peter Chin-Hong, M.D., infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at the UCSF Medical Center; he tweets @PCH_SF