CDC Study Confirms COVID Vaccines Work to Prevent Disease and Infection
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2021
Even as the CDC warns against a potential fourth surge, with COVID cases rising, including here in the Northeast, the agency announced some encouraging news this week. Celine Gounder, professor of medicine & infectious diseases at the NYU School of Medicine; Bellevue Hospital doctor, medical analyst for CNN and the host/producer of American Diagnosis and Epidemic podcasts, explains what a CDC study of essential workers found, including confirmation that the vaccines prevent illness from COVID-19 in real-world conditions and that they appear to prevent even asymptomatic infections.
