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Cleveland Clinic Finds Nearly All Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Were Unvaccinated

Published May 18, 2021 at 12:20 PM CDT
In this Dec. 14, 2020, file photo, a vial of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 sits on a table at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. (Jessica Hill/AP File)
In this Dec. 14, 2020, file photo, a vial of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 sits on a table at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. (Jessica Hill/AP File)

The Cleveland Clinic looked at 4,300 COVID-19 hospitalizations from January to April of this year and found that 99.75% of those patients were not fully vaccinated.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Dr. Steven Gordon, an infectious disease specialist at the Cleveland Clinic, about what the findings show about the efficacy of the vaccines.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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