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

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May 18, 2021

For some parents of younger children, the wait for a COVID vaccine has felt far too long. They're ready to take drastic action. (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 segment aired on May 18, 2021.

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