In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry speaks with Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, professor of epidemiology and community health sciences at UCLA.

Topics today include:

• Surge in cases continues to push local hospitals to limits

• LAT: Visits to nursing home residents now allowed, but few are going

• NYC reports no deaths from coronavirus on July 11

• Vox: Why extreme heat is so alarming for the fight against Covid-19

• Vox: Herd immunity might be wishful thinking

• LAT: Plasma shot could prevent coronavirus

• Change in voice could be sign of COVID

• NYT: Sweden has become world’s cautionary tale

• New Zealand is coronavirus-free -- what’s working?

Guest:

Robert Kim-Farley, M.D., professor of epidemiology and community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; he served as the director of the Division of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health from 2004-2018 and is a former senior official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the WHO