Houston Methodist president and CEO Marc L. Boom, M.D., hosted another of the system’s monthly online town hall meetings Wednesday, this time with a focus on the logistics of rolling out vaccines.
The Houston area, like much of the country, is still experiencing record or near-record numbers of COVID-19 cases, but he said he expects the numbers to start declining once the holiday surge of infections passes.
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