Wharton Professor and Ascension Health VP talks about how to increase vaccination numbers on the long road to herd immunity

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Mitesh Patel, VP of Clinical Transformation and National Lead of Behavioral Insights at Ascension Health, and Associate Professor of Health Care Management at Wharton, talks about how text message reminders can help encourage vaccination rates – for Covid as well as other vaccines, including the flu.

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