The College of American Pathologists hosts a series of virtual media briefings featuring leading pathologists—the physicians who biopsy and diagnose disease. More than one year into the pandemic, experts will discuss the challenges of managing the impact of COVID-19 on multiple public health fronts, including health disparities in which “preventable differences in the burden of disease ... are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations” (CDC: Health Disparities Among Youth) and what that means in terms of testing and disease diagnosis and treatment.
Educate your audiences on:
- The current state of testing and what testing looks in 2021
- The real-world impact of health disparities in:
- access to testing, whether at a test-collection site, in a hospital laboratory, or at home
- vaccine distribution, and public willingness to get vaccinated
- the longer-term implications of deferring medical care due to COVID-19, under-insurance or lack of insurance
- helping to bridge the disease diagnosis gap through 10 years of the CAP Foundation’s See, Test & Treat program
- How COVID-19 variants may impact testing accuracy
- The accuracy of COVID-19 tests, and new developments in testing
| Moderator/Panelist: | Kisha A. Mitchell Richards, MD, FCAP |
| Panelists: | Patrick Godbey, MD, FCAP Kalisha Hill, MD, MBA, FCAP, FASCP Carey Z. August, MD, FCAP |