Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts

We interviewed Albert Ayson Jr., Associate Director of Training and Technical Assistance Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations. In the discussion, we dove into uses of integrated care technology for community based care providers, and the importance of building effective data systems within the context of COVID-19.

We spoke with Dr. Varshini Cherukupalli, a Resident at Cedars-Sinai  Medical Center, and Rohith Mohan, a Resident at Loma Linda University  Medical Center, about their experience testing positive for COVID-19  while working with patients, as well as their recovery.

We interviewed Rebecca Palmer Franco, Cardiothoracic Intensive Care  Nurse Practitioner at Yale New Haven Hospital, to learn about the  provider mindset needed when treating COVID-19 cases at one of its  hardest illness stages.

We interviewed Alexis Dennis, a Doctoral Student at the University of  North Carolina--Chapel Hill, to discuss the effects of entrenched, systemic racism in the United States. We also focused on, more  specifically, racism's affect on Americans' health and well being.

Dr. Andrew Franco, an Emergency Medicine Physician at St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center, explains how clinical work in his hospital's Emergency Department was effected by COVID-19. He also discusses his interactions with patients, and how other departments and the hospital overall has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic.

We interviewed Holly Lang, Founder and Managing Director of Fair Play,  to better understand COVID-19's effects on vulnerable communities. Holly  discusses the public health impacts through her lens as a health care  economist. She explains how telehealth is emerging as a major factor in  regions that were previously reluctant to adopt it as a method for  delivering care, particularly within rural spaces. Although hard to  predict what the impacts of COVID-19 will be on communities and  vulnerable population's health, she offers a few hypotheses based on  Fair Play's research findings.

We interviewed Guadalupe Hayes-Mota, Global Supply Chain Director at  Ultragenyx Pharmaceuticals, to learn how COVID-19 is impacting the  production and distribution of global pharmaceutical companies.

We interviewed Dr. Edward Kaftarian, Chairman and CEO of Orbit Health, to better understand how COVID-19 is affecting telehealth services, and what he sees as the future for the telehealth industry and providers.