Becker's Healthcare May 11, 2022
Georgina Gonzalez

Three physician leaders recently spoke of a panel discussion for the American Medical Association where they reminisced on how far testing has come, argued for increased public health funding and identified a silver lining to the pandemic.

Georges C. Benjamin, MD, executive director of the American Public Health Association, reflected on how health professionals track and test for COVID-19 has changed over the course of the pandemic.

“While we started this pandemic doing disease surveillance and case counts based on controlled testing that happened in hospital and health departments, now we’re going to move to more population-based surveillance so we’ll have laboratories that are pre-designated and providers to send in samples.

CĂ©line R. Gounder, MD, told the AMA that...

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Topics: Conferences / Podcast, Healthcare System, Physician, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Trends
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