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COVID Care After the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends: Vaccines, Testing, and Treatment

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COVID Care After the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends: Vaccines, Testing, and Treatment
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Description

The COVID-19 public health emergency declarations are over – but COVID is not, with over 150 people dying of COVID each day in the US. Clinicians now must navigate the changing COVID landscape in the midst of waning public interest and fewer resources for prevention and care – factors that further impact the physical, mental, and financial health of vulnerable communities.  In this webinar, we will share their knowledge about the many changes to elements of COVID care, including vaccines, treatment, food subsidies, and insurance access, as a result of the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency declarations. We will review the latest vaccine guidelines and cover what clinicians should know and what they can do to assist their patients, including a discussion of the Health and Human Services Bridge Access Program for the uninsured.  The session will also provide updated resources and include time for discussion between faculty and participants. We will  address questions from the field about the evolving recommendations for access to care for COVID-19 in an outpatient setting.

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Learning Objectives
  • Be familiar with the latest guidelines for COVID-19 vaccinations. 
  • Identify critical changes in vaccines, testing, and treatment after the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.  
  • Describe ways in which patients with limited or no insurance can access COVID preventative and curative care.

Presenters

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Edward

Zuroweste

MD

Migrant Clinicians Network

Ed Zuroweste, MD is the Founding Medical Director for Migrant Clinicians Network. He was present for the first official meeting of Migrant Clinicians Network in 1985 and has been consistently involved with the organization since that time. Dr. Zuroweste began his work with migrants as a partner in a private practice in Chambersburg, PA. He later became the Medical Director of Keystone Health Center, a large Migrant and Community Health Center in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. While attending to his administrative responsibilities, Dr. Zuroweste also maintained a full-time clinical practice in family practice and obstetrics, including full hospital privileges in Pediatrics, Adult Medicine, and Obstetrics. In addition to his work with MCN, Dr. Zuroweste is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he directs an International Rural Health Elective in Honduras. Dr. Zuroweste is also the staff physician for seven County Health Department tuberculosis clinics, Pennsylvania Department of Health and he currently acts as the Tuberculosis Medical Consultant for the PA Dept. of Health; a Clinical Consultant for a separate consulting firm. Dr. Zuroweste has worked for the World Health Organization (WHO) on two separate short-term assignments; the first in 2009-2010 as a Special Medical Consultant during the H1N1 influenza pandemic, and in 2014 as a Special Medical Consultant with the Ebola Response Team in Guinea and Sierra Leone, West Africa. Dr. Zuroweste has also participated in three CDC/WHO sponsored screening programs for TB/Leprosy/DM twice in the Marshall Islands (Ebeye 2017 and Majuro 2018) and most recently in the Micronesia on the island of Chuuk in 2023. He has traveled extensively in Central America, especially Honduras and Guatemala both for teaching and pleasure. He has also traveled to Europe, South America, and the Caribbean. Dr. Zuroweste is married with three children. When not working, Dr. Zuroweste enjoys long distance running, listening to great music, great movies, and concerts, working out of doors, and traveling with family and friends to far-off locations. 

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Esther

Pizza

Program Manager, Eastern Region Office

Migrant Clinicians Network

Esther Pizza works as MCN’s Program Manager in the Eastern Region Office. She received her BS in Public Health from Salisbury University and a certificate in Community-Based Participatory Research from the University of Michigan in 2021. As a Program Manager, her work has included the coordination and management of various COVID-19 projects focused on increasing vaccine awareness in migrant and vulnerable populations in the United States and Puerto Rico. Since March 2022, Pizza has worked closely with community-based organizations to provide technical assistance and capacity-building to community health workers serving Latino and Haitian communities in her state. In her free time, Pizza enjoys cooking, traveling, and spending time with her partner and their dog, Elliot.

Continuing Education Credit (CEU)

To receive CME* or CNE credit after viewing this webinar, you must:

  1. Complete the Participant Evaluation associated with this webinar
  2. Send an email with your first and last name stating which webinar you completed to contedu@migrantclinician.org