Session Description

Loved part one of our Virtual Town Hall? Please join us for the second installment “Shifting COVID-19 Approaches for the Next Phase of the Pandemic” where we’ll continue our conversation on navigating the “new normal,” while keeping our communities safe and protected from COVID-19. This Q&A style discussion will give you the opportunity to continue listening and learning from each other, as well as from three experts who will address your top questions and concerns, including:

• Understanding the impact, in breadth and depth, of long COVID 

• Continuing to promote COVID safety despite the loosening of masking mandates 

• Shifting our messaging to combat ideas that we are “in the clear” from COVID

• Keeping the vaccination & booster momentum going to provide protection against new variants

Presenters 

• Noha Aboelata, MD, CEO, Roots Community Clinic

• Alex Fajardo, Executive Director, El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center

• Stephanie Takamaru, Project Manager, Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese

• Lisa Waddell, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, CDC Foundation (moderator)