Conversations on HC: COVID Investigator Praises Community Health Workers: Huge Innovation

Published: May 17, 2023, midnight

b'Philip Zelikow, co-author of the new book "Lessons from the COVID War,\\u201d has an important finding as the U.S. still grapples with the tough questions from the pandemic: \\u201cWe point out in the report that community health workers can play this extraordinary role\\u2026where we had them [during the pandemic], they were really effective and that\\u2019s like a huge innovation that should punch out to us as a lesson from this war and can have a dramatic effect in America,\\u201d says Zelikow. He also explains to Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter that \\u201cto this day, most patients who get COVID are not being properly treated with available medications.\\u201d Zelikow concludes a lack of preparedness is one of the main reasons the country performed so badly during the past three years. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen'