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COVID-19 Podcast: The Disparate Effects in Latinx Communities
IDSA Podcast
A discussion on how COVID-19 is affecting the Latinx community and steps to alleviate disparities with Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos of New York University and the Director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health and Dr. Raul Macias Gil with Brown University.
She was the first doctor in R.I. to get coronavirus. Now she’s on a mission to understand it, and fight it.
Providence Journal
Rhode Island Hospital Dr. Aakriti Pandita, an Infectious Diseases fellow, was one of the very first COVID-19 patients in the state. She talks about her experience with the disease as a patient, first, then a clinician.
Remembering February
BMJ Global Health
Aakriti Pandita is an Infectious Diseases fellow at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She was the fourth patient, and the first healthcare worker to get diagnosed with COVID-19 in the state of Rhode Island. Dr. Pandita is also a COVID-19 researcher.
IDSA Board Member Angela Caliendo, MD, FIDSA of Brown Medicine explains the groups of asymptomatic patients that should be prioritized for COVID-19 testing.
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