COVID causes tremendous downstream impact within a healthcare system.

It means that healthcare professionals are working 24/7 to care for all the patients who come in. It means that treatment of other patients — for example, those who are chronically ill or who need to get a CT scan — gets pushed back so that COVID patients can be treated.

In short, the effects of the COVID pandemic go way beyond COVID-infected patients.

In part 2 of this 2-part series, we continue our panel discussion with six distinguished physicians from Memorial Healthcare System.

Our panel includes:

• Dr. Marc Napp – Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
• Dr. Randy Katz – Medical Director, Emergency Services, Memorial Regional Hospital
• Dr. Jose Fernandez-Duarte – Medical Director, TeamHealth Hospitalists
• Dr. Ari Sareli – Chief, Critical Care Medicine, Chief Physician Executive, Memorial Physician Group
• Dr. Paula Eckardt – Chief, Memorial Division of Infectious Disease
• Dr. Tammy Tucker – PsyD (Behavioral Health)

We discuss:

• The delta variant
• Whether FDA approval will improve vaccination rates
• How to protect unvaccinated children

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