The Rapidly Changing COVID-19 Testing Landscape - Vaccines, Variants, and Health Disparities

More than one year into the pandemic, leading pathologists discuss the challenges of managing the impact of COVID-19 on multiple public health fronts, including health disparities in which “preventable differences in the burden of disease ... are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations,” according to the CDC, and what that means in terms of testing and disease diagnosis and treatment. This CAPcast interview features the audio recording of a recent CAP Zoom media briefing, "The Rapidly Changing COVID-19 Testing Landscape: Vaccines, Variants, and Health Disparities." The moderator is Kisha A. Mitchell Richards, MD, FCAP, Director of Pathology and Laboratory, Greenwich Hospital; expert panelists are CAP President Patrick Godbey, MD, FCAP; Kalisha Hill, MD, MBA, FCAP, FASCP, Governor, CAP; Regional Chief Medical Officer, Amita Health St. Joseph Medical Center and St. Mary's Hospital Kankakee; Medical Director, Pathology and Laboratory Services, Amita Health St. Mary's Hospital Kankakee; and Carey Z. August, MD, FCAP, President, Board of Directors, CAP Foundation; Chairman of Pathology and Medical Director of Laboratories, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.