Infectious Diseases
COVID-19 Prevention
Patient Care Perspectives Podcast: Helping Patients Understand COVID-19 Prevention Before and After Exposure
Proactive patient-clinician conversations can help patients better understand how to prevent COVID-19 before and after exposure. In today’s podcast, Charles P. Vega, MD, discusses how these important conversations can reinforce vaccination and everyday precautions, as well as help patients prepare for household exposure and use testing and postexposure prophylaxis, to limit the spread of COVID-19.
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