Community Healthcare Summit

Community Healthcare Summit

Relying on ventilators.

Beacon community connections hosted its third annual south louisiana community health summit..

News 1's patsy douglas attended the event and has more..

Reporter intro - the lafayette community and several healthcare officials gathered together to discuss healthcare challenges and even the impact and federal policy on covid- 19 response sot - "people do't wear mask, they do't do proper hand washing , their pretty much just outthere doing what they want to do, traveling where they want to travel with no inhibition" vo - as we continue to overcome this pandemic, health care officials discuss issues during this time..

Lafayette general health, amanda logue says there is a lot more research that has to be developed sot - "ya know we are still struggling to have rapid testing tha's reliable, everywhere weneed it , i mean if it were a perfect world , we would have it in all schools right where you need it, point of care, being able to give you a rapid decision , that just not the case, we are all still working on getting it wherever we need it , ya know at theright time" vo - now other health care officials like dr. tina stefanski says from a personal level, individuals are still struggling with after effects of covid-19 ..

Sot - "i's important to not mix politics with peopl's health and their lives of their familyand the health of our community " vo - louisiana department of health, dr. henry kaufman says this is the time where we need to maintain our awareness and health ... sot - "once we get a vaccine in place , i's not going to be automatic, we ca't let down ourguard , i's going to take tremendous amount of resources to get these vaccines out and distributed" reporter tag - now healthcare officials say that if we continue to move forward with the right protocols, will be able to survive the flu season..

In lafayette patsy douglas news 15 thanks patsy!

I's always great to get some insight on how healthcare officials are feeling during this time..

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