FNX NOW: CDC Update on Covid19

This episode of FNX NOW was produced in partnership with Ethnic Media Services (EMS) as well as The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC staff members Lauri Hicks, DO., a medical epidemiologist in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is joined by José T. Montero, MD, MHCDS, the director of the Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support, where he oversees support to the US health departments and those serving tribal nations and insular areas.

In this segment the CDC aims to expand its communications about COVID-19 vaccination with the diverse audiences of FNX and EMS. The CDC is the nation’s top public health agency. It is a federal agency under the Department of Health & Human Services and is headquartered in Atlanta. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are curable or preventable, chronic or acute, or from human activity or deliberate attack, the CDC responds to America’s most pressing health threats.

Written by FNX TV