Community Health Workers, Often Overlooked, Bring Trust to the Pandemic Fight ...Middle East

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For 11 months, Cheryl Garfield, a community health worker in West Philadelphia, has been a navigator of pandemic loss and hardship. She makes calls to people who are isolated in their homes, people who are sick and afraid and people who can’t afford their rent or can’t get an appointment with a doctor. The conversations always start with a basic question: “Tell me about yourself.” She wants to know her clients before she figures out how she can help. “Sometimes a patient just needs somebody to listen to them, so you just listen,” said Garfield, 52. Public health authorities are relying on Garfield and her peers to be a bridge to communities that have been hardest hit by covid-19 an

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