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Cheryl Bettigole1, Patricia C Henwood, Sage Myers
1Cheryl Bettigole (cbettigole@gmail.com) is health commissioner at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Patricia C. Henwood is an associate professor of emergency medicine and population health at Thomas Jefferson University and executive vice president and chief clinical officer at Jefferson Health, in Philadelphia. Sage Myers is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and an attending physician in the emergency medicine department and medical director of emergency preparedness at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, all in Philadelphia. Maura Sammon is an associate professor of clinical emergency medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, in Philadelphia. The authors are solely responsible for the accuracy of the information presented in this article. Any views or opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the authors, and no endorsement of these views or opinions by the authors' institutions is expressed or implied. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute this work provided the original work is properly cited, not altered, and not used for commercial purposes. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To access the authors' disclosures, click on the Details tab of the article online.
Abstract:
Philadelphia's response to welcoming Afghan evacuees during the COVID-19 pandemic suggests the need for a new approach to immigrant health care.
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