LEBANON – It’s hard to believe that we have now been living through a global pandemic for over a year now. As many are reflecting recently on the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) physicians who host “The Cure Podcast” were recently joined by their colleague Antonia Altomare, DO, MPH, an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist. Altomare was at the forefront of D-H’s COVID-19 response from the beginning, and she and the hosts of “The Cure” discussed lessons learned in the past year, where we’re at in establishing herd immunity to COVID-19, contemplated whether masking may be here longer than we initially thought, and look ahead as New Hampshire and the nation continues to vaccinate the population.

Listen to episode 7 of “The Cure Podcast” HERE.

“There were certainly new challenges that came with this pandemic,” Altomare said. “We have learned as an institution, and people have learned, how to care for patients in a very different way from what we’re used to. We had to pivot very quickly, which was our new universal personal protective equipment, which we’ve never had to do before; whether that’s providing telehealth to patients in their homes in order to keep them and us safe. I think it’s that flexibility and trust in the system that really got us through.”

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